The 2012 Polaris Long List was announced today (June 14) at The Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver, BC.<\/p>\n
Polaris Founder and Executive Director Steve Jordan was pretty excited about the List.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0The year’s list deliciously illustrates the burgeoning sense of community in our jury,\u00a0\u00bb he said. \u00ab\u00a0Almost half of the selections on this list were the direct result of passionate recommendations made by individual members to their peers. We hope the ultimate result of this dialogue will likewise inform the taste of adventurous music lovers from Canada and the world.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
The 2012 Polaris Music Prize Long List is (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n
A Tribe Called Red – A Tribe Called Red
\nMarie-Pierre Arthur – Aux alentours
\nRich Aucoin – We’re All Dying To Live
\nAvec pas d’casque – Astronomie
\nAzari & III – Azari & III
\nBahamas – Barchords
\nThe Barr Brothers – The Barr Brothers
\nBlackie And The Rodeo Kings – Kings And Queens
\nCadence Weapon – Hope In Dirt City
\nKathryn Calder – Bright And Vivid
\nCannon Bros – Firecracker \/ Cloudglow
\nCoeur de pirate – Blonde
\nLeonard Cohen – Old Ideas
\nCold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
\nRose Cousins – We Have Made A Spark
\nMark Davis – Eliminate The Toxins
\nDrake – Take Care
\nKathleen Edwards – Voyageur
\nFeist – Metals
\nFucked Up – David Comes To Life
\nGreat Lake Swimmers – New Wild Everywhere
\nGrimes – Visions
\nHandsome Furs – Sound Kapital
\nJapandroids – Celebration Rock
\nDan Mangan – Oh Fortune
\nMares Of Thrace – The Pilgrimage
\nAriane Moffatt – MA
\nLindi Ortega – Little Red Boots
\nParlovr – Kook Soul
\nSandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
\nJoel Plaskett Emergency – Scrappy Happiness
\nPS I Love You – Death Dreams
\nJohn K. Samson – Provincial
\nShooting Guns – Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976
\nThe Slakadeliqs – The Other Side of Tomorrow
\nPatrick Watson – Adventures In Your Own Backyard
\nBry Webb – Provider
\nThe Weeknd – Echoes of Silence
\nYamantaka \/\/ Sonic Titan – YT\/\/ST
\nYukon Blonde – Tiger Talk<\/p>\n
The 200+ writers, editors, producers and media figures who make up the Polaris Music Prize jury pool will now go back to the ballot boxes again and submit their Top 5 albums, selecting only from what's on the Long List.<\/p>\n
When those votes are in, the Short List comprised of 10 albums will be announced in Toronto on July 17.<\/p>\n
Once that's done it's on to the big show, the Polaris Gala, being held in Toronto on September 24, where one of the 10 Short List albums will be declared the best Canadian album of 2012 in a secret jury Hunger Games-style argument to the death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 2012 Polaris Long List was announced today (June 14) at The Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver, BC.<\/p>\n
Polaris Founder and Executive Director Steve Jordan was pretty excited about the List.<\/p>\n
"The year's list deliciously illustrates the burgeoning sense of community in our jury," he said. "Almost half of the selections on this list were the direct result of passionate recommendations made by individual members to their peers. We hope the ultimate result of this dialogue will likewise inform the taste of adventurous music lovers from Canada and the world."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polaris-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"