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Posted in music on July 7, 2009
2009 Polaris Prize nominees
Steve Jordan, Founder and Executive Director of the Polaris Music Prize, today revealed the Short List of 10 Canadian albums eligible for the fourth annual $20,000 award.The 10 nominees are, in alphabetical order:
Elliott BROOD - Mountain MeadowsMalajube have a bunch of shows coming up.
(Toronto, ON)Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
(Toronto, ON)Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
(Toronto, ON)Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood)
(St. John's, NF)K'NAAN - Troubadour
(Toronto, ON)Malajube - Labyrinthes
(Montréal, QC)Metric - Fantasies
(Toronto, ON)Joel Plaskett - Three
(Halifax, NS)Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
(Calgary, AB)Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
(Montréal, QC)
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Posted on July 7, 2009 3:41 PM
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Comments (14)
Eeek!
No Land of Talk???
Damn!!
Posted by FrostBiteBoy | July 7, 2009 3:47 PM
There's an obvious Canadian bias to these nominations.
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2009 3:47 PM
our music sucks
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2009 3:54 PM
No Constantines? really?
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2009 3:56 PM
canada eh?
always makes me wonder why is indie shit so commercial and toothless up there?
The amount of money to be made is actually dramatically less.
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2009 3:56 PM
yep @ 3:56.
plus our artists love the attention.
more than yours.
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2009 3:59 PM
Or 3:56, Canada produces fewer angry douchebags.
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2009 4:03 PM
Soft Airplane was one of the best albums of 2008 that nobody talked about
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2009 4:14 PM
Remember when Canadian music was good?
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2009 4:37 PM
what..no bryan adams?
Posted by hipster poseur | July 7, 2009 5:07 PM
That is one unimpressive line-up. And how do the Handsome Furs get snubbed AGAIN?
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2009 5:33 PM
CDN$20,000 is, what, US$1,342.67?
Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2009 1:45 AM
joel plaskett deserves it so hard. he's been nominated a few times now and completely skipped over.
if patrick "polaris winner 2007" watson gets another, i'll be sad. i can't believe he's nominated again, really. what has he done?
i'd be happy with malajube too. they're lovely.
Posted by massromantic | July 8, 2009 1:49 AM
the "nob competition"
Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2009 1:57 AM