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Polaris People For The Week Of September 7 (Cold Specks! Japandroids! Fucked Up!)

Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire

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

In this one we celebrate Fucked Up haikus, find out what Cold Specks has been eaten and contemplate the Japandroids-Canadroids debate.

To find out what this all means, go here.

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2012 Polaris Music Prize Short List Gets Announced + Fast Facts

Polaris Robots

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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