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Old 07-11-2012, 11:52 AM   #21
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...o-far-20120709

Here's an unranked list of 40 of the year's best albums so far, as selected by Rolling Stone editors
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Old 09-25-2012, 10:26 AM   #22
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Feist's Metals wins the 2012 Polaris Music Prize


http://music.cbc.ca/#/Radio3/blogs/2...is-Music-Prize

Grimes should have won the prize IMO.
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Old 09-25-2012, 10:32 AM   #23
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Agreed feist? One of the great things about Polaris was that it wasn't the Grammys.
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Old 09-25-2012, 12:44 PM   #24
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FEIST picked a good year to take advantage of a weak offering for CDN Indie music. Some of the other contenders sounded too dark by the time the summer arrived and didn't have staying power. A few good songs here and there but no solid albums to challenge.


This is the short list : http://www.polarismusicprize.ca/2012/

Cold Specks is an artist to watch but again her album as a whole is not great. Just good.
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Old 09-25-2012, 01:13 PM   #25
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I would have gone with Grimes or Japandroids, but Feist is still a good choice. Metals is a pretty fantastic album. I thought this years short list was mostly excellent, and I totally disagree that is has been a week year for Canadian indie.
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Old 09-25-2012, 04:25 PM   #26
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http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/9/K...c-Prize-speech

Last night at the Polaris Music Prize gala, Kathleen Edwards delivered a poignant speech on the importance of the Prize to emerging Canadian artists. It was one of the gala's most talked-about moments.

Here's a transcript:

OK, can I say this? The last time I was nominated, I f--king lost. The last time I was nominated they called out all of the nominees and the person who won was the person that I least expected to hear as the winner. And six months later I was sitting in a bar with a friend having a beer and this song came on in the bar that was beautiful and arresting, and I went over to the DJ and asked him what he was playing and he said to me "Caribou."

And I am grateful to the Polaris for creating a conversation about music. And I am grateful to Caribou for making me think about how I hear things. And I am so grateful to Jim Bryson and my band, who are my brothers. And to Patrick, who fights for my records every day. And you know music is like this big commitment that we make in our life because it comes from our heart. And we sacrifice things good and bad to do what we do. And I’m very humbled. And thank you Steve Jordan for creating a vehicle for those of us who don’t want to march in the sh@t parade. And I love my poster! So thanks a lot.
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Old 09-26-2012, 07:55 AM   #27
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Maybe this year Mercury Prize is where it is at?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/c...?frame=2337347

Couple decent albums on the list.
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