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Count Five: F---ed Up Frontman's Shortlist of Overlooked Canadian Bands

  • Posted on Sep 10th 2009 2:30PM by Damian Abraham
With the Polaris Prize awards coming soon, I have to pause and reflect on the absurdity of my situation: I am a bald, 300-lb. 30-year-old who makes his living yelling in a band with an expletive for a name. Not only that, but said band has somehow found itself nominated for what is arguably Canada's most important music award: the Polaris. Since ...

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