Elliott Brood, the alt punk trio who played a headlining show at Mohawk Place and an opening slot at Thursday at the Harbor this year in support of their latest release Days Into Years, just released a cover of Feist's "Graveyard." The original track can be found on the Canadian songstress' excellent 2011 albumMetals. The fellow Canadians turn the Feist original into a Depression Era horror folk number with great finger plucking banjos and echoing harmonies as the song reaches it's dramatic coda. You can listen to the cover and the original below. Enjoy.
Remember 2007? Two things were released: the iPod nano 4 and an album by Feist that was more then likely being played through those tiny earbud headphones. When she came out with the happy-go-lucky and colorfully choreopgraphed video for "1234," Feist skyrocketed in 2007. The mirrored iPod commercial had American consumers not only running to the Apple store to check out the new toy, but buying (and realistically burning copies of) her beautifully produced album.
Since the beginning of her music career in the 1990s and with the production of four albums, Leslie Feist became a music icon with her album release of The Reminder. The album sold 1,000,000 copies and earned four Grammy award nominations. This Canadian singer-songwriter is not limited to just a beautiful voice; she has also contributed to instrumentals with acoustic and electric guitar, piano, and the banjo. Her website speaks volumes to her personality. A section dedicated to charity, photos, status updates and a quirky video of a kitten with her namesake that's up for adoption - "Mushaboom" sounds in the background as the cat rolls around and hides in a paper bag.
She is currently on tour for her most recently released album, Metals, which the New York Times ranked #1 album of 2011. In addition to Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Estonia and the Pitchfork Music Festival, Feist will be performing tonight in Buffalo at the Erie Canal Harbor, part of the Buffalo Place Rocks the Harbor summer concert series.
Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Erie Canal Harbor
Tickets are only $20 at the gate
As you’ve heard, buffaBLOG will be traveling to Chicago in one week to cover Pitchfork Music Festival 2012. More than 40 of indie music’s biggest names will be performing on three different stages in Union Park on July 13-15, and if you’re planning on attending single day tickets are still available, but they are going fast! Even if you can’t make it there in person, Pitchfork will be streaming the entire weekend via their Youtube channel.
We are extremely excited for this, but with so many bands playing in only 3 days we obviously won’t be able to see them all. In arranging a proper itinerary, there are many decisions one must make as to what artists to see due to the fact that there will be 2-3 different groups playing at the same time on different stages. You can’t be in two places at once. Friday night, the first of the festival, brings up a pretty tough one: Feist is to play the green stage at 8:20, and at the same time Purity Ring will be taking the blue stage.
Decisions, decisions.
What we have here is your classic veteran artist vs. the up-and-comer. While we all know Leslie Feist began her career as a golden member of Broken Social Scene, she has blossomed as a solo artist over the last 8 years, releasing her grammy-nominated The Reminder in 2007, and her most recent LP Metals last september. Feist can be all over the place, playing low-key acoustic lullabies or rocking out with a full-on band, complete with soulful backup singers. Her honey-dipped vocals are front and center, lifting herself and her audience into outer space. This 2005 performance by the singer says it all:
On the other hand you have Purity Ring, a Canadian electro-indie duo, smothered in hype, but living up to their expectations insofar as live performances go. Corin Roddick and Megan James have already played both SXSW, NXNE, Fun Fun Fun Fest, and toured with indie giants Neon Indian and Dirty Projectors. They've received stellar reviews, especially due in part to their elaborately minimal setup complete with paper lamps and an electornic drum-machine type instrument anthropomorphized as a tree that Roddick built himself. Their future-pop styled tracks “Fineshrine” and “Belispeak” have both been featured on Pitchfork’s Best New Track segment, and are notable in how they combine Roddick's love of Southern hip-hop beats, and James' ethereal melodies and spine-bending lyricism. Their debut LP Shrines is due out July 24, and topped buffaBLOG's list of new releases to be excited for. As if I needed to tell you to keep an eye out for these guys.
For all of you who won't be able to make it out to Union Park this Friday, I have some very good news: Feist will be playing Canalside this coming Sunday for $10, and Purity Ring will be playing the Bug Jar in Rochester July 18, so grab tickets now! In the meantime cast your vote for who you think you would see at Pitchfork Festival below:
Leslie Feist, or just Feist to most of you, has alot of pressure on her. Her 2007 album The Reminder was HUGE. Could you go anywhere without hearing the tracks "I Feel It All" or "1234"? The latter of course was featured in one of my all time favorite, a star is born David Letterman performances, featuring a who's who of indie rockers on backing vocals. The Candian solo artist and frequent Broken Social Scenester's follow up to The Reminder, the highly anticpated Metals, drops on October 4th. Given that I feel I am obligated to listen to any band on Broken Social Scene's Arts & Crafts label (they handle Feist's Canadian distribution), this is another great fall release, along with Wilco, M83, and Real Estate, that I am looking forward to. While casual fans may at first be disppointed that the single is not another "1234", the laid back bluesy "How Come You Never Go There" reassures at least this writer that she may not have to worry at all about that pressure.
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