Cadence Weapon photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize
This week’s edition of the Polaris People blog Aaron does over at the Polaris Music Prize website is now live. The Feb. 10 post featured news about K’naan, Cadence Weapon, The Besnard Lakes and a bunch more.
You can read the story by clicking over to the Polaris Music Prize site here.
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Patrick Watson photo by Dustin Rabin. Property of Polaris Music Prize
Aaron has started contributing to the Polaris Music Prize’s blog section, namely keeping track of what past Short List nominees have been up to week-to-week and writing a column about it.
His first post, for the week of Feb. 3 featured news about Feist, Tegan And Sara, Caribou and a bunch more.
You can read the story by clicking over to the Polaris Music Prize site here.
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Remember when Aaron laid down the official betting lines for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize in Maclean’s? And how he totally correctly predicted Arcade Fire were going to win (though, to be fair, a lot of other people had them as favourites, too). Well, he wrote an aftermath piece about how Arcade Fire winning the Polaris means “popular” bands can be artistically relevant, too.
You can read that story at Spinner Canada by clicking here.
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The album covers of the 10 short list Polaris albums
For the past couple years Aaron’s done a pretty good job of predicting who’d win the prestigious Polaris Music Prize, correctly picking Fucked Up to win in 2009 and almost getting Karkwa’s win right in 2010 if he didn’t go with his heart and rank The Besnard Lakes higher than them.
With that track record in mind, Maclean’s asked him to lay down the odds on who’s going to win this year’s Polaris, which is being decided Sept. 19 in Toronto. To read about who he thinks will win, click here.
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