Did You Hear? :: Katy Perry has won Billboard 's Woman of the Year Award. While you could argue her 2011 was more impressive, this year she accomplished quite a lot, including a world tour, releasing "Wide Awake," starring in a 3-D movie and a Sims video game, oh and dropping Russell Brand. [ Billboard ] :: More awards! Feist beat out the likes of Drake and Japandroids [...]
Monday night's Polaris Music Prize Gala had a lot of people scratching their heads wondering who would take home the prize. For me, the outcome never seems like a sure thing, despite what a number of armchair critics were tweeting about when Feist took home the prize. There's still a fair bit of confusion about how this process works, and how the outcome is decided each September. I've not sat as a member of a Polaris grand jury, but I know enough from my Polaris experience that the [...]
Last night the Polaris Prize gala rolled into the Masonic Temple at Yonge and Church, and for the second year in a row a Canadian heavyweight took the prize. Presented by "Tim and Jim" of last year's winners The Arcade Fire, Feist crawled under her table in response to hearing her name. She was admittedly as surprised as many of us were. Metals is, of course, a fantastic album, and I think shows Feist at her most confident: the tracks come off as effortless and [...]
La cantante canadiense Leslie Feist , más conocida como Feist , fue la gran ganadora del Polaris Music Prize 2012 por su más reciente disco Metals . La artista, que visitará la Argentina en el mes de octubre, dejó fuera de carrera en Mejor álbum canadiense (editado entre el 31 de mayo del año pasado y el 1 de junio de 2012) a Celebration Rock de Japandroids , Take Care de Drake , David comes to life [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards , Music Appreciation Dustin Rabin, Polaris Music Prize Leslie Feist won the $30,000 Polaris Music Prize last night for her fourth album, Metals , and no one was more stunned by the news than the artist herself. Upon hearing the announcement that she had won, Feist crawled under the table at the gala event, which took place at Toronto's Masonic Temple, almost [...]
Que para Feist todo ha sido triunfos y reconocimientos en los últimos años, eso ya lo sabemos. Pero parece que esto no ha influido en el ánimo humilde de la cantante, quien todavía pasa trabajos para aceptar que ya es parte de la élite musical. Esto viene a cuento porque este lunes se llevó a cabo la gala de los Polaris Music Prize , galardones anuales que premian lo mejor de la música canadiense, de acuerdo con un panel de expertos, y que sigue en modelo al prestigiado [...]
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Every year, a small panel of Canadian music heads gets together and awards the Polaris Music Prize to its pick for the best Canadian album of the year. The winner gets the prize at a big televised gala and gets to take home $30,000, and this year's lineup of nominees was absolutely stacked. It included Drake, Japandroids, Grimes, Handsome Furs, Kathleen Edwards, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, and past winners Fucked Up and Cadence Weapon. But the winner, as it turned out was Feist, for Metals . The lesson, as always: Do not underestimate [...]
In a surprising move, last night Feist won the 2012 Polaris Prize for her album Metals . I say surprising because the album was, well, just not that good. In fact, it was one of the biggest disappointments of the year. To be honest, it seems like a compromise pick. It's like Joe Clark (look it up), he was nobodies first pick, but someone enough people felt okay about to give him the nod. This is the second year in a row [...]
Woot ! Woot ! The FEIST has won the 2012 Polaris Award. Congrats ! The 36-year-old she-singer has won the $30,000 Polaris Music Prize via her fourth long_one, METALS . Find out all about it via here .
Feist has beaten the likes of Grimes, Japandroids and Drake to take home the 2012 Polaris Music Prize . The Canadian-centric awards awarded Feist the award (plus the $30'000/touring van) for her latest album, Metals , and joins the likes of Arcade Fire and Caribou in the winners hall of fame. Congratulations Feist!
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards , New Music , Music Appreciation , New Releases Frank Yang, Chromewaves Feist has won the 2012 Polaris Music Prize for her album, Metals . The singer has been nominated for the Polaris three times in the past, once as a solo artist for her album The Reminder in 2007, and twice as a member of Broken Social [...]
Feist accepts Polaris Prize money ( via BrooklynVegan Instagram ) BV photographer Dominick Mastrangelo headed straight from Pop Montreal to Toronto today to witness the 2012 Polaris Prize gala where Feist was just announced as this year's big Canadian winner (for her album "Metals"). She beat Cadence Weapon, Cold Specks, Drake, Kathleen Edwards, Fucked Up, Grimes, Handsome Furs, Japandroids, and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, many of whom performed at the awards show tonight. Stay tuned for more pictures from that [...]
Feist wins the 2012 Polaris Prize Congrats to Leslie Feist aka Feist who won the 2012 Polaris Music Prize for her (decidely uncommercial) album, Metals . View this year's Short List of nominees over here , view the Long List over here . PS I see they gave her a post-dated cheque.
View the full rundown here. Feist recently dropped by WXPN. Purchase Feist items via Insound. MP3: Feist - Graveyard (TRUST Mix)
Leslie Feist's latest album, Metals , has won the 2012 Polaris Music Prize. The annual award honors the best album from Canada as selected by a small jury of music journalists, bloggers, and broadcasters. Feist beat out acts like Drake Fucked Up, Japandroids, Grimes, Handsome Furs, and Kathleen Edwards. She's also the first woman to win the award. Along with bragging rights, Feist receives a $30,000 cash prize and a touring van. Past winners include Arcade Fire, Fucked Up, Caribou, and Owen Pallett. Below, you can find a full list of the 2012 nominees [...]
It's a bit like a Canadian version of the Mercury Prize - and Feist has walked away with it....
Beginning at 8:00pm ET tonight, you can webcast the 2012 Polaris Music Prize live from Concert Hall Studios at Bell Media's Masonic Temple in Toronto. Aside from awarding Canada's best album in 2012, the gala will feature performances from nominees Feist, Fucked Up, Grimes, Kathleen Edwards, Cadence Weapon, and Yamantaka//Sonic Titan. Members of Arcade Fire will also be in attendance to announce this year's winner. Tune into the video player below. Other nominees of this year's Polaris Prize include Drake, Japandroids, and Handsome Furs. Stay tuned to Consequence of Sound for an update as [...]
Penguin The 2012 Polaris Music Prize gets awarded tonight, so in honour of the occasion, here's a bunch of maple-flavoured content led off by a Canadian icon who hasn't lived in Canada in some 40-plus years. Yeah! If you have some time to kill and an interest in who Neil Young is circa 2012, you could do worse than to spend it with this feature piece at The New York Times . It covers his current relationship with alcohol and drugs - there is none - as [...]
Today, as you may know, is the release of the iPhone 5 and yes, I'm one of those dorks that got up in the middle of the night and waited in line to get my hands on the phone early (deal with it). In honor of the new device (which I'm completely loving, by the way, iOS6 Maps aside), I've made a mix of my favorite tracks to use as ringtones, which you can download below for your own shiny new iPhones or your old, outdated iPhone 4S. What makes a great ringtone track you say? [...]
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