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Polaris Music Spotlight: Ron Sexsmith

September 14th, 2011

With only a few days days left until one of the coolest award ceremonies graces our site with its awesomeness, Polaris is giving you fine people a sampler of the ten amazingly-rad musicians on the Polaris 2011 Short List (stream all the albums here)! Today we shine the spotlight on Ron Sexsmith! Who: Born in [...]

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Polaris Music Spotlight: Colin Stetson

September 13th, 2011

With only a few days days left until one of the coolest award ceremonies graces our site with its awesomeness, Polaris is giving you fine people a sampler of the ten amazingly-rad musicians on the Polaris 2011 Short List (stream all the albums here)! Today we shine the spotlight on Colin Stetson! Who: Colin Stetson [...]

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Polaris Music Spotlight: Destroyer

September 13th, 2011

With only a few days days left until one of the coolest award ceremonies graces our site with its awesomeness, Polaris is giving you fine people a sampler of the ten amazingly-rad musicians on the Polaris 2011 Short List! Today we shine the spotlight on Destroyer! Who: Started by Dan Bejar in 1995 in Vancouver, [...]

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Polaris Music Prize Spolight: Timber Timbre

September 10th, 2011

With only a few days days left until one of the coolest award ceremonies graces our site with its awesomeness, Polaris is giving you fine people a sampler of the ten amazingly-rad musicians on the Polaris 2011 Short List! Today we shine the spotlight on Timber Timbre! Read The Wedge’s review of Timber Timbre’s Creep [...]

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Polaris Music Prize Spotlight: Austra

September 9th, 2011

With only a few days days left until one of the coolest award ceremonies graces our site with its awesomeness, Polaris is giving you fine people a sampler of the ten amazingly-rad musicians on the Polaris 2011 Short List! Today we shine the spotlight on Austra! Read The Wedge’s review of Austra’s Feel It Break [...]

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The Wedge P.M. News Round Up: The Vaccines cancel tour

August 30th, 2011

One week away from kicking off their North American tour with Arctic Monkeys, The Vaccines have been forced to cancel all of their dates. Frontman Justin Young posted a blog on the band’s website, saying he needs to undergo a third surgery on his throat, adding, “This allows me to have eight weeks of the [...]

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Damian: ‘Pink Eyes’ On The (Polaris Music) Prize

July 6th, 2011

With today’s announcement of the shortlist, the prestigious Polaris Music Prize has officially entered the exciting home stretch today. For those of you who don’t know what the Polaris Music Prize is, it’s an award given away annually to a Canadian record based solely on artistic merit. I can’t help but feel a little nostalgic [...]

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The 2011 Polaris Music Prize shortlist announced

July 6th, 2011

Place your bets. The ten albums vying for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize were announced this afternoon by CBC Radio 3 personality Grant Lawrence and The Wedge‘s own Damian Abraham. Bands returning to the shortlist include Montreal’s Arcade Fire with their Grammy- and Juno-winning album The Suburbs, as well as St. John’s Hey Rosetta! with [...]

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Prediction: The 2011 Polaris Music Prize shortlist

July 5th, 2011

Tomorrow the 2011 Polaris Music Prize longlist will be whittled down from 40 nominees to ten, when the shortlist is announced at the Drake Hotel in Toronto by by CBC Radio 3′s Grant Lawrence and The Wedge‘s own Damian Abraham. If you search hard enough, you can likely find a bookie out there who is [...]

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2011 Polaris Music Prize Long List announced

June 16th, 2011

The wait is over. Today the 40 names for this year’s Polaris Music Prize long list were announced at a press conference held at the Drake Hotel in Toronto. Among the names vying for the newly increased $30,000 cheque and title of Best Canadian Album of the Year include repeat nominees Arcade Fire, Black Mountain, [...]

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