Amelia Curran These two fantastic singer-songwriters can start dreaming about how to spend a giant bag of cash. Amelia Curran‘s Hunter Hunter and Meaghan Smith‘s The Cricket’s Orchestra impressed critics enough to get them nominated to the long list for the Polaris Prize. And that ain’t no easy task: as a juror, I’m on the […]
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Fucked Up Polaris Prize winners, Metric sore losers, Globe and Mail is cool
My favourite for the Polaris Prize, Toronto’s Fucked Up won the big bucks at the Polaris Prize gala on Monday night and here are some internet tidbits to keep you puttering around on the computer: Metric’s classy reactionGlobe and Mail writes a nice piece and doesn’t blank out the name like a foolWhat Fucked Up plan to do with the money
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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
