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Polaris People For The Week Of July 5 (Corb Lund! Luyas! Lee Harvey Osmond!)

Corb Lund

Corb Lund

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

In this one Corb Lund plots a good deed, The Luyas get endorsed by David Byrne and Lee Harvey Osmond teaches us about food.

To read the column go here.

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20 Songs About Aliens For World UFO Day

UFO

UFO

Yesterday was World UFO Day and I celebrated the only way I know how — waking up with a sense of relief that the black oil from X-Files didn’t invade my eyeballs, and then making a list of 20 songs about aliens for Huffington Post Music Canada.

You can read the list, which prominently features one of my all-time favourite songs “The Purple People Eater,” by clicking here.

 

 

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Polaris People For The Week Of June 28 (Rhye! Jim Guthrie! Joel Plaskett!)

Joel Plaskett

Joel Plaskett

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

This week we marvel at the fact that Rhye are two dudes, make note of the suddenly prolific Jim Guthrie and ponder Joel Plaskett performing everywhere.

To read the column go here.

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Polaris People For The Week Of June 21 (Metz! Hannah Georgas! Fucked Up!)

Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

For this one we consider the strange union of Metz and Chad VanGaalen, ponder eating some Fucked Up food and watch Hannah Georgas become a unicorn.

To read the column go here.

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My Therapist Says I Don’t Have To Listen To Joy Division Anymore

Joy Division

Joy Division

I have to skip ahead any time Joy Division comes up on iTunes when Sarah’s around and there’s a specific reason why.

She wrote about said reason for Noisey.

You can read about it here.

 

 

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