
The long-list for the 2012 Polaris Music prize was announced today at the Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver, BC. The ceremony, hosted by CBC’s Lana Gay with assistance from local artists Dan Mangan, Hannah Georgas and Veda Hille reveled the list of artists chosen by the various Polaris jurors drawn from across Canada. The jurors are made up of music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers who are asked to put forward 5 albums of the year (in this case the year being 1 June 2011 to 31 May 2012) without regard to genre or sales history. Those most nominated were [...]