By Regina Sienra
The Polaris Music Prize gala is just around the corner. The winner of the $50,000 will be announced next Monday, September 19, at the Carlu in Toronto. For fans who are still undecided on who they are rooting for, haven’t given a chance to all of the nominees, or just would like to hear how the 10 shortlisted albums made it this far, the Polaris Prize has announced its first official podcast.
Hosted by Indie88’s Lana Gay, the 36-minute piece features the bands and performers that could go home with the big prize. Through short bits of the most representative parts of the albums, and a short interview with the journalists across the country that voted them in, the podcast is a good way to get to know these records and spike the listener’s curiosity about the shortlist nominees.
Check out the Polaris Music Prize podcast below.
Gooooooooooooooood morning! Or is it…
It’s bowling in the hallway time.
Hi, happy Wensdeee
Samara, that reminds me of (musically & otherwise) richer times. Dang!
Good morning!
Morning Janet. The place is so busy today.
True story! I can barely keep up 🙂
Good morning!
I listen to the podcast yesterday, it was nice to listen to Lana again.
Listened
Good morning everyone!
Oh, Mrs Queen’s English… ;-s)
Good morning!
Our local baseball team, the Goldeyes are starting the American Assocation Championship series tonight here at home. The team they are playing is the Wichita Wingnuts. Haha that name makes me laugh everytime. Might go to the game tonight, we will have to dress warm it will be cool, windy and possibility wet. It’s a chilly +7 this morning.
hey everyone
We’re getting 7 tonight. Also, it’s supposed to rain (for sure!) at Sandbanks (Provincial Park), this Saturday where there’s a small festival starring Sloan.
@Shonica, take me with you!
hello
Garfy, You might be able to make for tomorrow’s game
I had a winky face on that last post, where did it go? 😉
BfO and Shonica, I’ll trade you! It’s currently 30 degrees and humid in Virginia. Man, what I wouldn’t give for real fall again!
hang while I check the back of the sofa for my fare
I started listening to the podcast, but too much talking makes it difficult to work while listening. Not a background soundtrack! Still, nice to hear Lana’s voice.
@Janet… I used to live in NoVa (Alexandria, VA), fall does come soon enough… it’s beautiful time of year in the fall there, but yes it comes later than northern provinces/states.
Justin, I’m in Leesburg (about 45 miles northwest of Alexandria). I’m certainly ready for the fall weather, though I know I’ll have a few more weeks to wait yet.
not so sure we get a “real fall” on the prairie. Sometimes. Last year was fantastic; I was sitting out at my backyard fire until Halloween. Don’t think that’s going to happen this year, though…
In Portland and Bend fall is great, but we don’t get the bright leaves on trees because most trees are pines. But it stays nice and sort of warm during the day and the temperature drops a lot at night sometimes below freezing. Once Halloween hits, especially in Portland, the rain faucet is turned on and not off until May, yuck. In Bend, at least there is snow during the winter.
the maritimes has the best fall of them all
completely unbiased opinion of course
I haven’t listened to this podcast yet. I’m not so starved for lana gays voice that I tune into toronto commercial radio. Am glad she’s doing lots of radio stuff though, she’s good, no doubt about it. the cbc is retarded.
technical question: is there a link to download it? If it’s just on soundcloud don’t I have to stream it? I’d like to listen on the iphone in the car at some point maybe.
janet, from up there: not trading our Fall.
We’ve had Virginia weather here all summer. Thank you very much…
I have an Android phone, so I may not be any help, but I think you can download the podcast from iTunes
I appreciate the discussion about ‘the the’ on KEXP this morning… should ‘the’ be used before band names? So, if not the band would just be called ‘the’.
Hello everyone.
I think it’s pretty obvious that the article “the” should be used if the band use it. Ex.: at first, it was The Library Voices (I have the t-shirt as PROOF). But then quickly, it became Library Voices.
A similar thing happened with (The) Arcade Fire.
And still, those exceptions follow the rule. That being that it’s not Tragically Hip, but “The T.H.”*, and that it’s not “The” Big Sugar, or “The” Arkells.
*Of course, this is here and now, and nicknames…: most often, it’s “The Hip”
Hi, tiffy. How are things?
No smoking is great. Other than that…. I am having a rough go at life at the moment. Just trying to find inner strength to figure everything out.
@FT, You can find the podcast file at http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/282617332-polarismusicprize-polaris-podcast-episode-1-2016-short-list.mp3
Bon courage, t!
Hey @Tiffy… this last year was a bear and hard for me, especially last fall, loss of GF and job at the time. I would tell myself “I will get through this, I will win, even if I have no idea how right now”, and I would say it to myself even if I did not believe it at all. For me anyway, it did get me that step forward, even if a small step.
Along that line, the trip to Toronto/R3 picnic/NXNE this last June was a real recharge of kick-ass-ness for me. So if you can, reach out to your close friends and family to get some recharge/support. I am guessing you are already, still a thought.
@Tiffy… and if I were in Toronto we’d go run! Tommy Thompson spit is really pretty with views of city across the water while running.
Hellooooo
How are you doing?
I have to remind myself of good things that are happening in my life as well or I can wallow in all the bad shit that seems to keep happening. Finding things that make me happy and getting involved help me as well. I volunteer quite a bit and it helps me. Almost everybody has their own shit to deal with and you have to find your own way of coping. Some days that is really really tough.
Hellooooo reginula!
Peachy keen here. How are you?
@justin – your comment made my cry. I know I can be a dramatic person, but honestly, everything is coming crashing down at once. I am drowning. Work, Life, Finances…. I feel like a failure right now. I’m just trying to keep my head up and yes, tell myself that everything is going to be great even if I don’t believe it right now.
Found this….
Watch Former Mythbusters Host Adam Savage Take A Ride In Deadmau5’s Porsche GT3
http://jalopnik.com/watch-former-mythbusters-host-adam-savage-take-a-ride-i-1786624774
I like the Horton’s cup in the cupholder….
Hello, Darbs! I’m good, although a bit stressed as life may be opening a door for me. And I’m getting a cold, but I get a long weekend. Phew.
I see Wintersleep and Highs are coming to your city?
Hugs your way, Tiff. We’re here for you. Let us know if there’s anything we can do for you.
Sending good vibes your way Tiffy. Just keep swimming! (I know that sounds trite, but it comes from a sincere place :))
@Justin, Adam recently spent some time in Toronto after going on a long road trip with his 2 sons “Thing 1 & Thing 2”, he talks about it on the latest episode of he youtube video “Still Untitled” on the Tested channel
@reginula – As you may have noticed, I am very excited that Wintersleep are coming to Regina. I finally got to see them again at Interstellar Rodeo in Winnipeg but am thrilled I will get to see them again.
Every time I hear “Just keep swimming” I think of CMac and the time she took me to the Aquarium in Toronto, hahah.
@Darbs That is so exciting!
Grace and mercy to you Tiffy. Let’s plan a Toronto R3 meetup with Choir!x3
@Tiff…. I can feel where you are at…. having been there in that situation myself, scary as shit, and valid to feel that way.
I keep trying to give R3 a chance but the stream always quits on me and I wander off. KEXP just played me a couple of Wolf Parade songs with a Dan led one and a Spencer led one. Hard to beat that!
I have spent years in turmoil. It sucks!
Yesterday I saw an R3 mug at the CBC site and sighed.
I love what Deadmau5 did with his Purrari as well….
http://jalopnik.com/ferrari-sent-deadmau5-a-cease-and-desist-about-his-purr-1627640534
10:52; I don’t think they fit the traditional definition, but I find Wintersleep to be pretty, pretty emo. It’s about as emo as I can handle, like, they are the uppermost emo threshold of my tastes.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to say it, but i think I like a new Green Day song,
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/green_day-bang_bang_video
@Reg – What CBC site?
@ft – I just read a comment from someone saying they miss the sad Wintersleep. Ha! They aren’t as emo now apparently.
Oh, sorry. I meant CBC store. Duh
http://www.zazzle.ca/cbc_radio_3_logo_classic_white_coffee_mug-168205268925058865
Wintersleep touring with Hannah Georgas (some)! Coming here to Guelph. I’m so going!
https://www.songkick.com/artists/62444-wintersleep/calendar
Odds
a band name that people like to put a “the” in front of that doesn’t actually have a “the”
hehe…”kribtibkler” sounds like a type of condom or vibrator or something
I don’t have much patience for Emo…. I used to like the Decemberists, cannot stand them now. And Oasis, don’t me me started on my venom for their whiny songs.
Oasis is Emo?
FT – i’m going to see Green Day in like a week. Tickets were $25 bucks. they are playing down by the distillery district. I think it’s in the same area they had alot of the pam am game festivities. Never been.
I like the Decemberists, though I don’t know many songs. Never liked Oasis. Perhaps they are both whiny, but I don’t find the Decemberists vocals annoying like Oasis.
wintersleep is/has bordered on being too emo for me since their earliest days (orca [they were a “whiny” grunge revivalist band played on q104 in hfx])
but, yeah, i don’t mind ’em. in fact, they have many songs I quite enjoy.
tiffy, I believe that is for the World Cup that Green Day is playing.
Personally, I think Dookie is a masterpiece (still listen to it) but most everything else I never enjoyed, or only tolerated. This new tune is not bad though.
I just figure that it would be a good night out and I’ve never seen Green Day before. It should be fun. I’m not a super fan, but all of my boyfriends I dated until I was like 25 were lol. So i’ve listened to them enough.
@Krib… not sure if Oasis is Emo or not…. the ‘sad’ (as I interpreted as whiny), hit a nerve for me in regard to Oasis. If I hear them on the radio I flip that station instantly.
just perused the wikipedia thingie about Emo. I’ve heard of about 3 of the bands they mention
they said Pinkerton was a cornerstone of 90’s emo…
I kind of always equated emo with the Smiths. the wiki says it was really a post-hardcore movement, which would jive with FT’s history of Wintersleep
I don’t think I’d know an Oasis song other than Wonderwall
I think the Smiths would be pre-emo (premo?). Probably new-wave or something. I don’t really know the Smiths though and my knowledge of 80s stuff is limited.
I love the Oasis song ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ and ‘She’s Electric’. I actually really like Oasis. Their first 3 albums anyways.
I would categorize The Smiths as new wave.
I liked listening to Dashboard Confessionals, My Chemical Romance, Brand New, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, At The Drive In….. and Death Cab, which I wouldn’t consider EMO, but alot of people do.
I’ll tell ya one thing I don’t miss is in the early 00’s all the fuckin’ emo kids who crowded the skate parks just getting in the way and the inevitable screamo band that showed up on a multi-band bill.
Wasn’t really into the Smiths, or Oasis. Oasis was mostly because the brothers behind it seem to be kind of useless human beings
my 11:27 is partly why I hate all ages venues. I suppose it was the times though. God damn kids.
Smiths have always been a fave, ever since Meat is Murder came out when I was in Grade 11ish.
I’ve never really gotten into the Smiths. Except for How Soon is Now, I really like that song.
” I’m not a super fan, but all of my boyfriends I dated until I was like 25 were lol.”
Bahahahahahahahahahaaha
I like the Smiths, Death Cab,… mainly if the voice of the lead singer is whiny, and if they are singing self pity stuff on top of it, then I go over the edge. Conversely …. Black Flag is awesome.
I think how soon is now is the only Smiths song I know, and that’s only because of the Love Spit Love* cover that was the Charmed theme song, and the Romy and Michele soundtrack
*the second band from Richard Butler, the lead singer of one of my faves from the 80’s & early 90’s, the Psychedelic Furs
question: what, in your opinion, is the saddest song you know of?
For me, I’d have to say it’s Elephant by Jason Isbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJhyrrUTgc
Oasis had one good song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr7MSSPNH9o
I don’t think of wintersleep as ‘sad’, but they are a tad emo.
in the late 90s I didn’t have time for “popular” music, your oasis’, your green days’, your bush x’s even though everyone liked them and had the t-shirts and I heard enough of them to know all the songs. Now-a-days if I hear that stuff on the radio or on 90’s on 9 or whatever, I can get into it. Same with 90’s rap and R’nB, at the time, i hated it, but now, I turn it up and know all the words. i guess that’s what getting older is.
I still have no time for backstreet boys or spice girls or any of that shit tho.
I never thought of Wintersleep as sad or emo. Search Party did talk to me and I related to it. I think Loel Campbell’s drumming is my biggest attraction to the band.
Here is the village of Emo, Ontario
[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d23839.65009510247!2d-93.8515433763742!3d48.635805466518036!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x52bb8a365370d3f1%3A0x89d864b391f818d1!2sEmo%2C+ON!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sca!4v1473881438370&w=400&h=300%5D
well that certainly did not work as inteneded
I like Wintersleep’s latest stuff.
I like everything Wintersleep has done.
I don’t think I really like wintersleep. Maybe a song or two.
not even Weighty Ghost, Tiff?
which is pretty emo, I guess…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqJxjR-jBbU
Tiff: starting a gratitude journal saved my life 6 years ago, and continues to do so. Every day write down 3 things you are grateful for. I guarantee you can find them, and doing that will change the actual physical pathways in your brain that are forcing your thoughts to be negative right now. I believe this with my whole heart.
The saddest song I know is Brick by Ben Folds. Unless we’re getting into musical theatre, which is full of sad songs.
I love the Decemberists. Colin Meloy’s voice just sounds that way–he’s not singing about whiny things.
Hello, everyone! and goodbye again.
@Ioweeda keeping a gratitude journal has been recommended to me by my GP. She said that at meditation show the best results in recovery from PTSD.
and good day to all the rest of you lovelies!
it has been a busy couple of days hosting some folks we met on our trip to Inuvik. They are also in a VW but in a more committed way than our mere 8500kn in 25 days.
https://www.facebook.com/kombipalnorte
morganna, where can we see pictures from your epic trip!?
Search Party found me and spoke to me.
https://youtu.be/ozIu_LOUpQ0
@loweeda….
I very much agree with having a gratitude journal. I do it almost every day, not always, but often. I really does help shift one’s perspective. To your point, the journal was especially helpful when going through stress or hard times.
Decemberists… I used to really like them, but after a while Colin’s voice just grated on me, no matter the words. Like drinking too much wine (pun!), great at first, then feel uggh.
A gratitude journal is a better way of expressing the idea I had at 10:35 of just reminding myself of the good things in my life.
I try to start with a journal, and regular meditation, and it never lasts.
@ft on my hard drive … sorry, I have to get my shit together on that!
Every day at the family dinner we do happy & gratefull’s. each person list three things they are happy & grateful for. Any dinner guests that happen to be there are included in the tradition.
why is it so hard for us to maintain looking after ourselves?
What a lovely tradition, Scott! I want to go to dinner at your house!
I actually started one when I had a breakdown about 2.5 weeks ago and went in to see my ND. She suggested that I start one. I’ve also been running everyday and doing yoga and going to a meditation class in my neighbourhood.
@tiffy I have been off work for a few months now but have to go back soon. we can do this girl!
Have you seen Beck’s new video?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCkhPTU13w&w=560&h=315%5D
(did that work?)
Alright then.
I am volunteering doing registration for BreakOutWest. Should be fun and I will be free to venue hop.
What about Peaches Sick In The Head? It’s disturbingly great.
https://youtu.be/qEfA-5e-D0o
Agreed on both parts @Dar… disturbing and great RE Peaches.
I love that about her.
Wow! That Peaches video was amazing, thanks for sharing DarBar!
You are welcome janet! 😀