Watch Tonight’s 2013 Polaris Music Prize Award Show Live on AUX-TV

How you ask? Via the live stream embed player above courtesy AUX-TV.

Can’t wait? Or wanna get psyched up for tonight’s event? Watch AUX-TV’s ‘Road to Polaris’ series of video shorts with (most of) the Shortlisted artists HERE.

In the meantime, as you can see above, I’m gonna be busy! I can’t ‘kiss and tell’ but if you want a some sense of how I might be voting tonight, you can CLICK HERE.

[Event] 7th Annual Manifesto Toronto Festival – Live at the Square Set Times

In the T.dot/GTA tomorrow (Sunday Sept. 22)? You might could wanna hit this event by the good people at Manifesto. CLICK HERE for more details and hit the jump for a few musical samples if you’re not knowing….

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[CONTEST] Win Tickets to See Laura Mvula & KING Live at The Mod Club in Toronto (Sept. 7)

[NOTE: this contest is now closed, congrats to the winner, Rachelle who was notified via twitter]

UK pop-soul sensation, Laura Mvula makes her debut (?) appearance in Toronto next weekend in support of her acclaimed Sing To The Moon album. Extra special bonus: buzzy, neo-soul female trio, KING are the opening act. This could be an epic show which unfortunately I’m gonna miss as I’m heading out of town that day, grrr! Wanna win tickets to see them both though? All you have to do is follow me on twitter (so I can contact you via DM in the event you win) and tweet the following:

“.@Stellaskid: I wanna win tickets to see @LauraMvula & @WeareKING Saturday Sept. 7 at @TheModClub, presented by @EmbracePresents” [note: the quotation marks not necessary when you actually send your tweet]

The contest will run until 12noon EST, Sept. 5 and the winner will be announced via twitter. Thanks to Embrace for supplying the tickets for this contest.

CLICK HERE for more show details.

Not up on these two excellent artists? Check out some tracks from them both:

Laura Mvula – She:

KING – Supernatural (LIVE at KPFK):

[CONTEST] Win Tickets to See Mayer Hawthorne Live at The Danforth Music Hall (Sept. 6)

NOTE: these contest posts are pinned to the top of the page. New content will still be posted so scroll down to see the most updated posts.

[NOTE: this contest is now closed, congrats to the winner, Nawal who was notified via twitter]

Retro soul stylist, Mayer Hawthorne hits town next week, September 6, for a show in support of his new album, Where Does This Door Go which dropped last month.

Wanna win tickets? All you have to do is follow me on twitter (so I can contact you via DM in the event you win) and tweet the following:

“.@Stellaskid: I wanna win tickets to see @MayerHawthorne Friday Sept. 6 at @TheDanforthMH, presented by @EmbracePresents” [note: the quotation marks not necessary when you actually send your tweet]

The contest will run until 12noon EST, Sept. 5 and the winner will be announced via twitter. Thanks to Embrace for supplying the tickets for this contest.

CLICK HERE for more show details.

Here’s a track from the album, “Her Favorite Song”:

Hit the jump for a remix of “Her Favorite Song” produced by and featuring the legendary, Large Professor and, in case you missed it, CLICK HERE for the Oliver remix of “Her Favorite Song”.

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[Event] TONIGHT in Toronto: AHR Films x Spek Won – Sofa King Tokyo Video Release Party

Featuring performances by Spek Won, Slakah the Beatchild, Brendan Philip and KJ and DJ sounds by DJ Sunclef and DJ Soulchild at Hermann & Audrey, 1506 Dundas St. W. from 7pm – 2am. CLICK HERE for more details.

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