Polaris Music Prize

The short list for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Arcade Fire, Drake, Mac DeMarco, Chromeo, Owen Pallett, Tim Hecker, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Timber Timbre, Tanya Tagaq, Shad, Jessy Lanza and Basia Bulat…

Godspeed You! Black Emperor won the 2013 Polaris Prize for their album Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! last night (9/23). And while they weren’t there to accept the award (Ian Ilavsky of their label Constellation Records accepted it and said they’d be donating the $30,000 to benefit music education in Quebec prisons), they’ve now issued a statement on the win…

The gala for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s annual award for a great album, took place tonight and the winner is post-rock collective Godspeed …

Metric @ Radio City Music Hall 2012 (more by Jonathan McPhail) The 2013 winner of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize will be named tonight (9/23) at a gala ceremony in Toronto that will include live performances from Metric, METZ, Purity Ring, Colin Stetson, A Tribe Called Red, Whitehorse, Zaki Ibrahim, and Young Galaxy…

The short list for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Metric, METZ, Purity Ring, Colin Stetson, Tegan & Sara, and more…

As you may have heard, Feist took home the 2012 Polaris Music Prize on Monday at Toronto’s Masonic Temple. The Calgary native won the $30,000 prize for last year’s Arts & Crafts release, Metals, beating out an incredibly strong shortlist which included Grimes, Drake (who was in Toronto but did not attend the gala), Handsome Furs, and 2009 winners, Fucked Up…

Feist accepts Polaris Prize money (via BrooklynVegan Instagram) BV photographer Dominick Mastrangelo headed straight from Pop Montreal to Toronto today to witness the 2012 Polaris Prize gala where Feist was just announced as this year’s big Canadian winner (for her album “Metals”)…

Last month the 2012 Polaris Music Prize, which awards a Canadian album of recorded music each year, revealed their long list and this week the short list was revealed…

The long list for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s annual award for a great album, has been revealed. It includes Leonard Cohen, Cold Specks, Drake, Feist, Fucked Up, Grimes, Japandroids, The Weeknd, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, and more…

Arcade Fire @ ACL Live on Saturday (more by Tim Griffin)”There’s only going to be one outcome of the Polaris Music Prize gala on Monday night: either the Arcade Fire wins or the Arcade Fire loses…