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Top Ten Wedding Recessional Songs

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Since you guys have had so many suggestions for our first-dance and father/daughter songs (keep 'em coming!), I’m enlisting your help once again—we're looking for the perfect recessional music for our wedding. The song should be upbeat and celebratory since it will play at the end of the ceremony, right after we’re pronounced husband and wife. Yippee! Here are my top ten, though I’m not in love with any of them. You can listen below. Which ones do you like? Got any better ideas? I’m happy to report that the Beatles are no longer excluded....  read more

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Super Furry Animals Seek #1 Fan for Video Premiere

Super Furry Animals are on the hunt for their biggest fan. Whoever is deemed the No. 1 devotee will get to premiere the new video for "Mt." on their blog/MySpace/Facebook/online platform of choice and the folks at Rough Trade Records will direct traffic to that site....  read more

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Super Furry Animals: Dark Days/Light Years

“Where do you wanna go? / ’Cause we could go anywhere,” Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys vows...  read more

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SFA Collaborator Creates Disney Cartoon, Album

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Between Sesame Street (Tilly and the Wall) and Crayola (The Unicorns), it seems that kids sure are jumping headlong into cool music these days. Add Pete Fowler's psychedelic new cartoon, Monsterism Island, to that list....  read more

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Super Furry Animals document new-album process

As previously reported, Super Furry Animals will release their ninth album as a digital download on March 16 and as a physical copy on April 21 via Rough Trade. And now the restless Welsh rockers have announced the release of a documentary that follows them through the recording process of their still-untitled, forthcoming album....  read more

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Super Furry Animals announce ninth album

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Super Furry Animals, everyone's favorite Welsh psych-poppers...  read more

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Catching Up With... Super Furry Animals

Eight albums into their unlikely career, Welsh rockers Super Furry Animals remain unpredictable as ever. After a series of ambitiously inventive orchestrated albums like 2003's Phantom Power and 2005's Love Kraft, the Cardiff quintet has released Hey Venus!, a winningly concise...  read more

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SFA's Gruff Rhys involved in Brazilian zombie rock opera

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Gruff Rhys may be a Candylion, but he recently partnered with a pair of Brazilian artists who hunger for something a little more sinister than sugary sweets: BRAINS! OK, maybe Diego Medina and DesirĂ©e Marantes don't want to literally consume anyone's grey matter; they're more interested in worming their way into the ears of horror/music fans across the globe with their ambitious Zombieoper collaboration. After discovering that they shared an interest in both at-home recording and the undead, Medina and Marantes brainstormed Zombieoper—a bizarre, lighthearted rock opera about zombies who exhaust the cerebral-cortex supply on Earth and have to shoot...  read more

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Super Furry Animals: Hey Venus!

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Fuzzy Welsh critters sound rejuvenated on eighth album  read more

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Super Furry Animals tour U.S. as new album hits

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To U.K. fans, Super Furry Animals' eighth studio album Hey Venus! is already old news. The disc arrived in British retail stores way back in August, but as these things often work out, American listeners were left to wait for a delayed U.S. CD ship date. On Jan. 22, the physical copy of Venus finally enters the United States' orbit through Rough Trade Records. And as if to reward North American supporters for their patience, the Furries will embark on a lengthy tour across the continent the day after the album drops. Let's see... we've got shows in the East,...  read more

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