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Dan Boeckner Edition Last week's Power Play featured a playlist of songs from musicman Spencer Krug. It only seemed fitting to make this week's themed around his colleague and music-mate, Dan Boeckner . The yin to Krug's yang, Boeckner split vocal roles in the band Wolf Parade, offering a contrasting style and sound that allowed WP to explore different soundscapes. Boeckner also made sweet music with his wife Alexie Perry and delivered some incredible work as Handsome Furs. If you really want to delve [...]
Photos by Tony NelsonHandsome FursJuly 27, 2011Triple Rock Social ClubWhen a band is clearly having as much fun onstage as Handsome Furs were Wednesday night at the Triple Rock, it's hard not to get
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Tweet Buy the album from Amazon - Vinyl | MP3 | CD Dan Boeckner has grown increasingly political in his outings with Handsome Furs , the dance-rock duo he formed with his wife after achieving success with Wolf Parade . While the group's first album, "Plague Park", was a series of sparsely-arranged tales of loss and restlessness, they expanded their scope (both thematically and musically) to the [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Electronically driven, but vocally backed, is what Handsome Furs have shown us their sound consists of on their past two full-length records. It seems on Sound Kapital, they chose to put an even larger strain on the electronic elements of each song, nixing the guitar somewhat completely. Although an interesting choice, this heavy electronic sound is one that works stylistically for Dan Boeckner and his wife, and follow member, Alexei Perry. This album starts out [...]
When Wolf Parade 's Dan Boeckner & wife Alexei Perry got hitched, I'm not sure they envisioned Handsome Furs . But, if they did, hopefully Sound Kapital mimics their relationship and its future. With a signature Sub Pop sound: thumping, pulsing keys tapped out by Perry and the catchy, not-too-scruff vocals from Boeckner, it seems a perfect match. To SPIN , Boeckner says about Wolf Parade, "We're not doing anything for the foreseeable future. We made three records I'm happy with. I think people just want to do different things." "When I Get Back" [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Liam Maloney, Sub Pop Handsome Furs ' Dan Boeckner was a self-proclaimed "angel from sweaty heaven" at the band's much-hyped NXNE showcase at the Garrison in Toronto on Saturday night. The packed and humid room got even sweatier as Boeckner (who put his "other" band, Wolf Parade , on "indefinite hiatus" just last month) and his wife and bandmate Alexei Perry did their best to [...]
El 28 de junio se publicará (a través del sello Sub Pop ) el nuevo disco del grupo Handsome Furs , dueto canadiense integrado por Dan Boeckner (ex-integrante de Wolf Parade ) y Alexei Perry (quien además de ser su dupla creativa, es su esposa). El grupo ha llamado la atención gracias a ese sonido perfectamente reconocible que asimila lo mejor del rock con finas bases electro. El disco viene acompañado de una edición limitada de postales que complementan el arte del disco. Acá te dejamos con uno de los tracks [...]
Kanadalainen indie-yhtye Handsome Furs palaa Suomeen ja esiintyy Tavastialla lauantaina 8. lokakuuta. Wolf Paradesta tutun Dan Boecknerin (kitara, laulu) ja hänen vaimonsa Alexey Perryn (koskettimet, rumpukoneet) muodostama Handsome Furs yhdistelee musiikissaan indierockia, elektropunkia ja New Order -henkistä uuden aallon synthpopia. Helsingissä sijaitsevan Ruttopuiston mukaan nimetyn Plague Park -debyyttialbuminsa (2007) jälkeen yhtye saavutti kansainvälisen läpimurron Itä-Eurooppaan sijoittuvalla teemalevyllään Face Control (2009). Handsome Fursin kolmas pitkäsoitto, kitaran sijaan koskettimilla ja konesoittimilla sävelletty Sound Kapital ilmestyy tämän kuun lopussa. Dan Boecknerin mukaan aikaisempaakin elektronisemmin soiva albumi haki innoitusta surisevan [...]
If there's a silver lining to the indefinite hiatus of Wolf Parade , it's that members Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner can champion their burgeoning side projects. Krug's band Sunset Rubdown and Boeckner's Handsome Furs both released stellar albums in 2009. Now, Boeckner and wife/Furs bandmate Alexei Perry will progress onwards with their 3rd LP Sound Kapital , due out June 28th with a solid summer of touring supporting the release. In addition to the [...]
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I know the album cover is NSFW. So you have to click on the more link to see it. The album cover for the upcoming Handsome Furs ' Sound Kapital has been revealed. It's one "hot" cover so to say. Anyways another single has been released and it happens to be my favorite track on Sound Kapital. It's called Repatriated and it more of high energy electronica track. Have a listen to Repatriated . [...]
I showed up a couple of years late to the Handsome Furs party, discovering them somehow back in 2009 around the time that their second album "Face Control" was being released, and for me, as a first time listener, I had it repeating on a daily basis for weeks. Consisting of Dan Boeckner from Wolf Parade and Atlas Strategic, and his short-story-writing wife, Alexei Perry, the Canadian duo made one of the best albums of 2009; A highly-charged, soul-thumping, Electronic, Spasm-Rock "happening", the spikes and jolts struck every jiggly limb on my body and [...]
Photographic Evidence by Mark Jenko TOUR KICKOFF * Great Scott * April 13th, 2011 Dynamic Duo hits the Road Handsome Furs - What About Us NEW ALBUM TOUR [...]
New Handsome Furs on June 28! Handsome Furs have just announced the details of their 3rd LP Sound Kapital ! The album will drop via SupPop on June 28 , and you can hear the first single "What About Us" above. According to the band's press release, Sound Kapital is the first Handsome Furs album written exclusively on keyboards and drum machine. They go on to explain this decision in rational detail: This was a conscious decision, made for a few reasons: a) [...]
As reported earlier today (via P4K) there is a new record coming out from Handsome Furs , yet another side-project from one of the key members of Wolf Parade . This one's definitely one of the finer pieces the duo have put together, with the focusing revolving around electronic beats and Dan's voice, which sounds really strong and polished, for him at least, on this outing. You'll be able to get this electronica-influenced record titled Sound Kapital on June 28th from the good people over at [...]
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Handsome Furs fans rejoice!! A new single just came out called What About Us . It's taken from their upcoming album Sound Kapital will be dropped June 28 on Sub Pop . Loving the whole techno dancey side from husband-wife duo of Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry. The song is about 5 minutes (the longest I have heard from a Handsome Furs song!) Check out the song! Totally dancing a groove to this song! I can't wait to see them live! Hope they make a [...]
Handsome Furs at Richard's on Richards (04/21/08) Photo : D. Caplan While Handsome Furs have yet to officially announce their third record, they have just announced a small number of US tour dates including one at The Bell House on April 14 ( Buy Tickets ). Regarding that new LP, in December of 2010, Dan Boeckner told Spinner.com that they were set to recording the new album in January 2011 in Chicago. "We've got two-thirds of the [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music It's been almost two years since Handsome Furs released their sophomore LP, 'Face Control,' and since then fans have had to wait while Montreal-based husband-and-wife duo Alexi Perry and Dan Boeckner attended to the needs of their various other musiprojects. However, admirers of the synth-punk band's tunes may not have to wait much longer. Along with revealing to Spinner that his band Wolf Parade [...]
from the World of Music Is this the End of the Band? Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs THE BEST BAND IN CANADA STEPS AWAY Just months after I announced to the world that Wolf Parade are probably my [...]
from the World of Music Is this the End of the Band? Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs THE BEST BAND IN CANADA STEPS AWAY Just months after I announced to the world that Wolf Parade are probably my [...]
I find it peculiar that Wolf Parade is continually referred to as a "super group". Sure, each member has featured prominently in one or another successful band-Spencer Krug in Sunset Rubdown/Swan Lake/Frog Eyes, Dan Boeckner in Handsome Furs, or Dante DeCaro in Hot Hot Heat. (Drummer Arlen Thompsen worked with Arcade Fire early on, but he was never a full-fledged member.) Funny thing is, though, that Wolf Parade by my clock actually gained relevance, and high-profile success, before any of those bands. Just a peeve I hold as a pet, but I would recommend we all [...]
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