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Kelley · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 488 Location: Chicago

There's a four page WP spread in the new issue of Spin with Coldplay on the cover. I haven't read it yet, but I like the pictures a lot. I'd scan it if I knew how to work our scanner.

Right after the WP article, there's five pages of She & Him, too, if anyone else here likes them. I rarely see Spin devoting pages to any bands I really like, so this is a nice issue to end my subscription on.

By the way...does anyone else here subscribe to Harp Magazine? wtf happened with them? I just got a bankruptcy notice in the mail (and nearly had a heart attack when I saw my name on an envelope with the word "bankruptcy" on it). Edit: OK, so apparently they went under in March. I don't know how I didn't hear about it until now and why they waited to send me this notice until now, but whatever.

Maria · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:15 am Post subject:

that is really interesting, 4 pages in a major magazine is a lot for them. I wonder if it's out in stores yet? Can you tell us a little of what is said in the article? Are there pictures?

xrenelevesque7 · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 169 Location: montreal

The article's actually rather boring, unfortunately, though there are some fun photographs of the band lounging around Hadji's house.

Much of it is band history, label talk, and beginners' Wolfology (like, you know, they have two singers: one sounds like this and the other sounds like that.) Must be geared towards an audience only vaguely familiar with the band, not to providing new junk for junkies like us

I'd have to say the three most interesting moments are when Hadji theorizes about how the Internet made them popular before they even had a record out ("The expectations were predicated on nothing!")

And when Dan and Spencer reveal a past fight over marketing strategies (Spencer wasn't so keen on the label's hyping of the band, while Dan remembered "growing up in a small town and watching sonic youth play Letterman... if you can get a public forum for an art project as fucking weird as Wolf Parade, then some kid in the middle of nowhere... who doesn't check the 'cool blogs' ... thinks, "Wow, these idiots are just like me and my friends. I could do this!")

And when the band tries to figure out what the hell they've been served at a Chinatown restaurant during the interview --
"It's a funky aperitif!" says Bakara.
"It's a clitoris mushroom," offers Boeckner.
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Maria · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:08 am Post subject:

It sounds like a pretty standard promo article, thanks for giving us the details. I figured it would be mostly a biography with an emphasis on the new record, nothing we didn't already know. I called my local book store and they said it wasn't in yet..and that it would probably be there on tuesday...

Seems like the band was pretty candid with spin, which is something I didn't think they would do.

Username880 · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 232

not sure if these stay up or not but heres the spin article. I think its pretty neat actually, though they seem eager to jump on the dan vs. spencer thing a bit.

http://digital.spin.com/spin/200807/?pg=66&pm=2

Maria · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:17 am Post subject:

i liked the article...it gave a little background, a little about the recording of the record, and some good quotes from the band...

thanks for the link!

Maria · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject:

i bought my copy of spin today...and i have to say the title of the article kinda annoys me...anyone else?

rawera · Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 735

I think it's actually pretty clever, except it appears to relegate Wolf Parade to some kind of third generation tribute band.

rawera · Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 735

The title, that is. I enjoyed the article.

filburt · Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 107 Location: o-town

aww man, i'm subscribed to spin, but since it sucks so much i just throw it away when i get it. wish i would have known about this...

The Turtle · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 128

I agree with Maria, the title is quite dumb to me.
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captain_spork · Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Austin

post_it · Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 608 Location: Azusa, California

They're at Spencer's apartment, yeah?

What books those? I could only make out Pynchon, but I didn't know what book. ( V?) Must find out.
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firewolf · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 35

actually, there's more than one Pynchon on the shelf

the big one is Vineland, next to it is another Pynchon, Slow Learner, then Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
and this pastel green one might be another Pynchon...

I can't really make out the rest, only bits that don't give me enough clue

yeah, I like taking a look at someone's library

Jaqen · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 317 Location: Charlotte, NC

Hahahaha this line by Spencer made me laugh out loud, literally!

"I was told when I moved in a couple months ago that the neighbor downstairs is deaf. She is not." (when Spencer is saying he's in the process of having his place soundproofed)