The very best in Canadian music is being recognized.
On Wednesday, the annual Polaris Music Prize announced its long list of eligible nominees for the prize, which is awarded to Canada’s best album of the year.
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Included in the long list are artists like Feist, whose album Multitudes was released in April, as well as Alvvays’ Blue Rev, Daniel Caesar’s Never Enough, U.S. Girls’ Bless This Mess, Jessie Reyez’s Yessie, Andy Shauf’s Norm and many more.
“The Canada Council for the Arts is proud once again this year to present the Polaris Music Prize Long List in support of extraordinary and diverse musical talents from across Canada, coast to coast to coast,” said Carolyn Warren, Director General, Arts Granting Programs Division, Canada Council for the Arts.
On Wednesday, the annual Polaris Music Prize announced its long list of eligible nominees for the prize, which is awarded to Canada’s best album of the year.
Read More: Terri Clark Feels ‘A Lot Of Gratitude And Humility’ Ahead Of Canadian Music Hall Of Fame Induction
Included in the long list are artists like Feist, whose album Multitudes was released in April, as well as Alvvays’ Blue Rev, Daniel Caesar’s Never Enough, U.S. Girls’ Bless This Mess, Jessie Reyez’s Yessie, Andy Shauf’s Norm and many more.
“The Canada Council for the Arts is proud once again this year to present the Polaris Music Prize Long List in support of extraordinary and diverse musical talents from across Canada, coast to coast to coast,” said Carolyn Warren, Director General, Arts Granting Programs Division, Canada Council for the Arts.
- 6/14/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
You go around the world in roots and melodrama on these three albums, all from experienced specialists in forensic romanticism and all at new peaks in their searching.
Murray A. Lightburn, Hear Me Out (Dangerbird)
With his plaintive, swooning voice and the luxuriant sweep of his records with the Canadian indie-rock band the Dears, Murray Lightburn can’t help being compared to Morrissey. Lightburn is, in fact, a worthy, spiritual descendant of the perpetually anguished ex-Smiths singer — so much so that the latter toured with the Dears as his...
Murray A. Lightburn, Hear Me Out (Dangerbird)
With his plaintive, swooning voice and the luxuriant sweep of his records with the Canadian indie-rock band the Dears, Murray Lightburn can’t help being compared to Morrissey. Lightburn is, in fact, a worthy, spiritual descendant of the perpetually anguished ex-Smiths singer — so much so that the latter toured with the Dears as his...
- 2/2/2019
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
It appears Murray Lightburn, the lead singer of Montreal band The Dears, has a new solo album coming out. But the only details we know about it have come in the form of a Joe Ollmann comic strip.
In a comic posted on The Comics Journal, the cartoonist explains a recent road trip he took with Lightburn to what he thought would be New York City (but ended up being to Nanuet, New York instead) to have the musician's new album mastered to vinyl.
"The thought of a rawk-n-roll road-trip to NYC was too enticing, I said yes!" Ollmann, the author of the recently released "Science Fiction" graphic novel, says in the strip. The trek takes them across the border from Montreal into New York State, but not before the duo stop at a duty-free shop to purchase some "operating whiskey."
From there Lightburn and Ollmann meet Carl Rowatti, "the...
In a comic posted on The Comics Journal, the cartoonist explains a recent road trip he took with Lightburn to what he thought would be New York City (but ended up being to Nanuet, New York instead) to have the musician's new album mastered to vinyl.
"The thought of a rawk-n-roll road-trip to NYC was too enticing, I said yes!" Ollmann, the author of the recently released "Science Fiction" graphic novel, says in the strip. The trek takes them across the border from Montreal into New York State, but not before the duo stop at a duty-free shop to purchase some "operating whiskey."
From there Lightburn and Ollmann meet Carl Rowatti, "the...
- 5/10/2013
- by HuffPost Canada Music
- Huffington Post
The Dears frontman Murray Lightburn eats alt-rock drama for breakfast. The guy can’t resist a carefully crafted minor-key epic, and in his band’s 11-year recording career, he’s come up with some damn fine ones. But The Dears’ brand of complex, heady emo is a distinctly acquired taste, and that fact helped maintain the band’s status as somewhat of a hidden gem. But even still, they have a hard time earning much respect—Lightburn’s been dogged by tired Morrissey comparisons since day one, and, as a Canadian indie-art-rock band breaking through in the heart of the 2000s, they’ve been somewhat overshadowed by...
- 2/15/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Murray Lightburn makes no small gestures. That isn’t necessarily a shortcoming, considering how he and The Dears fire “Thrones” into its pre-chorus with the words “Not a single one of us has the guts to bear a cross.” That line would leave a simpler singer with nothing but pure feigned insolence, but Lightburn is still deft at tying maudlin lows to the highs of romantic tenacity. The Dears never have trouble sounding convinced of their material, even the lesser songs on the new Degeneration Street. “5 Chords” has a hungry lunge even though it sounds half-written, and the opener ...
- 2/15/2011
- avclub.com
We’re kicking off this music month mid-way this time, as I’ve unfortunately been sick with a cold. Sorry readers! But, it’s here now, and we will celebrate by taking these recommendations in stride and soaking them all up before June kicks some new ones your way (in fact, North by Northeast is coming up next month, an even bigger festival than Canadian Music Week). The picks I’ve chosen for your mid-month are heavy on the big bands or big sounds – from the famous hometown collective Broken Social Scene to the party attitude of LCD Soundsystem. Check it out, and as always, you can read more of my musical musings on RoundLetters.
Three Toronto bands you should know:
Broken Social Scene – Well, let’s be honest. Even my friends who don’t pay attention to music know who Broken Social Scene are. Though this Toronto indie rock...
Three Toronto bands you should know:
Broken Social Scene – Well, let’s be honest. Even my friends who don’t pay attention to music know who Broken Social Scene are. Though this Toronto indie rock...
- 5/16/2010
- by Jessica
- DorkShelf.com
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