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Feist Holograms And Arcade Fire Babies, Spinner RIP Trivia

Feist and the Holograms

Feist and the Holograms

Feist recently performed simultaneously in three cities in hologram form. Also, Regine Chassagne and Win Butler of Arcade Fire gave birth to a baby boy last week.

While these two news stories were both of tremendous interest to the indie Can-rock gossip community, they have a dubious distinction as well: they’re the last two stories ever published on the now suddenly-dormant Spinner website. Yeah, it’s true. AOL Music very promptly shut down the site on Friday.

So now I’m the answer to a trivia question nobody will ever ask, “Who wrote the last story ever on Spinner?”

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Polaris People For The Week Of April 19 (Feist! Arcade Fire! Ron Sexsmith!)

Feist

Feist

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

In this one we find out about a big free Feist show, learn more about Arcade Fire‘s new album and watch as Ron Sexsmith covers Kim Mitchell (technically Max Webster).

To read the column, go here.

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Polaris People For The Week Of February 22 (The Gif Edition)

Grimes' boots

Grimes’ boots

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

Because I went on vacation last week I broke from the traditional Polaris People format and instead found 10 Great Gifs involving past Polaris nominees. Grimes‘ boots are in there, so is Damian Abraham from Fucked Up flopping around as well as Feist shooting fireworks.

To see what I’m talking about, go here.

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Polaris People For The Week Of September 28 (Polaris Gala Aftermath)

Feist

Feist

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

In the latest edition of PP I looked at the aftermath of Feist winning the 2012 Polaris Music Prize. There were funny gifs, fancy photo essays and confessional columns.

To read it, go here.

Oh, and if you want to check out the “winner” post from Polaris night, that’s 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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