Feist (Singer)

Here Are the Songs I Played On a Long Car Trip to Get My Sons to Shut Up

So, I rode in a car with a baby for about five hours today, and here's what happened. 12:50 p.m.: Today, here in about ten minutes, Wife, Boy A, Boy B, Boy C and I will attempt to travel in a car from Houston to my parents' house in San Antonio, for Christmas. Boy A and Boy B have made this trip p ... More >>

Happy Repeal Day: Drink Up at the Longest Continuously Running Bar in L.A.

Farewell to the 18th Amendment. Seventy-nine years ago today, on Dec. 5, booze in the United States flowed freely again. Celebrate the repeal of Prohibition at the longest continuously running bar in Los Angeles. "We never technically closed during Prohibition," General Manager and Beverage Director ... More >>

Why Is There So Much Indie Rock on Television? Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas Explains

It's hard not to notice: Indie bands seemingly soundtrack just about every sitcom, film and television commercial today. But why? Influential music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas swears it's not just about cheap labor. "It's far more of a creative decision than a monetary one," she says. "We're pick ... More >>

The Roots, Hilary Hahn, The Urinals

Also, Barbara Lynn, Stalley, Active Child and others

Feist - The Wiltern - 11-12-11

Timothy Norris​See also: The Wiltern Opened 80 Years Ago. Its Survival Story Is As Grand As Its Terra-Cotta Tile Feist The Wiltern 11-12-11 Better than...Listening to Feist alone in the dark, in Canada. When Feist took the stage at The Wiltern last night, her tiny frame was almost engulfed ... More >>

Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others

James Blake - The Music Box - 9-18-11

Jessica Comingore​By Aly Comingore James Blake and Teengirl Fantasy The Music Box September 18, 2011 Better than... an Emmys after party Those who caught James Blake's recent L.A. shows -- at the Troubadour and Hollywood Forever Cemetery, respectively -- know this Englander is best caught ... More >>

Music Picks: Joan Osborne, Tears for Fears, the Cute Lepers, J. Cole, Low

Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others

Live Review: James Blake at the Troubadour

Lainna FaderJames Blake​Who: James Blake Where: Troubadour When: 5/23/2011Last night's sold out Troubadour show marked the London-based, classically-trained dubstep producer's Los Angeles debut. "This venue has historic importance and I'm massively glad to be here," James Blake said, and so were w ... More >>

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

SXSW Recap: Newcomer James Blake Crosses the Pond

Siran BabayanJames Blake​ What: James Blake Where: Stubb's, Austin, TX When: March 16 Of all the buzzed about artists at SXSW, 22-year-old British electronica-pop crooner James Blake is certainly worthy of the hype. Blake's been a critic's darling since producing three EPs in 2010 and his ju ... More >>

Music Picks: Physical Forms, Kimya Dawson, Madame Recamier, Young Hunting

Also, Lizz Wright, Wanda Jackson, Iron and Wine, Wallpaper. and others

Music Picks: Grizzly Bear, Muse, Dark Dark Dark, the Charlatans UK

Also, Tonya Watts, Modeselektor, Heart and others

Sally Seltmann, Jasmine Ash

Music Picks: Goldfrapp, Concrete Blonde, Sally Seltmann, Black Francis

Also, Electric Daisy Carnival, the Adicts, Lou Barlow and others

Music Picks: Stagecoach Festival, Yoshitake Expe, Hole, Chicha Libre

Also, Aquaserge, Norah Jones, Dr. Dog and others

Nightranger: We Wear It Well

'Mutations' Meets Mutantes: Beck's New Record Club Joint Drafts St. Vincent, Liars, Tropicalia Legends

21st Century Os Mutantes 'Mutations' Auteur Beck!​You know when you're sitting around with your buddies, just chillen, and you start singing along to a favorite record and everyone has a great time? Well, if you're Beck, your buddies are people like the Liars, intensely-staring chanteuse St ... More >>

Beck and Co. Cover Skip Spence's "Weighted Down," featuring Leslie Feist and Some Wilcos

We've been slacking on Beck's consistently fascinating series of covers over at Beck.com, and have missed the fact that he and his band of crazies has been covering the entirety of Alexander "Skip" Spence's mope-rock classic, Oar. Our favorite track on the album is probably "Weighted Down," though w ... More >>

Rock Picks: Amy Millan, Dirty Projectors, Chip Taylor, LA 101

Also, Pixies, Justice, the Happy Hollows and others

Ooh La-La Festival

Rock Picks: Pink, the Grates, Doug Paisley, Ooh La L.A. Festival

Also, Slavic Soul Party, Pet Shop Boys, the Humpers and others

The French Invade L.A.: Sébastien Tellier, Gonzales, Nouvelle Vague, Emilie Simon, and More

What's that wafting this way? The stink of well-aged cheese? A ripe bouquet of sex and spilled wine? The craven stench of wartime neutrality? It's far too easy to skewer the French for a cheap laugh, which might help explain why the Consulate General Of France In Los Angeles and the French Embassy h ... More >>

ROCK PICKS: CEU, GIRL IN A COMA, COLDPLAY, GRAVEYARD

Also, Amadou & Mariam,The Pains of Being Pure, Jason Collett, The Smithereens, and others.

Los Angeles Film Festival: I Want My MTV

Fest’s music-video showcase takes things back to basics

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Live in L.A.: Lykke Li at the Hotel Cafe, August 25

Rock Picks: Sunset Junction Street Festival, El Vez, Café Tacuba

Also, Veruca Salt, Mike Einziger, Kings X and Junior Brown

Word on the Street

Rock Picks: 88BoaDrum, Projekt Revolution, Juana Molina

Also, Flosstradamus, Bigelf, The Crystelles

Feist, Sharon Jones, Hollywood Bowl, 7/20/2008

Feist, Sharon Jones Hollywood Bowl, July 20, 2008 By Gina Pollack Feist filled the Hollywood Bowl with her unique blend of soft rhythms and acoustic melodies on July 20th, headlining KCRW’s World Music Festival, along with soul diva Sharon Jones and the Latin-inspired Pacifika. Bringing her ... More >>

The Dap-Kings: Soul's New Royalty

And Sharon Jones is its hardest-working woman

Rock Picks: Rooney, Lili Haydn, Dizzee Rascal

Also, Wolf Parade, Pierced Arrows, Summer Darling

SXSW Round-Up: The Kills Put On The Best Show Of SXSW By A Band Not Named My Morning Jacket…And Why Jenny Lewis Isn't the Hottest Woman In Indie Rock

Unlike Sasha Frere-Jones, my main gripe with indie rock don't stem from it's lack of blackness. More than anything, I have trouble dealing with the idea that Jenny Lewis is indiedom's official pin-up girl. No joke, I think she won first in the 2006 Stereogum poll and came in second in 2007. The w ... More >>

Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen

The "West Coast Sound": Lauded Songwriters Grapple With Its Genesis

(It's the humidity, stupid)

Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and the motherfucking Time. As far as I know, only two people have paid much attention to Morris Day and the Time post "Jerk Out:" the illustrious ... More >>

2007's Long Players You Might Have Missed

Eleven handcrafted gems

Rock Picks: Deborah Harry, Björk, Richard Hawley, Shonen Knife, Bang Sugar Bang

For the week of December 7 - 13

Grammy Nominations

If you are the kind of person that actually pays attention to this kind of thing, then here's a full list of this year's Grammy nominees . Yes, Amy Winehouse got a ton of nominations, if she can hold it together until the awards area announced. Kanye West got eight, and we can only hope he gets sh ... More >>

a Movable Feist

Feist, Spoon Gibson Amphitheatre, November 12

Feist and Spoon, Gibson Amphitheatre, 11/12

Feist, with Spoon At the Gibson Amphitheatre, November 12 By Sophia Kercher A few years back among hundreds of urbanite Canucks, I stumbled upon Leslie Feist illuminating the night at an intimate Canada Day celebration in Toronto. Now a top-of-the-charts razzle-dazzler, Feist established Monday tha ... More >>

Rock Picks: Finland Station, M.I.A., Feist, Suzanne Vega

For the week of Nov. 9-15

Rock Picks: Neil Young, the Pogues, Michelle Shocked

For the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1

Amazon's MP3 Bargains

Amazon.com launched their new MP3 store today to go head to head with Apple's iTunes store. In a nice bit of irony the #1 selling song on Amazon was "1234" by Feist, which is popular because it's played in an Apple commercial. Amazon's songs are DRM-free and 256k which are the big selling points. ... More >>

Rock Picks

For the week of June 28 - July 5, 2007

Rock Picks

For September 7-14