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Caribou's Andorra Takes Home Polaris Prize

Source: www.moreover.com --- 12 days ago
Dan Snaith, the one-man mastermind behind electro-dream pop outfit Caribou, was recently crowned the victor of the Polaris Prize, Canada's highest artistic honor to a musician. ...

Caribou's 'Andorra' Wins Polaris Music Prize

Source: www.moreover.com --- 12 days ago
Caribou's 'Andorra,' an album creator Dan Snaith said he made 'at home in a bedroom,' has won the third Canadian Polaris Music Prize.The gala, which was held in Toronto at the Phoenix Concert Theatre last night (Sept. ...

Electronica artist Caribou takes Polaris Prize

Source: www.moreover.com --- 13 days ago
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The Polaris Music Prize should stop playing safe

Source: music.guardian.co.uk --- 13 days ago
If the Polaris Music Prize is to be taken seriously, it should be a bit more daring in its decisions, like the Mercury Prize. Where are the 'WTF' winners, like, er, M People? ...

Winning $20,000 Polaris Prize would be boon for P.E.I. pop group

Source: jam.canoe.ca --- 14 days ago
TORONTO - Lead vocalist Liam Corcoran of Two Hours Traffic admits it was "pretty shocking" for the Maritime pop band to get on the short list for the Polaris Music Prize. ...

Polaris Prize honours best in Cdn. music

Source: jam.canoe.ca --- 14 days ago
TORONTO - The Polaris Music Prize and $20,000 are up for grabs Monday to recognize one of the top Canadian albums of the year. ...

Caribou wins Polaris Music Prize

Source: jam.canoe.ca --- 13 days ago
TORONTO - It took changing his moniker from the name of a province to an animal, but in the end it made Dan Snaith a somewhat richer man. ...

Caribou collects Polaris Music Prize

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 13 days ago
Andorra chosen by jury as year's best Canadian album ...

Caribou Wins Polaris Prize

Source: www.pitchforkmedia.com --- 13 days ago
Photo by Shannon McClean Better luck next year , Black Mountain, Stars, Holy Fuck, Plants and Animals, the Weakerthans, Basia Bulat, Kathleen Edwards, Two Hours Traffic, and Shad: Caribou 's Andorra has won this year's Polaris Music Prize , aka Canada's version of the Mercury Prize. Congratulations, Dan Snaith. The award is given annually to the album by a Canadian artist deemed to have the highest artistic merit, with no concession to album sales. A panel of media types (full disclosure: it includes a few Pitchfork contributors) pick the winner, who gets $20,000 and international fame and fortune. Last year's winner was Patrick Watson's Close to Paradise , and the nod has certainly raised his profile beyond the borders of his home country, eh? Ahem. ...

Caribou Wins Canada’s 2008 Polaris Music Prize

Source: www.stltoday.com --- 12 days ago

<!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> Caribou, which played the Billiken Club earlier this year, has won Canada’s annual Polaris Music Prize. The award and $20,000 honors the country’s best album as chosen… ...

Polaris Music Prize Gala Broadcast Exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio

Source: www.moreover.com --- 19 days ago
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Caribou Wins 2008 Polaris Music Prize

Source: stereogum.com --- 13 days ago

Move over, Patrick Watson -- it's Dan Snaith's crown now. The annual Polaris Music Prize, honoring Canada's best album as chosen by a panel of 170 music insiders, has gone to Dan Snaith's great Andorra LP. Congrats (and ,000) to him, and better luck next time list of everybody else . ...

Polaris Music Prize on TV?

Source: www.digitalhome.ca --- 11 days ago
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Behind-the-scenes at the 2008 Polaris Music Prize with Caribou, Basia Bulat, Two Hours Traffic, and more

Source: network.nationalpost.com --- 12 days ago
Last night we attended the 2008 Polaris Music Prize gala, an invite-only ceremony held at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in downtown Toronto. As you've likely heard by now, Caribou aka Dan Snaith took home the $20,000 Prize for his album Andorra . We bring you behind-the-scenes for interviews with some of the finalists ...

Holy Fucking Fuck, That Fuck From Caribou Won the Fucking Polaris Prize

Source: torontoist.com --- 12 days ago

Oh, how we wanted Holy Fuck to win the 2008 Polaris Prize. For a competition whose winner seems to be chosen on the basis of context as much as content— a year later , can anyone really argue that Patrick Watson's album had more "artistic merit" than Feist's?—it would have been perfect: here, after all, on the brink of a federal election, is a band recently and uncomfortably cited by the Conservative government as one good reason to cut arts funding, a band whose name is so unspeakable in the mainstream media that even CBC Radio's liveblog from last night calls them only "Holy F**k" or the significantly more racy "Holy F*ck." And, as NOW 's Josh Errett put it yesterday , "where better to announce Holy Fuck as the winner than at an arts gala—the same type of gala the Conservatives are attacking in the media?" It certainly seemed it was heading that way at last night's exclusive (but not so exclusive that we couldn't get in) gala at the Phoenix: it took all of two minutes for host Grant Lawrence to hurl a quick insult at Stephen Harper, joke that the PM would be furious if he could see how lavish the festivities were, then insist that the cost of the gala was "very cheap." Presenters treated the word "fuck" in "Holy Fuck" as though it was a one-word catharsis inducer; it was uttered at least a few dozen times throughout the night, each time more emphatic than the last—though we're not sure if any of those uses ever made it on the a ...

Polaris Music Prize and $20,000 up for grabs to honour best in Canadian music

Source: www.brandonsun.com --- 14 days ago
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Tuesday's Early Buzz: Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Polaris Prize

Source: www.dose.ca --- 12 days ago
Janet Jackson fell ill before her concert in Montreal last night and was rushed to hospital. ...

Polaris Music Prize Winner To Be Announced Today on Live Webcast

Source: www.thespacelab.tv --- 14 days ago
(Spacelab Music News) Canada's Polaris Music Prize will announce their winner today, at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. You can listen to the event and all of the performances on the live webcast. ...

Holy Fuck, is the Polaris Prize ever politicized this year

Source: blog.thismagazine.ca --- 12 days ago

Tonight the Polaris Prize , the "$20,000 Prize for a full length Canadian album, judged solely on artistic merit, without regard to genre or record sales" will be awarded , and both the timing and the artist lineup are delicious (if unintended). One of the bands whose artistic merit is being judged this evening is Holy Fuck , the Toronto electronica/prog/rock/whatever group which became a reluctant cause celebre when the Conservatives cited them in August as being the kind of cultural export that proper Canadians didn't support. The fact that Holy Fuck was nominated for a Juno Award for their debut LP, titled simply "LP", was apparently not relevant, nor was the critical praise the group receives for their improvisational live performances, or the international audiences that buy their records. Many of the other nominees are in the same boat, benefiting either from CanCon rules, federal and provincial arts funding bodies, and cultural export and travel grants, or some combination of all of the above. The funding cuts to arts and culture that the Conservative government introduced just before the election have raised a lot of hackles, both within the arts and culture workforce and far beyond. With two weeks to go until the election, the Polaris Prize presentation tonight is going to be a politicized event no matter what. I'll be interested to see how the judges, presenters, and nominees choose to engage the issue when they get up t ...

Brit Snags Canada's Polaris Music Prize

Source: strangeglue.com --- 12 days ago
British resident Dan Snaith a. k. a Caribou has scooped the Polaris music Prize, Canada's answer to the Mercury one in Britain. Somewhat controversially, the award was taken home by the one-man electronic artist who has lived in London, England for seven years and recorded the album in question inside his Islington flat. ...

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