I just got home after driving out to Providence for the first show of the tour. It appears that the entire east coast tour has been cancelled due to problems at the US border…from pfork:
U.S. Customs Denies Americans Handsome Furs
It’s those phoney disguises that gave them up
Three cheers for the United States, keeping freedom-hating, free-health-care-receiving heathens like Handsome Furs out of our beautiful land.
The Furs had six shows scheduled in the States this month– including one in Rhode Island tonight– and all of those are now canceled after the duo was denied entry into the country (suspected of smuggling pelts, no doubt).
A May 28 show at Montreal’s Club Lambi will go on as scheduled (being in Canada and all). Presuming they can get whatever mess they’re in settled– or sneak across the border (do it, guys!)– June gigs in L.A. and July gigs in Chicago (with Besnard Lakes) will also still occur as planned.
Nothing like a good border patrol smackdown to put a damper on this otherwise momentous day, which marks the release of Handsome Furs’ Sub Pop debut, Plague Park.
Besnard Lakes and Handsome Furs:
07-23 Chicago, IL – Schubas (18+)
07-24 Chicago, IL – Schubas (21+)
get tickets here
Plague Park is released today!! Go here to get it!
thanks to mike for letting me know about these:
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Echo, Los Angeles CA
Monday, June 18, 2007
Amoeba Music, Hollywood CA
source
Sorry for being a little late to post this…It appears Sunset Rubdown have switched labels and are now releasing their 2nd record ‘Random Spirit Lovers’ on Jagjaguar sometime in October. Jagjaguar is also home to Swan Lake. Here is the tracklist:
01 The Mending of the Gown
02 Magic vs. Midas
03 Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days
04 The Courtesan Has Sung
05 Winged/Wicked Things
06 Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns
07 Stallion
08 For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)
09 The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life
10 Setting vs. Rising
11 Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!
12 Child-Heart Losers
there is an article about this on pfork
Wolf Parade have added more tour dates in August:
Aug 19
Warsaw
Brooklyn, NY
tickets
Aug 20
Theatre of Living Arts
Philadelphia, PA
Aug 21
Black Cat
Washington, DC
tickets
Aug 22
Cat’s Cradle
Carrboro, NC
Aug 27 (4th show added)
La Sala Rossa
Montreal, Canada
tickets
Most of these shows are on presale now at: http://wolfparade.ducatking.com.
The boys of Wolf Parade appear to be part of the upcoming Download Festival 2007. While no one has confirmed that they are definitely playing all of the dates, an old promo shot of the band is streaming across the main site along with pictures of Modest Mouse, Incubus, and The Shins. A full line-up will be announced on May29th. Here are the dates and venues:
Aug 18th
Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
Mansfield, MA
(Boston)
Aug 25th
The Gorge
Gorge, WA
(Washington)
Sept 01
Alpine Valley Music Theater
East Troy, WI
(Chicago)
Oct 6th
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain, CA
(San Fransisco)
more info soon…
I just recently found out that Dan’s drum machine was stolen from a coffee shop in the Mile End section of Montreal:
Dan Boeckner, of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs (his duo with Alexei Perry), had his drum machine stolen from a Mile End coffee shop. On top of the financial cost of replacing it, there is the less quantifiable cost of recreating the music it contained. Boeckner told Hour: “I understand that people have drug addictions they’re trying to feed, but come on, most musicians are one step above poverty.”
Dan was not the only musician in Montreal to be robbed recently. Check the full article here for more information.
If you have any news about the stolen drum machine please contact me and i will pass it on…
