[It's Bjork's birthday on Saturday, celebrate appropriately. Here's my late-arriving weekend rundown:] Tonight: Alan Palomo's Neon Indian [pictured; download below] brings its multimedia synthscapes to the Echoplex for a night of cool electro that includes Keenhouse , Tigercity and Little Red Radio . ... Julian Casablancas hits downtown's Palace Theatre for Week 3 of his residency. ... Party guys Iglu & Hartly try to build on their U.K. buzz with a show in their home city at [...]
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 .
My favorite piece of news in the past week is Beck's musical response to that clueless buffoon from The Fiery Furnaces , who tried to insult Radiohead, blog-style, but missed the point completely. And in attempting to cover his ass retroactively, took a swipe at Beck. Well, Radiohead, in their lofty chairs of utter superiority, ignored the noise from the male half of a middling indie rock duo, but Beck took a measured swing and, of course, won handily. As you may well be aware, Radiohead wrote and recorded a song a few months back [...]
Beck - "Harry Partch" ; The history of the musical feud dates back centuries probably, but in the last few decades it has really been the bearer of some terrific music at the hands of the hated on. This week Beck responded to all this Matt Friedberger (of The Fiery Furnaces) vs. Radiohead vs. Himself controversy with a song dedicated to late composer Harry Partch. Now that's not the same Harry Patch that Radiohead dedicated a song to. This little tune featuring snippets from Fiery Furnaces' songs and Partch's own composition structure really takes Friedberger to town. To [...]
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 [...]
We may have thought, yesterday, that the now three-way Fiery Furnaces-Radiohead-Beck feud instigated by the Furnaces' Matt Friedberger was over. Instead of whining via publicist or ignoring Friedberger's random attack, Beck responded by offering a fairly awesome free track called (what else?) "Harry Partch." All seemed right in the world: Radiohead had kept its silent dignity, Friedberger had been thoroughly PWNED and Beck had made sure the kids at least got something out of the media circus. But Friedberger, we've learned, just doesn't know how to gracefully accept defeat . He's [...]
Jonathan Richman is pro-turkey , set to perform at a celebration for turkeys this Saturday Susan Boyle's forthcoming album has set a pre-order record on Amazon... ....meanwhile, Adam Lambert chats with Idolator Members of Aerosmith insinuate that Steven Tyler is back on drugs NPR assesses the decade's 50 most important recordings .... ...while the A.V. Club also chimes in with their picks for the best music of the decade Cymbals Eat Guitars visit Daytrotter [...]
Brooklyn is definately in the house this Saturday when the Fiery Furnaces roll up to Los Angeles! Fiery Furnaces are in town to play at the El Rey Theatre this Saturday, November 21st in support of their latest release I'm...
This was probably started when that stupid Matthew Friedberger/Radiohead beef, in which only The Fiery Furnaces musician responded. And this track may come from an offhand remakr at the end of his press release that said: "Matt would have much preferred to insult Beck but... Click the link to read more
In one of the weirder Radiohead news stories of the year (topped only by Miley Cyrus telling the band she'd "ruin them"), the Fiery Furnaces ' Matt Friedberger started beef with Yorke and company over what he thought was a "bogus" tribute to experimental music composer Harry Partch. Actually, Radiohead had released a song about the death of Harry Patch , the last British World War I veteran, but this didn't make Friedberger change his tune. Instead, the Fiery Furnaces released the following statement: [...]
So in case you don't read any blogs who occasionally report on goofy feuds within the music community, I'll catch you up. Matt Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces said that Radiohead were trying to be hip by writing a song about the inventor of the 43-tone scale, Harry Partch. Problem was that their song was [...]
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You like feuds, right? Because this new Beck song is the baby of the feud of the year and it's pretty messy. The story goes like this: Radiohead wrote a song back in August about Harry Patch, the UK's oldest surviving WWI veteran (aww!). Well The Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger heard this and mistook it to be a song about apparently trendy 20th century composer Harry Partch . Because this upset him so, Friedberger lambasted Radiohead for being obnoxious and writing about trendy things. When he realized his mistake, he released a statement that read: "Matt would [...]
I've already said all I care to about Spin and The Fiery Furnaces ' recent attacks on Radiohead . But while the latter has chosen not to respond to Matt Friedberger's provocations, it looks like a minor target of the indie rocker's wrath is having his say - in a singularly musical way. You may remember that when The Fiery Furnaces issued a press release clarifying that they, in fact, do not like Radiohead, they got in a parting shot at another musician with both mainstream popularity and critical cred: "Matt would have much [...]
So, if you an obsessive Radiohead'er or hardcore indie kid who spends way too many hours on the Internet (like us!), you probably know that at some point in the last month, The Fiery Furnaces' Matt Friedberger talked some shit about Radiohead because he thought Yorke and Co. had written a song Harry Partch, the American composer. He said (via Spinner ), "'Oh, please listen to our new song about Harry Patch'. Fuck you! You brand yourself by brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool, That is [...]
Harry Patch, the longest surviving veteran of World War I, lived an honorable life, his very existence serving as a reminder to countless others of how far we've come, and at what cost, in matters of international conflict and discourse. And thanks to an initially subpar rocker beef that's blossomed into something going on classic, Harry Patch has also served as a reminder of the life of composer Harry Partch, and how far we've come in matters of incorporating his 43 tone scale into countless blog posts. To recap: Radiohead wrote a song for Harry Patch the Tommy, [...]
[image by Songbirdnest ] We have taped so many shows in the last two months that the backlog of recordings is approaching 30 different sets. There are still CMJ shows that have not been posted! That being said, we will continue to be very active during the Winter, recording a large variety of artists. If you want nyctaper to record your band, a band you represent, a show you're promoting, or even your favorite band in the world, get me on the list and make sure everyone who needs to approve [...]
Filed under: News Beck appears to have responded to remarks made by the Fiery Furnaces ' Matt Friedberger in song. Recently Friedberger took a pop at Radiohead , describing the band as "bogus" for releasing a song as a tribute to the late Harry Patch, who was the last surviving British World War I veteran. It then emerged that Friedberger may well have been misinterpreted after confusing the aforementioned Harry Patch with Harry Partch, the experimental music composer. Instead of leaving it at [...]
Album of the Quarter : A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar Runners up: Memory Tapes - Seek Magic , Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem I am well aware that this podcast is a good month and a half removed from the end of 2009's third quarter, and that we are balls deep in the year's capping three-month span. But, perhaps the extra reflection has further winnowed the included tracks down from the fickle week to week whims of the blogosphere? Let's just pretend that that's [...]
NPR is streaming the new Fever Ray album, Live at Lulea , in its entirety. Neon Indian's Alan Palomo shares his favorite things with Pitchfork . Billboard offers musicians sound advice on publicizing their music. Muso's Guide interviews singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer . Muso's Guide: You blog and use Twitter [...]
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