Frank Yang A day later than I would have liked - but some things like after parties, gin and tonics, and going to bed way too late can't be helped - here's my official writeup of Monday night's Polaris Music Prize gala, in convenient short and long versions. The short: Feist won the $30,000 prize for Metals . This pleased some people, displeased others. Eventually, everyone got on with their lives. Some got drunk first. Not naming names. The long: Despite telling anyone who asked [...]
Tomorrow marks the release of Strapped , the new album by Californian noiseniks The Soft Pack. (You can stream the record at Spin right now, if you're so inclined.) For those not familiar with the band's history, they used to be known as The Muslims, a name that caused them all sorts of predictable problems and was eventually ditched in favor of their current moniker circa 2009. So, to celebrate The Soft Pack's new record, we thought we'd look at some of music's other great controversy-courting band names. Warning: naughty words [...]
Beginning at 8:00pm ET tonight, you can webcast the 2012 Polaris Music Prize live from Concert Hall Studios at Bell Media's Masonic Temple in Toronto. Aside from awarding Canada's best album in 2012, the gala will feature performances from nominees Feist, Fucked Up, Grimes, Kathleen Edwards, Cadence Weapon, and Yamantaka//Sonic Titan. Members of Arcade Fire will also be in attendance to announce this year's winner. Tune into the video player below. Other nominees of this year's Polaris Prize include Drake, Japandroids, and Handsome Furs. Stay tuned to Consequence of Sound for an update as [...]
Penguin The 2012 Polaris Music Prize gets awarded tonight, so in honour of the occasion, here's a bunch of maple-flavoured content led off by a Canadian icon who hasn't lived in Canada in some 40-plus years. Yeah! If you have some time to kill and an interest in who Neil Young is circa 2012, you could do worse than to spend it with this feature piece at The New York Times . It covers his current relationship with alcohol and drugs - there is none - as [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards , Music Appreciation Daniel Boud Prog-hardcore adventures and 2012 Polaris Music Prize short list nominees Fucked Up are grizzled veterans when it comes to the music critic award. After all, they won the prize -- which goes to the best Canadian album of the year, based on "artistic merit without regard to genre, sales history or label affiliation" -- in 2009 with [...]
What do you get when you cross a hardcore punk guitarist with 80’s-worshipping synth-pop? Yacht Club , the side project of Fucked Up ’s Ben Cook. The group just released a video for “Flash,” the first single from its new mixtape, Nonnavera . The song has a heavy disco influence, which is fitting given the video’s cheesy ‘80s nightclub vibe. The video's heroine seduces unsuspecting men in all her shoulder-padded glory while the band plays to a nearly empty discotheque. Check it out above. If you like what you hear, you can stream [...]
Michael Halsband Twenty is a nice round number for an anniversary, and Sloan marked their two decades as a band in fine style last year, releasing the milestone-referencing Double Cross and touring a career-spanning set more extensively than they have in some time. Fifteen is also a pretty solid number, so when they busted out a One Chord To Another recital for last year's Fucked Up-sponsored fundraiser , it could also be seen as marking an occasion. [...]
Despite almost no escape from hot venues and high heat, Portland showed their love for live shows at MusicfestNW.
Photos by Mark Pantoja There are a lot of reasons why I love Fucked Up , but their lead singer Pink Eyes (real name: Damian Abraham) has to be the chief one. I hate to reduce a band this good to just one element like that, but the dude once tweeted "Black Keys = Nickelback for hipsters." That, and the first time I saw Fucked Up play was at an outside show at SXSW—when it was actually pretty cold down in Austin—but Abraham stripped to his undies anyway, climbed [...]
Yesterday, Portland's MusicFestNW wrapped up five days of concerts at over a dozen venues throughout the city. Among the acts who performed were Passion Pit, Beirut, Girl Talk, Dinosaur Jr., Flying Lotus, Swans, Fucked Up, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Wild Nothing, Purity Ring, and DIIV. Autumn Andel was on hand to capture the annual fest in photos for us; check out her gallery above.
Frank Yang To call Divine Fits and their debut, A Thing Called Divine Fits , formulaic will probably be interpreted as a slight, but it shouldn't. The album is rather exactly the sum of its songwriting parts - half Spoon , half Handsome Furs ; a taut and lean thing built on spikes of square waves - be they made by synthesizers or fuzz pedals - and beats so tight they may as well have been quantized through state-of-the-art technology (though they almost certainly weren't). That it's [...]
Me encantan Fucked Up . He de reconocer que conocí a la banda gracias a sus últimos trabajos, concretamente gracias a sus últimos splits -uno de ellos con dos pesos pesados del punk hard underground, Rolo Tomassi y The Bronx-, colaboraciones y también a David Comes To Life , trabajo que les ha lanzado a la fama y que supuso uno de los discos más interesantes de 2011. Tan sólo un año después y después de unos meses bastante moviditos [...]
[photos by acidjack] You may not have heard of Canadian singer-songwriter Jennifer Castle , who has a new album, Castlemusic , out on Flemish Eye Records in Canada and re-released by our own No Quarter , as well as two other titles out under the band name "Castlemusic". But even if you haven't heard of her, chances are, if you're a fan of Canadian indie music, you've heard her. That is because Castle has collaborated with several high profile Canadian bands and artists, including Fucked Up , Constantines , and Doug Paisley [...]
Ever since I was old enough to complain, my dad took great pleasure in the act of dragging my always-resistant ass to music festivals. A summer full of glorious music for him meant a summer full of unstifled groans from me. His taste in music back then - folk, folk, and nothing but folk - meant we hit folk festivals exclusively, and he wasn't shy about tackling the big, multi-day camp-out fests that separate the men from the meek. I have fond, fuzzy memories of trying to enjoy the Philadelphia Folk Festival and basically roasting alive under an angry sun [...]
FYF Fest 2012, Día 1 Los Angeles State Historic Park Los Angeles, California Sábado 1º de septiembre de 2012 Fotos: Daniel Patlán (@folkmetender) El fin de semana pasado se llevó a cabo una edición más del FYF Fest (Fuck Yeah! Fest) en la ciudad de Los Angeles, California. Junto con el crew de Vans México , fuimos a cubrir este pequeño gran festival que –según nos dijeron los que saben– cada año se pone mejor. El primer día pudimos ver a una de [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive Karl Walter, Getty Images FYF returns to Los Angeles on Saturday (Sept. 1), featuring headlining performances by electronic acts Gold Panda , Simian Mobile Disco and M83 , alongside reunions from two of hardcore punk's most revered acts, Quicksand and Refused . Though the festival has suffered some logistical hiccups in its nine-year history, after partnering with Coachella [...]
[CLICK HERE] THE ORWELLS Time: 1225pm-1255pm Stage: Spring St. The Orwells - Mallrats (La La La) FIDLAR Time: 115pm-145pm Stage: Spring St. FIDLAR - Wake Bake Skate KING TUFF Time: 205pm-245pm Stage: Spring St. King [...]
With FYF going on down in LA this weekend, we're getting a decent spillover of excellent shows up here in the Bay Area. Though not quite at Fauxchella levels, it's nice to have a Faux Your Festival going on right now. And since your regular host for this column, Dakin Hardwick, will be enjoying himself at [...]
Con motivo del cuarto aniversario de El Imperial , el reconocido foro organizará un concierto especial el próximo 31 de agosto en El Plaza Condesa en el cual se presentará la agrupación canadiense de punk hardcore Fucked Up junto con Descartes A Kant , Vicente Gayo , Atto & The Majestics y Agrupación Cariño . Los boletos estarán a la venta a partir del 11 de julio y los precios oscilarán entre los $250 y $380 pesos. [...]
Chances are you're looking at a short work week next week, and that's pretty awesome. Why not make it even more awesome with free tickets to one of two shows that are swinging through the Bay Area? If you're looking to sway to the spacey sounds of Yeasayer or kick your own ass with Ceremony and Fucked Up , we've got your hook-up. We've got an especially large number of tickets to give away this week, so read directions carefully! To enter any contest submit an email to contest[at]thebaybridged[dot]c om with your full name [...]
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