No one would have faulted Feist if she had immediately gone back into the studio to capitalize on the breakout success of 2007′s The Reminder
Earlier this week, Feist, along with a full horn section, and some vocal assistance courtesy of the women of Mountain Men, stopped by the Late Show to perform How Come You Never Go There…
Let’s break away from the traditional single-clip format of our 10AM video post to look at two sit-ins that took place last night…
Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy returned to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto last night for the second of two shows to kick off a brief solo run. During the first encore, Tweedy was joined by Feist for a gorgeous version of You and I. Feist appears on the studio version of the tune found on Wilco (The Album) and has performed the song with Wilco at two shows last year as well as on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Here’s a look at Feist singing You and I with Tweedy last night…
Jeff Tweedy w/ Feist – You and I
[via Scents and Subtle Sounds]
Down in Brooklyn, Mike Gordon and his solo band rocked the Brooklyn Bowl for the second of two sold-out shows. Towards the end of the first set, the Phish bassist welcomed longtime friend Steve “Dude of Life” Pollak to sing a cover of Linda Ronstadt’s You’re No Good…
Mike Gordon w/ Dude of Life – You’re No Good
We’ll have more on last night’s Mike show in the coming days.
With the release of The Reminder
Look At What The Light Did Now (Trailer)
Look At What The Light Did Now will be screened in a handful of cities over the next few weeks. You can check out the full schedule here.
As we previously reported, during their swing through California earlier this summer Wilco stopped by Beck’s recording studio to lend a hand to his Record Club project – which has already featured albums by The Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen. For the third installment, the combo took on Skip Spence’s cult masterpiece Oar. Here’s Beck, Wilco and the lovely Leslie Feist with the album’s opening track, Little Hands…
Yesterday, the iconic children’s show Sesame Street celebrated its 40th anniversary of helping kids learn how to read, spell and count, along with general life lessons. The show has had its fair share of hip musical guests over the years from Stevie Wonder to Paul Simon to Johnny Cash to Norah Jones. Let’s check out Leslie Feist’s appearance on Sesame Street…
We’ve been slacking on our Friday Mix Tapes of late, but fear not loyal HT readers – we think this week’s fantastic mix will make up for its recent absences. This week’s batch of tasty tunes is dedicated to the seemingly lost art of the duet, with a number of my favorites from the last few years. So without wasting anymore time with this intro, let’s just get at it…
We kick things off with the only song here that is not a duet, but the one that that inspired this whole mix: John Prine’s Donald & Lydia, which I caught Deer Tick and Liz Isenberg covering in San Francisco. This version comes from the appropriately titled John Prine Live
Then, we’ve got Norah Jones collaborating with Ryan Adams on Dear John from the underrated album of Adams’ trifecta of 2005 releases – Jacksonville City Nights
The demise of former ultra-hyped blog buzz band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah may have been a bit exaggerated by the same sources that had previously hailed them. The Brooklyn-based band had supposedly played their “final” gig at BAM last month before going on an indefinite hiatus, that was until Wednesday when the newly reunited act stopped by NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to debut their new song Statue.
While CYHSY have made no promises about their future, they have made the new tune available as a free download via their website.
Finally, former New York Yankee center fielder and classically trained guitarist Bernie Williams will release his sophomore effort Moving Forward
Andy Samberg’s Digital Shorts are about the only consistently funny parts of the otherwise lifeless Saturday Night Live program these days. And this past week’s I Ran So Far Away short that stood out among the season opener dreck was set to achieve the same viral video success as predecessors Dick In A Box and Lazy Sunday. But NBC suddenly pulled the video. How come? It turns out the SNL team lifted the melody for I Ran from an obscure Aphex Twin song, and Hitchaser does a nice job of getting into the nitty gritty of why NBC had to bag the short.
While we wait to see what Andy steals this week, let’s check out some links:
And, lastly, The Daily Swarm alerts us that Maryland may not have money to bail out failing hospitals, but they have plenty of money for new music halls.
Feisty Canadian singer-songwriter, um, Feist, played the ol’ Letterman program last night, and she brought a few of her all-star indie friends with her. Joined by members of Mates of State, Broken Social Scene, The National, New Pornographers and Grizzly Bear, the all-white ensemble (clothes, you racist!) surrounded the darkly clad Feist and turned in a pretty sick performance of her 1234.
I don’t mean this as an insult, but can’t you see that song being played through the credits of a super schmaltzy film? Something like a Phenomenon.
(Okay, I asked for it, and I’ll deliver: Voices That Care — How sad is it that I still know every word to this song? I’m guessing “quite sad” is the answer.)
