01 :: “Disco Sheets” – Wolf Parade
02 :: “They Took A Vote And Said No” – Sunset Rubdown
03 :: “Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!”-
Sunset Rubdown
04 :: “Stadiums And Shrines II” – Sunset Rubdown
05 :: “California Dreamer” – Wolf Parade
06 :: “You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son” – Wolf Parade
07 :: “Idiot Heart” – Sunset Rubdown
08 :: “Snakes Got A Leg III” – Sunset Rubdown
09 :: “Bang Your Drum” – Wolf Parade
10 :: “Reture To The Violence Of The Ocean Floor” – Moonface
11 :: “Call It A Ritual” – Wolf Parade
12 :: “The Taming of the Hands that Came Back to Life” –
Sunset Rubdown
13 :: “I’ll Believe In Anything” – Wolf Parade
14 :: “Nightingale / December Song” – Sunset Rubdown
15 :: “Shut Up I Am Dreaming Of Places Where Lovers Have Wings” –
Sunset Rubdown
Sunday January 22nd 2012, 10:12 pm
Filed under: News,Wolf Parade
Check out Plants and Animals performing Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe in Anything,” during their ‘Live from Breakglass’ session at Breakglass Studios in Montreal during the Pop Montreal Festival, September 24, 2011. This cover is the B-Side on the band’s single release of “Lightshow,” out now on iTunes and will be available as a 7″ in late February.
Handsome Furs have been selected for the Polaris Music Prize Record Salon series. Alexei and Dan will be at the Drake Hotel in Toronto on Wednesday January 11th where they’ll take part in a live interview with Polaris jury member Sarah Liss (The Grid). This will be followed by a listening session of Sound Kapital and special giveaways courtesy of ClarityOne Earbuds.
Polaris Music Prize Record Salon featuring Handsome Furs
Wednesday, January 11 2012
Drake Hotel
1150 Queen West
Toronto
Doors @ 7:30
8:00 pm Start
FREE EVENT
Monthly, a Polaris jury member presents a recording currently under consideration for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize. This month, Polaris presents “Sound Kapital” by HANDSOME FURS
Recently, as in very very late last night, I stumbled upon a live Wolf Parade recording more than ten months older than the 31 live Wolf Parade recordings I already had. This recording is from a tour in which Wolf Parade opened for Modest Mouse and The Walkmen in a place called the Rostraver Ice Garden south of Pittsburgh. They played ten songs, two of which had never been recorded live (as far as I know), Killing Armies and Same Ghost Every Night. (Same Ghost Every Night was recorded three months later in a CBC Radio Session, but I believe that is different than a true live show.) Special thanks to Ryan Schwartz for recording and sharing the show.
Wolf Parade
August 10, 2004
The Rostraver Ice Garden,
Rostraver, PA
01. Intro
02. Day In The Life (Atlas Strategic track)
03. We Built Another World
04. Disco Sheets
05. Shine A Light
06. Killing Armies
07. It’s A Curse
08. Dear Sons And Daughters Of Hungry Ghosts
09. Same Ghost Every Night
10. Grounds For Divorce
11. This Heart’s On Fire
If you would like to listen to this recording instead of just reading about it, links follow:
V0 MP3s 72.8 mb click here.
FLACs locally hosted here and for a Dimeadozen torrent, here.
Recently Dan Boeckner sat down with Romanian music website ClickZoomBytes for a great interview. Dan discusses his personal feelings about the end of Wolf Parade, how he became a musician, and the themes behind the new Handsome Furs record ‘Sound Kapital’.
Though she’s best known for her sensational preserves, Wynne began her career as a pastry chef, working underneath the famed Patrice Demers at high-end Montreal restaurants like Les Chevres and Laloux. But in more recent months, she’s been focusing solely on her growing independent business, Preservation Society. Wynne sells a fascinating assortment of jams, chutneys and pickles, with an emphasis on seasonal and local ingredients. (She likes to handpick her own apples and pears at remote Quebec orchards)..
Wednesday December 07th 2011, 12:46 pm
Filed under: Handsome Furs,News
Every year Sub Pop asks some of their artists to do a top 10 list of music or events that shaped their year. You can read all of the lists over at SubPop.com. Here’s Alexei’s:
Top “Ten” Great Things From 2011 In No Particular Order
Number one: Belgrade Punk band Repetitor’s debut album Sve Sto Vidim Je Prvi Put
Number two: Making out on a docked Ukranian gun ship/venue in Budapest prior to stage time
Number three: Crossing eight borders in sixteen hours touring through the Balkans with Bernays Propaganda
Number four: Terreneo Festival in Sibenik
Number five: Martinis in a can at 3am on day off in post-recession deserted Reno Nevada
Number six: Sweatiest backstage wardrobe change in chapel of First Unitarian church with Thee Satisfaction
Number seven: Onstage vs frontrow full frontal nudity at a squat show in Berlin
Number eight: PDX police bust us during “fake raping” of “What About Us?” director Scott Coffey
Number nine: Encore at Neumos in Seattle the band grows exponentially to include Suuns and Talk Demonic
Number ten: Four minute crowd surf at Palaty Kulturana in Warzaw
Number eleven: PJ Harvey sighting at show in London
Number twelve: After thirty minute “interrogation” by Swedish narcotics officers, realizing that merely raising your voice is an effective way to avoid a trip to the police station in Scandinavia
Number thirteen: The dingy that transported our uninsured gear to our show at Beach number five in Lake Ohrid Macedonia (plus naked nightswimming afterwards!)
Number fourteen: The amazing young man who came out to his parents immediately before coming to our show in Boston and then danced harder than anyone in attendance
Number fifteen: Our tour manager eerily and robotically being able to sing every single word of every single song played on XM radio’s Back Spin… “She’s so fly she’ll drive you right out of your mind. Steal your heart when your blind. You’ll fall in love and you’ll be screaming dreaming. Never trust a big butt and a smile. That girl is poison.”
Number sixteen: The fact that Prince Hubertus is a real person and we met him and his shinily bejeweled and wildly patterned crew in the sketchiest back alley of East Hastings where a junkie was practicing his knife throwing skills at a telephone pole
Number seventeen: Epic Lord of the Rings style mushroom picking adventure followed by day long smoke sauna in the Finnish countryside
Number eighteen: Crazy ass May Day party in the hills above Sarejevo featuring live band on tiny porch and entire roast lamb
Number nineteen: Performing as punk rock karaoke super group with No Age after packed secret show in the basement of an Albanian restaurant in Skopje. Karaoke band begins covers of Black Flag, CCR, Bob Dylan and others four hours after show had officially ended.
Wednesday December 07th 2011, 12:45 pm
Filed under: Handsome Furs,News
Here it is folks. The brand new Handsome Furs video for Serve the People. Watch it below and read about director Han Xia’s inspirations over at HandsomeFurs.com
If you still don’t have Sound Kapital, you can get it now with other Handsome Furs merch at SubPop.com. They’re having a ’20′s Plenty’ sale where you get 20% off any order of $20 or more!
Handsome Furs are heading out for a short European tour this week. They’ve also just added a week of shows in California and Arizona in 2012. Here’s a list of all their upcoming dates:
Handsome Furs are asking their fans to support their friends Side Effect. The band Side Effect is from Myanmar and is looking for donations to help them buy instruments, record, and start touring the world! Watch the video below and donate what you can at: indiegogo.com/SideEffectMyanmar
