Wilco played The Wiltern on Friday night and Leslie joined them on stage for their lilting duet-duel, "You and I". This is the first time L. Feist and J. Tweedy have sung this song since they gathered around the recording studio campfire. Instead of twigs and marshmallows, instead of smoke and mirrors, in this video they are using microphones and stage lights.
Today is the day the new Wilco album gets downloaded to your record shelves.
It rains, it pours
Kevin Drew's short film The Water, starring Feist and Cillian Murphy, is winning awards all over the world. It's on tour.
The Water won Best Cinematography for a Canadian Short at the Worldwide Short Film Festival (Miroslaw Baszak) and another award at the Houston Film Festival. The Water was also just selected for presentation at the Portable Film Festival in Australia.
Watch it here .
The Water won Best Cinematography for a Canadian Short at the Worldwide Short Film Festival (Miroslaw Baszak) and another award at the Houston Film Festival. The Water was also just selected for presentation at the Portable Film Festival in Australia.
Watch it here .
Dear, Dear, You
Honey, Honey, the Feist video featuring the work of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (and directed by the lovely and inimitable Anthony Seck), is screening at The Los Angeles Film Festival on both Saturday, June 20th (7pm) and Sunday, June 28th (5pm).
You can purchase tickets for a screening here. You can buy tickets to Los Angeles everywhere.
The Water leaks through proper channels
The Water is a song by Feist, but now also a short film by Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew. It stars Feist, Cillian Murphy and David Fox, and tells a chilling fairy tale, one which slowly (and quietly) thaws despite its snowy backdrop. You can watch the video here.
Pitchfork Media flew to Canada recently for an interview with Kevin and Leslie. You can find a link to this interview, as well as one with Cillian Murphy, all from this page.
Pitchfork Media flew to Canada recently for an interview with Kevin and Leslie. You can find a link to this interview, as well as one with Cillian Murphy, all from this page.
Pot of Honey, Honey
Anthony Seck just won a Juno for Video of the Year for Feist's song Honey, Honey. Congratulations to Anthony, The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and Feist. Here is a link to the winning video, and above is a great photo of Anthony accepting his award.
THE MOCKUMENTARY
Mocky, the enigmatic musical maestro and real-life friend of Feist*, is bringing more Mocky™ smoke/mirrors to our planet's sound bank. Of his new album Saskamodie, Leslie is rumoured to have said, "I would spoon this album if I could. I love it".
Never one to spread half-truths, I stand by this rumour and even think the statement is probably true. I did overhear her say that the video companion to Saskamodie (a little film called Mockumentary) was "amazing" and even "[a little film which] fans the flames of musical adventure, taking brave risks into the land of unfettered-by-modernity acoustic instrumentals". Okay, so maybe she didn't say that last part, but trust me, she likes it, she does.
Surely, with your curiousity at its peak/pique, you may too be wondering who is this Mocky? This very question is posed to Dr. Thomas Strauss (Musicologist), Gonzales (Gonzologist), Jamie Lidell, Feist, Peaches and others in this short five minute video (see below). We do know that Mocky co-produced The Reminder and co-wrote So Sorry, but clearly there is much, much more to this elusive, engaging, iconic, brilliant and—perhaps—dangerous musical mind.
Never one to spread half-truths, I stand by this rumour and even think the statement is probably true. I did overhear her say that the video companion to Saskamodie (a little film called Mockumentary) was "amazing" and even "[a little film which] fans the flames of musical adventure, taking brave risks into the land of unfettered-by-modernity acoustic instrumentals". Okay, so maybe she didn't say that last part, but trust me, she likes it, she does.
Surely, with your curiousity at its peak/pique, you may too be wondering who is this Mocky? This very question is posed to Dr. Thomas Strauss (Musicologist), Gonzales (Gonzologist), Jamie Lidell, Feist, Peaches and others in this short five minute video (see below). We do know that Mocky co-produced The Reminder and co-wrote So Sorry, but clearly there is much, much more to this elusive, engaging, iconic, brilliant and—perhaps—dangerous musical mind.
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Rumours abound, but therein lies a little truth.
Perhaps you have heard here or there that Jeff Tweedy and Feist have recorded a duet together. All true truths. The song is called "You and I".
Of course, "You and I" does not mean You (the reader) and me (the typist), the song is not about us! Unless it is? I haven't heard it yet. I'll let you know when I know, even if Pitchfork gets to it first. But then I'll tell you. Promises.
Moving ahead, this song about us (at long last) is coming out on Wilco's next album, a record to hit the made-up shelves—are there record stores anymore?—in the Summer or Fall.
I, for one, can't wait. Can You?
Rockers v. The Rockettes
Scroll down and you will find a charitable post about the more charitable DARK WAS THE NIGHT compilation. Just announced, many of the artists from this record are performing together on the floorboards of The Radio City Music Hall, live from New York. This includes Feist, which is why we are all here today (not on this Earth, which goes without saying, but on this digital site of light).
Visit DarkWasTheNight.com for more information about the record and profiles on the participating recording artists. All proceeds from this venture go to the Red Hot Organization, an international charity dedicated to raising money for prevention, healing and research regarding HIV and AIDS. Tickets go on sale March 13th at 11am and will be available here.
Visit DarkWasTheNight.com for more information about the record and profiles on the participating recording artists. All proceeds from this venture go to the Red Hot Organization, an international charity dedicated to raising money for prevention, healing and research regarding HIV and AIDS. Tickets go on sale March 13th at 11am and will be available here.
Let's give her a hand.
I've handily chosen this picture from Feist's fan album because it is a nice picture of hands, some fine handiwork it is at that.
Feist is up for an award in the FAN CHOICE category at the Junos, the Canadian version of the American Awards to the British Men of Science. Just kidding. It's a Canadian music awards programme, and this is where you come in. Take your clicking hand and mouse-click over here. If you see fit, and if in a fit of Feists, you'll know what to do from there (a fit of Feists, if you're reading this in the Eastern Hemisphere, is quite similar to a shiver of sharks, almost a murder of crows).
If you have a bag, and will travel, you could win a trip to the award show at the link above. If you're one of those super lucky sorts, send us your lottery picks (Ontario 649), then enter to win the chance to present the FAN CHOICE award to the winner at the show (which, if she's the lucky sort, could be Feist).
Signing off as I'm off to enter. I've always wanted to see Vancouver in March.
P.S. Thank you to K. Mercer for submitting this fan-tastic photo.
TSFW {Totally Safe For Work}
Feist got a job in an Office episode directed by Ken Kwapis. If you live in the U.S., you should be able to view it on the NBC website. Compatriots, you may need a stealthier approach as we don't have online access in Canada. We do have televisions here, carved from ice, so stay tuned for part II of the episode this week.
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