Episode 2 of Handsome Furs' CNN mini-Documentary CNN has just posted the second episode of Indie Asia , a multi-part documentary following the Handsome Furs as they tour through Asia. Showing that it can be great to mix business and pleasure, husband/wife and bandmates Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry travel to the Forbidden City and discovery its exotic mystique. Check it out. As I watch all these videos, I just get more and more excited about how this is going to inspire another amazing album with new [...]
It's January 31st, and I am pretty sick right now. I have been pushing aside doing write ups for my top albums of 2009. I just haven't been able to find the time. It is late January and I am just getting my list out now. The blurbs would feel forced if I got them out by today, so I decided not to force the issue and to just give you the list without blurbs. 2009 was a pretty good year in music overall. I spent countless hours with these albums making great memories with my friends, and [...]
2009 the Year in Music Welcome! You have just found one of the most exhaustive and well-considered lists of quality, new music available in 2009. We don't promise to have everything that's out there but what is comes in one easy-to-digest package ! Read on below: Ultimately, we consider this to be an A-Z shopping list (we have great confidence that any and all of these belong in your permanent collection) is a reflection of [...]
Via this article, everyone knows Handsome Furs can put together a great record, but a new CNN documentary reveals the married duo are self-proclaimed travel nerds, too.With Flip cams in hand, the duo recorded their recent tour through Asia, and the first episode of the series titled Indieasia is up now at CNN.com. Clicky.MP3: Handsome Furs- I'm Confusedmyspace.com/handsomefu rs
Those nice people at legendary label Sub-Pop have made a free digital sampler available for download.It features many on their roster (Beach House, Handsome Furs, Nirvana (of course), Dum Dum Girls, Vetiver and No Age amongst others) and also some from affiliates including The Dutchess & The Duke, Talbot Tagora and Golden Triangle.By clicking here you can check it out and add all those nice songs
Sub Pop has once again prepared a "Cybersex" sampler of their upcoming releases. This latest sampler includes 19 new tracks from the likes of Beach House, Dum Dum Girls, Nirvana, No Age, Flight of the Conchords, Happy Birthday, and Handsome Furs. Download it below and read on for the full tracklist. Sub Pop Cyber*** Digital Sampler (2010) Tracklist Happy Birthday – "Girls FM" The Ruby Suns – "Cranberry" Dum Dum Girls – "Jail La La" [...]
You guys have waited pretty patiently for me to get off my lazy ass and get my best of 2009 lists out to you. I mean it's already 15 days into 2010, I need to get with it! So like I said in my #100-51 list , I didn't include singles that were released in 2009 that have 2010 album release dates (such as Vampire Weekend's Cousins) since I consider them 2010 releases! I did include artists like Local Natives however since I obsessed over them this year and their album did come out in the UK! [...]
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CNN earns some cool points CNN and the Handsome Furs have put together a mini-documentary that will be featured over the next few weeks. The band has been touring almost non-stop all over the world in support of their second LP Face Control (which made number 1 on Three Colours' Year End List for '09 ). CNN's blurb states: Dan and Alexei are married and in a band called Handsome Furs. They love to travel, sharing their adventures with fans [...]
So Vampire Weekend has the number one record in the country, and now Vice's VBS.TV will claim a prominent spot on CNN's website, presumably somewhere near the Indie Asia: On Tour With the Handsome... Continue reading "Indie Takeover Wednesdays Continues with the Scandalous Vice/Sub Pop Partnership with CNN" >
In one of the most unexpected marriages imaginable, CNN and Vice have teamed up to present two series on CNN.com: Indie Asia: On Tour with Handsome Furs and Vice's VBS.TV on CNN.com . To celebrate, a party was thrown last night (1/19) at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, trailers of each show were shown (both looked very watchable) and then the Handsome Furs played about a 35-minute set. Handsome Furs is Dan Boeckner (of Wolf Parade ) on guitar & vocals and his wife Alexei Perry on drum [...]
Be my John Roberts - w4m Date: 2010-01-15, 2:00AM EST Reply To This Post You're cordial to me when we see each other around school or at the bars, but I'm looking for more than a "hello" and a smile these days. I need a little something to relieve some stress during exams. Be my Chief Justice and grant cert to this appeal (for hot, hot loving). You: Mid twenties, [...]
While I thought the original video for the opening track of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, was fairly decent, I litterally fell in love with Sarah Newhouse's take of the song. She basically mashed up several scenes of some 80s movies (The Breakfast Club, Footloose, Pretty In Pink, Mannequin) making it almost seems like the scenes were made with Lisztomania in mind and just waited for Phoenix to just release it … Natasha Khan videos always gave me the creeps, not as being afraid per se, but there's always something odd [...]
Last year we got our top of the year lists out early. This year it seemed like everyone was trying to get their lists out as early as possible to capitalize on the potential traffic or whatever it is people compete for. We decided to sit back and let the year finish before commenting on it (read: we were super lazy). None the less, here's our picks for the best albums of 092 Here's to hoping you get 18% more lay in 2010. 20. Don Cash - Freshy Fresh [...]
Here are the results from the poll I made on the 2009 page. They goes as this for who you picked as the one of the best albums of 2009 : You voted for what was the best albums of 2009. Metric - Fantasies (7 Votes) Help! I'm Alive Lily Allen - Its Not [...]
Today's track is another gem from the Montreal indie/electronic-rock husband/wife duo of Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry , otherwise known as Handsome Furs . Radio Kaliningrad can be found as the closing track to the band's sophomore full-length album Face Control , released via Sub Pop Records in March of 2009. Music fans will likely recognize Dan Boeckner as one-half of the two-headed monster known as Wolf Parade , or digging even deeper, as the front man of the now defunct British Columbia indie-rock act Atlas Strategic . For [...]
It's twenty-ten! Last year, my own resolutions revolved mostly around getting this website off the ground and running. This year, given my lack of posts in November and December (a hiatus for a few weeks became habit-forming), I'm resolving to more consistently post the weekly update, and try and institute some subtle changes to the site, among them an integrated GTS Twitter account, a sidebar tweak (some third party ads should crop up, but I promise they won't be intrusive), a monthly music playlist, and an easier interface for posted MP3s. Before we get [...]
If last year retrospective was called ' Laisse Moi Tranquille 2008 ' since it was quite fitting considering the fact that I wanted nothing else from it, 2009 on the other hand was quite different, like I said in my previous post, it shared it's own of ups and downs but the pace was more stable than 2008… leaving me time to breathe, which was a very good thing. Anyway, I've always found that making lists was a bit egotastic as everyone has different tastes and rarely you will find an universal list for anything, at least a [...]
Happy New Year everyone! To those of you who take even a little time out of your day to stop by this little blog, know that it is greatly appreciated. Hopefully you had an enjoyable holiday season. Now that we all have to get back to the regular business of work, school, and all of the other boring shit we have to do, I thought I'd put together another completely random assortment of tunes from the past year - enjoy: Megafaun - "Kaufman's Ballad" [...]
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