Fucked Up Release ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’

Fucked Up’s cover of Band Aid’s ‘Do The Know It’s Christmas?’ is available to purchase from today (December 8th).

The tongue-in-cheek take on the ’80s classic written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure features vocals from Yo La Tengo, GZA, Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend), Bob Mould (Husker Du), Tegan & Sara, Andrew W.K., Kyp Malone (TV On The Radio), David Cross and Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene). All proceeds will go to benefit three organizations in Canada working to bring to end to the epidemic of missing and murdered native women.

‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ is available to buy from iTunes now, and will be released as a 7? single with an unreleased Fucked Up song on the b-side in February 2010. Fucked Up are also releasing a compilation of their many rare singles recorded between 2002 and 2009, ‘Couple Tracks’, in stores on January 25th.