A cappella's been creeping further and further into the indie rock realm: Not necessarily bands who sing without instrumentation behind them, but straight-up college a cappella groups covering Animal Collective and Vampire Weekend, backing Rivers Cuomo. It's like a sickness!... CONTINUE READING BEN FOLDS GOES TO COLLEGE FOR A CAPPELLA LP »
Posted on March 17, 2009 in , , (23 comments)
Tags: Ben Folds | Ben Folds Five | Lucky Dragons
Before Elton John revisited Yellow Brick Road with Ben Folds and others, Folds revisited The Unauthorized Biography Of Rienhold Messner with his old band. Said performance, which took place at UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall, was organized as part of MySpace... CONTINUE READING WATCH THE BEN FOLDS FIVE REUNION CONCERT»
Posted on October 23, 2008 in (13 comments)
Tags: Ben Folds | Ben Folds Five | Explosions In The Sky
A couple weeks (and change) ago we reported that despite their other projects, Ben Folds Five were reuniting as part of MySpace Music's "Front To Back" series to play The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner in its entirety at UNC-Chapel... CONTINUE READING BEN FOLDS FIVE PLAY REINHOLD MESSNER REUNION SHOW»
Posted on September 19, 2008 (24 comments)
Tags: Ben Folds | Ben Folds Five
In the comments section of our post on the "Hiroshima" video, reader sean took a moment to disparage the fake leak of Way To Normal before writing: He's squandered all of his stock-piled Ben Folds Five love ... Let's get... CONTINUE READING BEN FOLDS FIVE REUNITE FOR REINHOLD MESSNER»
Posted on September 3, 2008 (31 comments)
Tags: Ben Folds | Ben Folds Five | Bon Iver | Dirty Projectors | Feist | Sharon Jones | Soft Circle | SXSW