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Vancouver artists didn't fare too well in this year's run for Sirius Satellite Radio's Polaris Music Prize but Dan Mangan has just swooped 2009's "Artist of the Year" award from XM Satellite Radio's Verge Music Awards .

Our friends at the 100.

The crew at LiveNation have another ticket giveaway for you lucky VIA readers! Juno Award winning electropop group, Dragonette , are coming to Vancouver in support of their sophomore album, Fixin To Thrill .

V.I.A.

We gave away some tickets to see Quintron and Miss Pussycat at the Media Club not long ago and the person who won em sent in these photos that her friend shot there (she won 2 tickets). Here's a link to the set on Flickr .

Vancouver's Jordan Hoffart continues to make his presence as a Powell pro known down in the States.

LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Get those captions in! We’re giving away 2 pairs of tickets to see Snoop Dogg & guests LIVE in concert next week , courtesy of our friends GMAN & Rizk ! Snoop Dogg, Slightly Stoopid and Mickey Avalon will play the P

Highjacking Jef Choy's alley photo themed post again... but this time it's not random crap! I've been meaning to get a cork board for my office for the past couple of months but hadn't committed to buying one.

Gonna wrap this one up in a couple days but wanted to encourage you to PLEASE take our survey if you haven't already... So we're doing a survey and we want everybody that reads the site to (please) fill it out .

Thanks to Katie Teed for sending us these photos taken by Martin Dee of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko during their recent visit to the Nitobe Memorial Garden which is a part of the UBC Botanical Garden .