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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 [...]

Tags: Polaris, Polaris Music Prize, Ron Sexsmith
Posted in Blog, MuchRadar, Music & Videos, Polaris Music Prize | Posted by Allison

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 [...]

Tags: Colin Stetson, Polaris, Polaris Music Prize
Posted in Blog, Polaris Music Prize | Posted by Allison

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 [...]

Tags: Polaris, Polaris Music Prize, Polaris Music Prize 2011, Timber Timbre
Posted in Blog, Music & Videos, Polaris Music Prize | Posted by Allison

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 [...]

Tags: Austra, Polaris, Polaris Music Prize, Polaris Music Prize 2011
Posted in Polaris Music Prize | Posted by Allison

Patrick Watson @ Queen Elizabeth Theater

December 14th, 2009

Have you heard of Patrick Watson? If the answer is no, you’re missing out. It blows my mind that this man is not more famous. “Now why is that?” you may ask. The answer awaits you… Saturday December 12th, Toronto’s Queen Elizabeth Theater was packed. That’s no surprise seeing that Patrick Watson is known for [...]

Tags: Patrick Watson, Polaris
Posted in Blog, Concert Reviews | Posted by Kate M.

Polaris Talks Hypothetical Kanye Stage Invasion

September 22nd, 2009

Being an awards show and all, last night’s Polaris Music Prize gala saw Kanye West’s recent MTV VMAs antics as a hot topic. K’naan was actually there at the VMAs talking to Kanye right before he ran up on stage and stole Taylor Swift’s moment. “He literally came up to where I was sitting to [...]

Tags: Elliott Brood, fucked up, great lake swimmers, joel plaskett, k'naan, Kanye West, Malajube, metric, Polaris
Posted in News | Posted by Cam

Polaris Pics (Plus An Insider’s POV)

September 22nd, 2009

Yo. This year’s Polaris Gala was an extreme extravaganza of extra good times. Make sense? No? Screw you, it’s 3am. My bestie asked me 10 minutes before the big announcement who I thought would win? I said K’Naan or Fucked Up. See, as much as this award is based on artistic merit, it seems like [...]

Tags: gallery, photos, Polaris, polaris music prize 2009
Posted in Concerts & Events | Posted by Wendy

MusiCounts Polaris Custom Poster Auctions!

September 21st, 2009

MusiCounts and Polaris have joined forces to raise money for music education in Canada! Starting immediately, you can bid on super dope framed custom posters designed for and autographed by all Polaris short list nominees! Links to all auctions after the jump!

Tags: auctions, Chad VanGaalen, charity, Elliott Brood, fucked up, great lake swimmers, Hey Rosetta!, joel plaskett, k'naan, Malajube, metric, Patrick Watson, Polaris, polaris music prize 2009
Posted in Concerts & Events | Posted by Wendy

Polaris Nominee Q&A: Malajube + Hey Rosetta!

September 21st, 2009

Today’s the day! By the end of the night someone/some band will be awarded the 2009 Polaris Music Prize and take away $20,000 to show for their artistic efforts. The best news of all is that we’re streaming the full ceremony so you turkeys won’t miss a thing! Click HERE for your one-stop shop: watch [...]

Tags: Hey Rosetta!, Malajube, Polaris, polaris music prize 2009
Posted in Concerts & Events | Posted by Wendy

Polaris Nominee Q&A: Great Lake Swimmers + Elliott BROOD

September 18th, 2009

Only a weekend away from the Polaris Prize soiree! If you missed Q&A with other nominees, don’t fret: you can read interviews with Metric + Joel Plaskett, Chad VanGaalen + Patrick Watson, and K’Naan + F***ed Up. Don’t forget that you can listen to all nominated albums here! And now for today’s Q&A, with Great [...]

Tags: Elliott Brood, great lake swimmers, Polaris, polaris music prize 2009
Posted in Concerts & Events | Posted by Wendy