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Backxwash Wins The 2020 Polaris Music Prize

If you told me in January that a rap metal record would win the 2020 Polaris Music Prize I’d have fallen onto a fainting couch in a swoon.

And yet here we are, Backxwash’s God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It album has indeed won this year’s Polaris and it’s entirely deserved.

We didn’t get to celebrate Backxwash’s victory at the traditional gala this year. Instead, the 10 Short List nominees were honoured with a series of commissioned short films.

It turns out making 10 short films in four months is a ridiculously bonkers thing to do. But we did it. And they turned out.





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2020 Polaris Long List Revealed With Help Of Past Nominees

Every year for the Polaris Music Prize Long List reveal we travel somewhere in Canada to get out there and visit the people.

This year with COVID-19 shutting everything down we were unable to do that and instead had 40 past Polaris nominees graciously, and on short notice, come together to do video reveals of this year’s 40 nominated albums on the 2020 Polaris Long List.

Considering the whole country was pretty much in lockdown it turned out pretty well.

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Broken Social Scene And Kid Koala Headline Polaris Podcast Episode 25

Polaris Podcast EP7 was live from Ottawa.

Episode 25 of the Polaris Podcast was the final edition in a four-part series dedicated to albums that received Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize designation.

For this episode we talked about Kid Koala’s Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot It In People.

This and other Polaris Podcast episodes can be found on iTunes, Google Play or Spotify.

Or, to make it easy, you can listen to it right here:

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Dream Warriors And Alanis In Focus On Polaris Podcast Episode 24

Polaris Podcast EP7 was live from Ottawa.

Episode 24 of the Polaris Podcast was the third in a four-part series dedicated to albums that received Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize designation.

For this episode we talked about Dream Warriors’ rap classic … And Now The Legacy Begins and Alanis Morissette’s zeitgeist-riding Jagged Little Pill.

This and other Polaris Podcast episodes can be found on iTunes, Google Play or Spotify.

Or, to make it easy, you can listen to it right here:

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Polaris Podcast Episode 22 Features Jean-Pierre Ferland And Neil Young

Polaris Podcast EP7 was live from Ottawa.

Episode 22 of the Polaris Podcast was one of a four-part series dedicated to albums that received Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize designation — hall of fame, basically.

For this episode we talked about Neil Young’s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and then had an interview with Quebec legend Jean-Pierre Ferland about his album Jaune.

This and other Polaris Podcast episodes can be found on iTunes, Google Play or Spotify.

Or, to make it easy, you can listen to it right here:

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