After the early leak of the 2008 Polaris Music Prize long list, it has been announced that the Weakerthans and Stars have been shortlisted for the prize.

The full list of nominations includes: The Weakerthans’s Reunion Show, Stars’s In Our Bedroom After the War, Basia Bulat- Oh, My Darling, Shad’s The Old Prince, Plants and Animals’s Parc Avenue, Two Hours Traffic’s Little Jabs, Kathleen Edwards’s Asking for Flowers, Caribou’s Andorra, Black Mountain’s In The Future and Holy Fuck’s LP

The Polaris Music prize is given out yearly and in awarded to a Canadian album strictly for artistic merrit. Record sales are not taken into account. The prize is $20,000 and will awarded in September, 2008 in Toronto. Past winners include Final Fantasy and Patrick Watson.
Source After the early leak of the 2008 Polaris Music Prize long list, it has been announced that the Weakerthans and Stars have been shortlisted for the prize.

The full list of nominations includes: The Weakerthans’s Reunion Show, Stars’s In Our Bedroom After the War, Basia Bulat- Oh, My Darling, Shad’s The Old Prince, Plants and Animals’s Parc Avenue, Two Hours Traffic’s Little Jabs, Kathleen Edwards’s Asking for Flowers, Caribou’s Andorra, Black Mountain’s In The Future and Holy Fuck’s LP

The Polaris Music prize is given out yearly and in awarded to a Canadian album strictly for artistic merrit. Record sales are not taken into account. The prize is $20,000 and will awarded in September, 2008 in Toronto. Past winners include Final Fantasy and Patrick Watson.
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