Wednesday February 28th 2007, 18:59
Filed under: News
It has been confirmed that the debut Handsome Furs album, entitled ‘Plague Park’, will be released on May 22nd.
Plague Park tracklist:
01 What We Had
02 Hearts of Iron
03 Handsome Furs Hate This City
04 Snakes on the Ladder
05 Cannot Get, Started
06 Sing! Captain
07 Dead + Rural
08 Dumb Animals
09 The Radio’s Hot Sun
One of the tracks from the record is being streamed on the new Handsome Furs myspace page. Thanks to thebigm for letting us know!
The winners of the 2007 Plug Awards were announced recently, and the winner of the music video of the year is Wolf Parade for “I’ll Believe in Anything”. Congrats to the band and the video’s director Matt Moroz.
Monday February 05th 2007, 10:41
Filed under: News
Seems that Dan and Hadji are involved in a supergroup that includes Nick Diamonds of Islands and Syd Butler of Les Savvy Fav. This supergroup is called ‘Internet’ and they’ll be performing at a charity event in New York City on April 10th…Here’s thr info:
McSweeney’s Presents: The World, Explained
A benefit event featuring comedy, music and extreme power point presentations.
Featuring:
John Hodgman of The Daily Show and author of The Areas of My Expertise
David Rakoff - author of Fraud and frequent contributor to This American Life
Joshua Davis - author of The Underdog
Rodney Rothman - former Letterman head writer with music by indie supergroup Internet - featuring: Dan Boeckner & Hadji Bakara of Wolf Parade, Nick Diamonds of Islands, and Syd Butler of Les Savvy Fav
Proceeds to benefit 826NYC and 826LA.
Tickets: $21; Members $18; Day of show $26 Purchase Tickets Here
Venue: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
