Connections
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- Iggy Pop: "The Fiery Furnaces sound great".
- Band Of Montreal finishes recent performance with cover of Tropical Ice-Land - Daily Cal reports, and more on Google. They also list it on their favourite songs of the past year on Pitchfork.
- Eleanor dates Franz Ferdinand front man Alex Kapranos.
- Eleanor to guest on new Les Savy Fav album.
- One of the following is true:
Eleanor sang backing vocals on: a. Meatloafâs contribution to the new Tom Waitsâ tribute album b. Stage with the Ronettes during their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Unfortunately her microphone was never turned up. c. The new Dinosaur Jr. song, âThis is all I came to do.â Unfortunately her take was not used on the record. d. Jim Jarmuschâs first solo record, Gray-Headed Stranger.
- Matt's former life, including two Liquorette samples, at SixEyes:
"The bands Corndolly, Mezzanines, and Liquorette all boasted Friedberger's obvious talents, but, as far as I know, Liquorette was truly Friedberger's baby. He was the lead singer and main songwriter and the fact that he was lead singer surprises me..."
- "That song was actually inspired by the Fiery Furnaces, one of my favorite bands,...", Lewis of Rilo Kiley, on their new song Smoke Detector. "That song was actually inspired by the Fiery Furnaces, one of my favorite bands," said Lewis. "It was a really weird keyboard-based song, with syncopated rhythms and a bunch of time changes. I brought it in to the band, and we tried it with Jason Lader. But it felt really off." "Rhythmically, we couldn't get it right," Boesel said. "Elizondo then came in and answered our question of how we could get it to feel dancier." "He killed my keyboard part, which I was open to," Lewis said. "And I feel the song really opened up once my part got axed." "He stripped it down," Boesel said, "and made it kind of a banger." Group effort.
- Guy Garvey of band Elbow interviewed the Friedbergers and played two Widow City tracks for BBC Radio 6 on Sunday 2nd September 2007. He was very positive about the songs.
- David Byrne has Ex-Guru on one of his radio playlists
