Shape-shifting the Short List
SEPTEMBER 01 2011 • By Tab S.
The Polaris Short List gets a MAKEOVER – courtesy of two innovative Toronto electro artists.
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Blowing his own horn: Colin Stetson at The Drake
AUGUST 24 2011 • By Tab S.
He can't be at the gala, but catch Colin Stetson live this Friday at the Drake Hotel!
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Screen and be seen: The HP Polaris 2011 Screening Party!
AUGUST 24 2011 • By Polaris Music Prize
The gala is invite-only. But the Drake Hotel, HP, and MusiCounts are teaming up to bring you the second annual Polaris screening party!
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The Gala! Who's playing? Who's hosting? Who's judging?
AUGUST 15 2011 • By Polaris Music Prize
On September 19, 2011 at 8 pm, the gala will be exclusively broadcast to North America by SiriusXM Canada on Sirius channel 152, and to the world on CBC Radio 3 live from the home of MTV Canada, The Concert Hall at Toronto's Masonic Temple. It will be webcast live on MuchMusic.com and broadcast on MuchMusic, Saturday, Sept. 24 at 10 pm and midnight EST.
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Behind the Scenes: Polaris discussion list
AUGUST 09 2011 • By Tab S.
Most familiar with the Polaris Music Prize will know that a jury of over 200 music writers, broadcasters, and bloggers is indispensible to the process that determines the award.

But what many may not know is that before the jurors make their five-album selections for the Long List and subsequent Short List, they spend much of the year discussing their picks and pans on an e-mail listserv that’s open only to jury members.

For a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the sort of exchange that goes on online between Polaris jurors, we turned to two jurors with very different opinions on the Short List: Veteran juror Michael Barclay, co-author of Canrock history Have Not Been the Same, came out strongly in favour of the Short List when it was first announced, while NxEW.ca blogger Justin Beach (who's been on the jury for the past two years) offered up more of a shrug...
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