Posts tagged Shad
Kurt Vile and J Mascis to Headline Canadian Music Fest 2011
Kurt Vile and J Masics are just some of the acts performing at this year's Canadian Music Fest, taking place March 9-13 in Toronto. ... Read More »
Shad Sings the Praises of 'Live Forever' Collaborator Dallas Green
Canadian rap sensation Shad talks to Spinner about collaborating with City and Colour's Dallas Green on their new EP, fittingly titled 'Shad & Dallas: Two Songs.' ... Read More »
Best Canadian Albums of 2010
2010 was another groundbreaking year for Canadian music, and here Spinner salutes the top awe-inducing albums from Canada's finest. ... Read More »
Best Songs of 2010: 50 Tracks That Blew Our Hair Back This Year
Some tracks on our list of the best songs of 2010 were so gorgeous they gave us goose ... Read More »
Cadence Weapon's 'Tron' Mixtape Spoofs Mixtapes, Not 'Tron'
Cadence Weapon spoofs all-the-rage rap mixtapes with 'Tron Legacy: The Mixtape,' a release, which comically, has very little to do with the actual movie itself. ... Read More »
Shad Rates Canadian Rap Peers Drake, K'naan and K-OS
Vanessa Heins In Canada, hip-hop has historically taken a backseat to internationally acclaimed ... Read More »
Karkwa Win 2010 Polaris Music Prize
Prior to the 2010 Polaris Music Prize ceremony, drummer Stephane Bergeron and keyboardist Francois ... Read More »
Owen Pallett Picks Ex-Roommate Caribou to Win Polaris Prize
Owen Pallett knows a thing or two about the Polaris Music Prize. In 2006, the classically trained musician -- then known as Final Fantasy -- walked away with the inaugural Polaris Prize for 'He Poos Clouds,' and has been on hand every year since to celebrate the big event at the award gala. ... Read More »
Polaris Music Prize: Are Indie-Skewing Critics' Awards Any More Legit?
If anyone was shocked when F--ked Up frontman Damian Abraham stripped down to a thong on stage at last year's Polaris Prize gala and gave the gowned-and-necktied crowd a generous eyeful of buttflesh, they shouldn't have been. It was just what the life cycle of the four-year-old Canadian music award demanded. ... Read More »
Polaris Prize Nominees Besnard Lakes and Shad Collaborate for...
It's a good thing Besnard Lakes' Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek are big campers, otherwise the couple's recent trek to the Northwest Territories to collaborate with Shad as part of the National Parks Project might have been a bit of a chore ... Read More »
Polaris Music Prize Preview: Ten Nominees, One Winning Album
Heading into its fifth year, the Polaris Music Prize has attracted much kvetching about its supposed "indie" bias, but this year's shortlist of ten albums vying for the $20,000 award reveals a remarkably diverse array of records ... Read More »
Shad Takes Another Shot at Polaris Prize
While some rappers fill tracks with boast of prowess in the bedroom and on the microphone, scholarly rapper Shad refuses to dumb it down. ... Read More »
Shad Raises the Roof at TIFF
Chromewaves Rapper and Polaris Prize nominee Shad was nervous. The Juno award-winning artist was ... Read More »
Shad Kicks It Old School at Hillside Festival
ProdigyBoy, Flickr Riding high on the release of his Polaris Prize-nominated album, 'TSOL,' ... Read More »
Polaris Prize Short List Names Tegan and Sara, Owen Pallett, Shad,...
From 40 albums the Polaris Music Prize list shortened to 10 finalists this afternoon. Making the cut ... Read More »
Polaris Music Prize Announces Best-Album Long List
As NXNE kicked off in Toronto, organizers of the Polaris Prize took advantage of the spotlight on ... Read More »
