Here are some recent news items from Pitchfork:
Sunset Rubdown will be included in David Horvitz’s upcoming 7″ Picture Disc Series which will be released on Brooklyn’s Aagoo Records. More information from pitchfork: “Each 7″ in the bi-monthly series is limited to 500 copies, with a portion of that number allotted for subscribers, and the rest available in select stores and at merch tables. The Casiotone offering is out now, with Parenthetical Girls following in May, Abe Vigoda in July, Mika Miko in September, Sunset Rubdown in November, and No Age in January 2009.” Read the full article here
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Handome Furs and Spencer Krug will both be included in the forth issue of the Melbourne, Australia based fanzine The Lifted Brow. A contributor to the fanzine found a fake bookshelf somewhere which had 103 book spines glued to it. They decided to use this fake bookshelf as inspiration and thus “The Lifted Brow 4 will be a book and two CDs with 106 original stories, songs, and comics based on the titles in the bookshelf”. Here is the full article on pitchfork. While they do not list what Handsome Furs will be contributing, they do say that Spencer has written a short story.
According to pitchfork, here are the bands/artists involved:
“Dan Deacon, the Wrens, the Thermals, Xiu Xiu, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Times New Viking, Islands, Shearwater, Handsome Furs, Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum (with No Kids’ Nick Krgovich), Sunset Rubdown’s Spencer Krug, Frog Eyes’ Carey Mercer, Goblin Cock, Le Loup, Frightened Rabbit, Thee More Shallows, Home Blitz, Rock Plaza Central, No Kids, Get Him Eat Him (featuring Pitchfork contributor Matt LeMay), MGMT, and Dan Bejar’s Hello, Blue Roses co-conspirator Sydney Vermont are among those asked to select a “fake” book title and get all creative with it.”
David Horvitz takes polaroids. He has a book of polaroids taken of the band Xiu Xiu. He wants to take polaroids of Sunset Rubdown at their Brooklyn Masonic Temple show on Thursday. If you want him to take some polaroids of this show and send them to you, then go to this site to get more information.
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After many months of speculation and anticipation about the new Wolf Parade record, we’ve finally been given some news from a very reliable source. The source states the following: The record is done and will be officially released in June. It will have 9 songs, some short and some long. Everyone in the band is really happy with it and they will start touring in July. A press release from Subpop is due out very soon with the full track list and title.
Just a friendly reminder that Handsome Furs will be performing on KEXP today at 3:30 central time. KEXP is broadcasting live from the Austin City Limits studio and you can hear their entire performance at KEXP.com. The band will also play the Subpop showcase tomorrow night at Bourbon Rocks on the patio stage at 10:30pm. Handsome Furs begin their north american tour in Miami,Florida on March 27th. For more info check the tour section.
photo cred: Simon Ingall
The New York City date for the upcoming Handsome Furs tour has been finalized. They will play the Bowery Ballroom on April 6th. Tickets will go onsale through Ticketmaster on March 5th at noon. The band has also been recently added as the support act for Spoon when they play New York venue Terminal 5 on April 9th. Tickets are on sale now.
Also, it appears Sunset Rubdown will be embarking on a full US tour in March/April. So far the only dates known are in Toronto, NYC, and now in Buffalo. Hopefully a full list of dates will be released soon.
EDIT (4th March 2008): It turns out that Sunset Rubdown are not making a Spring tour. The rumour was just confirmed to us as false by Jordan Robson Cramer.
There seems to be a rumour floating around that we’ll be doing a Spring tour, but unfortunately that’s not the case. I just wanted that to be clear so people wouldn’t be too disappointed.
Thanks, Jordan!
