Wolf Parade announce new album and tour

The band postponed all their other endeavors and side projects (Sunset Rubdown, Handsome Furs, Swan Lake, Moonface), and finally decided to concentrated their creative forces back to the the ‘mother ship’ when Wolf Parade started recording again last late year. Today, we have some first details concerning the new material courtesy of a recent Pitchfork interview with Wolf Parade co-leader Dan Boeckner. So it has it that the new, third Wolf Parade album will be…

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Download: Wolf Parade – ‘Liberty City’

The Montreal based Wolf Parade has always been one of my favorite indie bands, blowing me away right from the start with their extraordinary debut Apologies To The Queen Mary from 2005. Now, just 3 years later, the band is back with their sophomore release, At Mount Zoomer, a more adventurous and exiting attempt then their previous effort. Both of Wolf Parade’s frontmen Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner took some time to pursue a few…

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New Music Monday: 16 June

Goodness me, what a week! Finally it feels like summer has truly begun, once with this new wave on awesome new stuff. First up is [tag]Coldplay[/tag]’s long awaited follow-up to their critical and commercial hit X & Y, in the form of “Viva la Vida or Death And All His Friends” (we’ve gotten used to the title by now, check out the stream here). The [tag]Goo Goo Dolls[/tag] are also back with yet another awesome…

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Download: Sunset Rubdown – ‘Winged/Wicked Things’

Both Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug, the leading men of the Montreal indie sensation [tag]Wolf Parade[/tag] seem to be doing great with their solo projects, but that just means a apron on the WP current hiatus. Dan, together with his wife released a lovely album back in December under the [tag]Handsome Furs[/tag] tag, while Spencer and his band Sunset Rubdown are just weeks away from the release of their first album Random Spirit Lover. Although…

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Wolf Parade on tour this summer

The Canadian quintet [tag]Wolf Parade[/tag] will team up once again for an all American East-West tour, with a few Canadian hometown tours in between their acts. The lads first show in their summer tour will be at, coincidental or not, Wolf Island Festival in Ontario,Canada on August 11th. After this they’ll head straight to Boston, MA for their first US show on their summer schedule on the 18th of August. Their last appearance will be…

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