2012 Polaris Short List announcement
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
It’s the first in a post-2012 Short List world, so there’s lots of news about nominees like Grimes and Cadence Weapon and some of the more interesting coverage of the announcement.
To read about it, and to check the recently redesigned Polaris home page, go here.
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Polaris Robots
Earlier this week the 2012 Polaris Music Prize Short List got announced.
Said list included the following albums:
Cadence Weapon — Hope In Dirt City
Cold Specks — I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
Drake — Take Care
Kathleen Edwards — Voyageur
Feist — Metals
Fucked Up — David Comes To Life
Grimes — Visions
Handsome Furs — Sound Kapital
Japandroids — Celebration Rock
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN — YT//ST
Over at the Polaris website I did a bit of digging and came up with some fast facts about the 10 nominated acts for this year. You can read said facts — like the complete list of acts who’ve been on the Short List twice in their careers — by clicking here.
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Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
Aerosmith got burned, The Rolling Stones got bombed, John Lennon got banned and Guns N’ Roses blasted off.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
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Taylor Swift and B.o.B
Country sweetheart Taylor Swift and rapper B.o.B have a hit song together called “Both Of Us.”
With that in mind, it was a pretty natural topic of conversation when Sarah spoke to B.o.B recently.
As it turns out, his song with Swift came together pretty naturally, too.
To find out why head over to AOL Music Blog and click HERE.
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Lollapalooza 1991
If you grew of age musically in the “alternative” era just like I did, you probably consider Lollapalooza a pretty big deal.
And that would be because it WAS a big deal.
It turns out the 21st anniversary of the first ever Lollapalooza show happened a couple days ago, so I put together a wee gallery over at Spinner to celebrate.
To check out the Lollapalooza 1991 gallery, click here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 