Handsome Furs played Lee’s Place in Toronto last week. They apparently played 4 brand new songs! Here’s a review of the show from PanicManual.com and here’s a clip of ‘Legal Tender’:
Tuesday June 22nd 2010, 8:01 am
Filed under: News,Wolf Parade
Looks like it’s official, Wolf Parade will be heading to Australia in January of 2011! Here’s a report from Australian website The Vine, who recently spoke with Dan:
During our chat today with Wolf Parade co-frontman Dan Boeckner, the singer confirmed that the Canadian band are on their way to Australia early next year.
Are you planning on coming to Australia any time soon?
Yes, actually. We are going to come to Australia – barring any sort’ve unforseen tragedy – in January of 2011. And we’re just trying to figure out what dates make the most sense for us right now. I think it’s going to be like starting on the 26th of January. I’m really excited to come back. If we do that I’ll have my birthday in Perth, so what better place to spend your birthday.
Will you be playing with a festival when you come down?
Well that was the big thing we talked about, like I don’t wanna just do festivals. I don’t want to come down and just play at a big beery festival. So we’re trying to split it between festivals and club shows. Which is something I was really adamant about with Handsome Furs. Not touring the Big Day Out or something like that, you know? Like coming down with the Furs and doing all those club shows was great! So we want to try and do a similar thing with Wolf Parade.
During our long chat with Boeckner, we covered the recording process for the band’s new record Expo 86, the influence of embracing new member Dante DeCaro and the weirdness during the few years for the band leading up to the new record:
It was a weird couple of years for us. [Second album] …Mt. Zoomer was not as critically acclaimed as [debut] Apologies to the Queen Mary, but at the same time our audience – when we were touring that record – tripled in size. From when we were touring Apologies…. Which was bizzarre, to us. So we were going through that and we also lost Hadji a couple of years ago [multi-instrumentalist Hadji Bakara left the band to concentrate on studies]. Which was kind’ve a long drawn out process and not fun for anybody in the band. But once all the dust settled, we did a European tour in Winter 2008 as just a four piece and it felt really good. And at that point we were like ‘we may as well take a year off now and do our own thing, then come back and make a really good record’ (laughs).
You can now read the entire interview with Dan here.
Thursday June 17th 2010, 7:24 pm
Filed under: News,Wolf Parade
Go to Wolf Parade’s Myspace page now to stream all of EXPO 86 today and tomorrow. Also, don’t forget to pre-order EXPO 86 now from Sub Pop to get your limited edition magnets!
Handsome Furs have rescheduled their Montreal Apple Store performance for June 29th. The band will play from 8pm-9pm.
Live at the Apple Store: Handsome Furs
The metronomic, electronic beats and frail, breaking guitars of Montreal-based husband-and-wife duo Handsome Furs reflect a lifetime of visiting new places and absorbing the discoveries made along the way. Check out this worldly wise band and let them carry you away to distant musical lands during this special live performance
Handsome Furs are going back to Asia! This time hitting smaller cities and new countries! Here is a tentative list for now with more info to come!
08-04 Grappas – Hong Kong
08-06 Yuyintang – Shanghai, China
08-07 VOX – Wuhan, China
08-08 Kolegas – Beijing, China
08-10 Qingdao, China
08-12 Daegu, China
08-13 Busan, South Korea
08-14 Seoul, South Korea
08-15 Kunming, China
08-19 Bangkok, Thailand
08-20 Chiang Mai, Thailand
08-22 Singapore
08-25 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Friday June 11th 2010, 6:40 pm
Filed under: News,Wolf Parade
Sub Pop sent out an email the other day with some more details about their pre-order for EXPO 86:
We here at Sub Pop have decided to celebrate (Wolf Parade’s) achievement by issuing a set of limited-edition Wolf Parade magnets (and also trying to sell, to you we hope, a staggering number of copies of EXPO 86. If you pre-order EXPO 86 on CD or gate-fold, double-LP (with digital download code), you’ll receive, for free, a set of two handsome magnets featuring art from the new record (btw, we only have 600 of these magnet sets to give away, so order now!)
Rest assured: these magnetic decorations will make all of your other fridge magnets look like crap. That’s how good this magnet set looks. The short version of the preceding: this third Wolf Parade record is their best yet, you should buy it, and if you pre-order it from us, you will receive it, along with a set of two highly-desirable, sure-to-one-day-be-collectible Wolf Parade magnets, a couple stickers, and a link to stream EXPO 86 the instant you order so you don’t have to wait for your CD or double-LP to arrive to hear EXPO 86 in its entire entirety.
