Artist: Cinnamon Band

Gone To Amsterdam I'll be in Amsterdam for the next 11 days. Expect little to no posting in these coming days. Play this video on repeat to fill the void. While I'm gone, I will remind you that the Handsome Furs will be playing Neumos on June 5. Stage support includes The Cinnamon Band and local act Feral Children . Tickets :: Handsome Furs @ Neumos (6-5-2009) :: $15

Next Friday night, at around 8pm, drop what your doing, put cloths on if you don't have them on (or don't), and go to Neumos. If you don't know why? Well I'm about to educate you, Handsome Fur s , Cinnamon Band , and Feral Children are going to team up to fight the evil powers of bad music with deliciously bonafide super powered indie rock-n-roll. Well maybe that's stretching it, but not by much. The Handsome Furs Sub Pop signed duo made up [...]

Handsome Furs , DRI & The Cinnamon Band are coming to Louisville's Skull Alley on July 16th!! Handsome Furs released a new album (on SubPop) back in March and it is ridiculously good. They are now out on a hefty tour, currently in Europe, then back to the States at the end of May. This show will be toward the end of their trek, which can be good or bad depending on how you look at it. Check out a few of the tracks below. Tickets go on sale tomorrow and will be $10 bucks. Get excited! [...]

A great show tonight at the Outback Lodge that should not be missed, headlined by Toronto's Great Lake Swimmers . Joining Great Lake Swimmers at Outback tonight are special guests Kate Maki and The Cinnamon Band. Doors at 7:30pm. Show at 8:30pm. $10. Great Lake Swimmers, led by talented frontman and songwriter Tony Dekker, first came to my attention when I happened across the band's last album Ongiara . While the album didn't immediately grab me, over time it slowly opened and revealed itself as a strong collection [...]

• Great Lake Swimmers - Palmistry
• Kate Maki - Highway
• The Cinnamon Band - Wider Than a Mile

Apparently people really like Handsome Furs , because the band had a surprisingly large crowd for a late Tuesday night at Skully's. It's particularly surprising because Handsome Furs is a mere side project of Dan Boeckner, who is Spencer Krug's songwriting partner in Wolf Parade. Boeckner enlisted the help of his wife, Alexei Perry, to create a distinctly different sound arising from the limitations inherent in a two-person band. Boeckner's rhythmic guitar clips briskly along to the beats Perry lays down on the drum machine, plus her various synth tones. Though Boeckner's frantic energy was [...]