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  Perfume Genius Covers Madonna's Emotional 'Oh Father'

  July 24, 2012 – By Madonna standards, "Oh Father" was a flop. From 1989's Like a Prayer, it was the Material Girl's first single not to reach the U.S. …
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  Watch Perfume Genius Hang With Mom in 'Dark Parts' Clip

  April 26, 2012 – In a track-by-track breakdown of his recent Put Your Back N 2 It LP, Mike Hadreas, the falsetto-bearing heartbreaker better known as Perfume Genius, says he penned the relatively upbeat "Dark Parts" for his mom, "to remind her how strong and beautiful and loved she is." Fittingly, Carmen Hadreas-Boggs stars alongside her son in the adorable, puppy-packed video for the track. Directed by Winston H. …
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• Perfume Genius, 'Put Your Back N 2 It' (Matador)

  March 7, 2012 – The album title might look gangsta, and in its own way, Mike Hadreas' second album lives up to that billing. As he proved on his 2010 debut, Learning, the artist otherwise known as Perfume Genius writes glum, bedsit queer-pop with a disinterest in the rest of the world that is as airtight as the private street argot that hermetically seals a Ghostface record. Tuff album title, fey moniker — oh, the irony. …
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  First Spin: Hear Perfume Genius' 'Put Your Back N 2 It'

  February 13, 2012 – Not too long ago, Mike Hadreas' Perfume Genius project faced certain peril: in the fall of 2010, as part of Matador Records' 21st birthday celebration in Las Vegas, the Seattle native had been scheduled to follow labelmates, born showmen, and experienced noisemakers the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. That's a tough slot for Superchunk, let alone a guy still getting comfortable with sharing his songs from any-size stage. …
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  Perfume Genius Brings Sad Tales to Very Quiet Room

  February 10, 2012 – Things got real serious last night with Mike Hadreas, a.k.a. Perfume Genius. In front of 40 people or so at Williamsburg venue Zebulon, the Seattle-based singer-songwriter played an intimate set of mostly new tracks from his forthcoming Matador release, Put Your Back N2 It. Actually, it was more than intimate — the bartender wouldn't make a whiskey and coke because the whoosh of the soda gun would have drowned out the music. …
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