Gonzales—friend, figaro and figurative frère to Feist—is crossing the pond. Fresh from breaking the Guinness World Record for persistent performance (27 hours, 3 minutes, 44 seconds), Gonzo will deliver his choppiest chops to North America on the cusp of Autumn.
If you're scanning for a cheat sheet, or simple summation, this might help frame his portrait: Gonzales collaborates with many musicians like Feist, Peaches, Jamie Lidell and Mocky. I've added one of my favourite videos below.
Here are his dates. Stay tuned for SURPRISE guests and SURPRISE audience.
LOS ANGELES • SEP. 23 • Henry Fonda Theatre — with the Together Ensemble, presented in PianoVision
NYC • SEP. 25 • TWO SHOWS • Joe's Pub — featuring Jamie Lidell, Piano Talk Show, presented in PianoVision
MONTREAL • SEP. 26 • eXcentris Theatre — Piano Talk Show
TORONTO • SEP. 30 • The Mod Club — Piano Talk Show with surprise guests
Number five
Pitchfork just released a new Staff List, this one called The Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s. Patrick Daughters' video for Feist (1,2,3,4) came in at number 5. If I believed in numerology, I'm sure this would make perfect sense. I would say that the number five completes the numeric string of the song title, thus completing all digits' destiny for order, while also demonstrating a perfect reverse countdown. Or something like that. See the whole list here.
World Café
The day after Letterman (hereafter known as "A.L."), Feist and Wilco performed on NPR's World Café. This performance airs today, and if you click here, you can find your local station and its schedule by scrolling to "Find a Program Broadcast Time". Later today, the audio may also be available on the NPR website here.
Outside of the U.S., you can listen online to WXPN's stream (Monday-Friday, 2pm-4pm EST) by clicking here.
Outside of the U.S., you can listen online to WXPN's stream (Monday-Friday, 2pm-4pm EST) by clicking here.
You and This:
If you build it, they will come. Leslie and Jeff Tweedy threw their pitch (ba-dum-tahhh) at a baseball diamond on Coney Island on Monday, before filming on Letterman a day or so later. Animal lovers saw Ed from Grizzly Bear sing at one of these shows, but not the other. Is he in the video below?
Roll tape
Here is one of a handful of photos from the Feist and Wilco recording session at Wilco's Loft. See Zoran Orlic's other pictures here.
To see a rendition of this image in flickering, animated colour—not in a recording studio, but on a TV stage—watch David Letterman tonight.
To see a rendition of this image in flickering, animated colour—not in a recording studio, but on a TV stage—watch David Letterman tonight.
Floodgates, Watergates
Friends, Romans, Countrymen—
Lend me your e-ars.
Whereas before we only linked to the film, today is the inaugural screening of The Water (proper) on the Feist site.
Watch it below, or if you live in Toronto, as part of the monthly Worldwide Short Film Festival series A World of Shorts (on July 15th).
The Water just won the Silver Remi Award at The Houston International Film Festival (in the Short Subject Awards category, Dramatic-Original).
Lend me your e-ars.
Whereas before we only linked to the film, today is the inaugural screening of The Water (proper) on the Feist site.
Watch it below, or if you live in Toronto, as part of the monthly Worldwide Short Film Festival series A World of Shorts (on July 15th).
The Water just won the Silver Remi Award at The Houston International Film Festival (in the Short Subject Awards category, Dramatic-Original).
Letterman Sweater, Letterman Skirt
On Tuesday, July 14th, 2009, Feist will be joining Wilco on David Letterman to sing their song, You and I. If you scroll down one post, you can see first-hand (unless, somehow you can see second-hand?), the first stages of Jeff and Leslie's newfound stage-sharing stage.
Leslie played a song on Letterman almost two years ago. It was a different song altogether—an assumption you've (no doubt) already made from years of viewing television programming—but yet a point I still choose to make, mostly so I can semi-surreptitiously link to the old video.
Leslie played a song on Letterman almost two years ago. It was a different song altogether—an assumption you've (no doubt) already made from years of viewing television programming—but yet a point I still choose to make, mostly so I can semi-surreptitiously link to the old video.
Co. & Tern
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.
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.
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