After a near-infinite amount of debate among more than 200 music industry types across the country (full disclosure: I am one), more than 200 Canadian albums have been whittled down to the final
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More than 200 album submissions for the 2024 Polaris Music Prize have been voted down to a Long List of 40 semi-finalists. After this marinates with the jury pool (200+ music boffins across
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Even before the 2023 Polaris Music Prize was handed out last September, a group of about 200 Canadian music industry obsessives (I am one) have been, er, obsessing over the best Canadian releases
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The culmination of a year’s worth of debate came to an end last night at Massey Hall in Toronto when Debby Friday’s album, Good Luck, was awarded the 2023 Polaris Prize. This all
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From 221 nominated albums comes the Polaris Music Prize Long List, the forty semi-finalists for 2023. Everything was nominated and then voted on by 205 music wonks across Canada (including me). A second
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The debates among the 200+ jurors have already begun and there’s already a long list of albums that have been suggested for this year’s Polaris Music Prize. While all that’s going on, we
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Now that the Polaris Music Prize is over for another year, the next item on the agenda is the 2022 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize. The goal is to give recognition to worthy
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After a year of debate and voting, the Polaris Music Prize has declared that José Louis and the Paradox of Love by Pierre Kwenders is the best Canadian album of the last 12
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What was once a list of more then 200 nominated albums became a Long List of forty. And now just ten remain in contention for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize. Here we go
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After months of recommendations, discussion, debating, arguing, and kvetching, the Polaris Music Prize people ended up with a list of more than 200 albums that needed to be considered by the 200+ music
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In another sure sign of spring, the dates have been announced for the Polaris Music Prize for this year. Members of the jury–200+ music wonks from across the country (including me) have been
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