Friday May 18th 2012, 3:42 am
Filed under: Handsome Furs
From Handsomefurs.com:
With a heavy heart the time has come to let all of you know that Handsome Furs are no more.
The most important thing that needs to be said right now is how extremely grateful we are to all the fans all over the world that showered us with love and support over the years. Thank you for everything! It’s been an incredible 6 years and we owe it all to you.
xoxo
HF
I’m extremely sad to post this news. I wish both Dan and Alexei success and happiness in whatever the future brings.
Just read this amazing news at Indiewire.com about Dan scoring the upcoming film ‘Adult World’, directed by Scott Coffey. Scott was also the director of two Handsome Furs videos.
Indie rock has its fair share of distinct voices, but few are as instantly recognizable as that of Dan Boeckner, the musician and voice behind the acclaimed Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs. But he’s stepping off the stage for a brief moment, to try his hand at something a little bit different.
Director Scott Coffey tweeted at us (thanks!) the news that he is “thrilled that Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade & Handsome Furs is scoring my movie #adultworld starting @RobertsEmma & @johncusack.” And indeed, that’s a pretty intriguing development for the film which is already quite promising. Starring the aforementioned Emma Roberts and John Cusack, along with “American Horror Story” star Evan Peters and “Raising Hope” actress Shannon Woodward, “Adult World” follows Amy Anderson (Roberts), a Stanford grad with dreams of becoming a poet who gets stuck working in an erotic bookstore to help pay off her mounting debt. Cusack will play Amy’s hero and mentor, the delightfully named poet Rat Billings, with Woodward as her punk/goth roommate Candace and Peters as Manny.
No word yet if Boeckner will be singing any new tunes, or just providing more of a score, but at any rate it should prove to be fascinating backdrop to the film. No release yet for the film, but could a fall festival premiere be possible? Hopefully we’ll know more soon.
A few months ago we posted about the Burmese band Side Effect and that they were raising funds to record a record. Many of you donated to their cause, but sadly due to US sanctions with Mayanmar (Burma) their account was frozen and all donated funds were returned. The band still needs our help! You can get more information on how you can recommit your funds over at HandsomeFurs.com. Check out Side Effect’s Facebook page for more info as well.
2012 has just started and Handsome Furs kicked it off right with a week of amazing west coast shows. Next up, they perform at the Frostbite Music Festival in Whitehorse, Yukon! In April they’ll head to Europe. Here’s the full list of European tour dates with more to come!
01 :: “Disco Sheets” – Wolf Parade
02 :: “They Took A Vote And Said No” – Sunset Rubdown
03 :: “Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!”-
Sunset Rubdown
04 :: “Stadiums And Shrines II” – Sunset Rubdown
05 :: “California Dreamer” – Wolf Parade
06 :: “You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son” – Wolf Parade
07 :: “Idiot Heart” – Sunset Rubdown
08 :: “Snakes Got A Leg III” – Sunset Rubdown
09 :: “Bang Your Drum” – Wolf Parade
10 :: “Reture To The Violence Of The Ocean Floor” – Moonface
11 :: “Call It A Ritual” – Wolf Parade
12 :: “The Taming of the Hands that Came Back to Life” –
Sunset Rubdown
13 :: “I’ll Believe In Anything” – Wolf Parade
14 :: “Nightingale / December Song” – Sunset Rubdown
15 :: “Shut Up I Am Dreaming Of Places Where Lovers Have Wings” –
Sunset Rubdown
Handsome Furs have been selected for the Polaris Music Prize Record Salon series. Alexei and Dan will be at the Drake Hotel in Toronto on Wednesday January 11th where they’ll take part in a live interview with Polaris jury member Sarah Liss (The Grid). This will be followed by a listening session of Sound Kapital and special giveaways courtesy of ClarityOne Earbuds.
Polaris Music Prize Record Salon featuring Handsome Furs
Wednesday, January 11 2012
Drake Hotel
1150 Queen West
Toronto
Doors @ 7:30
8:00 pm Start
FREE EVENT
Monthly, a Polaris jury member presents a recording currently under consideration for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize. This month, Polaris presents “Sound Kapital” by HANDSOME FURS
Recently Dan Boeckner sat down with Romanian music website ClickZoomBytes for a great interview. Dan discusses his personal feelings about the end of Wolf Parade, how he became a musician, and the themes behind the new Handsome Furs record ‘Sound Kapital’.
Wednesday December 07th 2011, 12:46 pm
Filed under: Handsome Furs,News
Every year Sub Pop asks some of their artists to do a top 10 list of music or events that shaped their year. You can read all of the lists over at SubPop.com. Here’s Alexei’s:
Top “Ten” Great Things From 2011 In No Particular Order
Number one: Belgrade Punk band Repetitor’s debut album Sve Sto Vidim Je Prvi Put
Number two: Making out on a docked Ukranian gun ship/venue in Budapest prior to stage time
Number three: Crossing eight borders in sixteen hours touring through the Balkans with Bernays Propaganda
Number four: Terreneo Festival in Sibenik
Number five: Martinis in a can at 3am on day off in post-recession deserted Reno Nevada
Number six: Sweatiest backstage wardrobe change in chapel of First Unitarian church with Thee Satisfaction
Number seven: Onstage vs frontrow full frontal nudity at a squat show in Berlin
Number eight: PDX police bust us during “fake raping” of “What About Us?” director Scott Coffey
Number nine: Encore at Neumos in Seattle the band grows exponentially to include Suuns and Talk Demonic
Number ten: Four minute crowd surf at Palaty Kulturana in Warzaw
Number eleven: PJ Harvey sighting at show in London
Number twelve: After thirty minute “interrogation” by Swedish narcotics officers, realizing that merely raising your voice is an effective way to avoid a trip to the police station in Scandinavia
Number thirteen: The dingy that transported our uninsured gear to our show at Beach number five in Lake Ohrid Macedonia (plus naked nightswimming afterwards!)
Number fourteen: The amazing young man who came out to his parents immediately before coming to our show in Boston and then danced harder than anyone in attendance
Number fifteen: Our tour manager eerily and robotically being able to sing every single word of every single song played on XM radio’s Back Spin… “She’s so fly she’ll drive you right out of your mind. Steal your heart when your blind. You’ll fall in love and you’ll be screaming dreaming. Never trust a big butt and a smile. That girl is poison.”
Number sixteen: The fact that Prince Hubertus is a real person and we met him and his shinily bejeweled and wildly patterned crew in the sketchiest back alley of East Hastings where a junkie was practicing his knife throwing skills at a telephone pole
Number seventeen: Epic Lord of the Rings style mushroom picking adventure followed by day long smoke sauna in the Finnish countryside
Number eighteen: Crazy ass May Day party in the hills above Sarejevo featuring live band on tiny porch and entire roast lamb
Number nineteen: Performing as punk rock karaoke super group with No Age after packed secret show in the basement of an Albanian restaurant in Skopje. Karaoke band begins covers of Black Flag, CCR, Bob Dylan and others four hours after show had officially ended.
