Effective period / Period of releases: 2013

Members: Steve Bays, Parker Bossley

The project of Hot Hot Heat frontman Steve Bays and the Gay Nineties' Parker Bossley, Fur Trade takes the duo's knack for hooks in directions influenced by yacht rock as well as psychedelic and electronic music. Bays and Bossley — who at one time played bass for Hot Hot Heat — recorded the music for their debut album at Bays' Tugboat PI studio, with Bossley playing guitar and bass, Bays on drums and keyboards, and the pair splitting vocal duties. After teasing Fur Trade's sound with the single "Kids These Days," the full-length Don't Get Heavy arrived in July 2013.