The folks behind the wonderful local/Canadian music website Herohill have prepared a Canada Day treat for you. On July 1st, they released a Gordon Lightfoot compilation featuring a whole whackload of bands taking on the catalogue of this Canuck elder folk statesman. The list of artists is broad and varied, and includes A.A. Wallace, Quiet […]
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Herohill’s Bryan Acker enjoys all the luxuries of being a Polaris Prize jury member
Congrats are in order for Herohill’s Bryan Acker. Acker was asked to be on the Polaris Prize grand jury, so you should start sending him cookies and elaborate love poems now to get in his good graces. Just kidding, I’m sure he won’t take a bribe. “Bribes? Of course. I’ll even take brides from bands that weren’t nominated,” says Acker. “I prefer large sacks of money with a huge $ written on the outside, large jugs on moonshine with XXX written on the outside, but would settle for t-shirts and large thick slabs of vinyl.” The self-deprecating Acker blogs