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Fucked Up Wins Polaris Prize, Frustrates Respectable Publications

Sep 22, 2009, 11:08am

You know what's great about bands like Holy Fuck and Pissed Jeans ? Their names are considered unprintably indecent by prestigious news sources like The New York Times . So the papers have to resort to asterisks and verbal gymnastics to cover them. That's what makes it especially awesome that neo-hardcore innovators Fucked Up won Canada's 2009 Polaris Music Prize for last year's genre-redefining album, The Chemistry of Common Life (Matador). In addition to the $20,000 of prize money the dudes will take home, they also have the honor of inflicting their [...]

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