Polaris Prize

Video Interview: Stars

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By CHARTattack Staff July 8, 2008 3:03 pm
The Polaris Music Prize short list was unveiled on Monday at Toronto's Drake Hotel, and Stars snagged a spot with their In Our Bedroom After The War album. ChartAttack's Jen White talked to Torquil Campbell about why his band won't win. Check out the video interview here:
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Video Interview: Shad

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By CHARTattack Staff July 8, 2008 2:57 pm
The Polaris Music Prize short list was unveiled on Monday at Toronto's Drake Hotel. London, Ont. hip-hop artist Shad made the top 10 with his The Old Prince album. ChartAttack's Jen White spoke with the rapper about how he'd spend the $20,000 award on food and a gold cape. Check out the video interview here:  
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2008 Polaris Music Prize: Shad

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By CHARTattack Staff July 8, 2008 10:49 am
ChartAttack's Jen White talks to Shad about how he'd spend the $20,000 Polaris Prize money on food and a gold cape.
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2008 Polaris Music Prize: Stars

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By CHARTattack Staff July 8, 2008 10:42 am
ChartAttack's Jen White cozies up to Torquil Campbell of Stars to talk about their Polaris Prize nomination... and how they won't win.
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2008 Polaris Music Prize: Basia Bulat

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By CHARTattack Staff July 7, 2008 1:54 pm
ChartAttack's Jen White talked to Basia Bulat about her nomination for her album Oh, My Darling.
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Video Interview: Basia Bulat

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By CHARTattack Staff July 7, 2008 11:56 am
The Polaris Music Prize short list was unveiled on Monday at Toronto's Drake Hotel, and one of the first finalists announced was London, Ont. singer/songwriter Basia Bulat for her Oh, My Darling album. ChartAttack's Jen White caught up with the surprised Bulat to talk about the bets she lost with her manager about her nomination. Check out the...
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Video Interview: Two Hours Traffic

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By CHARTattack Staff July 7, 2008 11:28 am
The Polaris Music Prize short list was unveiled on Monday at Toronto's Drake Hotel, and Charlottetown's Two Hours Traffic made the cut for their Little Jabs album. ChartAttack's Jen White spoke with vocalist/guitarist Liam Corcoran and guitarist Alec O'Hanley about how they're going to kick fellow finalist Holy Fuck's asses. Check out the video...
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2008 Polaris Music Prize: Two Hours Traffic

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By CHARTattack Staff July 7, 2008 10:55 am
ChartAttack's Jen White talks to Two Hours Traffic vocalist/guitarist Liam Corcoran and guitarist Alec O'Hanley about how they're going to kick fellow finalists Holy Fuck's asses.
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Polaris: Plants And Animals

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 7, 2008 10:49 am
Patrick Watson, who won last year's Polaris Music Prize, joked on Monday morning that he had used his $20,000 award to open "a used car sales lot" and recently bought a gold-plated bathtub with his success. Watson really used the money to pay for a van he and his band totalled while on tour. But Plants And Animals bassist/guitarist Nic...
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Polaris Prize Hopefuls Reduced To 40

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) June 12, 2008 3:00 pm
The list of contenders for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize has been narrowed to 40.This is the third year for the $20,000 prize, but the first time that the "Long List" has been made public. The 185 members of the Polaris jury — comprised of music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers from across Canada — were asked to rank...
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Patrick Watson Is Keyed Up

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Photographer: 
Jay Shuster
Venue: 
Mod Club
City: 
Toronto
Date: 
December 17, 2007

2007 Polaris Music Prize Coming To Television

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By CHARTattack Staff January 23, 2008 6:00 pm
A condensed one-hour version of September's Polaris Music Prize gala will be aired by a number of Canadian television stations in the next week-and-a-half. The broadcast will feature performances by nominees The Besnard Lakes, Chad VanGaalen, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Julie Doiron, Miracle Fortress and Polaris winner Patrick Watson. If you...
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Patrick Watson Wins Polaris Music Prize

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) September 25, 2007 12:30 pm
Patrick Watson and his three bandmates are the winners of the $20,000 Polaris Music Prize for their Close To Paradise album. The money will quickly be put to good use, as Watson explained after accepting the second annual award from first-year winner Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy). It seems that a bill for $16,000 had just arrived from the Budget...
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Miracle Fortress, Patrick Watson, Plaskett, VanGaalen And Doiron To Play Polaris Gala

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By CHARTattack Staff August 30, 2007 4:30 pm
Five of the 10 finalists for this year's Polaris Music Prize will perform at an invitation-only event on Sept. 24 at Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre, where the winner will walk away with $20,000. Montreal-based Secret City Records acts Miracle Fortress and Patrick Watson, Halifax's Joel Plaskett Emergency and Calgary's Chad VanGaalen will...
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Polaris Music Prize Album Arrives On Tuesday

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By CHARTattack Staff August 27, 2007 4:30 pm
Arcade Fire don't have a song on the Polaris Music Prize 2007 Nominees compilation that hits stores on Tuesday, but it's not because the folks behind the award didn't want them on it. There are 10 finalists for the prize and the other nine aside from Arcade Fire have songs included on the Warner album, which led some media outlets to...
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Arcade Fire, Feist And The Dears Among Polaris Nominees

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) July 10, 2007 5:30 pm
The 10 finalists for the second annual Polaris Music Prize, awarded to the best Canadian album of the past year, were announced at Toronto's Drake Hotel on Tuesday.  Cadence Weapon, one of last year's finalists, DJed the party and helped with the announcement of this year's 10 best, which featured a few obvious names and a few surprises....
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Canada's 10 Best Albums Vying For 2007 Polaris Music Prize

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By CHARTattack Staff July 10, 2007 12:00 pm
The 10 finalists for the second annual Polaris Music Prize, awarded to the best Canadian album of the past year, were announced in Toronto on Tuesday. A panel of more than 170 music journalists and broadcasters from across Canada were asked to choose their five favourite albums released by a homegrown artist between June 1, 2006 and May 31,...
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