Here are a few videos we want to share with you.

The first is our song 'Damage' being used in the latest video game in the Need for Speed series by EA Games, Need For Speed: The Run:

The second video is a promo for the upcoming season Skins (UK) using our song 'Repatriated'. Thanks to Spidey and Don for sending it to us:

The most recent episode of MTV2's 120 Minutes with Matt Pinfield featured our video for 'Serve the People'. Mr Pinfield even gives us a little introduction too!

Super excited to be playing our first shows of 2012 next week!! See you there! 

01-14 Mammoth, CA – Hyde Lounge
01-15 Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern
01-16 Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
01-17 Santa Barbara, CA – Soho Restaurant and Club
01-18 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom

We have been invited by the Polaris Music Prize to do a Record Salon at the Drake Hotel in Toronto on January 11th. Here's some more information on the free event.
Please RSVP at the Polaris Prize Facebook page.

ClarityOne Earbuds presents

Polaris Music Prize Record Salon featuring Handsome Furs

Wednesday, January 11 2012

Drake Hotel
1150 Queen West
Toronto
Doors @ 7:30
8:00 pm Start
FREE EVENT

Monthly, a Polaris jury member presents a recording currently under consideration for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize. This month, Polaris presents "Sound Kapital" by HANDSOME FURS

The program features a live interview with Dan and Alexei from the band followed by a listening session of the album and special giveaways courtesy of ClarityOne Earbuds www.clarityoneaudio.com

Last month we posted about our friends in the band Side Effect who are trying to raise funds to record and tour. Side Effect is from Myanmar and they really need your help to make their dreams a reality. So please watch the video below and donate whatever you can to their cause. Go to: http://www.indiegogo.com/SideEffectMyanmar for more information.

Side Effect – Myanmar – visit www.indiegogo.com/SideEffectMyanmar to help us continue to make music! from Side Effect Myanmar on Vimeo.

National Public Radio (NPR) in the US has listed Sound Kapital for consideration in their annual readers poll. You can vote for us at NPR.org. Voting will remain open until 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, December 13.

Due to a series of very unfortunate events, we are unable to make it to Bucharest tonight. Everyone in this beloved city knows that we feel they are family so I cannot express how deeply sad we are not to be there. We love you immensely. To those in Cluj-Napoca, we will see you tomorrow… And we cannot wait.

Due to a personal trauma we are having to cancel the Vienna show. We are immensely sorry. We love Vienna always and feel terribly. We will make it up to you when we can. 

Every year Sub Pop asks some of their artists to do a top 10 list of music or events that shaped their year. You can read all of the lists over at SubPop.com. Here’s Alexei’s:

Top “Ten” Great Things From 2011 In No Particular Order

Number one: Belgrade Punk band Repetitor’s debut album Sve Sto Vidim Je Prvi Put

Number two: Making out on a docked Ukranian gun ship/venue in Budapest prior to stage time

Number three: Crossing eight borders in sixteen hours touring through the Balkans with Bernays Propaganda

Number four: Terreneo Festival in Sibenik

Number five: Martinis in a can at 3am on day off in post-recession deserted Reno Nevada

Number six: Sweatiest backstage wardrobe change in chapel of First Unitarian church with Thee Satisfaction

Number seven: Onstage vs frontrow full frontal nudity at a squat show in Berlin

Number eight: PDX police bust us during “fake raping” of “What About Us?” director Scott Coffey

Number nine: Encore at Neumos in Seattle the band grows exponentially to include Suuns and Talk Demonic

Number ten: Four minute crowd surf at Palaty Kulturana in Warzaw

Number eleven: PJ Harvey sighting at show in London

Number twelve: After thirty minute “interrogation” by Swedish narcotics officers, realizing that merely raising your voice is an effective way to avoid a trip to the police station in Scandinavia

Number thirteen: The dingy that transported our uninsured gear to our show at Beach number five in Lake Ohrid Macedonia (plus naked nightswimming afterwards!)

Number fourteen: The amazing young man who came out to his parents immediately before coming to our show in Boston and then danced harder than anyone in attendance

Number fifteen: Our tour manager eerily and robotically being able to sing every single word of every single song played on XM radio’s Back Spin… “She’s so fly she’ll drive you right out of your mind. Steal your heart when your blind. You’ll fall in love and you’ll be screaming dreaming. Never trust a big butt and a smile. That girl is poison.”

Number sixteen: The fact that Prince Hubertus is a real person and we met him and his shinily bejeweled and wildly patterned crew in the sketchiest back alley of East Hastings where a junkie was practicing his knife throwing skills at a telephone pole

Number seventeen: Epic Lord of the Rings style mushroom picking adventure followed by day long smoke sauna in the Finnish countryside

Number eighteen: Crazy ass May Day party in the hills above Sarejevo featuring live band on tiny porch and entire roast lamb

Number nineteen: Performing as punk rock karaoke super group with No Age after packed secret show in the basement of an Albanian restaurant in Skopje. Karaoke band begins covers of Black Flag, CCR, Bob Dylan and others four hours after show had officially ended.

We’re playing the 2012 Frostbite Music Festival in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada! So excited! Tickets and passes are on sale now: https://www.yukontickets.com/