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Polaris People For The Week Of June 1 (Joel Plaskett! The Weeknd! Karkwa!)

Cadence Weapon

Cadence Weapon

The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.

Cadence Weapon is fully media deployed, Joel Plaskett could end up in your backyard, The Weeknd may become Week.Piddy and Karkwa have an album.

Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.

 

 

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Polaris People For May 4 (Timber Timbre! The Weeknd! Kathleen Edwards!)

Timber Timbre photo courtesy Polaris Music Prize.

Timber Timbre photo courtesy Polaris Music Prize.

The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.

There’s talk of Timber Timbre‘s Vanessa Paradis connection, Bon Iver penis jokes and The Weeknd hanging with the dead.

Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.

 

 

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Alternative Then And Now: Current Bands And Their Descendents

Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire

Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire

Everything old is new again. Or something like that. And everything in music has been done before.

And if you’ve got a big enough record collection, you can actually trace the genelogical lines between artists a couple decades remove. Which is exactly what Aaron did in an article called Alt-Rock Then And Now: Connecting The Classes Of 1992 And 2012.

The story is exactly what it sounds like. Massive Attack were compared to The Weeknd, Pearl Jam to Arcade Fire, Jesus And Mary Chain to Crocodiles, etc., etc.

To read the story over at Spinner, click here.

 

 

 

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