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FUCKED UP WIN THE POLARIS PRIZE!

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This year's winner of Canada's Polaris prize, the award given to a Canadian band or artist that the jury judged to have produced the album of "the highest artistic merit", is Toronto hardcore band Fucked Up, for their album The Chemistry of Common Life. They take home $20,000 and the satisfaction of having their unpublishable named reported in major newspapers. Congrats, dudes!

TAGS: fucked up / polaris prize

posted 22/09/2009 by Saelan Twerdy

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