The excellent scene-setting Scott Cudmore-directed video for David Comes To Life‘s “Queen Of Hearts” is as epic as you’d hope it’d be, though probably even better. Think School Of Rock with a wartime vibe. David Comes To Life is out via Matador.

Touring in support of the critically acclaimed David Comes To Life, Fucked Up played Yonge-Dundas Square’s outside stage yesterday as part of the annual NXNE Music Festival. Check out pics from the show above and see if you agree Damian Abraham is the most photogenic frontman in rock opera.

Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham is a blogger and host for MuchMusic’s The Wedge. He sat down with Arcade Fire’s Win and Will Butler for this 30-minute documentary about the band, post-Grammy, post-Juno, and post-many-other successes. There are also interviews from friends like design team Seripop and Owen Pallet. The But...

As mentioned on multiple occasions, David Comes To Life is a great album — one of the year’s best — and a more-than-decent “Rock Opera.” Read up on the characters and storyline while you stream the entire thing at NPR. David Comes To Life is out 6/7 via Matador.

On their excellent, highly listenable “rock opera” David Comes To Life, Fucked Up continue to expand and add layers while remaining true to their original core. Outside the sound, I like that since their beginning they’ve meshed fact, myth, and quasi-fiction into an overall conceptual arc — see, for instan...