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• F--ked Up, 'Couple Tracks: Singles 2002–2009' (Matador)

  December 23, 2009 – Think of this impressive, 25-song double-CD compilation as Singles Going Screaming -- a testament to a Canadian punk institution. Live, singer Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham stalks the stage like a disturbed, bloody hulk, but on record his throat-shredding shouts are always focused, alongside Mike Haliechuk's relentless guitar and Jonah Falco's ferocious drumming. …
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  Grizzly Bear, Girl Talk Headline Brooklyn's Pool Parties

  July 2, 2009 – It's only fitting that a concert series based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- hipsterdom's Plymouth Rock -- has assembled a lineup stocked with indie faves galore. Sentimental pop wizards Grizzly Bear, laptop mash-up maestro Girl Talk, Bjork-collaborating up-and-comers Dirty Projectors, and rowdy Texan noisesmiths/SPIN office assaulters ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead are among the headliners for the fourth annual summer of P …
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  Best & Worst from Coachella -- Sunday

  April 20, 2009 – THE BEST: Best Haute Mess: The KillsTall'n'dark Kills guitarist Jamie Hince ("Hotel") dates Kate Moss. Kills singer Alison Mosshart ("VV") strikingly resembles model Helena Christensen. And the duo were absolute live wires of showmanship, convulsing and flirtatious and raw -- it was enough to make you feel drunk. The duo jerked around the stage like predatory specters, lurching into and away from each other with dangerous speed. …
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  5 Bands Kurt Cobain Would Love

  February 20, 2009 – February 20 marks what would have been Kurt Cobain's 42nd birthday. He died almost fifteen years ago, on April 5, 1994. Since the year 2000, Cobain's journals have been published, a Nirvana box set was released, Gus Van Sant made a movie about a very Cobainesque rock star, and Michael Azzerad released a documentary. …
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  New Video: F*cked Up

  January 9, 2009 – You've read our coverage of Fucked Up's 12-hour performance in New York this past October. …
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  Fucked Up: Crazy/Beautiful

  November 20, 2008 – Damian Abraham is a formidable­looking dude -- he describes himself, accurately, as "a 300­pound balding lead singer, covered in hair in all the wrong places" -- and when he steps to a basement studio microphone in Toronto, he resembles a squishy giant preparing for combat. Abraham (a.k.a. Pink Eyes, a.k.a. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week, October 13-19

  October 18, 2008 – This week we launched an all-new daily feature on SPIN.com -- an opinionated (and humorous) editors' blog. And SPIN editors certainly had a lot on their minds: Against Me!'s live performance, Feist's influence on childrens' musical tastes, Oasis' staying power, MGMT's seriousness (of lack thereof), and more -- but thankfully, Joe the Plumber isn't included. …
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  F*cked Up for 12 Hours Straight!

  October 15, 2008 – Eat your heart out, New York Marathon. Those headbanging neighbors from Canada, Fucked Up, undertook a decidedly different test of endurance yesterday, playing a 12-hour concert in a Manhattan boutique to celebrate the release of their second full-length album, The Chemistry of Common Life. The show's first half, which kicked off at 2 P.M., saw guest appearances from the likes of Moby and Vivian Girls. …
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  Fucked Up

  July 24, 2008 – What? Hardcore has come a long way since Minor Threat frontman Ian McKaye was "Guilty of Being White" back in the '80s, from the harsh dub excursions of his future project Fugazi to the breakneck glam-thrash of the Blood Brothers. …
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