Well, it looks like playing twelve hour marathon sets, appearing on Fox News and getting preppy with lead Vampire Weekend bro Ezra Koenig has paid off for Toronto’s Fucked Up. The Canadian band, whose members include 10,000 Marbles, Pink Eyes, Mustard Gas, Concentration Camp, Guinea Beat, and Young Governor, was awarded the Polaris Prize last night for their 2008 epic hardcore album The Chemistry of Common Life. Of course, winning $20,000 grand and having their album named the best Canadian album of 2008 hasn’t changed Fucked Up at all, who, after receiving the prize, performed a set with friends in Final Fantasy and Lullaby Arkestra before Pink Eye’s stripped down to his skivvies and most likely belted himself in the head with his microphone a few times.

CBC News in Canada is reporting that Damian Abraham bka Pink Eyes, frontman for Toronto hardcore luminaries Fucked Up, has agreed to become more of a regular on Fox News program, Red Eye.
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If 1991 was the year that punk broke, then 2009 is most certainly shaping up to be the year that punk-goes-prog. Led by bands like Mind Eraser, Iron Age and most notably, Fucked Up, the face of hardcore has been changing over the past few years, embracing a new ideology, one that favors lengthy interludes, actual singing, thematic songwriting and epic push-pull crescendos over moshy breakdowns and gruff shouting; call it the school of The Mars Volta, if you will. Baltimore’s Pulling Teeth clearly prescribe to this aesthetic, and their third album, Paranoid Delusions Paradise Illusions is a kaleidoscopic conceptual journey that takes their modern slant on the hardcore idiom and refracts it through a distinctly Floydian lens.
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In his opening column, Michael Cranston — the IM Solipsist — voices meta-concerns of how to be interesting in a market already grossly oversaturated in blogs and opinions to Tripwire Editor Derek Evers.

Are You Reading This?

I don’t know if I would be.
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The release of Fucked Up’s new 12″, Year Of The Rat — part of the band’s series of records based on the Chinese astrological cycle — has been moved up to next Tuesday, April 7.
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