The gala to announce the winner of the 2009 Polaris Prize was held in Toronto last night. The jurors stuck to their trend of handing it out to an underdog as Toronto hardcore punk band Fucked Up took the prize home for their album Chemistry of Common Life. They join Patrick Watson, Caribou, and Final Fantasy as winners.Fucked Up (who did fairly well in our own reader poll) beat out the likes of
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Hot off their 2009 Polaris Music Prize win, Toronto's Fucked Up have announced album details. No it won't be a studio follow-up to their punk masterpiece The Chemistry Of Common Life, instead it will be a single compilation.Couple Tracks will be a 2-CD set available on January 26th and will collect the band's miscellaneous 2002-2009 output.We'll provide more details as we get them. Fucked
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If you aren't going to watch the video, then you can read this little summary of how the lead singer of Fucked Up got to be on Fox News.In an end-of-2008 wrap-up, Gutfeld [host of Fox News' Red Eye] mentioned Abraham's band's album, The Chemistry of Common Life, as his favourite disc of the year.Abraham [...]
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Canadian punk collective Fucked Up are planning a 2010 North American tour in support of their upcoming singles compilation release. The CD is due on January 26th of next year and goes by the title of Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 but they don't begin their US and Canadian venture until February 12th in Ohio.
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CA$20,000 is now burning a hole through the collective pockets of hardcore-punk band Fucked Up after they took first place at the Canadian Polaris Music Prize. We discussed the shortlist yesterday and we have to say kudos to the Polaris for showing our Mercury guys what real diversity is all about.
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NYmag.com reports that Canadian Polaris Music Prize winners Fucked Up are planning on using the money from the prize to record a charity single.Damian Abraham, the band’s singer told the Vulture blog:David Cross, members of Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene, the GZA, Bob Mould, No Age, and Yo La…
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"Year Of The Rat", the hardest, fastest, most vicious eleven minutes of your life, serves as the third installment from Fucked Up's quest to chart the Chinese Zodiac calendar. Backed with "First Born", a tale of coming fatherhood, serves as...
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Fucked Up have announced that they will be performing The Chemistry of Common Life in it’s entirety at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on November 5th. To make the night extra special the band has announced a slew of killer guests including Andrew W.K. (Keyboards) / Vivian Girls (Backup Vocals) as well as Titus Andronicus [...]
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Whenever a band named Fucked Up does something so high profile it is a little more special. Last night the band took home the 2009 Polaris Music Prize beating out high profile Canadians such as Metric, K'NAAN, Malajube, Great Lake Swimmers, and Chad VanGaalen, for their 2008 release The Chemistry of Common Life. Now you all know how I feel about this record so in my mind there wasn't even a com...
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This Saturday, live and for cheap, Fucked Up will be playing at Corsica Studios, located at Unit 4/5 Elephant Road SE17. They will be joined by Mob Rules, Male Bonding and The Sceptres plus a lengthy list of top notch DJ’s. Details inside.
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Fucked Up have mapped out a North American tour set for next year. The forthcoming jaunt is in support of the band's sophomore album 'The Chemistry Of Common Life ', and will kick off January 16.The extensive jaunt will run through several major cities including Montreal, Boston, New Orleans, San Diego and Los Angeles.'The Chemistry Of Common Life ' is out now. Fucked Up Tour dates:Ottawa, On...
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Fucked Up’s The Chemistry of Common Life captured the 2009 Polaris Prize for Best Canadian album and winning the $20,000 prize that comes with it. Good news but I do feel bad for Chad VanGaalen losing out with his excellent alum – Soft Airplane.I didn’t provide as much coverage as I did last year regarding [...]Related posts:Polaris Music Prize 2009 Longlist Sucks I guess I expect too much
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To celebrate the release of The Chemistry of Common Life, out October 7 on Matador, Fucked Up are playing a free TWELVE-HOUR-LONG SHOW at a storefront in New York City. Yes, TWELVE STRAIGHT HOURS of live music FREE. Now, that's Fucked Up*! The show, which takes place October 14 from 2 PM - 2 AM at the Rogan store (corner of Bowery and Bond), is free. And, according to Matador, "All ages are we...
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