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2025 Polaris Music Prize
The 2025 edition of the Canada, Canadian Polaris Music Prize will be presented on September 16, 2025 at Massey Hall.Kerry Doole"Polaris Music Prize Announces 40-Album 2025 Long List, Announces SOCAN Polaris Song Prize" ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'', June 10, 2025. The prize for the winning album will be reduced to $30,000, rather than the $50,000 awarded to recent winners, but will be supplemented with a new $10,000 SOCAN Polaris Song Prize to honour individual songs.Allie Gregory"Polaris Music Prize Unveils 2025 Long List, Announces Song Prize" ''Exclaim!'', June 10, 2025. This new award replaces the SOCAN Songwriting Prize, which has been dormant since 2023. The prize committee is also launching the Polaris Festival, a series of musical events highlighting the nominees in the weeks leading up to the award ceremony, with further details to be announced at a later date. Albums Shortlist The shortlist for albums will be announced on July 10. Longlist The longlist for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massey Hall
Massey Hall is a performing arts auditorium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1894, it is known for its outstanding acoustics and was the long-time hall of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Although originally designed to seat 3,500 patrons, after extensive renovations in 1933 the capacity was reduced to 2,765. Its extensive history includes concerts by many of the most famous artists of the past century and more, across many musical genres, which is a pattern that continues to the present day. Massey Hall was a gift to the people of Toronto from industrialist Hart Massey. Massey Hall was designated a National Historic Sites of Canada, National Historic Site of Canada on June 15, 1981. The hall closed in July 2018 for a two-year-long renovation and restoration. The project includes a new seven-storey addition incorporating a performance studio and a new concert space, the Allied Music Centre. Massey Hall's re-opening was delayed by the COVID- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou-Adriane Cassidy
Lou-Adriane Cassidy (born July 11, 1997) is a French-Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec. Discography Cassidy was the performer of "Ça va ça va" ('It's okay, it's okay'), which was a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nominee in 2018 for songwriter Philémon Cimon, but she is perhaps most noted for her song "La fin du monde à tous les jours" ('The end of the world everyday'), which was shortlisted for the 2020 SOCAN Songwriting Prize. Her debut album, ''C'est la fin du monde à tous les jours'', was released in 2019. In 2021, she came out with her second album, ''Lou-Adriane Cassidy vous dit : Bonsoir''. In 2025 she released the album ''Journal d'un Loup-Garou'', which was longlisted for the 2025 Polaris Music Prize. Contests Cassidy was a competitor in the fourth season of ''La Voix'' in 2016,Marissa Groguhé"Le vrai début pour Lou-Adriane Cassidy" '' La Presse'', April 4, 2019. competing on Éric Lapointe's team before being eliminated from the competition in episode 10. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Deland
Helena Deland McCullagh is a Canadian singer-songwriter. To date she has released five EPs: ''Drawing Room'' (2016) and ''From the Series of Songs "Altogether Unaccompanied"'' Vol. I, II, III & IV (2018) that she has written and composed. Her first full-length album ''Someone New'' was released on 15 October 2020. Her second full-length album ''Goodnight Summerland'' was released on 13 October 2023. Deland is currently signed to Luminelle Recordings (label founded by Gorilla vs. Bear & Fat Possum Records) for the world as well as Chivi Chivi for Canada. She has toured consistently since the beginning of her career in Canada, United States and Europe. Biography Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Deland spent the first years of her life in Summerland, British Columbia before moving to Quebec City where she grew up. Deland currently lives in Montreal. Her native languages are French and English; however, she primarily writes and sings in English. She began playing piano and guit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouri (musician)
Ourielle Auvé, known professionally as Ouri, is a French Guianan-born Canadian musician whose music blends orchestral composition and electronic music.Peter Quincy Ng"Ouri on Sneaking into Clubs, Collaboration and Reclaiming Her Classical Music Roots" ''At Cost Magazine'', November 8, 2018. Her debut album ''Frame of a Fauna'' was released in 2021, and was longlisted for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize. Early life Auvé, a classically trained musician, was born and raised in French Guiana, and later moved to France. She grew up playing the harp, cello and piano,Dave MacIntyre"Ouri releases her future-facing debut album Frame of a Fauna" ''Cult MTL'', October 22, 2021. and moved to Montreal at the age of sixteen to immerse herself in electronic music. Career Auvé released the EPs ''Superficial'' in 2017 and ''We Share Our Blood'' in 2019, and has collaborated with Helena Deland in the side project Hildegard. Their album ''Jour 1596'' was longlisted for the 2025 Polaris Music Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saya Gray
Saya Gray (born 1995) is a Canadian musician. She has four albums or EPs, starting with her debut in 2022. Early life Gray was born in 1995 and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, growing up in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto. Her mother is the founder of the Discovery Through the Arts music school in Toronto. She is of Japanese-Canadian descent. Her mother's family moved from Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan to Canada when her mother was ten years old. Her father is a Scottish-Canadian jazz trumpet player who studied at the Berklee College of Music. Her brother, Lucian Gray, who plays the guitar, appears on her album ''19 Masters''. She began playing the piano at a young age, eventually deciding around the age of ten to play bass. Musical career Gray began playing music in a house band for a Jamaican Pentecostal church. At the age of eighteen, Gray was a music teacher and a member of the Quincy Bullen Band. After dropping out of high school in order to take night classes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloin (band)
Gloin are a Canadian post-punk noise rock band from Toronto, Ontario. They are most noted for their 2025 album ''all of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)'', which was longlisted for the 2025 Polaris Music Prize. The band consists of vocalist and guitarist John Watson, bassist and vocalist Vic Byers, drummer Simon Kou and keyboardist Kalina Nedelcheva. They released their debut album ''We Found This'' in 2022, and followed up with ''all of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)'' in 2025.Ian Gormely"Gloin Break the Feedback Loop on 'All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)'" ''Exclaim! ''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly ''Exclaim!'' print magazine publishes seven ...'', March 27, 2025. References Canadian noise rock groups Canadian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayday (Myriam Gendron Album)
''Mayday'' is a 2024 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Myriam Gendron. It has received positive reviews from critics and features original lyrics about Gendron's mother's death, environmentalism, and lullabyes. Reception In ''Exclaim!'', Vish Kanna rated this release an 8 out of 10, stating that the "weary and uncompromising" songs on it are "about the foundational elements we work with whenever we must rebuild our ruined selves". Editors at ''Pitchfork'' scored this release 7.7 out of 10, and Linnie Greene stated that "there are moments on ''Mayday'' that feel essential, plucked out of the ether as if they've always existed", with Gendron "reenvisioning what's timeless for this precise moment". Bruce Miller of ''PopMatters'' gave ''Mayday'' a 7 out of 10, stating that Gendron has shown growth as a performer since her previous albums. In ''Spin'', Reed Jackson rated ''Mayday'' an A–, stating that Gendron's exploration of a proper recording studio and several backing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myriam Gendron
Myriam Gendron is a Canadian musician and songwriter based in Montreal. Biography Myriam Gendron was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. in 1988. She spent part of her childhood and adolescence in Gatineau, in Paris, and in Washington, D.C. In 2014, her first album ''Not So Deep as a Well'' set poems by Dorothy Parker to music. Most vinyl editions of the album included a raving one sheet insert by pioneer rock critic Richard Meltzer: “the disc you now hold is the hottest—and FINEST!—Impossible Love collection in, I dunno, 30 years. 35! (True.) … ARE U READY 4 WOE?�Two other poems by Parker were also set to music and released in 2015: “Bric-à-brac” and “The Small Hours”. A second album was released in 2021, titled ''Ma Délire. Songs of Love, Lost and Found'' and largely oriented around her contemporary interpretations of popular Canadian music. It notably includes “Au cœur de ma délire”, a traditional song first popularized by Dominique Tremblay an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan's Boogie
''Dan's Boogie'' is the fourteenth studio album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer, released on March 28, 2025, on Merge Records. Preceded by the singles, "Bologna", "Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World" and "Cataract Time", the album was produced and mixed by longtime band member and collaborator John Collins. The album features guest appearances by Simone Schmidt aka Fiver, and former Destroyer saxophonist Joseph Shabason. Writing and composition Founding member, lead vocalist and lyricist Dan Bejar has described ''Dan's Boogie'' as an album about aging: "There are topics that I've always loved — the world erasing itself, decay — that stop being academic and get really real when you get old. If I had a handler, they'd say, 'ixnay on the age-ay!'" Recording The album was produced and mixed by longtime Destroyer band member John Collins, who first began working with Bejar when they were both members of the indie rock band The New Pornographers in 1997. Collins has prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destroyer (band)
Destroyer is a Canadian indie rock band from Vancouver, formed in 1995. The band is fronted by founding member and lead vocalist Dan Bejar, with a collective of regular band members and collaborators joining him in the studio and during live performances. Alongside Bejar, Destroyer currently includes longtime producers John Collins (bass) and David Carswell (guitar), Nicolas Bragg (lead guitar), Ted Bois (keyboards), JP Carter (trumpet) and Joshua Wells (drums). The band's discography draws on a variety of musical influences, resulting in albums that can sound markedly distinct from one another; in Bejar's words, "That's kind of my goal: to start from scratch every time." Destroyer have released fourteen studio albums to date, with their most recent, ''Dan's Boogie'', released in March 2025. Career 1996–2001: ''We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge'', ''City of Daughters'', ''Thief,'' ''Streethawk: A Seduction'' ''We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge'', Destroyer's 1996 debut, is mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Clowns
''City of Clowns'' is the sixth studio album by Canadian electronic musician Marie Davidson. It was released on February 28, 2025, by Deewee. Background Incorporating a mixture of techno, spoken word and pop, ''City of Clowns'' was produced and written by Belgian electronic band Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau. Consisting of nine songs, the album's background is based on the themes of technology and data. It was preceded by the singles, "Fun Times", "Y.A.A.M.", "Contrarian", and "Sexy Clown". Reception AllMusic rated the album four out of five stars and stated "Channeling technological paranoia, ''City of Clowns'' contains some of Davidson's most futuristic work yet, as well as some of her most commanding and personality-driven." ''Paper Magazine'' described it as "a dance floor-ready exposé of our big tech reality unpacking of how social platforms commodify our data and digital labor," while ''BrooklynVegan'' referred to it as "an instant dance classic, a concept record that w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Davidson
Marie Davidson (born 1987) is a Canadian electronic musician and producer from Montreal. Career Davidson was part of the duo Les Momies de Palerme, along with Xarah Dion. Their album, ''Brûlez ce coeur'', was released on Constellation Records in 2010. She has collaborated with various other musicians including Matana Roberts (on her project '' Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres'') and David Kristian, and she was part of the orchestral project Land of Kush. She is also one half of the minimal wave duo Essaie pas, a duo she formed with her partner, Pierre Guerineau. The duo were longlisted for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize for their album ''Demain est une autre nuit''. Her third solo album, ''Adieux au dancefloor'', was named by ''Pitchfork'' as one of "The 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2016". The album is themed around Davidson's ambivalent feelings towards dance music and club culture. She released '' Working Class Woman'' on Ninja Tune in 2018. She released ''Rene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
