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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Cadence Weapon
The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.
Cadence Weapon is fully media deployed, Joel Plaskett could end up in your backyard, The Weeknd may become Week.Piddy and Karkwa have an album.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
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Metric
The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.
In it Emily Haines of Metric gets a sexy new keyboard stand, Cadence Weapon gets angry, and Sarah Harmer gets on a bicycle.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
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Cadence Weapon
Cadence Weapon just released a nice new song called “88.”
Aaron wrote about it and its retro goodness for Spinner.
To read about it and hear the track go here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 