Eleanor Friedberger

Eleanor Friedberger Comes Into Her Own

Last September, Eleanor Friedberger flew out to Los Angeles with two goals in mind. First, she met with producer Eric Broucek to discuss the songs they had recently finished recording for her sophomore effort, Personal Record, a 12-song collection that showcases her work as a burgeoning indie-rock ... More >>

Music Summer Guide: Erykah Badu and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Team Up

Two nights of orchestral-soul invention, Amerykahn made

WHERE BROOKLYN AT?

Follow the ferry to find out

TERMINALLY CHILL

Sinkane opens for no one at the Blue Note

PUT A BIRD ON IT

Your guide to Portlandia is here

Jonathan Toubin, Comeback Kid

Getting back to the business of making people dance

ALL ABOARD

4Knots returns to the South Street Seaport

Mark Your Calendars: The 2012 4Knots Music Festival Is Slated For July 14

The 4Knots Music Festival—the Village Voice's contribution to the many free shows happening around the five boroughs during the summer months—will take place at Pier 17 on the South Street Seaport this July 14, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Participating acts and further details on associated ev ... More >>

Live: Jonathan Toubin's Friends Rally For His Recovery

Jonathan Toubin Benefit Show: Chain And The Gang, 5 Dollar Priest, Eleanor Friedberger, Nicole Atkins, Dorit Chrysler and theremin, Shilpa Ray, An American Dream, TWO TEARS Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, January 12 Jonathan Toubin plays rock and soul records, but unfamiliar ones, songs that h ... More >>

Chain And The Gang, Eleanor Friedberger To Play Jonathan Toubin Benefit Next Month

​A benefit for the storied New York DJ Jonathan Toubin, who's still recuperating from the freak accident in which he was hit by a taxi while asleep in a Portland hotel room earlier this month, will take place on January 12 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Among those on the quite-stuffed bill: C ... More >>

Live: Eleanor Friedberger Charms The Willing At (Le) Poisson Rouge

Eleanor Friedberger (le) poisson rouge Saturday, November 20 Better than: Any wedding you'll ever go to. There's something very romantic about the casual messes that Eleanor Friedberger's protagonists get themselves into, and that romanticism is particularly evident on "My Mistakes," the first son ... More >>

Seven Sets You Should See During CMJ Week: Main Attrakionz, EMA, Dierks Bentley, And More

Main Attrakionz. ​ Sound of the City's staff has opinions about which bands to see at the CMJ festival, happening around the city this week. Here, Nick Murray offers his seven picks—well, six festival-affiliated artists and one dude who just happens to have a couple of NY-area shows this ... More >>

Wild Flag, Method Man, Cyndi Lauper And More: Your Guide To The Weekend's Biggest Shows

Those Darlins, hangin' out in those giant pipes.​The mouse-headed DJ Deadmau5 finally finished his six-night stand at the Roseland Ballroom earlier this week (in one of the week's strangest press releases, I learned that the event was commemorated by a fancy cake that placed his signature head ... More >>

WAVE IT HIGH

Wild Flag rock Bowery Ballroom

CMJ Announces Second Round Of Performers: J Mascis, Zomby, Kendrick Lamar, And More

Surfer Blood, who once upon a time was "just some band." ​ Last month the CMJ Music Marathon—coming to the city's music venues from October 18 through 22—announced the first batch of artists that would be playing next month's industry confab; that list included (among others) Neon ... More >>

Saturday In New York: The Waste Of Paint Team Hits Up The 4Knots Music Festival

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend, Debbie and I turned our attentions inwards, to the Village Voice's own 4Knots Music Festival at South Street Seaport. As always, the Seaport was a str ... More >>

Live: Mr. Dream And Eleanor Friedberger Kick Off The 4Knots Festivities

Willie DavisEleanor Friedberger. ​ 4Knots Music Festival: Mr. Dream, Eleanor Friedberger Pier 17, South Street Seaport Saturday, July 16 Better than: Showing up late. I have this problem—it's well known among my friends—where I arrive at things (shows, parties, etc.) on time. Usu ... More >>

Announcing The Set Times For Today's 4Knots Music Festival

​Doors for the Village Voice-sponsored 4Knots Music Festival—happening at Pier 17 on the South Street Seaport—open in about an hour, and if you want to plan your afternoon, we have set times for all the bands on the bill, as well as the DJs spinning in the 4Knots Indoor Lounge (loc ... More >>

Eleanor Friedberger As Solo Artist

Last Summer gets her back to being excited about music

Hot Music for Long Nights

Celebrating the summer with live, sweaty shows

This Week in the Voice: 4Knots Music Festival Preview

​This week in the Voice: It's the preview issue for our 4Knots Music Festival, set to take place July 16 at South Street Seaport! Maura Johnston previews the lineup, which includes the Black Angels, Titus Andronicus, Oberhofer, Eleanor Friedberger, Mr. Dream, and Davila 666. She also muses on ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: Get Ready For 4Knots, Plus A Lost Jazz Classic And Two Hot Local Labels

​In this week's Village Voice, out now now now: We preview this weekend's 4Knots Music Festival with my argument why the New York metropolitan area doesn't need its own Coachella, Michaelangelo Matos's profile of Eleanor Friedberger, and Michael Tedder's chat with the Black Angels' Alex Maas; ... More >>

Screaming Females To Open For Ted Leo At 4Knots Kickoff Show

The kickoff party for the 4Knots Music Festival—a prelude to July 16's big fest, headlined by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists—takes place at South Street Seaport's Pier 17 on July 9, and is it going to start off with a bang: Opening the show will be shred-happy New Brunswick trio Screaming ... More >>

Mr. Dream Added To 4Knots Lineup; Yeasayer, Dan Deacon To DJ The Indoor Lounge

​The first annual 4Knots Music Festival—free, at South Street Seaport—takes place on July 16; Mr. Dream will perform at the all-day show at Pier 17. In addition to the day's roster of bands—which also includes The Black Angels, Titus Andronicus, Davila 666, Oberhofer, and Ele ... More >>

Some Notes On Eleanor Friedberger, Ida, And Rebecca Gates, Who Are Playing Tomorrow Night's Excellent Show At Club Europa

by David Raposa ​ Saturday's Northside Festival show at Europa will showcase four well-traveled acts from far-flung corners of the indie-rock diaspora: Eleanor Friedberger, Ida, Rebecca Gates, and Pete Nolan. The bill's highest-profile member is also the only one with an album scheduled to co ... More >>

Eleanor Friedberger Warps The Circle Of Life In The "My Mistakes" Clip

​ The video for Eleanor Friedberger's charming "My Mistakes," the first single from her forthcoming solo debut Last Summer, seems initially like a cautionary tale about how not much has changed for women since the era of VHS fuzz-outs. (The older footage is for-real archival, and culled from a ... More >>

Titus Andronicus, Obits, And Eleanor Friedberger Round Out The 4Knots Music Festival Lineup

​We're about five and a half weeks out from the first annual 4Knots Music Festival, which is happening on July 16 at South Street Seaport. And today (hooray!) we can announce the free show's other three bands: battle-flag-wavers Titus Andronicus, nervy rockers Obits, and velvet-voiced Fiery Fu ... More >>

FIRE WOMAN

Eleanor Friedberger goes solo

Live: Fiery Furnaces Play It Relatively Straight At Rockwood Music Hall

​The Fiery Furnaces Rockwood Music Hall Wednesday, May 4 Better than: Steve & Eydie redux. All the blind alleys the Fiery Furnaces' songs take tend to foreshorten the idea of the group ever putting on a straightforward show. That's before we even get into Matt and Eleanor Friedberger's hab ... More >>

Photos: Jelly NYC Pool Party Kick-Off 2010

all photos Sam HorineChuck Schumer with the JellyNYC gang, Sarah Hooper and Alexander Kane. Full gallery from Sunday's first Pool Party here. The line-up announcement for this season's slew of Jelly NYC Pool Parties wasn't quite as mercilessly drawn out as Big Boi's solo record, but it certainly fe ... More >>

Live: Spoon Feign Maturity At Radio City Music Hall

Spoon Radio City Music Hall Friday, March 26 "This place is all right," declares Britt Daniel, understating as always. "I think we are the band that played the most times at Brownies and then played Radio City Music Hall." Calling out their long-shuttered-East-Village-rock-club roots is a slightl ... More >>

Vena Cava Invent Cabin Chic; the Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger and Au Revoir Simone's Heather D'Angelo Are Fans

photo by David WentworthSometimes we wonder if it's a good idea for designers to explain their inspiration on the show program. Case in point: At Vena Cava, the stylish line by Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai, the program said that the Fall 2010 collection was for "the Vena Cava woman to wear in her ca ... More >>

The Fiery Furnaces Go Bowling

A trip to the swanky new Brooklyn Bowl with everyone's favorite art-rock brother-sister act

Bonnaroo Day 2: Jose Gonzalez, Fiery Furnaces, Swell Season, Raconteurs, Rilo Kiley, M.I.A., Metallica

Dog Collars to Doughnuts

Eleanor puts her granny boots on, helps pave the highway

Evolution of Man

Brooklyn sibling duo proves that shy adolescence is ageless

Do It to Each Other Like a Sister and a Brother, or Maybe Not