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  Divine Fits Chat About Lame Supergroups and Their Very Real Band

  August 1, 2012 – The members of Divine Fits aren't about to throw a heavenly tantrum at hearing the term "supergroup" used to describe them, but they don't much like it. The fact is, though, that the band, comprised of Spoon frontman Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs dynamo Dan Boeckner, drummer Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks, and keyboardist Alex Fischel of Papa have the pedigree to deserve that particular sobriquet. …
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  Polaris Prize 2012 Short List: SPIN's Guide to the 10 Key Acts

  July 17, 2012 – After announcing its long list last month, Canada's Polaris Prize jurors have whittled the pool down to ten native acts whose recent albums deserve short-list status for the $30,000 award that commends each year's "best album based solely on artistic merit without regard to sales or genre." When the list was released today, we realized we've weighed in on almost all of them, so consider this a SPIN User's Guide to the 2012 Polaris Prize …
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  Britt Daniel's Divine Fits Post Icy First Single 'My Love Is Real'

  June 20, 2012 – Divine Fits, the new collaboration between Spoon's Britt Daniel and former Wolf Parade frontnut Dan Boeckner, announced the release of their first single today. Entitled "My Love Is Real," it's an icy, Boeckner-helmed slice of synth-pop set to occupy the A-side on 7" vinyl due July 31 via Merge as well as recall the latter's recently collapsed Handsome Furs outfit. …
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  Handsome Furs Disband Following Nixed Tour

  May 18, 2012 – Wolf Parade guitarist Dan Boeckner and his wife Alexei Perry have shut down Handsome Furs, their "side project," following a six-year run. Furs were signed to Sub Pop for their three-album lifespan and lasted just two years less than the Montreal quartet, who announced a "hiatus" after eight years as a band last May. Handsome Furs posted a note to their Facebook page last night announcing the duo's musical end (via Beats Per Minute). …
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  Handsome Furs' Dan Boeckner Scoring John Cusack's 'Adult World'

  April 17, 2012 – Handsome Furs power yelper Dan Boeckner is multitasking, penning the score for a film starring John Cusack and Emma Roberts. Adult World director Scott Coffey tweeted last week that he was "thrilled" to have the former Wolf Parade co-frontman soundtrack his indie flick, starring Julia Roberts' niece Emma (Nancy Drew, Lymelife) as a disillusioned post-grad poet paying off her student debt by working at an erotic book store. …
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  Handsome Furs, 'Sound Kapital' (Sub Pop)

  June 28, 2011 – "When I get back home, I won't be the same," Dan Boeckner sings at the start of his third album with wife Alexei Perry. But for this pair, "home" is a foreign concept; they're urban anthropologists, studying and blending the music of third-world centers. …
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  ALBUM PREMIERE: Handsome Furs' 'Sound Kapital'

  June 21, 2011 – For their breakthrough second album Face Control, Handsome Furs - the synth-pop duo featuring Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner and his wife Alexei Perry - traveled around Eastern Europe, where they explored club music and its culture in the post-Soviet era. It was a cool backstory for a great record, but the tales behind the group's third album, Sound Kapital, due June 28, are even crazier. …
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  Odd Future Plot Tour, Rilo Kiley B-Sides + More

  April 13, 2011 – Odd Future — the insanely buzzy rap trio who've earned a rep for delivering wild live shows — have announced a string of club dates this Spring. After performing at Coachella this weekend, the group will kick off a 7 date trek on May 12 in Boston; the tour wraps May 19 in Baltimore. …
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  Mark Hoppus' Friday Pick: Handsome Furs

  September 17, 2010 – At SPIN.com, we get pitches from aspiring writers all the time, but one we received last fall was quite different. It came from Blink-182's Mark Hoppus, who said he was dying to write a column about his favorite new bands for us - so we hired him! …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  February 28, 2009 – This week's top stories had everyone talking: Kanye West mouthed off about Thom Yorke, the White Stripes disappointed on Conan's last night at Late Night, Chris Brown and Rihanna continued to cause controversy, and SPIN's Ellen Carpenter had some eyebrow-raising ideas about how to spend the $787 billion economic stimulus -- and blink-182's Mark Hoppus had something to say about it on his blog! All these, plus the week's best audio/vide …
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