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Watch the new video for Handsome Furs’ song “Serve The People”, taken from the album “Sound Kapital”.

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TweetShare 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, [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]

TweetShare Think of someone famous called Barbara.  Got one in mind?  Is it one of these? Well either way there’s nobody in Barbara who’s actually called Barbara, they’ve all got dude names since they’re all dudes (apart from the one chick who has a chick’s name), but they’re sure as hell named after someone who’s [...]

TweetShare Atlanta, Georgian’s Sonen are a three-piece comprised of Keith Evans, Holly Mullinax, Josh Guss. Akin to Handsome Furs meets LCD Soundsystem meets Queens Of The Stone Age, their latest EP is an eight-song strong belter, running through sullen vocals and atmospheric synths, to murky basslines and three-dimensional beats that’ll get you dancing and taking shit easy [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out the basic pitch I gave the artists and bloggers I got in touch with.  If you’re an artist or blogger and want to take part,  just send your submission with the eight pieces of music (not the actual mp3s) and some words [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted [...]

TweetShareIf you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by [...]