Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life should show up on a few year-end lists. Taking a break from marathons , the Torontonians stopped by Daytrotter and played stripped-down, underwater-psychededlic versions of three songs from said new one and one from Hidden World : Listen
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Imagine, if you will, 1000 Marbles coming at you all at once. What would you do? Run away? It'd almost certainly be futile. Imagine the coverage! The Fucked Up live experience is similarly inescapable, and the band are over here again at the end of the month for Shred Yr Face 2 , also featuring Rolo Tomassi and The Bronx. Here, the aforementioned Mr Marbles (guitarist in the band, Mike Haliech...
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The new Fucked Up's really good. (I'm still digesting it, so hard to say if it tops Hidden World , but it definitely gives it a run...) As mentioned when posting "No Epiphany ," The Chemistry of Common Life 's a collection of lush, kick-ass wall-of-sound hardcore rock 'n' roll that adds flute, horns, organs, and ambient/fuzzy instrumentals to vocalist Pink Eye's gruff shouts and the rest of the...
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Whether they're having the likes of J. Mascis , Moby or Les Savy Fav 's Tim Harrington guest at their recent twelve hour gig in New York, or appearing on the (admittedly hidden-in-a-bag-of-free-gifts) cover of NME, Fucked Up certainly seem to be the hardcore band du jour.
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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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The annual Fuck Yeah Fest is upon us again, but this year there are some changes afloat. For starters, Los Angeles teenagers will be pleased to know that the fest is now being referred to by its abbreviation, FYF Fest [ed- Fuck Yeah Fest Fest??]. No need to lie to your parents anymore about attending the festival, kids. Also new is FYF Fest's “Save Our State Parks” awareness campaign that it's
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Fucked Up (w/ Let's Wrestle, Geoffrey Oi!cutt) Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK (18 Nov 2008)I've been mightily impressed by Fucked Up's new full-length The Chemistry Of Common Life. A worthy follow-up to Hidden World, it keeps taking hardcore just where it should be heading: towards increasing ambition in songwriting, arrangement, melody, and nuance, yet with a sturdy backbone of three guitars (t
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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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On January 25, Matador Records are releasing a double-CD and double-LP compilation of Fucked Up’s many, many hard-to-find uncollected 7? and 12? tracks. Entitled Couple Tracks: 2002-2009, it contains 25 songs. Designed as a sequel to their earlier compilation, Epics In Minutes (Deranged, 2004), the cover photographs riff on the Beatles red and blue albums [...]
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