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Hockey: "Too Fake" (Video)

12:29 p.m. · March 4, 2009 · by Andrew Winistorfer

Hockey are a Portland, Ore. band that sound like any number of new-new-new-wave bands. They are not Hockey Night, a Minneapolis folk-gaze band. Hockey is also a sport played by fast-moving, mostly European men who try to put a small rubber disk, called a puck, into a net.

Hockey are signed to Virgin, following a bidding war that broke out over the band after they got big-upped by members of Gang of Four and the Talking Heads. Their debut single, "Too Fake," just got a video, and the song borrows heavily from New Wave forefathers, but sounds like a more sincere version of the Rapture (which is a pretty good thing).

The band have a debut album coming out sometime this year, no word on whether or not Basketball or Jai Alai make an appearance. [Fader]