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As pointed out in my Gothamist post, bands have been playing for KEXP in NYC this week. Yesterday was the Fiery Furnaces, who are also playing Northsix and Webster Hall tonight and Saturday. They ...
The brother-sister team of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger is always unpredictable — their album Rehearsing My Choir used their grandmother as one of the lead vocalists, and their live album Remember ...
[Ed. Note: An orobouros is the mythological image of a snake eating its own tail. Look it up.] The narrative arc of the meta – yes, the meta has a narrative arc; wanna fight? – has officially been ...
This fall, New York indie-rock outfit the Fiery Furnaces will release a mammoth live album of material recorded at concerts from the end of 2005 through this February. It’s yet another curveball from ...
Better than: Steve & Eydie redux. All the blind alleys the Fiery Furnaces’ songs take tend to foreshorten the idea of the group ever putting on a straightforward show. That’s before we even get into ...
Brother-sister bands tend to be sort of weird. Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger are far from an exception to that rule. In fact, the Fiery Furnaces may be the poster children for it, especially ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, the brother-sister duo that make up the Fiery Furnaces, are nothing if not specific about their new album, "Bitter Tea." Conceived as an album ...
Lovable though the Fiery Furnaces are, part of the brother-and-sister duo's charm is its tendency to upend any moments of pop perfection with cacophonous noises, fractures in song structure, and other ...