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Polaris People For The Week Of October 19 (Holy Fuck! Sarah Harmer! Hannah Georgas!)

Holy Fuck

Holy Fuck

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

This time we look into why Sarah Harmer‘s the new David Suzuki, what members of Holy Fuck did with Hannah Georgas, and what type of film directors K’naan compares himself to.

To read it, go here.

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Polaris People For The Week Of October 12 (The Weeknd! Grimes! The Dears!)

Grimes photo by Dustin Rabin

Grimes photo by Dustin Rabin

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

This time around I looked into bands who’ve never been nominated for Polaris, but have Polaris connections nonetheless. Namely, Divine Fits, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, AC Newman and Daphni.

To read it, go here.

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Polaris People For The Week Of October 5 (Revisiting Old Champs)

Kathleen Edwards

Kathleen Edwards

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

In the latest edition of PP I checked in with what some of the past Polaris champs have been up to, so we have updates on Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett, Karkwa and Patrick Watson amongst other.

To read it, 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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Fucked Up Knew They Wouldn’t Win The Polaris

Fucked Up

Fucked Up

Now that the 2012 Polaris Music Prize has been decided it was pretty clear from my interview with past champ and ’12 nominee Damian Abraham from Fucked Up that he was right when he said his band had no chance of winning for a second time.

Because they didn’t win for a second time.

To read the interview with FU discussing Polaris, head over to Spinner by clicking here.

 

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