In Leslie's Colbert Report interview we learn that she received dual-citizenship for doing that iPod commercial (truthiness questionable), she uses the word "spangliness," she has indie rock "sewn up in [her] DNA," and her pyrotechnics aren't as impressive as Roger... CONTINUE READING FEIST PERFORMS ON COLBERT, HAS INDIE ROCK DNA AND DUAL CITIZENSHIP»
Posted on April 29, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Feist | Stephen Colbert
A snippet of the Constantines and Feist's whispery "Islands In The Stream" has been circulating for a while, but we finally have a full stream. Yes, you can now stream "Islands In The Stream" (and buy it on a limited-edition... CONTINUE READING FEIST & THE CONSTANTINES DO DOLLY & KENNY»
Posted on April 11, 2008 (4 comments)
Tags: Feist | The Constantines
Last night in Calgary, Alberta, Leslie Feist was the toast of the Junos, taking home top honors for the year's best single ("1234"), album, pop album, alongside trophies for top artist and songwriter. That's 1, 2, 3, 4 ... 5,... CONTINUE READING FEIST TAKES HOME A HANDFUL OF JUNOS»
Posted on April 7, 2008 (10 comments)
Tags: Feist | Juno Awards | Wintersleep
Feist's "I Feel It All" single comes stacked with a few instances of the ultimate promotional tool: the remix. Fair enough, some of you were getting a little restless at the remix glut after we took a listen to Grizzly Bear's stabs and flourishes at the track, but it's worth noting that Chilly Gonzales and Britt sort of kill it. Gonzales's version is a total track transformation (think sexy, dusky, dancefloor). And as mentioned, Britt adds to the track by cutting stuff away, reforming Leslie's rollicking roots rock tune by sculpting it in his own band's image. The result is as spare and lean as a Spoon track with no guitars necessary: just a taut thwumping bass line, a tambourine, and a rising and ebbing and echoing Feist vocal. Nice job, Britt From Spoon.
Posted on February 22, 2008 (11 comments)
Even when Leslie's wielding an explosive stick, it can be difficult remembering she has more tunes than one iPod commercial. This week, though, Arts & Crafts are giving us a reminder (ha) that, yes, Feist can do more than count to four by releasing the "I Feel It All" single with remixes by Britt Daniel, Gonzales, and Grizzly Bear. The former two take on the single, Grizzly do The Reminder's first single "My Moon My Man." So far there's just a clip of the Grizz mix, but 'tis a pretty, flourish-filled clip indeed, my man. (via)
Posted on February 14, 2008 (5 comments)
Like last year, the folks at action-squad have prepared a designer line of cards to give your Valentine a giggle (if they're the blog reading sort). Some are more romantic... Others more lewd... ... CONTINUE READING CARDS FOR YOUR INDIE SWEETHEART»
Posted on February 14, 2008 (8 comments)
Tags: Aphex Twin | Arcade Fire | Feist | Man Man
Welcome to Stereogum's sarcastic play-by-play of the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. We're moments before showtime and Amy Winehouse has already won Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and a new set of teeth. Tonight promises an exciting... CONTINUE READING LIVEBLOGGING THE 2008 GRAMMYS»
Posted on February 10, 2008 (174 comments)
Tags: Amy Winehouse | Beyoncé | Daft Punk | Dave Stewart | Feist | Foo Fighters | Grammys | Herbie Hancock | Jay-Z | Kanye West | Kid Rock | Rihanna | Ringo Starr | The Beatles | Tina Turner | will.i.am
We'd say this is a nice cap off to Leslie's big year, but does anybody really care about the Shortlist? The Reminder did beat the likes of Kala, Sound Of Silver, †, Neon Bible, and Burial's Untrue for the award,... CONTINUE READING FEIST WINS SHORTLIST MUSIC PRIZE FOR THE REMINDER»
Posted on February 5, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Feist
We tip our caps to Jools Holland regularly around here, for his musicianship whenever we blow the dust off our Squeeze records, but more frequently when he hosts musicians we love on that BBC show of his. A show which... CONTINUE READING RADIOHEAD, CAT POWER, FEIST, ROBYN HITCHCOCK HELP JOOLS HOLLAND CELEBRATE 200»
Posted on February 4, 2008 in (14 comments)
Tags: Cat Power | Feist | Jools Holland | Mary J. Blige | Radiohead | Robyn Hitchcock
"1234" and "My Moon My Man" man Patrick Daughters teams up with Feist one more time, and again demonstrates his fear of wasting film with another awesome, one-take clip of lovely Leslie, feeling it all in a field of trash... CONTINUE READING NEW FEIST VIDEO - "I FEEL IT ALL"»
Posted on January 23, 2008 in (26 comments)
Tags: Feist | Patrick Daughters
Even back in February with only a "My Moon My Man" reminder of her coming LP, we figured this year would give Leslie a "Chan-like raise in stature" -- but 2007's gone well beyond that, turning out to be some... CONTINUE READING WHEN PEREZ MET FEIST»
Posted on December 20, 2007 (9 comments)
Tags: Feist | Perez Hilton
It's just part of the morning routine: sift through the promos, sip on some coffee, and watch the Today show morph from its news-lite early hours into The View with a dash of Al Roker by, oh, 9:30AM or so.... CONTINUE READING FEIST BRINGS GRIZZLY BEAR TO THE TODAY SHOW, CONTINUES THE "UBIQUITY TOUR 2007"»
Posted on December 13, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: Feist | Grizzly Bear
Finally, a list you'll hopefully enjoy -- after all, you made it. This year's Gummy voters came out in record numbers, meaning more statistically sound results than ever (the album rankings surer, the hotties hotter). But before we get... CONTINUE READING WINNERS OF THE 2007 GUMMY AWARDS»
Posted on December 12, 2007 in , (0 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Feist | Human Giant | Jens Lekman | Justice | Radiohead | The National
This past weekend, for the 18th consecutive year, the modern rock purveyors at Los Angeles's KROQ rang in the holiday season with their Almost Acoustic X-mas show, featuring a lineup pulled from their playlists ... meaning one night of mall-punk... CONTINUE READING KROQ CELEBRATED X-MAS ALMOST ACOUSTICALLY»
Posted on December 11, 2007 in (13 comments)
Tags: Feist | Silversun Pickups | Spoon | The Killers
At this point we've seen the Feist-y iPod Nano commercial enough times that even a parody of it tests our patience. That, and this Mad TV parody's kinda dumb (like Mad TV). Caveats aside, it does give us a taste... CONTINUE READING MAD TV PARODIES IPOD, SNL PARODIES IPHONE»
Posted on November 13, 2007 in (15 comments)
Tags: Apple | Feist | Mad TV | Saturday Night Live
Canadian friends and Blue Rodeo fans have been hyping us to Bob Wiseman for years -- that off-kilter, smart musicality and inventive, junkyard instrumentation. He's bound to turn more heads than his stint with Hidden Cameras with his new Feist-featuring... CONTINUE READING NEW BOB WISEMAN (FEATURING FEIST) VIDEO - "WHO AM I"»
Posted on November 8, 2007 in (1 comments)
Tags: Bob Wiseman | Feist
Wonder if newsman Brian had something to do with SNL's music guest casting Saturday night? Or maybe the 30 Rock crew watches Kimmel. Leslie joined NBC's prime time anchor Brian Williams on what may be the last Saturday Night Live... CONTINUE READING FEIST, BRIAN WILLIAMS, & OBAMA DO SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE»
Posted on November 5, 2007 in (15 comments)
Tags: Barack Obama | Brian Williams | Feist | Saturday Night Live
You read that city right. Boss man Scott is blogging abroad this week, pointing out the Stereostaff's typos on a locally envied, but ultimately impractical iPhone. Last night he hit up La Cigale dans le 18ème arrondissement de Paris, where... CONTINUE READING KEVIN DREW/FEIST @ LA CIGALE, PARIS, FRANCE 10/8/07»
Posted on October 9, 2007 in , (6 comments)
Tags: Brendan Canning | Broken Social Scene | Feist | Gonzales | Kevin Drew
Pretty sure we used "What's he gonna sample next, Feist?!" as an LOL punchline at some point, but as we saw at the Emmys, Kanye's good at bringing himself in on the joke. This particular cool points quest isn't Graduation-related,... CONTINUE READING KANYE SAMPLES FEIST ON TWISTA'S "WELL IT'S TIME"»
Posted on September 27, 2007 (49 comments)
Tags: Feist | Kanye West | Twista
Back in February, after having heard only "My Moon My Man" from the sublime The Reminder LP, we called it like we saw it: this was to be Feist's big breakout year, predicting a "Chan-like rise in stature." In a... CONTINUE READING FEIST TO GET UNPLUGGED WITH THE POLICE»
Posted on September 19, 2007 (21 comments)
Tags: Andy Summers | Feist | Stewart Copeland | Sting | The Police
There ya have it: Feist's big year just got bigger. Stevie's Touch-ing announcement yesterday came with news of a new, video-enabled Nano fatty replete with an ad campaign featuring Leslie's Scorsesian clip. "1234" tell us what can't she afford... But... CONTINUE READING APPLE GETS FEISTY FOR NANO, OFFERS STORE CREDIT TO EARLY IPHONERS»
Posted on September 6, 2007 in (14 comments)
Tags: Apple | Feist
Didn't get around to posting pics from the final installment (for now) of the roving, BSS-based indie sweep that's been working its way through NYC this week. The first chapter came at the Bookeaters benefit, where the Feist/Kevin Drew... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR/KEVIN DREW/FEIST @ MCCARREN POOL, BROOKLYN 8/29/07»
Posted on August 31, 2007 in (15 comments)
Tags: American Analog Set | Andrew Kenney | Broken Social Scene | Feist | Grizzly Bear | Kevin Drew
While our tech people are determining if that is the most post-title-characters in Stereogum history, set aside a few minutes and enjoy the spectacle: Feist and friends, on Letterman, doing "1234." Leslie sounds better than she did on Conan and... CONTINUE READING FEIST GETS FOLKS FROM BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, THE NATIONAL, GRIZZLY BEAR, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, MATES OF STATE, AND NICOLE ATKINS TO DRESS IN WHITE AND PERFORM "1234" ON LETTERMAN»
Posted on August 28, 2007 in (53 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Carl Newman | David Letterman | Feist | Grizzly Bear | Kevin Drew | Mates Of State | Nicole Atkins | The National | The New Pornographers
