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Moonface is the solo alias of the endlessly prolific Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown/Swan Lake man Spencer Krug. And someone will probably think this is sacrilege, but "Teary Eyes And Bloody Lips," the…   Read Story »
Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown/Swan Lake dude Spencer Krug, working under his Moonface alias, is getting set to drop new album With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery, on which he's backed by Finnish…   Read Story »
Just because Spencer Krug released a marimba and shit-drums EP and likely has a leg up on his next four releases does not mean he's done mining the labyrinthine depths of his last LP for artworks the…   Read Story »
Skeletons are to indie rock videos in '09 what bootie girls are to hip-hop clips forever. I have no idea what this means (eat a sandwich?), but it's a motif we've seen in one form or another via…   Read Story »
Says Mark 'The Nuc' Nicol, "My heart started back up after the electrical shock. I woke up feeling like I was suffocating and was delirious. Then I passed out for an hour, woke back up and saw the…   Read Story »
If you haven't yet joined the premature evaluation party for Spencer Krug's latest, listen to Dragonslayer in its entirety at NPR.   Read Story »
When discussing a new Sunset Rubdown album it's become pretty cliché to list everything Spencer Krug's recently accomplished, but his output remains as prolific as each release is monumental, so it…   Read Story »
Last month we took a look at the cover and tracklist for Dragonslayer (out 6/23), Sunset Rubdown's third full-band LP and second for Jagjaguwar. (Also, their first with new member Mark Nicol on bass…   Read Story »
Swan Lake's Enemy Mine is a newborn, and it was just a little under a year ago that Wolf Parade birthed At Mount Zoomer, but since Spencer Krug sightings usually come in threes (trust me blindly on…   Read Story »
Swan Lake's second album Enemy Mine is a dense, satisfying listen. If you've heard no more than the previously 'Gum Dropped Carey Mercer-penned opener "Spanish Gold, 2044," you've already heard no…   Read Story »