News featuring Feist

Thursday 9th May

• “Arts & Crafts Details Collaborative 'X' Compilation Featuring Broken Social Scene, Feist, Dan Mangan”

  Last month, we learned that Arts & Crafts was prepping a new compilation called X that would team up a bunch of rostermates to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the label. While we found out the collection would include the likes of Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars, Dan Mangan and more, we now know which songs are being presented. The collection is said to be a mix of new material and covers, with reinterpretations including Apostle of Hustle and Zeus' reworking of New Order classic "Bizarre Love Triangle," and the Hidden Cameras and Snowblink's collaborative take on Duran Duran's...Read More

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Monday 29th April

• “Arts & Crafts Gets Broken Social Scene, Feist, Dan Mangan for New Collaborations Comp”

  Arts & Crafts is celebrating its 10th anniversary pretty hard, having delivered a retrospective compilation, as well as booked the upcoming Field Trip Music & Arts Festival and a photo exhibit. There's more in store this year from the Canadian label, however, with news that it will also be issuing a roster-repping collaborative LP fittingly titled X. The details have yet to arrive in full, but a press release confirms that the album arrives May 28 on LP, CD and digital formats and will feature tag-teams between a number of Arts & Crafts artists. Though it's unclear at present...Read More

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Sunday 28th April

• “Feist Performs Three Hologram Shows At The Same Time”

  Singer songwriter Feist appeared in three venues at the same time on Thursday night (25Apr13) as part of a clever hologram experiment.The shows in...

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Saturday 27th April

• “Watch Hologram Feist Play Three Cities At Once”

  Feist played three Canadian cities at once last night. Kind of. Using a new sort of holographic technology, the same Feist performance appeared in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. The event was coordinated by Samsung (the shows were Galaxy S4 launch parties) in collaboration with a projection company called Musion. Below, check out a video of [...]

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• “Boards of Canada's Ever-Growing Mystery, Grimes' Open Letter on Sexism and Stereotypes, and the Passing of George Jones in Our News Roundup”

  Once again, it was a busy week in Exclaim! news land. If you're looking to catch up on some of this week's top stories, here's our trusty news roundup to get you back up to speed.

  First up, Boards of Canada are seriously messing with our heads. First, a mysterious 12-inch popped up on Record Store Day (April 20), sparking some major speculation about a new album from the long-absent electronic duo. Then a second record was found before some more cryptic sound snippets emerged. Then it all led to some equally strange SoundCloud links and some hints that BoC may be releasing a new full-length with the title Cosecha. As of press time, we're still unsure what this is all going to amount to, but who doesn't love a good mystery?

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Friday 26th April

• “Feist Performs Simultaneously in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal via Hologram”

  Last night (April 25), Feist performed simultaneous shows in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. How is this possible? Well, like Tupac before her, the Canadian songwriter was turned into a hologram for the special event. The shows were hosted by Samsung Canada and acted as regional launch parties for the Samsung GALAXY S4 smartphone. Feist's onstage image was created with holographic projection company Musion. Feist said in a statement, "To get a chance to be a hologram is kind of playing into every childhood fantasy dream of the magic of smoke and mirrors and really lives up to a lot...Read More

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Thursday 25th April

• “Julia Hulsmann Quartet: In Full View – review”

  (ECM)

  German pianist Julia Hulsmann's playing balances the familiar and the mysterious: her timing, harmonic sense and turn of phrase all reveal a deep jazz awareness, but her spacey meditations suggest a more abstract and impressionistic contemporary music. Hulsmann's recent trio albums for ECM have been widely acclaimed, and she broadens her appeal here by involving Berlin-based English trumpeter and flugelhornist Tom Arthurs. The predominantly brief pieces here are mainly low-lit ruminations by Hulsmann and bassist Marc Muellbauer: there's the Wayne Shorteresque Quicksilver, with its deployment of Arthurs' lustrous sound at either end of the register; Hulsmann's slowly pulsing Dunkel (on which the Englishman is at his most Kenny Wheeler-like); plus a group of very slow pieces and then the more postboppishly intricate Meander. A spellbinding trio account of singer/songwriter Feist's The Water and an imploring muted-trumpet interpretation of Manuel de Falla's Nana are the only covers. Julia Hulsmann's…

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Friday 19th April

• “Peaches: who's Lady Gaga?”

  As the confrontational Canadian prepares to unleash her transsexual rock opera on London, Rhik Samadder reaches out to Peaches

  The Guardian: If there's one question you don't want me to ask you about Lady Gaga, what is it?

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Tuesday 16th April

• “Feist Announces Free Show for Montreal Jazz Fest”

  We've already caught wind of a few of this year's Festival International de Jazz de Montréal performers, including Belle & Sebastian, She & Him and Camera Obscura. Now, the annual event has added another big-name performer to the bill by announcing that Feist will kick off the 2013 festival with a free show. The gig will take place on June 28 — the first day of the festival — at the TD Stage in the Place des Festivals. This marks Feist's first performance at Montreal's jazz fest since 2005. The Friday night TD Grand Opening Event is scheduled to get underway at 9:30 p.m....Read More

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Tuesday 9th April

• “Newport Folk Festival -- 2013 lineup (Beck, Feist, Jim James, Phosphorescent, Father John Misty, Bonnie Prince Billy & more)”

  Phosphorescent at Bonnaroo 2011 (more by Graeme Flegenheimer)

  As mentioned, Newport Folk Festival is returning this year to Fort Adams State Park from July 26 to 28, and since we last spoke, the lineup has been revealed. This year's fest includes Beck, The Avett Brothers, Feist, Jim James, Colin Meloy, Andrew Bird, The Mountain Goats (who just announced a tour), Father John Misty, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Dawn McCarthy, Justin Townes Earle, Felice Brothers, Jason Isbell, Amanda Palmer, Phosphorescent, Beth Orton, John McCauley, Michael Kiwanuka, Lord Huron, Frank Turner, Black Prairie, Langhorne Slim, TIft Merritt, Spirit Family Reunion, Blake Mills, Houndmouth, Cold Specks, and others, plus more TBA.

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