The 2013 Polaris Music Prize Long List is almost here.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, June 1 (tomorrow), over 200 foam-mouthed, bloodshot-eyed, Cujo-lumbering music journalists from across Canada will begin submitting their top five album ballots to the Great Polaris Tabulatron.<\/p>\n
From there Polaris operatives will reveal said results with great pomp and ceremony on Thursday, June 13 at our new favourite place in Montreal, Centre Phi<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s the Facebook event page<\/a>. If you’re in Montreal and you don’t come out for this, we’ll be so mad we’re gonna punch you in the stomach next time we see you.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, some of the people who’ve already been through this process, our favourite people, the Polaris People, were up to interesting things again this week. Let’s check in with some of them, shall we?<\/p>\n There was a little less fan fiction about erotic shavings then we were hoping for, but the finalists have been announced in the Broken Social Scene<\/strong>\/House Of Anansi short story contest<\/a>. Elsewhere, the band has been part of photo spreads<\/a> from house photographer Norman Wong and thoughtful looks back <\/a>as BSS-related label Arts & Crafts celebrates its 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, resident Polaris romantic Kathleen Edwards<\/strong> used CBC Music as an excuse to go off her raw food diet and explain how long it takes for beets to travel through the human body. Hint: Not long.<\/p>\n