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Halifax VFest Feels "Alternative" Like The '90s

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By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) July 6, 2009 1:45 pm
It wouldn't be summer without a muddy festival on Citadel Hill. This past weekend Halifax hosted the inaugural Virgin Festival Nova Scotia, free of charge due to The Tragically Hip's last minute cancellation. Virgin headquarters sent out notice less than 24 hours before the show, which stated there was an unforeseeable family emergency that...
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Handsome Furs @ CMW 2009

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) March 14, 2009 1:25 pm
Background / Composition: The husband/wife duo of Wolf Parader Dan Boeckner on vocals/guitar and Alexei Perry on synths/drum machine/vocals play dance-fuelled indie rock sure to make you move. There's a lot of buzz surrounding these two, and it's definitely well warranted. Grade: 95 Comment: Wow. These two play with such sheer intensity and...
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Handsome Furs Step Up

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) August 25, 2008 1:24 pm
The Handsome Furs' template should almost certainly bring limitations. Guitar, minimal keyboards and a drum machine don't scream "action-packed good-times indie rock." But Plague Park defied expectations for two reasons. The first is Dan Boeckner's songwriting and lyricism. The second is the palpable chemistry he and wife Alexei Perry...
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Handsome Furs Steam Up Lee's

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By Matt Littlefair (CHARTattack) August 1, 2007 11:00 am
Dan Boeckner set the tone Tuesday night when he opened the Handsome Furs' third show in Toronto this year by announcing that he and bandmate Alexi Perry had married a couple of weeks ago. The news was greeted by thunderous applause, the odd whistle and some headscratching when someone nearby implored Perry to marry him. From there on, the...
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Handsome Furs @ NXNE 2007

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By Evan Dickson (CHARTattack) June 9, 2007 11:30 am
Background/Composition: The Handsome Furs are as famous for their upcoming wedding as for their debut album, Plague Park. Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner and his fiancee, Alexei Perry, formed their guitar/synth duo in late 2005 and since then have opened for Modest Mouse and somehow enraged animal rights activists. Grade: 80 Comment: The...
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Handsome Furs — Plague Park

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) May 22, 2007 10:12 am
You get the feeling that Wolf Parade are one of those bands who aren't quite big enough to hold the sum of their parts. In Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner you have two of the best songwriters in Canada, so it's unsurprising they've both been asserting their individual prowess with side projects. Krug had a banner 2006 with Sunset Rubdown, and now...
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Arcade Fire Performances All About "That Moment"

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) May 16, 2007 12:30 pm
I usually lead off a review with some sort of mildly hyperbolic lead that presents a question that the band I'm reviewing will presumably answer over the course of their performance. But this isn't going to be a typical review, so instead I'm going to start with Handsome Furs' opening set at Arcade Fire's first of two long-awaited Toronto shows...
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Handsome Furs' Sound Kapital Is #1 On The Campus Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 26, 2011 1:50 pm
After a month and a half of getting diaper rash, the Charts department can spend some quality time ogling the naked woman on cover of this week's new #1 album.In a surprise surge, Handsome Furs' Sound Kapital jumps through several hoops to become the #1 album for the week ending July 26, 2011.This unexpected rise forces last week's #1 Chad...
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Video Of The Day: Handsome Furs' "What About Us" (NSFW)

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 7, 2011 2:50 pm
Remember Handsome Furs' boobies-tastic, landing strip-filled cover for their new Sound Kapital album? It turns out it ties in with their new video for the album's "What About Us." In it, a woman dances naked under an overpass, while there's a lot of screwing going on in other scenes and, you know, dancing with clothes on. You know, the usual stuff...
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I Read The News Today... For June 2, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 2, 2011 3:48 pm
It's not every day you pick up Bono hitchhiking, like Edmonton Oiler right winger Gilbert Brule did. Kittie are touring the U.S. this summer. Appropriately, their website still looks like it's from 2001. Edmonton singer/songwriter Eamon McGrath is taking his tunes on the road this summer. If the upcoming Holy Ship! cruise isn't your thing, maybe...
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20 Amazing Album Covers With Boobies On Them (NSFW)

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) May 27, 2011 12:05 pm
When the Handsome Furs unveiled their totally tasteful (and nsfw) nudie cover art for upcoming album Sound Kapital it gave us a giddy electric jolt. There were pubes! There were deliciously concealed armpits! And most thrillingly... there were BOOBIES! Yeah, that's right. Hoots. Breasteseses. Maracas. Noogies. Gazongas. We're not so dead inside...
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I Read The News Today... For April 13, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 13, 2011 4:34 pm
Neil Young won a bunch of Junos last month, so why shouldn't he head out on the road to celebrate? He's doing that from now until June. And he's got two dates at Toronto's Massey Hall. —neilyoung.com For those of you who want to see some Jesus And Mary Chain-meets-U2 goodness, Glasvegas are coming to North America to tour in support of their...
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I Read The News Today... For April 12, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 12, 2011 2:26 pm
Handsome Furs will release their third album, Sound Kapital, on June 28. The nine-track LP is the follow-up to 2009's Face Control. —Sub Pop My Morning Jacket have a free download of their seven-minute single "Circuital" up on their website. It's the title track from their sixth studio album that comes out May 31. If you've got a daughter, niece...
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I Read The News Today... For April 8, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 8, 2011 3:26 pm
U2 will officially have the highest-grossing tour in history when they play their second show at Sao Paulo, Brazil's Morumbi Stadium on Sunday. —Billboard Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner has senselessly apologized to Gary Barlow for calling Take That "a load of old bollocks" in 2006. Why the hell would you ever take back the truth? —NMENeil Young will...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 23, 2011 5:27 pm
Gord Downie's playing some U.S. dates in support of last year's The Grand Bounce. He'll head south of the 49th parallel in April, will play a set at this year's Coachella and will also support City And Colour on a few U.S. dates in March. —gorddownie.com Braids have announced a few more North American dates that'll take place this spring,...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 6, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 6, 2010 2:33 pm
Feist has spoken to The Guardian about her new documentary, and how excited she was to meet Kermit The Frog at the Grammy Awards. Danko Jones want their fans to send them clips and photos of the band playing "Active Volcanoes" live during their upcoming U.S. tour. They'll use the best ones in a new video for the tune. You can send your material to...
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I Read The News Today... For April 30, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff April 30, 2010 12:54 pm
D-Sisive's Vaudeville is out June 15. —Twitter Magneta Lane touring Canada in May. —MySpace The lineup for Rock N' Rev, part of Sturgis, S.D.'s biker rally, is like a complete and total nightmare dream come true: Stone Temple Pilots, Creed, Godsmack, 3 Doors Down, Wolfmother, Hinder... —Blabbermouth Concrete Blonde are touring this summer in...
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Handsome Furs — "Great Decision" (New Song, Live In Toronto)

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By CHARTattack Staff December 10, 2009 5:42 pm
Handsome Furs debuted this song, which is new, during their final show in support of this year's Face Control at Toronto's Lee's Palace on Saturday (Dec. 5). They had only written it a day before.
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Handsome Furs Playing Asia

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 24, 2009 4:40 pm
Handsome Furs have announced shows in China, Australia and New Zealand in August and September. Dave Boeckner and Alexei Perry will head to Australia and New Zealand after a European jaunt in early August. They'll then jet to China soon after before they return to Europe to play a string of dates in the U.K. and Ireland. More dates will be added...
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Virgin Festival Nova Scotia 2009

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Photographer: 
Shannon Webb-Campbell
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Citadel Hill
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Halifax, NS
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July 4, 2009
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