http://www.funfur.net It's All Funfur. Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:44:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What's with all the bands out there with the word "Wolf" in their name? From Montreal alone there are at least three prominent examples: Wolf Parade, We Are Wolves and AIDS Wolf, all arriving on the heels of Michigan's Wolf Eyes. Is it just that rock n' roll ... http://www.funfur.net/2005/12/05/crying-wolf/ How hot is too hot? Apparently poor Rob Funk of Vancouver is the litmus test. He claims his life has been made unnecessarily difficult on account of his good looks. Not only does the former catalogue model attract an uncomfortable amount of attention any time he walks into a room ... http://www.funfur.net/2005/11/22/too-hot-to-handle/ Friday, November 18: LCD Soundsystem and The Juan Maclean Kool Haus I totally thought this show was just going to be a series of DJ sets by members of the DFA roster. It was being held as one of the Return to New York events that I sometimes see advertised around town for ... http://www.funfur.net/2005/11/22/dfa-for-dummies/ (Inspired by the Church Sign Generator) http://www.funfur.net/2005/11/19/warning-label-generator/ Via Slashdot, this story bounced over from Canoe.ca(CP) about a mother of 3 in Waterloo, Ontario who set up a website in April to document her complaints about "questionable building practices and labour-code violations" of a local developer. She even wrote to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to ... http://www.funfur.net/2005/11/14/how-not-to-influence-public-perception/ In the interest of full disclosure, I am not a The Darkness fan. So it's with some amusement that this report showed up on The Register. To summarize, Justin Hawkins, singer of The Darkness, found an advance industry copy on eBay of their upcoming CD (due out at ... http://www.funfur.net/2005/11/10/the-darkness-singer-buys-the-darkness-advance-on-ebay/ Much ado about famed BBC DJ John Peel and his beloved wooden box full of 7" singles (MetaFilter, BoingBoing). Only the ILoveMusic discussion group has been trying to gather the tracks together and finally somebody has posted a torrent. It's a work in progress apparently. I'm ... http://www.funfur.net/2005/11/03/the-john-peel-singles-box/ While this year's Pop Montreal new-music extravagnza may have been an indie-rock music nerd's wet dream, those of us too overworked or underfunded to take in a week of club-hopping in la belle province could take solace in the fact that Toronto, while unlikely to ever become as much ... http://www.funfur.net/2005/10/19/indie-rocktoberfest/ An article over at Washington City Paper tries to address that question. The answer, in short, is that literary eggheads are ruining the art of music criticism with their nostalgia. The author, Jason Cherkis, then points to a surprising place for good criticism. http://www.funfur.net/2005/07/12/where-have-all-the-rock-critics-gone/ I was introduced to Odd Nosdam and Anticon by virtue of last night's Brave New Waves feature on the former, which sent me to the Anticon site. On pulling up the Artists page, I was struck by the photos of the Anticon members. Their bios confirmed that these are the ... http://www.funfur.net/2005/06/16/on-discovering-anticon/