Brooklyn Vegan — Last month the 2012 Polaris Music Prize, which awards a Canadian album of recorded music each year, revealed their long list and this week the short list was revealed. Cadence Weapon, Cold Specks, Drake, Kathleen Edwards, Feist, Fucked Up,... more info

Guardian Music — Canada's equivalent of the Mercury prize also includes Feist, Cold Specks and Japandroids among othersDrake, Grimes and a Noh-theatre-inspired psych band are among the nominees for this year's Polaris prize, Canada's biggest music award. Ten albums h... more info

KEXP Seattle — About a month after the release of the longlist the 10 finalists for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize Shortlist have been revealed, and it boasts one of the Canadian music prize’s most diverse roster to date. Feist, Kathleen Edwards, Drake, Cold Specks... more info

Consequence of Sound — Feist, Handsome Furs, and Kathleen Edwards also nominated for Canada's best album. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dominick Mastrangelo, video by Kurt Christensen, words by Christopher Paragraph Kathleen Edwards, who is on the just-announced lineup of NJ's XPoNential Music Festival, performed for a crowded Webster Hall Saturday night (4/28), playing son... more info

Popdose — San Francisco native, Hanni El Khatib, throws it down date-style with LA's former punk rocker, John Doe. Mix in Canadian Kathleen Edwards and it's all good in the hood more info

ContactMusic — Acclaimed singersongwriter Kathleen Edwards has become the latest star to cancel tour dates because of throat problems The Back To Me singer has posted a note to fans on her Facebook com page announcing plans to postpone a handful of upcoming concert... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Scotsman interviews Kathleen Edwards about her new album, Voyageur. Is this your most personal album to date? I don’t really know how else to write songs but this time round I definitely broke the bank. I ended up writing... more info

Guardian Music — Django Django, On tourA great trick pulled off by the Beta Band – the adventurous but doomed nearly-men of the post-Britpop landscape – was to throw a great many deeply psychedelic shadows, all the while making an essentially well-polished kind o... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — 'I guess we should talk about the elephant in the room,' said Toronto-based singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards about half-way through her much-anticipated show at the Phoenix on Saturday night. more info