Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Godspeed!

Nobody expected Godspeed You! Black Emperor to show up at the Polaris Music Prize Gala on Monday night -- which their album "Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend" wound up winning in one of the Canadian music award's ever-unpredictable outcomes -- because that's just not what they do. For the past two decades, the Montreal post-rock collective has defined music's anti-corporate indie aesthetic, allowing them to create a business model that makes supporting them financially a political statement in and ...