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MSTRKRFT — The Looks

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) July 18, 2006 12:23 pm
Toronto's MSTRKRFT are the best thing to happen to Canadian dance music in decades, which is why it's so unfortunate that their much-anticipated debut doesn't pack the punch we've been waiting for. With The Looks, producer Al-P and Death From Above 1979's Jesse F. Keeler have made a house record strictly for dancefloors and little else. No song...
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MSTRKRFT @ CMW 2006

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By Emma Sadowski (CHARTattack) March 6, 2006 12:00 pm
Hometown: Toronto, ON Background/Composition: Hard and dark techno. Grade: 90 Comment: One part Death From Above 1979 and one part Girls Are Short combine to form MSTRKRFT, a remixing electronic duo. They did some interesting takes on indie rock tunes, like Metric's "Monster Hospital", and got the audience moving and...
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Song Of The Day: MSTRKRFT's "Beards Again"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 15, 2011 4:58 pm
BAM!While you weren't looking, MSTRKRFT dropped an unannounced single yesterday. "Beards Again" finds the duo dividing house beats that they've used throughout their career with hard rock guitar riffs. And it comes just as it was revealed MSTRKRFT's Jesse Keeler and that other guy in his old band, Sebastien Grainger, have been rehearsing for Death...
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MSTRKRFT — "Heartbreaker"

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By CHARTattack Staff July 3, 2009 12:09 pm
MSTRKRFT's "Heartbreaker" follows two young men around a store. The one with the pompadour seems to be mocking the one with the sport jacket, who has a crush on the woman working at the store. Meanwhile, another young man plays jokes on a man sleeping in a storage room. It ends with the man waking up and chasing the mischief-makers out...
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Pumping: MSTRKRFT — Fist Of God

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) March 17, 2009 12:02 pm
Members of the GLBTTQRSTUVW community, take note: The fist of butts on the front cover should have been your first clue, but if the music on this latest one is any indication, you should find this pumping over the sound system at your local gay bar pretty soon, if it's not there already. Expect it to annoy the hell out of you at Pride. That...
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MSTRKRFT Bounce On The Road

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 11, 2009 2:46 pm
MSTRKRFT will launch a North American tour in support of their Fist Of God sophomore album that will be released on March 17. Al-P and former Death From Above 1979 bassist Jesse Keeler will play three shows in Mexico in March before they head back north for gigs across the U.S. and in Toronto and Montreal. MSTRKRFT made this video for "...
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MSTRKRFT Set Release Date For God

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) January 20, 2009 11:26 am
MSTRKRFT's Fist Of God sophomore album will be released on March 17 via Dim Mak/Downtown. While no track list has been revealed, Fist Of God will include "Bounce," which features N.O.R.E. and Isis and was released last year. You can hear that track on MSTRKRFT's MySpace page and see it in video form below. The album will also feature...
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MSTRKRFT Throw Fist Of God

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 2, 2008 1:59 pm
MSTRKRFT's sophomore album will be called Fist Of God when it's released through Last Gang Records in March. Former Death From Above 1979 bassist Jesse Keeler and producer Al-P's second album is reportedly "really different" from 2006's The Looks, according to Keeler. Fist Of God doesn't yet have a release date or track list, but...
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Pumping: Mstrkrft - The Looks

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) October 17, 2008 2:48 pm
And so it was, that on October 18, 2008, the Chart office did finally breaketh the seal of the album The Look, by the citizens known as the Mstrkft. Upon hearingeth, the Chart office hath declared to never allow such ruminations on evil to dare assault our persons ever againeth.   The Look is hereafter and forever ban'd from this stereo.
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Caribou, Montag And Others Shine At Holland's Le Guess Who Festival

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By CHARTattack Staff December 4, 2007 6:00 pm
October's Pop Montreal Festival, and the success that such Canadian acts as Feist and Arcade Fire are enjoying in Europe, inspired Utrecht, Holland's Tivoli to launch the Le Guess Who Festival at the venue on the weekend. They're hoping that this two-day event will become an annual showcase of Canadian music, and the positive reaction they got...
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Alexisonfire, Moneen And MSTRKRFT Are On Cutting Edge This Summer

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By Daniel Vest (CHARTattack) June 21, 2007 6:00 pm
More than two dozen musical acts will rock Grand Bend, Ontario over the August long weekend when the Cutting Edge Music Festival comes to the Lake Huron summertime hot spot. The festival will take over the Grand Bend Motorplex for a four-day extravaganza of camping, drinking and general merriment from August 3 to 6. Among the acts currently...
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MSTRKRFT Have The Looks To Top The Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) August 22, 2006 5:00 pm
Last week we looked at the trends on the top 50 chart for the past six Augusts and predicted further dominance of the incumbent #1 album. But this month is starting to take shape as a turbulent one. For the first time in a number of months, there have been three different albums at #1 for the past three weeks. Two weeks ago it was Sonic Youth's...
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New Releases: MSTRKRFT Finally Dole Out The Looks

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By CHARTattack Staff July 17, 2006 4:30 pm
After months of videos, MySpace singles and vague release promises, MSTRKRFT's The Looks debut LP hits stores this Tuesday. Al-P and Jesse F. Keeler's house/rock project has already stirred a lot of speculation that the latter won't return to Death From Above 1979, but forget about that for now. If you're having an old school rave-up at your...
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MSTRKRFT's Jesse F. Keeler: Death From Above Felt Like A Side Project

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) May 30, 2006 4:30 pm
Jesse F. Keeler and Al Puodziukas (Al-P), Toronto's mysterious disco-house duo known as MSTRKRFT (pronounced masterkraft), knew exactly what they wanted to hear when they set out to make a dance record: a dance party made strictly for your feet and rump. "We only make bangers for the club, we're not trying to make music for people to...
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MSTRKRFT Have The Looks To Go With Their Skills

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) April 27, 2006 6:30 pm
Toronto DJ/remix duo MSTRKRFT will be spinning around North America and Europe through the spring and summer to advance the July 18 release of their debut album, The Looks. Death From Above 1979's Jesse F. Keeler and producer Al-P have been keeping an extremely hectic performing and remixing schedule over the last year and have completed...
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Loose Ends: MSTRKRFT Drop New Single, Swollen Members Jump Around And Junos Sell Out

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By ChartAttack.com Staff (CHARTattack) February 23, 2006 7:30 pm
MSTRKRFT, the Toronto-based remix team comprised of Death From Above 1979's Jesse Keeler and producer Al-P, have just made their new "Easy Love" single available on iTunes. The dance-rock duo's debut album, The Looks, will be released by Last Gang Records on May 16. Vancouver hip-hop group Swollen Members whipped fans into such a...
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