Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'jessef'
August 4, 2006
What everyone has been speculating for months has been made official. Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler a.k.a. Death From Above 1979 have called it quits. In a post on the group’s Myspace page, Jesse writes: thank you so much for your support from beginning to end. thanks ache records for giving us that first 325 dollars and thanks last gang for taking us the rest of the way. thanks to everyone who came out......
Continue Reading "DFA 1979 DOA"December 8, 2004
Neo-cons, hip-publicans, and compassionate conservatives alike can find sanctuary from the real world tomorrow night at Vice Record's label showcase tour. Headlined by Death From Above 1979, Vice Magazine is putting up their hipper-than-thou bucks for label mates DFA1979, the Panthers and Vietnam to tour North America in support of their new albums, stopping in Toronto at Lee's Palace. An appearance by Vice Magazine cohort Pat Buchanan is heavily rumoured, since Vice founder Gavin McInnes......
Continue Reading "GOP 1979 To Play Toronto"November 10, 2004
Toronto fashionistas behold: the new Death From Above 1979 scarf has arrived! The city's newest trend comes to us not via New York or LA, or even an episode of the O.C., but from the Toronto noise/metal band Death From Above 1979. Band members Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler have been spotted wearing the popular winter accessory on their current European tour, and have been credited with single-handedly reviving the scarf industry in North......
Continue Reading "Death From Above 1979 are Now Officially Winterized"