Polaris Music Prize Archives - A Journal of Musical Things

Here is your Polaris Music Prize shortlist for 2020

When this whole process began, music wonks such as myself nominated over 200 albums for consideration by the Polaris Music

Since its inception earlier in the century, the grand prize winner in the Polaris Music Prize has always been announced

The cull has begun. With 223 suggested albums to choose from, the 201 jurors (including moi) for the 2020 Polaris

It’s Polaris Music Prize time again. Music wonks from all across the country (yours truly included) are already nominated and

Okay, so he’s not completely leaving–he’ll continue as a member of the Polaris board–but he does have a new full

While the Polaris Prize goes to the best new Canadian album of the year, it was decided a couple of

Now that the Polaris Music Prize is over for another year, attention turns to the Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize.

A lot of people woke up today wondering who won the 2019 Polaris Music Prize. And when they saw the

First came the nominations, resulting in about 200 candidate albums. Then came the vote to bring things down to the

After an endless parade of nominations (there were actually 233 albums put up for consideration) and an even more endless

Here’s a new graphic from Completely Ignored‘s Cameron Gordon looking at all the artists who made the Short List for

Sam Galet in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 003 August 5, 2020
Sam Galet is one of the sponsorship industry’s most successful connectors. Over his 20+ year career, he has been directly involved in leading a number of massive sports, entertainment and lifestyle sponsorships, endorsements and naming rights deals. From an early age, Sam knew what he wanted to achieve in his career and he set his […]
Mark Silver
Dave Krikst in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 002 July 29, 2020
Dave Krikst (aka My Man D) is the creative mind behind many of the most memorable shareable off the court or ice moments in Canadian sports over the last 20 years. Throughout his career, starting early on with theScore television network and Rogers Media’s’ FAN 590, and then with Bell Media’s TSN, Dave has established […]
Mark Silver
Launch Day – The Backstage Project Podcast July 23, 2020
Welcome to the launch of The Backstage Project Podcast! I’m Mark Silver, and I’ll be your guide as we weave our way through the history, here and now, and future of the Canadian sports and entertainment landscape. The Backstage Project Podcast takes you on a journey into the sports and entertainment world. We focus on […]
Mark Silver