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Horrors Show Benefits From Fucked Up Surprise

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By Erik Missio (CHARTattack) October 15, 2009 2:42 pm
What a difference a little more than a year makes. In 2007, The Horrors were just another of many hyped U.K. bands — a dime will get you a dozen alleged punk/garage saviours these days — with a one-trick gimmick and a rep for live performances that were either incendiary or, well, too much style over substance. But now? Now, they're making a...
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Fucked Up Still Like Bleeding, Climbing

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 17, 2009 12:31 pm
At the end of Fucked Up's show at Toronto's Wrongbar in May 2008, broken beer bottles littered the wooden floor and the bar looked completely wrecked from the mayhem that had occurred. A lot's changed for Fucked Up since then: they signed to Matador, released the Polaris Music Prize short listed The Chemistry Of Common Life, have toured the...
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Fucked Up — The Chemistry Of Common Life

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 7, 2008 12:26 pm
Is it impossible for a band to include a flute solo before a blistering hardcore track which just may blow a hole in your speakers? Is it inconceivable for that same hardcore band to include the operatic voice of Katie Stelmanis on another song? Do you question whether a hardcore band could have released some of the best music of 2008? If you...
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Iggy & The Stooges Hit Massey Hall

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) August 7, 2008 1:13 pm
Mere days after having their van full of gear lifted from the streets of Montreal, Iggy & The Stooges bravely soldiered forward like the gallant garage rock darlings they are. Of course, Iggy Pop and friends are an ornery bunch at the best of times, so the missing ampage only added fuel to the band's already torrid stage show. Amazingly, the...
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Fucked Up — Hidden World

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By Pras Rajagopalan (CHARTattack) November 14, 2006 9:27 pm
Since their conception in 2001, Fucked Up have released a long string of EPs and singles, most wholly unmarketable due to the fact that they contained no more than two tracks. So naturally it's a little puzzling that the Toronto hardcore outfit have released a debut record that clocks in at more than 70 minutes and boasts notable, if not...
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LISTEN: Fucked Up – "Year Of The Tiger" (plus four other Chinese Zodiac singles)

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By Jordan Darville (CHARTattack) February 7, 2012 11:38 am
Not content to merely dominate the physical realm of indie rock, Fucked Up are now utilizing their unique brand of renaissance hardcore to conquer time as well, with the release of their “Year Of The Tiger” single. It’s the latest in their series of Chinese Zodiac singles, all of which you can stream in the widget below. They’re great for moshing...
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CHARTattack PRESENTS | Fifteen Noisy, Messy Songs

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) January 17, 2012 11:59 am
Feeling sluggish this morning? Same. But we've put together a little pick-me-up for you. Today we salute those artists who can make something beautiful out of dirty, messy noise. Noisy music has a sort of inherit spirituality: While angels up in heaven are plucking away at their tiny angel harps, us miserable humans are stuck on Earth, maxing out...
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WATCH: Fucked Up Perform "David Comes To Life" Live

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By Simone Zucker (CHARTattack) December 17, 2011 4:27 pm
2011 has been a big year for Toronto’s Fucked Up: they released their critically acclaimed third album, David Comes To Life, along with the fictional album David’s Town, they recently dropped their third music video, and were named SPIN’s best album of the year. In addition, they performed their 18-track, 78-minute album live for the first time...
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Fucked Up drop new video for "Turn The Season," release holiday split single with Sloan, and more

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By Maxim Morin (CHARTattack) December 12, 2011 2:54 pm
It’s been a real Fucked Up kind of year. From the release of the critically acclaimed rock-opera record David Comes to Life to the recent compilation David’s Town, the acclaimed punk rockers have now announced the release of a holiday split single with Canadian indie veterans Sloan and the release of “Year of the Tiger”, a continuation of their...
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BEST OF 2011: Our favourite live acts

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 9, 2011 4:51 pm
 The year is winding down, which means that year-end lists are winding up. Without further ado, here are our favourite live acts of the year, selected by CHARTattack's devoted team of contributors, presented in no particular order. What did we miss?:...LCD SoundsystemThe deathbed was Madison Square Garden and the death rattle was a three-...
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WATCH: Fucked Up performs "The Other Shoe" on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) December 4, 2011 7:00 pm
Good ol' Canadian boy George Stroumboulopoulos may not be able to say "Fucked Up" on his show without getting bleeped, but that didn't stop him from inviting the acclaimed hardcore group onto his show for a performance of David Comes to Life track "The Other Shoe."Prefaced with a very un-Fucked-Up intro animation, wide-eyed frontman Damian Abraham...
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WATCH: Bon Iver, Cut Copy, Real Estate & more featured in La Blogothèque's Documentary on Pitchfork Music Festival Paris

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) December 1, 2011 3:33 pm
You probably didn’t go to the October Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris (France is pretty far away, apparently), but thankfully La Blogothèque has you covered.  Along with their many Take Away Shows, Pitchfork.tv has released a 35-minute documentary of the event, which is as good as we'll get to an all access pass.  The documentary...
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MP3 Roundup: Austra covers Roy Orbison, Fucked Up, Wild Domestic

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 29, 2011 8:03 pm
1) Austra - "Crying (Roy Orbison Cover)" Austra, the acclaimed electro outfit led by Katie Stelmanis, just released a deluxe edition of their Polaris Prize-nominated LP Feel It Break, which includes a second disc of b-sides, unreleased material, a remix from Slipknot's M. Shawn Crahan (it's actually not bad!), and a couple covers. One of those...
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Damian Abraham to leave Fucked Up (maybe)

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) November 4, 2011 3:08 pm
In a June 2011 interview, Damian Abraham spoke to Pitchfork about Fucked Up's latest highly-acclaimed album, David Comes to Life, and suggested that his involvement in the band might change, or even cease. "I think this is going to be my last record as the band's sole vocalist," Abraham said. "I'm a very loud member of this band, but I assure you...
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WATCH: Fucked Up's Damian Abraham gets cartoonified, discusses glass-on-head-smashing

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) October 31, 2011 1:52 pm
Damian Abraham is a man of many talents. He's the demonic growling frontman of acclaimed Canadian hardcore group Fucked Up, the always engaging host of Much Music's The Wedge, an encyclopedia of WWE knowledge, and -- perhaps most impressively -- he can smash shit against his forehead like it ain't no thing.For the debut episode of their new video...
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WATCH: Damian Abraham (of Fucked Up) interviews Wavves

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) October 25, 2011 12:04 pm
"I wanna get Marilyn Manson high." That's how Wavves frontman Nathan Williams concludes this short interview with Damian Abraham, host of The Wedge on MuchMusic (and lead growler of the accalimed Canadian hardcore band Fucked Up). As expected, weed comes up in the coversation a handful of times. So does Tyler, The Creator and Drew Barrymore.The...
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I Read The News Today... For July 28, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 28, 2011 2:36 pm
Fucked Up recently performed David Comes To Life's "Queen Of Hearts" with Cults' Madeline Follin at Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party. It was the first time they'd ever done the song properly live, since Follin appears on the studio version of the tune, but hasn't appeared on stage with the band to do it live yet. Morrissey apparently...
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I Read The News Today... For July 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 14, 2011 3:29 pm
Martin Scorsese (The Departed, Taxi Driver) has directed a new documentary about George Harrison. Living In The Material World will be coming out on DVD on Oct. 10, and will premiere on HBO this fall. It's got interviews with Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr, director and former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam (...
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Fucked Up MacGyver A Bong Out Of Tour Bus Items

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 7, 2011 11:35 am
In my 12th grade world issues class, we had a presentation about recycling and reusing items around the house. The student doing said presentation brought in ordinary recyclable items and passed them around the class, encouraging us to make something out of them. My friend sat next to me, and for the following 10 minutes he focussed on making a...
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Video Of The Day: Fucked Up's "Queen Of Hearts"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 21, 2011 1:21 pm
Fucked Up released a rock opera, which would probably be one of the last things you'd expect a hardcore punk band to do. Now their video for David Comes To Life's "Queen Of Hearts" features a children's choir. ...But of course. But it's no ordinary children's choir — it's a bunch of kids in a 19th century-style one-room schoolhouse being...
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