At The Drake Hotel in Toronto: Polaris jurors who love and cover hip-hop will gather for Polaris Record Salon #12, December 14 in Toronto. Your panelists are Ty Harper (City on My Back), Anupa Mistry (freelance journalist), Dave Morris (freelance journalist) and Thomas Quinlan (Urbnet), moderated by Spinner Canada's Josh Ostroff. They will present their fave hip-hop recordings released so far this year eligible for 20122s Polaris Prize. We'll play some tracks plus discuss the state of the genre in Canada. Do they think Drake is a shoo-in or a shut-out? Come find out! As always, [...]
Every one in Canada thinks that the Arcade Fire is the greatest export that their country has ever produced, and they will do anything to 'hype' and 'reward' their golden goose, which is why they gave them the Polaris Prize. The prize is a Canadian gimmick that the country has to 'celebrate its arts/artists' and reward them with money, especially because 'indie' used to be a poor people sport, but now the Arcade Fire are rich, but also 'hella mainstream.' Now the country has a 'national crisis'-- do we give the [...]
El último álbum de la banda liderada por Win Butler no para de recibir elogios y reconocimientos a más de un año de su lanzamiento. Este fin de semana los chicos de Montreal alzaron el prestigioso premio Polaris a la música canadiense. Después de salir victorioso en las categorías Álbum del Año en los Grammy y los Juno Awards y Álbum Internacional en los Brit Awards, The Suburbs (2010) sigue cosechando galardones. Esta vez el premio es más [...]
Arcade Fire beat out the other 9 shortlisters to win this years Polaris Prize and 30k for their album The Suburbs . For the first time since the awards started in 2006, an indie band that went "mainstream" ending up winning. As artistic merit is the only factor in the decision to pick the Polaris winner, it seems as if we've just moved into a music industry where an artist can produce a great album and get rewarded both by critics and the public. Congrats to Arcade Fire .
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Chromewaves When the grand jury for the 2011 Polaris Prize voted Montreal's Arcade Fire as the winner at a gala Monday, Sept. 19 in Toronto, they did something no other Polaris grand jury has done in the award's previous five years -- picked the popular band to win. Indeed, the Polaris Prize, which is voted on by Canadian music critics each [...]
Well the 2011 version of the Polaris Music Prize was handed out at a gala in Toronto last night. In the past, the jury has shown a preference for the underdogs, awarding the prize to the likes of Final Fantasy, Caribou, and Fucked Up. This time around they surprised no one as the Grammy Award-winning Arcade Fire took home the prize for their album The Suburbs. There's no denying that it was a
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Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Well, can't say that we're surprised to see Montreal's Arcade Fire walk away with Canada's music critic-voted Polaris Prize for 2011. The honour, which comes with a $30,000 jackpot, was awarded to the beloved collective Monday night (Sept. 19) at an invite-only gala in Toronto for their smash album, 'The Suburbs.' While there was speculation that the tide might turn on the clear frontrunner in [...]
The winner for the Polaris Music Prize 2011 goes to.. ARCADE FIRE Are you happy about it? Weigh in on your opinions. So I was wrong. But it's still a great album. Reason why it won is because of these tracks on the album: The Suburbs Ready To Start [...]
The winner for the Polaris Music Prize 2011 goes to.. ARCADE FIRE Are you happy about it? Weigh in on your opinions. Best tracks: The Suburbs Ready To Start Rococo http://youtu.be/DSykB-j_2UQ Empty Room City With No Children [...]
Here is the tenth and last album on the Polaris Music Prize 2011 shortlist. It is House of Balloons by The Weeknd . I am going to cut to chase and make my prediction on the album. It is hands that *hopefully* 100% that The Weeknd will win this year's Polaris Music Prize. If it's not then it will be a big uproar. We don't need anymore single white guys winning the Prize, more diversity please! [...]
Here is the ninth album on the Polaris Music Prize 2011 Shortlist. It is Timber Timbre 's Creep On Creepin' On which was released on April 5, 2011. I know I need to focus on the music. Just having low expectation if this album wins the Polaris Music Prize . So my prediction is that he has a 65% chance of winning it. I know there might be some people rooting for this and not sure how the grand jury [...]
Here is the eight album on the Polaris Music Prize 2011 shortlist. It is Colin Stetson 's New History Warfare Vol. 2. The album came out on February 21, 2011. Being the only album that is instrumental (there are two tracks that are spoken word) and some considered the album "free" jazz. Depending on how the grand jurors will vote. It's a really difficult album to get into if you aren't familiar with his work of music. So my prediction is that he [...]
Here is the seventh album on the Polaris Music Prize 2011 shortlist. I am going to cut to chase and make my prediction on Ron Sexsmith 's Long Player Late Bloomer. This is the album I haven't listened to that is in this year's shortlist. So my prediction is that he has a 50% chance of winning it. Ron is already an established musicians domestic and internationally. He is more of a musician's musician that [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Courtesy of Colin Stetson Being Colin Stetson is genuinely painful. You might think that Stetson's status as the go-to guy when indie royalty like Arcade Fire , LCD Soundsystem , Feist , the National and most recently Bon Iver need a saxophonist would make for a life of wine and roses. You'd be wrong, though. Mostly, Stetson's is [...]
Here is the sixth album on the Polaris Music Prize 2011 shortlist. I am going to cut to chase and make my prediction on Seeds by Hey Rosetta! So my prediction is that they have a 70% chance of winning it. Surprised that I didn't review this album when it came out. Seeds is more of a indie pop and rock album. Some are saying they are like the East Coast version of Arcade Fire or Ohibijou with their orchestral pop [...]
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In the long list for Polaris Music Prize 2011 . This is one album that I had to listen to I am talking about Montreal's Galaxie with Tigre et Diesel. It's the only Francophone album in this year's long list. Being the only French band in the running. I feel like Galaxie has become the Karkwa/Malajube of this year's longlist. So in predicting on Polaris they have a 80% chance of winning. [...]
Latest track from the Toronto nu-disco duo's clever Polaris Music Prize mixtape of cover songs from artists shortlisted for the Polaris which they have been releasing on a song a week basis for the past couple months. This radical reworking of The Weeknd 's "The Morning" has been on repeat for much of this week since I first heard it (thanks to the heads up from group member Jeremy Glenn 's manager, C. Hill). Now, if you were subscribed to the Kitchen Facebook page you would have heard this days ago [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Marc Rimmer While Montreal-based pop-experimentalists Braids aren't the only rookie act present in the short list for this year's Polaris Prize , drummer Austin Tufts still marvels that his band's debut disc, 'Native Speaker,' made the grade. "It was a huge honour," the percussionist tells Spinner of the nomination. "To receive that kind of acclamation for your first record feels really great. [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Paperbag Records On the phone from a tour van on its way to Berlin, Austra 's Katie Stelmanis reminds us her dark electro outfit is still a "baby band," despite being nominated for the prestigious Polaris Prize , to be given out at a gala Sept. 19 in the band's hometown of Toronto. In today's climate, a band can be hyped by a [...]
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