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by Aaron Brophy | February 10, 2013 · 7:50 pm

Polaris People For The Week Of February 8 (Lindi Ortega! Ariane Moffatt! Coeur de Pirate!)

Lindi Ortega

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

For this one we did a little bit of radical narrowing, deciding to only look into the comings and goings of some of the 30 artists who made the 2012 Polaris Long List, but not the subsequent Short List. It turns out that country croonin’ gal Lindi Ortega wants to start creeping on the Stompin Tom demo, Ariane Moffatt finally made her return to Toronto and Coeur de Pirate has made a romantic new video.

To read this week’s column, go here.

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by Aaron Brophy | September 21, 2012 · 9:35 pm

Kathleen Edwards: Cool Kids Party Crasher

Kathleen Edwards

Awhile back I spoke to a bunch of the 2012 Polaris Music Prize short list nominees and considering the Polaris Gala to determine the winner is happening on September 24, now’s a good time to launch these things upon the world.

The first, which I did for Spinner, is about singer Kathleen Edwards. She figures she’s crashing the cool kids party by being a Polaris nominee. We hope she pranks some people while she’s there.

To read the story click here.

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by Aaron Brophy | July 21, 2012 · 1:55 pm

2012 Polaris Music Prize Short List Gets Announced + Fast Facts

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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.