shainhouse Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Ladies and Gentlemen your 2010 Polaris Long List June 16 2010. Here are the big 40, revealed lovingly today at 1:30 via @polarisprize on the Twitter. And at The Drake Sky Yard by Grant Lawrence, with assists to Jill Barber, D-Sisive, Elliott BROOD and Damian from 2009 winners Fucked Up. They will be narrowed to 10 and announced July 6, time TBA.Now listen!Apollo Ghosts - Mount Benson (Vancouver)Bahamas - Pink Strat (Toronto)The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night (Montréal)Blue Rodeo - The Things We Left Behind (Toronto)Brasstronaut - Mt. Chimaera (Vancouver)Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record (Toronto)Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own (London)By Divine Right - Mutant Message (Toronto)Caribou – Swim (Dundas)Jason Collett - Rat A Tat Tat (Toronto)Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) (Toronto)Amelia Curran - Hunter Hunter (Halifax)Fred Fortin - Plastrer La Lune (Montréal)Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb: A Triumph (Victoria)Hannah Georgas - This Is Good (Vancouver)Ghostkeeper - Ghostkeeper (Calgary)Holy Fuck - Latin (Toronto)Karkwa - Les Chemins De Verre (Montréal)LeE HARVeY OsMOND - A Quiet Evil (Hamilton)Greg MacPherson - Mr. Invitation (Winnipeg)Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice (Vancouver)Misteur Valaire - Golden Bombay (Montréal)The New Pornographers - Together (Vancouver)Owen Pallett - Heartland (Toronto)Plants And Animals - La La Land (Montréal)Radio Radio - Belmundo Regal (Montréal)Justin Rutledge - The Early Widows (Toronto)The Sadies - Darker Circles (Toronto)Shad - TSOL (London)Elizabeth Shepherd - Heavy Falls The Night (Toronto)The Slew - 100% (Montréal)Meaghan Smith - The Cricket's Orchestra (London)South Rakkas Crew - The Stimulus Package (Toronto)Tegan And Sara - Sainthood (Vancouver)The Wooden Sky - If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone (Toronto)Hawksley Workman - Meat (Huntsville)You Say Party! We Say Die! - XXXX (Vancouver)Young Galaxy - Invisible Republic (Montréal)Yukon Blonde - Yukon Blonde (Vancouver)Zeus - Say Us (Toronto) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Elizabeth Shepherd - Heavy Falls The Night (Toronto) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shainhouse Posted June 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 congrads Jay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 eww.. who let that Hawksley Workman album on there? I thought it was total shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flipzoso Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Not too many surprises there.Hoped locals Balconies and Leif Vollebekk would make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 The Wooden Sky - If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone (Toronto)I may not do publicity on their behalf, but this was my favourite album of the year Canadian or otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 some really good music on here. i know most of these from hillside and jambands. does ConCan still exist? how do artists like these get their stuff out nowadays? (i think it's cool that caribou is from dundas.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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