Dan Mangan at the 2012 Short List announcement.
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
Dan Mangan talked about what it was like to have the Olympics invade your city, there’s a status report about Dan Boeckner‘s bands, and Sarah Harmer collects followers.
To read about them, 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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