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Handsome Furs
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Member Since2/22/2007
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Record LabelSub Pop Records
Type of LabelIndie


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Aug 4 2010 8:00P
Grappa's Cellar Hong Kong, HONG KONG
Aug 6 2010 9:00P
YUYINTANG Shanghai, CHINA Find Tickets
Aug 7 2010 9:00P
VOX LIVEHOUSE WUHAN, CHINA Find Tickets
Aug 8 2010 9:00P
2 KOLEGAS BEIJING, CHINA Find Tickets
Aug 12 2010 9:00P
DAEGU DAEGU, na, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Aug 13 2010 9:00P
BUSAN BUSAN, KOREA, D.P.R.O.
Aug 14 2010 9:00P
SEOUL SEOUL, KOREA, D.P.R.O.
Aug 19 2010 9:00P
BANGKOK BANGKOK, THAILAND
Aug 20 2010 9:00P
GUITARMAN CHIANG MAI, na, THAILAND
Aug 22 2010 9:00P
BAYBEATS MUSIC FESTIVAL SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE

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   About Handsome Furs

Handsome Furs are not a message band and they are not political, but Handsome Furs are a message band and they are political. The juxtaposition of cold, metronomic, electronic beats, courtesy of Alexei Perry, with the jagged, dissonant and frail, broken or breaking, guitars of Dan Boeckner portray what it is to be a human being at the bottom of the 21st century. It underlines the confusion you feel as your best friends are conveyed to you via a series of ones and zeros passing through lines and cables and microwaves; the same confusion felt witnessing the pure, wholesome thrill of a band of musicians pouring their hearts out on stage, through someone’s cell phone as pixelated streaming video; the profound and bitter frustration of your long-distance relationship with the world up against a burning, alcohol-soaked sunrise as you admit some things you never thought you would; your constant feelings of inadequacy intertwined with the omnipotence modern technology grants us all. You are there, yet somehow you never are. As we all are and are not. You are left with a rhythmic and empowering programmed beat interrupted by the warm, reverberating fuzz tone of vibrating strings on wood hit hard enough to shatter skyscrapers. Over it all a perfectly imperfect voice roars images of landscapes, maps of forgotten continents ripe with history, and you are left feeling as human and alive and wide-eyed as you should be every single morning.

These are not concept albums, but there are concepts: Plague Park was Scandinavia as the couple experienced and envisioned it, jagged and pure landscapes, the melancholy yet hopeful air of April skies shining over frozen tundra, massive pine forests and an always looming Lutheran work ethic. It was slower; evoking images of a glacier creeping over mountains, moulding valleys and fjords, at the same determined and hardworking pace at which the region became populated and that population formed its stories. FACE CONTROL has a similar geographic appeal, moving on to Eastern Europe for inspiration, echoing through empty skies and frozen plains. We pan over a horizon and see a world rife with signs of human life; bridges, barns, moats, railroad tracks, and towering buildings. And another human element is introduced to the mix, slowly creeping over, steadfastly materializing: politics. Not in the “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” sense; this is not an aggressive activism or even calm call to arms. We rather face an examination of our current lives and values, and how our collective pasts reflect.

“I don’t know but I’ve been told, every little thing has been bought and sold.”

This is the politics of shopping—the politics of control, control, control, of life under constant surveillance, of eternally standing in line for your weekly rations. We are presented with a half-startling meditation on how Eastern Bloc methods and 20th century rationality have managed to spread, prevail and manifest in all of our lives; how there is always someone on the lookout, mostly ourselves; how we have slowly accepted and embraced self-monitoring, happily reporting our every thought and move to blogs and facebooks and myspaces and credit/debit accounts and surveillance cameras and GPS devices. We have built and taken up residence in our own Foucauldian Panopticon. Put in the context of a Soviet surveillance state of total control, modern western life becomes outright eerie. Of course, there is always hope, and this is perhaps the point. The songs on FACE CONTROL often cast us as the young lovers in the shadow of the system, plotting their escape, revelling in their freedom as the shackles tighten around them. In the past, freedom may have meant jumping a barbed wire fence, or crossing a treacherous ocean or burning desert. On FACE CONTROL Handsome Furs show us that in our modern age escaping these constraints has simultaneously become easier and more complicated. While it once meant hanging on, it now means letting go, and drifting off, refusing to participate in the structure that shapes and dominates so many lives, eschewing traditional values, opting instead to make up their own ways. Seceding systems, FACE CONTROL is fast and up-beat and soulful and smelly and shiny and real. It inspires movement. It is optimistic. It reminds you: we always have life, the blood pumping through our veins and an easy means of letting it out and showering the world. It is great. Thank you, Handsome Furs…

“This band is completely based, aesthetically and otherwise, on travelling, on absorbing places and regurgitating them in music,” says Dan Boeckner over a screwdriver. His wife, Alexei Perry, also sipping on a screwdriver, interjects, “We both secretly want to be journalists.” And her husband concurs, “Secretly, I want to be a foreign correspondent. Handsome Furs is compact and transportable; it allows us to travel to places a lot of fully-manned rock bands with a drum kit never make it to. And bring them to others, whether anyone notices or not. We believe good music helps you broaden your perspective without ramming things ham-fistedly down your throat.” “We have X amount of commercial potential. It’s not a lot, but enough to sustain two lives as much as two minimum wage jobs would or even more. So we can afford to make decisions like using the proceeds from an L.A. show to go to Serbia. If you look at it from a financial point of view, we do stupid, stupid tours. Then again, we’re not financially-minded. We’d rather extend ourselves as far as we can to absorb the world, life and experience.”

Alexei Perry and Dan Boeckner wrote the songs on FACE CONTROL together. The album was recorded and mixed by Arlen Thompson at Mount Zoomer. It was then mastered by Harris Newman at Hotel2Tango.

- Haukur S Magnússon


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Kill Krinkle Club

Kill Krinkle Club



Jul 28 2010 3:37 PM

Hello there. We've a new video up on our page if you'd like a look.

Cheers,

KKC
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Jul 16 2010 7:20 PM

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Jul 8 2010 9:24 AM

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Jul 2 2010 11:01 PM

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Karmen

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Jul 2 2010 10:11 AM

Just showing some Love xxx
Mlle Fricadelle

Mlle Fricadelle



Jun 30 2010 10:25 PM

Thanks for the show yesterday it was SWEET! And the new songs kick ass! Have a great summer!
Sylvia

Sylvia



Jun 25 2010 4:36 AM

You were disgustingly AMAZING in Toronto. Thank you for taking the $200 cab ride from Coburg - ya'sure, we tried to make it up to you with our off-key-sing-a-long during Legal Tender (when Dan's mic died a slow death). But let's be honest here, we obviously got the better deal in the end. Come back soon! xxx

P.S. Love 'Serve The People'.
Alvina☮

Alvina☮



Jun 24 2010 6:07 PM

Oh sweeeet. I'm so looking forward to it. Remember you promised......
A BETA MOVEMENT

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Jun 24 2010 9:23 AM

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Jun 20 2010 10:16 PM

check us out!
Lindsey

Lindsey Strauss



Jun 19 2010 9:30 AM

thank you for adding me
Alvina☮

Alvina☮



Jun 19 2010 1:06 AM

Please come to the US. Anywhere near Arizona! I want to go to a show....
Alvina☮

Alvina☮



Jun 19 2010 1:03 AM

I have to say....You guys Fucking kick ass. Yup most likely The Best!
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Jun 7 2010 7:48 PM

Thanks for the frienship, check my new tones and give me an opinion!

Grazie per l'amizia, fai un salto sul myspace e dimmi che ne pensi !
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Jun 7 2010 5:44 PM

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LeMonade

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Jun 5 2010 6:57 PM

Salut!

Petit pub pour deux shows bientôt:

Lundi 7 Juin au Baptiste sur Masson avec l'Ours
Vendredi 11 Juin au Il Motore avec Lac Estion
The Devil Probably

The Devil Probably



Jun 1 2010 4:32 PM


Hey beautiful

Download The Devil Probably EP for FREE……

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Jun 1 2010 12:23 PM

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Hi Handsome Furs. EletriKa sounds completely different from any Metal band you have ever heard. The Brazilian rhythms and the Portuguese language added to the songs make its style unique, giving birth to a new kind of Metal. If you are really looking for something new about Metal, you should check EletriKa out! Thanks a lot for the attention and support. Keep in touch.

Kisses from Brazil,
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Grandeabraço,
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Leone Western

Leone Western



May 23 2010 10:47 AM

you guys rock!
GHAITAN

GHAITAN



May 21 2010 10:23 PM

hey guys
thanks for adding me

take care
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