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Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... for Music (the Canadian equivalent of the Mercury Prize); and, for the band’s front man, Damian Abraham, a regular, improbable stint on Fox’s Red Eye and the kind of indie rock adulation usually reserved for members of Animal Collective. (Tonight the band plays the Brooklyn Masonic Temple with Andrew W.K., Katie Stelmanis, and the Vivian Girls.) Here, Abraham talks...
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Torontoist (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... , Vancouver-based DTES Power of Women Group , and Ottawa's Sisters in Spirit . Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham told the band's label Matador Records that “it’s hard to find a balance between the song being a fun, playful holiday classic and the reason we’re putting it out: to benefit organizations dealing with a deadly, serious issue.” For a measly ninety-nine...
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The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Christmas'” cover you guys are working on. It sounds like a pretty ambitious project. Damian Abraham: Yeah. We had planned on doing another benefit record, because we had done a benefit record a couple of years ago, and we really enjoyed that experience. We planned on doing another one on a lot smaller scale than this has turned out to be. And then we won the Polaris Prize in...
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Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Canadian punk collective Fucked Up recently spoke to Pitchfork about some of the concepts and release plans the band has for 2010. Frontman Damian Abraham explained how they decided to work with NOFX and how that band's epic, The Decline , influenced their "Year Of…" singles: To me, that was the first punk song that really broke the time limit barrier. As far as a long...
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Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Fucked Up vocalist Damian Abraham spoke to Spin Earth about some of their forthcoming plans which includes a run of split 7-inches. Among the participants Damian names are The King Khan and BBQ Show and NOFX . Check out the interview here .
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Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... the bad shit. Even the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" And picturing big-bellied Damian Abraham leading this goofy choir of sarcastic comedians and boat-shoe-wearing preppies and maybe even a Jonas Brother, all while dressed as Santa Claus (because Abraham would HAVE to dress like Santa Claus, right') is probably the best mental image that could happen to me today....
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Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... " This version of the song will also be a benefit, for Justice for the Missing. Frontman Damian Abraham commented on the song: There's a kind of cavalier colonialism to the original, like the West has to go in and help this poor Third World country. But the charities that we're trying to help are exactly a product of this colonial history. People who have been subjugated and...
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Filed under: News , Canada After pocketing the $20,000 Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian album in September, hardcore heroes F---ed U p announced they'd be using the money to record a charity single. Now singer Damian Abraham has announced it will be a cover of Band Aid's 1982 colonialist classic 'Do They Know It's Christmas.' In an interview with New York magazine , Abraham...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
In the wake of his band's Polaris Prize win for The Chemistry of Common Life, Damian Abraham sits down to talk about the ample fruits of musical success – and how he pleases his biggest gay fans
