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So Jesse F. Keller posted this on the official website today (at least it's dated today):

hey

i know its been forever since i wrote anything on here. im sure by now most of you assume the band isnt happening anymore since there are no shows, no work on a new album, etc. well. i wanted to let you know that your assumptions are correct. we decided to stop doing the band... actually we decided that almost a year ago. we finished off our scheduled tour dates because there were good people working for us who relied on us to make a living and buy christmas presents and pay rent etc. we couldnt just cancel everything and leave them out to dry... plus i think we wanted to see if we would reconsider after being out on the road. our label was really hoping that we would change our minds, so they asked us to keep quiet about the decision for at first. well, its been quite awhile now and we are still very sure the band wont happen again, so i guess its time to say something.

we started as a punk band with pop aspirations and we met every goal we set for ourselves. a few weeks ago, the album finally went gold in canada and that was the final mark i really wanted to reach.. it was my goal to see how big we could become without ever compromising or changing what we did right from the start... and now i know. we did way more than i ever expected and i like to think the fans (you?) enjoyed it as much as we did.... watching us sneak our way onto network tv, big festivals and sports arenas... playing music that most people assumed only belonged in basements and dirty rock clubs. we played our first show in a living room on long island for about 12 people and played our last in the calgary saddledome for 12,000. ha! what more could i have ever asked for? ive been in lots of punk bands over the last 15 years and i played every basement, squat, hole and alley from here to eastern europe. dfa79 was the first time i ever really played on a stage, yet i really didnt change what i was doing from what id been doing in the past... hell i was even using the same amplifiers!

i never would have imagined that the wall of noise i love so much could have come this far. to see my silly elephant trunk idea become so popular... im sure its the greatest piece of graphic design ill ever do.

over the last 3 years of touring, sebastien and i had grown apart to such an extent that the only real time we spoke was just before we would play and during interviews. we both changed so much that the people we were by the end of it, probably wouldnt have been friends if they were to meet for the first time again. its a totally normal function of growing up. like how your high school bf/gf that meant so much to you would probably be the last person you would date at 30, ya know? thats where we got to. its not sad.

it would be more sad if we stopped changing and growing and kept playing the same songs for 40 years like the rolling stones. for me that would be a nightmare.

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 to our shows, wrote letters just to say hi, baked cakes and made your own t-shirts. i kept everything you gave me. thanks so much to the kids who came really early to see us when were were opening for bigger bands... that meant so much to me.

i hope i have been a positive example and not a bad influence and i really want you to know that when you stop me on the street and i dont know what to say, its not because i dont appreciate you, its just not something ill ever really get used to.

thanks again.

j f k

It's a damn shame, the album (Your A Woman, I'm A Machine) was good, but the remix album (Romance Bloody Romance) was easily one of the best remix albums in a long time. =[

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It was hinted before, and with the press release surround MSTRKRFT, somehow I'm not surprised.

Although I'll miss them because DFA1979 > MSTRKFRT by a mile.

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If I remember correctly I'm sure I read somewhere that Keeler is working Bass for the new Josh Homme side-project (He's seriously becoming the next Grohl), which is one helluva combination.

Infact he's playing bass on the New Queens of the Stone Age record

Even better. Keeler's no Oliveri, but he's a close second.

Homme > Grohl. Every single day of the week.

Homme's a prick seemingly, outside of that I'd go for Grohl and his various work anyway.

Just a preference issue.

On the spur of the moment I'd probably choose Grohl too, but when I actually listen; I much prefer the stuff Homme's down. I've found that in the last 5-6 years Grohl has been very hit and miss. I've not really enjoyed any of the Foo Fighters albums since Colour & The Shape (I don't mind One by One, but it's not a patch on the first two, and the other two are just dire), and his stuff with Probot, Killing Joke and NIN was either alright - good or horrendous.

Grohl's good, and more prolific, and on an on-day, he's probably a helluva lot better too, but it just doesn't match up to Homme, who has hit the ball out of the park so many times it's untrue. Hell, I'd even take the new Eagles of Death Metal album over anything Grohl's put his name to in the last few years.

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If I remember correctly I'm sure I read somewhere that Keeler is working Bass for the new Josh Homme side-project (He's seriously becoming the next Grohl), which is one helluva combination.

Infact he's playing bass on the New Queens of the Stone Age record

Even better. Keeler's no Oliveri, but he's a close second.

Homme > Grohl. Every single day of the week.

Homme's a prick seemingly, outside of that I'd go for Grohl and his various work anyway.

Just a preference issue.

On the spur of the moment I'd probably choose Grohl too, but when I actually listen; I much prefer the stuff Homme's down. I've found that in the last 5-6 years Grohl has been very hit and miss. I've not really enjoyed any of the Foo Fighters albums since Colour & The Shape (I don't mind One by One, but it's not a patch on the first two, and the other two are just dire), and his stuff with Probot, Killing Joke and NIN was either alright - good or horrendous.

Grohl's good, and more prolific, and on an on-day, he's probably a helluva lot better too, but it just doesn't match up to Homme, who has hit the ball out of the park so many times it's untrue. Hell, I'd even take the new Eagles of Death Metal album over anything Grohl's put his name to in the last few years.

Interestingly enough, of the one thing you've left out, I think Grohl's work with QOTSA actually helps me make my choice as Grohl, as I thought his work with the band worked really well for me.

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Yeah, I left that out on purpose; I thought if I brought that I would just confuse myself to no end! But yeah, Grohl's work on Songs for the Deaf was amazing, and I still rate it as my favourite QOTSA album (just edging out Rated 'R'). However, it's the lackluster work on everything else since early Foo's that sways my opinion. Like I said, when he brings his A game he's immense, one of the best in the business but to me it seems like he's spread himself too thin over the last few years and it doesn't do anything for me.

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