HEADS UP The Fiery Furnaces w/ Cryptacize and Dent May & His Magnificent Ukelele @ El Rey Sat 11/21 Nice triple bill going on at the El Rey tomorrow, Saturday 11/21. Enter now for your shot at a pair of tickets. Photo by Sung from Fiery Furnaces's 2007 Troubadour show .
Top recs: Jon Brion tonight, as always; Fiery Furnaces ( pictured; photo by David Greenwald ) and their Radiohead-hating madness at the El Rey on Saturday; Monday, the Books are playing a pretty special gig at Hollywood Forever but I'll be at the Happy Hollows residency to catch Real Estate. The full list for the next few days: 11/21 Saturday – Elefant w/ Division Day @ Troubadour AND Fiery Furnaces w/ Cryptacize, Dent May @ El Rey Theatre AND Holly Miranda opening for The xx, Friendly Fires @ Henry Fonda Theater 11/23 Monday – El Perro Del [...]
Friday, November 20th - Fiery Furnaces , Cryptacize , Dent May @ Slim's The Fiery Furnaces - Charmaine Champagne from Thrill Jockey Records. To enter send an E-mail to contest@thebaybridged.com with your full name and the phrase "I want to see The Fiery Furnaces" in the subject. The FIFTH and EIGHTH entries will each win a pair of tickets to the show. The show starts at 9pm is [...]
The Fiery Furnaces have a new album called Take Me Round Again that was released digitally only on November 5th. In theory, Take Me Round Again is a collection of cover, but it is also a collection of alternate takes of previously released songs. In other words, it features the members of the Fiery Furnaces re-writing each other's work. As Eleanor (who accounts for 1/2 of the Fiery Furnaces) put it: "I've gotten into the habit of rewriting songs Matt has written, just as a way of practicing and singing at home. Originally, I had [...]
Drums Play Spaceland Monday Night (and It's Free) Ray Davies put on a fantastic show on Saturday night at the Orpheum. If you get a chance to see him on this tour do not hesitate. More on that later. Another great week this week. If you're into buzz bands you might want to check out Drums tonight, The Big Pink on Wednesday, Tape Deck Mountain on Thursday, Neon Indian on Friday and The XX on Saturday. Some of those will be good, but I'm recommending a variety of [...]
Photo by Vince Kmeron New tour dates have been announced for Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, The Big Pink, Hot Chip, The xx, Passion Pit, Japandroids, St. Vincent, Jay-Z, Neon Indian, and Fiery Furnaces. Full dates after the jump: Phoenix 11-17 Stuttgart, Germany - Zapata 11-18 Frankfurt, Germany - Cocoon Club 11-19 Dortmund, Germany - FZW Eldoradio 11-20 Mannheim, Germany - Alte Feuerwache 11-21 Berlin, Germany - Huxleys 12-02 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom 12-04 Boston, MA [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK Julian Plenti (Paul Banks of Interpol) w/ I'm In You Thursday, November 19 El Rey Theater Info THIS WEEK'S TICKET GIVEAWAYS Sign up for our weekly mailing & get the jump on ticket giveaways before they go online. email: [...]
By Tyler Fassnacht The evening started out light and clean and ended pretty gritty. Now I am not insulting any of the bands that played, but it was a noticeable progression as the three bands performed. The first act was a guy named Dent May , who played ukulele and crooned cute songs. There was also another guy on stage playing tambourine and singing backup, which added a lot to the otherwise empty sound. His songs were catchy and it was fun watching him jump around with his ukulele, but I am sorry, [...]
Apart from Rihanna and Chris Brown, no musicians have been more in the headlines of late than The Fiery Furnaces . This remains the case today, but not for another misguided? jab at Thom Yorke's crew. As Pitchfork reports, Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger have unveiled their much anticipated covers album. You know, the covers album where the duo covers themselves? Yep, Take Me Round Again , the 12-track effort that hears reinterpretations of the recently released I'm Going Away or, as the [...]
Bottom, left: Mr. Dent May, folks. Wuh oh, it looks like not even ukuleles can keep one safe from the Obama declared national emergency. This time around the swine flu has attacked the immune system of Mississippi romantic Dent May. He and his magnificent ukulele have been touring with The Fiery Furnaces and Cryptacize. That is, until the menacing H1N1 reared its ugly snouted head. According to his blog , May was forced to cancel a handful of dates; unfortunate news for Hoboken, Northampton, Troy, and Toronto. If you were planning on [...]
Buraka Som Sistema @ Bowery Ballroom ( more by Tim Griffin ) tonight in NYC * Shad @ Pianos * John Medeski @ The Stone * The Invisible @ Brooklyn Bowl * Gil Scott-Heron @ BB King's * The Answering Machine @ Coco66 * Zombie Nation @ Santos Party House * The Fiery Furnaces, Cryptacize @ Maxwell's * [...]
photos by Chris La Putt Bad news, my friends. I'm down with what my doctor now believes to be the dreaded H1N1 flu virus. I was especially bummed to cancel my hometown Halloween show on Saturday, but now I'm sorry to announce the following performances w/ Fiery Furnaces and Cryptacize have been cancelled: 11/4 hoboken, nj 11/5 northampton, ma 11/6 troy, ny 11/7 toronto, on I'll be back in full force for a special headlining [...]
Recommended Show: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009 NOAH AND THE WHALE @ MERCURY LOUNGE 217 East Houston Street Manhattan, NY 10002 $15, 7:30PM We've been holding off recommending Noah and the Whale as they played three nights at Mercury Lounge. This is the last of their three nights with Robert Francis at the Lower East Side venue. Though tonight also joining the bill will be Sharon Van Etten , which totally makes this show worth the $15 cover price. The Mary Onettes @ Union Hall The Invisible @ Brooklyn Bowl She Keeps [...]
Monday: Fuck Buttons, Growing, + These Are Powers @ Bowery Ballroom 7:30pm $15 [ tix ] Most acts that set up in front of a table are never able to truly capture an audiences attention in the live setting. They stand there, pressing buttons and twisting knobs, letting the music do the work for them and a lot of times it winds up as a boring performance. Fuck Buttons are not one of those bands. Yeah they do the pushing and twisting, but their music captivates, the sheer volume and magnitude of the sound [...]
4 November, 2009 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm Who: The Fiery Furnaces , Cryptacize, Dent May Where: Maxwell's Show Info: all ages, 8:00pm, $15, buy tickets HERE Listen: "The End Is Near" by The Fiery Furnaces
Wed. - Nov. 4 - Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell's w/ Dent May, The Fiery Furnaces Thu. - Nov. 5 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street w/ Dent May, The Fiery Furnaces Fri. - Nov. 6 - Troy, NY @ Revolution Hall w/ Dent May, The Fiery Furnaces Sat. - Nov. 7 - Toronto, ON @ El Mocambo w/ [...]
MySpace If it were possible to monetize pure musical oddity, then not only would Iceland's economic problems be a thing of the past, they might well be the world's top fiscal superpower. Yes, the likes of Bjork and Sigur Ros would guarantee a GDP many times greater than the rest of the planet, but the tiny country's smaller exports would also help push things forward - case in point, Sprengjuhollin (it's pronounced the way it's spelled. Go on, try). The Reykjavík quintet don't wave their freak flag nearly [...]
MySpace If it were possible to monetize pure musical oddity, then not only would Iceland's economic problems be a thing of the past, they might well be the world's top fiscal superpower. Yes, the likes of Bjork and Sigur Ros would guarantee a GDP many times greater than the rest of the planet, but the tiny country's smaller exports would also help push things forward - case in point, Sprengjuhollin (it's pronounced the way it's spelled. Go on, try). The Reykjavík quintet don't wave their freak flag nearly [...]
Cryptacize which are signed to Sufjan Steven's Asthamtic Kitty and have recently toured with him, have had their frontwoman Nedelle Torrisi be interviewe by Sufjan himself. Much of the interview is conducted by Sufjan acting as a superfan or asking Nedelle ridiculous... Click the link to read more
Stevens is "star struck," but manages a Q&A with current tour/band-mate Nedelle Torrisi -- "her exotic Italian pout, her '80s housewife attire" -- covering Judas Priest, Lebanon, pimped-out tour buses, ESL, and Joaquin Phoenix. It's at Asthmatic Kitty .
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