Before Matthew Friedberger was in a "feud" with Radiohead, he and his sis Eleanor were working hard to get the word out about their eighth album, the Jason Loewenstein-assisted I'm Going Away via…   Read Story »

The Fiery Furnace is indeed fiery in his "Unedited Blog Post" and "Imaginary Response!" to Beck's "Harry Partch." Note: The sentence "That was written in a style I associate with a certain sort of…   Read Story »

Harry Patch, the longest surviving UK veteran of World War I, lived an honorable life, his very existence serving as a reminder to countless others of how far we've come, and at what cost, in matters…   Read Story »

Matthew Friedberger owns up to his unpopular Radiohead "fuck you" ("I don't have any time for them. There's a lot of music."). He also says he was misquoted but thinks self-censorship and "trying to…   Read Story »

Take Me Round Again finds Radiohead fans the Fiery Furnaces covering the dozen songs on their eighth album I'm Going Away. Each Friedberger reworks six. Listen at Fina.   Read Story »

Matthew Friedberger clearly thought Radiohead wrote a song about American composer Harry Partch not UK old guy Harry Patch when he told them to fuck off for "brazenly and arbitrarily associating…   Read Story »

Ever the conceptualists, "Matthew and Eleanor are taking time out from watching season two of Mad Men to record separate, complete, cover, tribute, albums, of, to, I'm Going Away. Only the words will…   Read Story »

Following an entertaining video interview with Joe and I'm Going Away's piano-woven sing-along "The End Is Near," the Fiery Furnaces have put together an artsy Phillip Niemeyer-directed clip for…   Read Story »

The last time Scott checked in with the old folks (his favorite folks) of Breakfast At Sulmay's, he requested they do Dirty Projectors next. And so they did. Seeing how polarizing the arty Brooklyn…   Read Story »

When we reported on the ever productive, conceptually minded Fiery Furnaces forthcoming eighth album I'm Going Away, we passed along Eleanor and Matt's essential Taxi vs. Titanic theories, noted the…   Read Story »