This year finds two east coast acts represented on the shortlist for the Polaris Prize…um Julie Doiron out of New Brunswick for Woke Myself Up [I enjoy that album immensely, so so good] and Halifax’s [Dartmouth's? covering the band both!] very own Joel Plaskett Emergency for Ashtray Rock [I still have yet to dig into this one].

I have no access to music on this computer I’m using but thankfully Julie Doiron’s myspace has one of my favorite songs from the album on it No More. Go listen. [Again the whole album so good, introspective acoustic numbers to crazyhorse like feedback solos - can't go wrong. SOLID from start to finish].

That is a huge improvement over the inaugural edition of the award last year when there were zero representatives of the east coast!

I’m thrilled to say there’s only one nominee I have no idea about this year [I think there were two last year], Miracle Fortress - but the down side is there’s one less new band to explore. Will Julie or Joel win, we’ll have to wait until September 24th to find out!

The other 8 nominees are:
* Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
* The Besnard Lakes, The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse
* The Dears, Gang of Losers
* Feist, The Reminder
* Junior Boys, So This Is Goodbye
* Miracle Fortress, Five Roses
* Chad VanGaalen, Skelliconnection
* Patrick Watson, Close to Paradise

CBC Report
Polaris site

Related posts:

1. “Swan Pond” by Julie Doiron
2. Julie Doiron: New CD, i (heart) music Feature & Video
3. Surreal: Joel Plaskett Emergency on PerezHilton
4. Joel Plaskett NMC Song of the Day + NYE Shows
5. Locals Round Up - wintersleep tune, Plaskett interview & Buck 65 news

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