I've long been a fan of The Fiery Furnaces yet I've never had a chance to see them live. I have, however, seen FF singer Eleanor Friedberger live twice now. The first time was an instore performance at Soundscapes last summer in support of her then just released album, Last Summer . That show was a stripped down solo affair featuring Eleanor alone with an acoustic guitar and acted as a good showcase for the songs, highlighting the strong melodies. However, I was curious to see how it would sound with a full live band. Augmented by backing players, would it just end [...]
eleanor friedberger Three learn-from-your-mistakes reasons to come out to Schubas tonight... 1. Oak Park-native Eleanor Friedberger once again finds herself in Chicago to promote her excellent 2011 solo album Last Summer . Friedberger, one-half of the sibling art poppers Fiery Furnaces, chooses to indulge her nostalgic side on her first album away from brother and creative partner, Matthew. She crafts serious pop songs that are wistful and brooding lyrically, while sonically maintaining an outwardly sunny disposition. The collection serves as the perfect vehicle for Friedberger's sensual [...]
Date Saturday, April 28th Location Frank Doors 930 pm Tickets $12 from Ticketfly This Saturday night with all the deserved hub-bub over Psych Fest, there's a quieter show on the other side of the highway that people are going to miss out on. [...]
Daniel Johnston recently published his first-ever comic book, Space Ducks: An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness . It's 109 pages about, well, ducks in space. To celebrate the release of the comic (and a pretty swanky iPad app ), Johnston has given us an album to go along with it. Space Ducks: Soundtrack will be available on CD and vinyl this summer, but you can stream the entire record right now. It features seven Johnston originals, plus tracks inspired by Space Ducks [...]
Another variety show, no particular theme. It was set to be a sunny weekend, and that meant hitting the road. After a late Friday night at the station, I woke up early, grabbed my bike and went on a solid 10 mile ride. It was the first of the sort for 2012; the first of many. I need to get in shape for the 200 mile Seattle to Portland ride in July. Just about half way, I paused to snap the shot above. The Skagit Valley is known [...]
The Fiery Furnaces vocalist will tour around North America through May.
Eleanor Friedberger is playing at the Crocodile Thursday night, February 9. If you haven't heard "My Mistakes", the lead single off of her debut solo LP Last Summer , listen to it above, and I'll probably see you on Thursday. You may know the Friedberger name from The Fiery Furnaces , Eleanor's band with her brother Matt. The Fiery Furnaces have received plenty of critical acclaim over their history, but in the last two years, the Furnaces are taking a break so that Matt and Eleanor can work on some solo material. Last Summer [...]
Carousing. Lust. Theft. Gambling. Witchcraft? These are the words that apparently describe Eleanor Friedberger's life, according to the Great Montage Reel of Judgment I can only hope we all get to watch when it's our turn to wait outside the pearly gates. Solo for the first time since rising to fame as half of the brother-sister duo Fiery Furnaces, Friedberger gave us "Heaven" as part of last year's Last Summer album. The recent video was directed by Scott Jacobson-a Daily Show writer, of all things. She makes us swoon, he makes us laugh [...]
A pretty hilarious new music video for a track on the new Eleanor Friedberger album, Last Summer . It's the first time I think I've seen a music video poke fun at Chick tracts , which people usually cast of as silly; however, it's funny to see what Eleanor did with her live in this video actually did land her in hell. Read your tracts!
Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger released her first solo album, Last Summer, this past July to glowing reviews. It featured an all-star cast of Matt Asti (MGMT), Ahmed Gallab (touring member of Yeasayer & Caribou), and John Eatherly (Be Your Own Pet & Turbo Fruits, as well as many excellent songs -- like "Heaven". She released the video for that one in particular today
Stuarto Glasser, host of the All Around the World Music Show, called me up a little after 5pm Friday and asked if I could fill in for him. Thinking it would be a great way to attract a few more listeners I agreed. I headed home and put together a playlist of some of my favorite indie artists from around the world. The first half of the list below aired as the split show: The Indie Music Show from All Around the World. I began with some lovable indie [...]
As the days and nights get colder, and we enter full-fledged winter, it becomes more and more difficult to justify taking the BMW out. In the cold, it's almost better to just walk. But I braved the chill and barely-working defrost on December 2, taking the car out for one last night show before the new year. It would be a good one, filled with dreamy music pretty much throughout. Here's the playlist. No follow-up coverage today, as I'm saving them for later this week; it'll probably be another [...]
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Tweet Use the Retweet or Share buttons above to enter to win our entire Top 31 Albums of 2011! Artist : Eleanor Friedberger Hometown : Oak Park, Illinois, USA Members : Eleanor Friedberger Formed : 2011 [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: The Unicorns, The Fiery Furnaces "Of Montreal - Wintered Debts" What's so good? Extravagant rocksters Of Montreal are due to release their newest installment, Paralytic Stalks , in early 2012. In the meantime, they have treated fans to a glimpse of what we can expect from their new album with the vividly weird track "Wintered Debts." This 7-minute epic is an assemblage of sounds [...]
Eleanor Friedberger husks gloriously emotionlessly on Last Summer opener My Mistakes: "he's ignoring me like it's 2001" and while we can but hope such a revelation may not refer to a breakdown in communications between she and brother and fellow Fiery Furnace Matthew, the record suggests that this particular sister isn't finding too much difficulty in doing it for herself. The reverse of the cardboard slipcase in which the promo version of her debut solo record is housed is all rather rudimentary, Friedberger pulling a spectacularly unconvincing 'rawk' pose (needless to say devil horn gesturing doesn't feature), sunburst Stratocaster [...]
Known as the lead singer in occasionally bonkers, sometimes brilliant, sometimes amazing brother and sister duo Fiery Furnaces (they recorded a mostly spoken word album called Rehearsing My Choir...
Known as the lead singer in occasionally bonkers, sometimes brilliant, sometimes amazing brother and sister duo Fiery Furnaces (they recorded a mostly spoken word album called Rehearsing My Choir...
This week featuring Mode Moderne, Two Wounded Birds, Eleanor Friedberger, Young Husband, Ellie Lawson, Flow Machines, Emily Barker , The Finger, Little Daggers and The John Peel Approved Festive 50. ****************************** ** Mode Moderne. Vancouver's Mode Moderne seem to like the dark side of life and come across rather like The Arcade Fire meets Depeche Mode in a graveyard, which believe me is a good thing. The darkness, which makes Nick Cave seem positively sanguine is all enveloping, [...]
She's endowed with a surname that sounds like an irregular supporter's order at a greasy chip stall in the vicinity of a football stadium and her back catalogue racked up with day job The Fiery Furnaces is particularly juicy. My Mistakes (out November 7th), lifted from Eleanor Friedberger's forthcoming LP of the following Monday, Last Summer , is a typically quirky, playfully jaunty affair that recalls Blueberry Boat at its most endearingly abstract, and its closing moments are permeated by a whimsical sax solo. Never a bad thing, and in this case it fits in seamlessly with [...]
Wild Flag with Eleanor Friedberger at The Paradise, Boston on Friday, October 14, 2011 There was a certain irony to the fact that the act booked to play the same club the following night as Wild Flag was The Indigo Girls, and I know that at least two people of the assembled LGBT contingency was going to both shows (the women in front of me were looking to buy tickets at the box office). Before the 'Lilith' term gets tossed about, just because there's a lack of [...]
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