Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger have been on hiatus for nine years, but they just updated their social media with a new picture that reads ”The Fiery Furnaces Forever”...
Saqqara Mastabas is the new band comprised of Matthew Friedberger of Fiery Furnaces and Bob D'Amico of Sebadoh. A debut album Libras is out on June 3 via Joyful Noise Recordings...
Radio Silence is a San Francisco-based arts magazine focusing on music and literature. To celebrate the release of their third issue, they're putting on a show in NYC at Le Poisson Rouge on Saturday (11/22) featuring notable talents from both: Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields, The 6ths) and Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Belly) will be playing, while acclaimed rock critic Greil Marcus and author Rick Moody (The Ice Storm) will do readings...
Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 was recently released, just in time for the holidays..."The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota--his very first appearance at his alma mater--on election night 2008...
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The Fiery Furnaces @ Middle East Downstairs (6/12/09) (gikthechamp)"Eleanor kept mentioning how most of the new songs were about ex-boyfriends, and at one point was almost apologizing for that fact, joking that they were now out of ideas...