
And the Prism Prize aims to reward them with both recognition and a $5000 prize to be split between the artist and the video production team.Ī jury of Canadian music media types have been voting on any video created in the 2012 calendar year and as of yesterday, the short list of ten finalists was announced.
#Panic at the disco music video with the boxer software
Magnet interviews Basia Bulat as a precursor to her taking over their website for the week.Īltar TV has a video session and The Calgary Herald an interview with The Belle Game.Ĭlaire BoucherWhereas the Polaris Music Prize already has a seven year track record of honouring the top Canadian album, the Prism Prize is new on the scene – unaffiliated but sharing a similar mandate, but focused on the art of the music video rather than the album.Īnd while some may have assumed the art form was on the decline due to the fact that their traditional medium – broadcast television – no longer plays them, the internet as well as the low cost of entry to powerful high-definition recording equipment and editing software has given creators unprecedented means to make some seriously impressive shorts. The Quietus, aux.tv, and Beatroute talk to Spencer Krug of Moonface. Vancouver electronic-industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy have announced a date at The Sound Academy on February 18 in support of their latest release, Weapon, released earlier this year. They’re celebrating the release of Uzu tonight at The Garrison.īeatroute talks to Shad he’s back in town at The Danforth Music Hall on January 31. 1Įxclaim talks to Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, whose Alaska B lists off her favourite video game soundtracks for Chart. Stream: Chains Of Love / Misery Makers Vol. 1 EP from Chains Of Love, out as of this week. They’ll play The Garrison on December 6.Įxclaim has an advance stream of the new Misery Makers Vol. No Joy have just released their Pastel And Pass Out EP and are streaming another song from it for your enjoyment. There’ll be a record release show at The Great Hall on December 5. Anyone who was sad about the end of Forest City Lovers will have reason to be happy again. There’s also interviews at The Coast, The Chronicle-Herald, and The Aquarian.Īnd Vancouver’s Brasstronaut have a new clip from last year’s Mean Sun.Īnd in non-video/crack-related news, Kashka is marking the release of Bound – her debut album as Kashka – by streaming the whole thing, and it’s lovely. Islands have a new video from their latest release Ski Mask. Young Galaxy also have a new video, squeezed out of the new tracks on the Ultramarine Deluxe reissue. Or there’s the new video from Metric, for the title track of last year’s Synthetica, which got unveiled to the world via Rolling Stone. He’ll be on stage at The Opera House – not The Great Hall, as originally scheduled – all by his Bejar-ness, on November 9. Stereogum has premiered the new chicken farm-set clip from Destroyer, taken from Dan Bejar’s forthcoming Five Spanish Songs EP which will be out on November 25. Though I heard from somewhere that people have been waiting for a video of some kind to surface…? Well here’s five new ones.
