{"id":6469,"date":"2013-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/blog\/polaris-people-for-the-week-of-august-16-austras-madness-and-destroyers-tour\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T21:59:19","slug":"polaris-people-for-the-week-of-august-16-austras-madness-and-destroyers-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/fr\/blog\/polaris-people-for-the-week-of-august-16-austras-madness-and-destroyers-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaris People For The Week Of August 16: Austra's Madness And Destroyer's Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

You guys are all up on This Charming Charlie<\/a>, right? Y’know, the tumblr that combines Peanuts comics with lyrics from Smiths songs? Trust me, this will be an invaluable resource for all your future internet adventures.<\/p>\n

In the world of real-life adventures, we’re getting set to announce the lineup for the 2013 Polaris Gala next week. It will be a very exciting event. So exciting, in fact, that we’d go so far as to suggest you get yourself a ticket now <\/a>before all the names are announced and these puppies sell out. Alternately, you can try to win your way into the Gala<\/a>. And while you’re still trying to win stuff, you might as well take your best shot at scoring a free Scion tC<\/a> automobile as well.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, our favourite people, the Polaris People, were doing interesting things again this week. Let’s see what some of them got up to.<\/p>\n

First up, we’d like to congratulate 2009 champs Fucked Up<\/strong> for finally building an official website<\/a>. You’re part of the system now, man. Oh, and they also did an interview<\/a> with Brooklyn Vegan.<\/p>\n

The internet was all aflutter recently because 2012 Short Lister Grimes<\/strong> threw down<\/a> Taylor Swift and Britney Spears songs during a Richie Hawtin-endorsed Boiler Room party in Ibiza. Ms. Boucher, if you really want to impress us next time play Vanilla Ice’s \u00ab\u00a0Ninja Rap.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Grimes was also recently part of a Canadian invasion at Oslo, Norway’s OYA Festival which also included current Short Listers Metz <\/strong>and Godspeed You! Black Emperor<\/strong>. It’s like a reverse Viking invasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a message from current Short Listers Tegan And Sara<\/strong> about where to put your foot… feet… foot-feet.<\/p>\n