Here’s the short list for the 2023 Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize (the inspiration for Canada’s Polaris Prize) seeks to determine the best album in the UK from the last year regardless of commercial success or genre. The short list of 12
Read MoreThe Mercury Prize (the inspiration for Canada’s Polaris Prize) seeks to determine the best album in the UK from the last year regardless of commercial success or genre. The short list of 12
Read MoreIn a process that started last year, more than 200 music boffins across country nominated, debated, and then voted on more than 200 albums with the goal of whittling things down to the
Read MoreWhat 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
Read MoreA few weeks after the Polaris Music Prize announced the Short List for 2022, the equivalent Short List for Britain’s Mercury Prize is out. Here are the nominations in alphabetical order. Fergus McCreadie
Read MoreThe finale of the 2021 Polaris Music prize is coming up tonight (September 27) and after months of debating and arguing, one album will be named the best Canadian record of the year
Read MoreYou know we’re deep into summer when we start talking about the finalists for the Polaris Music Prize. We started with over 200 albums nominated by more than 200 music wonks across the
Read MoreWhen this whole process began, music wonks such as myself nominated over 200 albums for consideration by the Polaris Music Prize jury. Last month, a cull cut that down to the Long List
Read MoreFirst came the nominations, resulting in about 200 candidate albums. Then came the vote to bring things down to the Long List. Now after another round of voting by music wonks across the
Read MoreThe Mercury Prize is the UK equivalent of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize: An attempt to name the best British or Irish album of the past year regardless of genre or commercial success. And
Read MoreAfter a year of arguing, lobbying, cajoling, kvetching, and passioned imploring by the 200+ members of the extended Polaris Music Prize jury, it’s come down to these ten finalists for the 2018 prize.
Read MoreWe’re less than three weeks from the Polaris Music Prize Gala, the night where one artist will be recognized as released the best Canadian album of the year. (Review the Short List here.)
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