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It's the moment we've all been waiting for! Here are the 10 short-list nominees for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize, in alphabetical order by artist:

Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Basia Bulat – Tall Tall Shadow
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
Drake – Nothing Was The Same
Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back
Owen Pallett – In Conflict
Shad – Flying Colours
Tanya Tagaq – Animism
Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - UZU

The winner of the 30,000$ prize will be announced on Monday, September 22. Click here for the long list of nominees.

The Polaris Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually honours, celebrates and rewards creativity and diversity in Canadian recorded music by recognizing, then marketing the albums of the highest artistic integrity, without regard to musical genre, professional affiliation, or sales history, as judged by a panel of selected music critics. 

Read by: Alyssa Tremblay

Stories by: Emeline Vidal, Milos Kovacevic

Produced by: Emeline Vidal

Here it is!!! The sunshine-filled Montreal summer with all its jazz, comedy, reggae and kompa, World Cup, street sales, and food trucks madness.



The only thing lacking? A little BASS! Ladies and gents, it's time: here comes the 7th edition of THIRD BASS!



So come shake the sweat drips off as DJs and live performers fill your ears, minds, and souls with thick basslines, hectic drums, and mad, mad vibes.

At THIRD BASS, the he DnB, deep house, glitch hop, tropical bass, dark techno heads will find what they seek.

LINEUP

BRAD PIFF (deep house & nudisco // hectic, funky, sexy, progressive)
[ - link to come - ]

UNGA (tropical & house // entrancing, bouncy, funky, progressive)
[http://www.mixcloud.com/soverycliche/]
 

YELLOW SHADES (glitch hop & deep house // explosive, thick, funky, badass)
[http://www.mixcloud.com/YellowShades/]

Free before 11 // $5 after

Visuals by Patient Zer0 (aka Curtis)
Video editing by Jean-Sebastien Icart
Photos by JDB Productions
Graphic design by Melanie Leduc.

Start teasing your hair now so it'll be perfect in time for Saturday, July 12th when DJ XL5 brings his hard rockin' Spandex Zappin' Party to the Terrasse St-Ambroise! Presented by McAuslan and CJLO, it'll be all hair metal all night long, with an amazing collection of film and video clips from the bitchin'est decade starting at 9:30pm, and Angelica from BVST playing your favorite hair, glam and sleaze metal hits all night long!