Inside the Forbidden City
Check out episode 2 of ‘Indie Asia: On Tour with Handsome Furs’ above or head on over to cnn.com/indieasia. Leave comments and join the Facebook group!
Handsome Furs Go South
Handsome Furs are adding another continent to their ‘been there’ list! The band have been invited to play in Bogota, Columbia! Alexei posted this to their myspace page:
Handsome Furs have recently gained the chance to play in Bogota Colombia and we couldn’t be more excited. It is an honour! We will be there waiting to meet you all on June 11th. This is a dream come true for our little band as it is our first time in South America.
Hace poco, a Handsome Furs se le presentó la oportunidad de tocar en Bogotá, Colombia y ello nos tiene muy contentos, pues es un honor para nosotros. Allí estaremos y nos vemos el 11 de Junio próximo. Es un sueño hecho realidad para nuestra pequeña banda, ya que será nuestra primera visita a Sur América.
No vemos la hora de probar ese Ajiaco con Pollo, con Sorbete de Curuba y Cuajada con Melado!
The Details:
EVENT: HATE-LOVE FEST.
ARTSIT: HANDSOME FURS
DATE: JUNE 11
PLACE: TEATRO METRO
WWW.HATE-LOVE.COM
TICKETS: TU BOLETA
INFO LINE:TEL 6180410
OTHER BANDS: TBCGracias!
On Sale
Here are the on sales for the Canadian dates:
04-01 Quebec City – on sale today at 10am
04-03 Halifax – on sale Friday January 29th at 10am
04-04 Fredericton – on sale today
04-06 Kingston – on sale today
04-07 Toronto -on sale today at 10am
Wolf Parade Canadian Mini Tour
Wolf Parade will embark on a mini tour of Canada in April as part of the promotion for their upcoming 3rd record. These shows will be the first chance for fans to hear brand new songs! Supporting them on this tour are fellow MTL rockers We Are Wolves. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, so stay tuned for more info.
04-01 Quebec City, QC – Imperial de Quebec 19+ show
04-03 Halifax, NS – Paragon Theatre
04-04 Fredericton, NB – The Market
04-06 Kingston, ON – The Ale House 19+ show
04-07 Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre 19+ show
Just in case you don’t own it already, Moonface’s Dreamland EP: marimba and shit-drums is officially released today. So order yours from Jagjaguwar! Check the moonface.ca site now to read Spencer’s dreams as well as newly posted fan dreams in the dream forum.
Discovering Handsome Furs
CNN.com’s Behind the Scenes blog has a story up about how the whole collaboration with Handsome Furs came to be. Andy Mitchell who is the VP of Digital Marketing and Marketing Development wrote of his experience meeting the band and coming up with the documentary idea. You can read the full post here. Also don’t forget to watch episode 1 over at cnn.com/indieasia!!
Handsome Furs played Maxwell’s last night in Hoboken, NJ to a sold out and super amazing crowd. They played 3 brand new songs, one of which they’ve only done a couple of times live. They also played the night before at Public Assembly in Brooklyn as part of the launch of their doc on CNN.com. You can see pictures from the event here and here as well as read some reviews of the show here and here.
Indie Asia
A few months ago we posted about Handsome Furs filming a mini-documentary in association with CNN.com. The documentary is all about their adventures touring in Asia and is thus aptly titled,
‘Indie Asia: On Tour with Handsome Furs’. You can watch the first episode above or at CNN.com/indieasia and keep checking back to catch the rest of the series. Also, you can go to the newly formed
Facebook fan page where you can get updates on when new episodes are available and see tour exclusives.
Handsome Furs play a one off show tonight in Hoboken, NJ.
Tour Tour Tour
Thanks to the folks on the forum, we now have a few more European dates for Wolf Parade as well as the first for North America!
04-01 Quebec City, QC – Imperial de Quebec
05-06 Krems an der Donau, Austria – Donaufestival
05-13 Torino, Italy – Spazio 211
05-16 Brussels, Belgium – Le Botanique
Also, looks like Handsome Furs will be playing more shows this year (shock!). Aside from the one off show this Wednesday at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ, the furs are also set to play Toronto in March!
Handsome Furs mourn the loss of Jay Reatard
We are enormous fans of Jay Reatard’s work. Selfishly we are sorely disturbed that this is all we will receive from him. I am in shock. Our love goes out to those who new the man behind the music we are so thankful for.
x,
Dan & Alexei
Below is the entry Dan wrote for Pitchfork’s Decade End list. Truly, we considered him one of our best contemporaries.
Jay Reatard/Lost Sounds
Wolf Parade played a show at The Crocodile Cafe in Seattle 4 years ago and Lost Sounds were opening. I remember first being nervous that people from our record label made up about half the audience. Then I watched the Lost Sounds and they were so good that I became REALLY nervous that we, Wolf Parade, sucked. Then the Ohio votes were tabulated between sets. The crowd watched on the television set by the bar. Half of them left. It was one of the worst shows I’ve ever played but definitely one of the best I’ve ever seen. A few years later, Blood Visions became the tour and “debauchery-at-home” soundtrack for me and Alexei. The brevity, sharpness and, sheer immediacy of the songs for me cleared the cobwebs out from a handful of years of popular underground music that DEMANDED YOU KNOW HOW VERY, VERY INTELLIGENT IT WAS. That album reminded me of why I started liking rock music in the first place. Also the entire current line up of his band are completely bizarre looking, slightly overweight men. As a bizarre looking emaciated man, this is very encouraging and satisfying.
Wolf Parade Tour
photo cred: Jari Kaariainen
Here are the first official tour dates for Wolf Parade in 2010. Check back here in a few weeks for the complete list of all European tour dates. Thanks to Kalle at Pitch and Smith!
05-17 Brighton, UK – Concorde2
05-18 London, UK – HMV Forum
05-19 Glasgow UK – Oran Mor
05-20 Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street
05-21 Manchester, UK – Manchester Club Academy
Dreamland
Just got word from Jagjaguwar that you can now download a high-quality digital version (FLAC or MP3) of Moonface’s Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums.. A new website has been created at Moonface.ca where you can make a donation and instantly download the EP. The website includes a dreams section, where “Moonface” has posted selected dreams from January—April 2009. If you want to share your dreams with Moonface, you can post them in the dream forum.
You can now pre-order the 12″ vinyl directly from SC Distribution/Jagjaguwar here. With the 12″ you will receive an insert with all the dreams printed out.
