Aaron’s job at the Polaris Music Prize during this pandemic-messed year was, literally, “make sure we have a winner.”
So it was with great effort and great relief, that on Sept. 27 it was revealed that Cadence Weapon’s Parallel World album had won the 2021 Polaris Music Prize.
CBC Music revealed the winning album during a live video presentation which also featured a performance from 2020 Polaris winner, Backxwash.
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Cadence Weapon at the 2006 Polaris Gala. Photo by Dustin Rabin.
Awhile back the Polaris Podcast got ace rapper and Edmonton for-lifer Cadence Weapon to reflect on his classic 2005 album Breaking Kayfabe.
To listen to the man known as Rollie Pemberton talk about this record as well as his love of Dan Bejar’s Destroyer, hit the Soundcloud player below.
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Cadence Weapon
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
Cadence Weapon is talking about something called “super rap,” new Shad music has appeared, and The Dears‘ Murray Lightburn is putting out a solo album.
To read the column, go here.
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Cadence Weapon
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
For this one we pondered The Weeknd‘s lurid new music video, then took our minds out of the gutter with Cadence Weapon‘s new video, then we contemplated some of the awards Grimes is currently nominated for.
To read this week’s column, go here.
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Owen Pallett
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
In case you haven’t heard, Arcade Fire are working on a new album. Cadence Weapon? He’s working hard doing interviews. And Owen Pallett? He’s having fun on twitter.
To read it, go here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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