This is sad news. Between her obituary and the album, it seems like she had a very rich, full life.

Do you think they will cancel the shows next week? Hopefully not.

Do you think they will cancel the shows next week? Hopefully not.

very sad.. it took me a while to warm up to it but, that album is brilliant.

why is this news?

The tour will not be canceled. There is new post today from Matt on the front page of their site about the tour.

>>>>>>why is this news?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehearsing_My_Choir

"why is this news? "

why wasn't it you who died instead?

the fiery furnaces are a terrible band.

No disrespect intended to the Friedbergers during their time of grief, but really, why is this news? The unwarranted adulation of the Fiery Furnaces is so old and lame at this point. Please stop.

That obituary was published over a week ago.

Kiko, just because you don't like the Fiery Furnaces doesn't mean that other people who read this site might not find this newsworthy. I don't really dig them either, but you gotta respect the fact that a lot of people do.

it's news because the music world didn't know she died until now. she was a part of one of the best concept albums of all time that a lot of people genuinly love, and news of her death matters to them.

stop being such idiots.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, Black Kids, The Rapture, The Hold Steady, Architecture in Helinski, The National, Panda Bear, Black Lips, Deerhunter, Newsom, Voxtrot ... these and billions of others of overexposed background music weak hype babies will explode with the accumulated skin tumor-buster of too much sun and ignorance time. Conspiratorially overlooked beautiful life affirming music like The Fiery Furnaces and Dirty Projectors will replace all their sacky flesh in the digital record bins of morrow because all the flimsy hipsuh kids that like those other bands will age out of being fashionista music fans once they realize their lifelong dream of becoming anesthesiologists. From the ones with souls: we love you Olga!

"...one of the best concept albums of all time..."

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Jerk is correct for the most part, except I would remove The Hold Steady, The National, and Panda Bear from that list--all three of whom are excellent long -term sustainable artists. The rest of that list are indeed overhyped rubbish, and I would add the horrendous Deerhoof, who have reached a mindboggling level of popularity despite playing perhaps the most awful music ever to reach human ears.

Yep, the comments for an announcment about a dead old lady is the correct place to debate "my collection of interchangeable indie bands > your collection of interchangeable indie bands", right? RIP Mrs Sarantos, for what it's worth.

Richie and others, the point of my list of interchangeable indie bands was to affirm the newsworthiness of this particular item; being pro-FF (and throwing an admittedly non-sequitur bone to poor Mr. Longstreth, who deserves his own island) is being pro-Olga, and it was a response to the attitude only a hipster can have that love of a particular band can be "old and lame"; as if truly liking a piece of music is somehow an "outdated" feeling. In any case, acting like talking about matters related to the Fiery Furnaces is off-topic for an article that's related to Fiery Furnaces, I don't know what to tell you. If you like a band on my disparaged list, that's great, but I thought it was ridiculous to say that a weird, often badly-reviewed band like Fiery Furnaces had too much "adulation" for too long when there are plenty of early-20s (my age) puffed-up local rock bands and Brian Wilson atmospherics rip-offs, etc. that get more attention for objectively less unique work (vs. singular narrative pop pastiche / Sonic Youth + R&B = what?). Being more ordinary of course isn't automatically in the ballpark of bad, but praising bands for being more like a lot of other already established bands is a retarded, hype machine, mid-1990s record label tactic, and this throwback attitude has apparently trickled down into the minds of some more impressionable readers of certain outsized Rolling Stone-mentality blog camps. But anyway, like I said: we love you Olga!

Sincerely,
Some Totally Correct JERK

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Thank For the sharing, I like this

i appreciate that the first time this guy ever shouts out hip hop since starting this column its for an old album done by white boys. classic black music hating largehearted boy.

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