Here’s the Short List for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize. One of these albums will win $50,000 tonight
What was once a list of more then 200 nominated albums became a Long List of forty. And now just
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We have the Short List for Britain’s 2022 Mercury Prize
A few weeks after the Polaris Music Prize announced the Short List for 2022, the equivalent Short List for Britain’s
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The 2021 Polaris Music Prize Gala is TONIGHT!
The finale of the 2021 Polaris Music prize is coming up tonight (September 27) and after months of debating and
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Here is the Short List for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize
You know we’re deep into summer when we start talking about the finalists for the Polaris Music Prize. We started
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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
Read moreHere is the Short List for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize
First came the nominations, resulting in about 200 candidate albums. Then came the vote to bring things down to the
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Shortlist nominations for the 2018 Mercury Prize announced
The Mercury Prize is the UK equivalent of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize: An attempt to name the best British or
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After a year of arguing, lobbying, cajoling, kvetching, and passioned imploring by the 200+ members of the extended Polaris Music
Read moreHere Are Your Performers for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize
We’re less than three weeks from the Polaris Music Prize Gala, the night where one artist will be recognized as
Read moreHere Is Your 2016 Polaris Music Prize Short List
The Polaris jury pool–music writers, bloggers, journalists, tastemakers, broadcasters, etc.–started by putting forth about 200 albums for consideration. Those were
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The Short List for the 2015 Mercury Prize is Out
The Barclay Mercury Prize–the prize upon which our Polaris Music Prize is based–announced the short list of albums for 2015.
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