We left our hearts and our Traynor amp at the Red Room last night…  a wonderful show in Vancouver.  Shawn, thank you for the beautiful flowers!
We read this piece in Time Out this morning, and can hardly believe our eyes:  Ray Davies’ response to hearing Charmaine Champagne:
This is fascinating. It sounds like the music I [...]

I write you to inform you about the catastrophical situation in France.
What were the surprise when I went to my lycee yesterday : they changed the ex-name of the lycee on Friedbergers school, so here, reign a crazy enthusiasm !
Yesterday, again, manifestants brandished signs where were writen : “Friedbergers presidents, No more Eiffel Tower but [...]

OTHER BANDS: WHY NOT TURN YOUR SHOW INTO A PRO-HEALTH CARE REFORM RALLY?
FF encourages All Bands to turn All their shows this next month into Pro-Health Care Reform Rallies.
Perhaps even more importantly:  FF encourages all those American music websites to ask all their favorite bands to turn their shows into Pro-Health Care Reform Rallies!
Why [...]

FF SHOWS IN AUGUST RE-BRANDED AS PRO-HEALTH CARE REFORM RALLIES!

Sure, we can disagree on the details.  But Patriotic American Rock-n-Roll Fans must surely agree that our nation is in desperate need of health care reform.
We need it for economic reasons, certainly.
But we also need it if we are going to stay true to our values. [...]

SINCE BANDS CAN NO LONGER SELL AUDIO, FF DECLINE TO PROVIDE IT.
Because file-sharing, or downloading, or whatever, has notoriously, or supposedly, made the production of the conventional ‘with-audio’ record obsolete, the Fiery Furnaces will release a Silent Record.
The Fiery Furnaces’ next album will consist of instruction, conventional music notation, graphic music notation, reports and illustrations [...]