I had a chat with Qubecois artist Vincent Roberge, aka Les Louanges, before the Polaris Prize gala where he’s shortlisted with his dreamy jazz-chillwave debut La nuit est une panthère. How did you start out…
Photos by Dakota Arsenault. On Monday, September 17, 2018 Jeremy Dutcher won the Polaris Prize for his operatic post-classical debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa. Hours earlier, the enraptured audience had a chance to experience all of…
In my five previous years of covering the Polaris Music Prize I have learned a lot about Canadian music, the industry and some really great artists. I have learned so much in fact about these…
Host Raina Douris from CBC Radio 2 introduced last year’s Polaris Music Prize winner Kaytranada to the stage to present the evening’s only award, the prestigious best Canadian album, and he talked about how much…
For the last few year’s I have conducted my own jury pool to vote on the Polaris Music Prize nominees. Celebrating the best Canadian music has to offer, regardless of sales or genres, Polaris has…
We assembled our own crack team to form a jury to pick the best albums nominated for this year’s Polaris Music Prize. Make sure you check out our results, but here is a playlist of…
Photographs by Sarah Rix. After listening to all ten albums and creating a jury of my peers to also listen and rank them, Live in Limbo made a list of who they though was most…
If you aren’t familiar with the Polaris Prize, you really should be. Going into it’s 10th year now, the prize awards the best album in Canadian music, regardless of genre or sales and it is…
Photographs by Sarah Rix. The Polaris Prize Gala was held at the swanky Carlu in downtown Toronto, where musicians, industry insiders, members of the media and fans all gathered together to celebrate the best in…
