Living in Harmony: Fleet Foxes vs. CSNYby Lavinia Jones Wright • June 18, 2009In 1968, when members of three recently deceased bands—the Byrds, the Hollies, and Buffalo Springfield—improvised a cappella on a newly written song as a party trick, a whole new era of music was born.The moment Graham Nash and David Crosby joined Stephen Stills on his "You Don't Have to Cry", history was made and arg...
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Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold truly knows the power of the internet when it comes to breaking new music: With the wind of glowing reviews from Pitchfork and countless mp3 bloggers at their back, Fleet Foxes became probably the biggest musical...
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The Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold says illegal music downloading has benefited the music scene.Speaking after receiving the award for best live act at the Mojo Awards, London, this week, Pecknold said that illegal file sharing had helped shape his musical knowledge.....Click here for full article.
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Venerable Seattle indie label Sub Pop (you've heard of them right?) are making a free sampler available for digital download. You can get the Sub Pop Cybersex Digital Sampler (2009) for free here.The sampler includes MP3s from such Sub Pop bands as Fleet Foxes, Handsome Furs, Iron & Wine, Flight of the Conchords, Vetiver, and the way cool Vaselines.What are you waiting for? The damn thing is
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Proving that a band's drummer doesn't always have the musical aptitude of a flying-fish-zombie, J. Tillman - percussionist with Fleet Foxes - is preparing for a new solo album. Bella Union and Western Vinyl will be handling the release of Year In The Kingdom, which is due around September (unconfirmed reports point to the 22nd).
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Part three sees us mull over offerings from Fleet Foxes, TV On The Radio, Zombie Zombie, Times New Viking and several other assorted accompaniments. FLEET FOXES - FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes is an album with so many different sonic layers, jangly agrarian guitar chords, distant-sounding flutes and reverb soaked vocal harmonies all make for a dense full-sounding listen. And, like the Pieter Breug...
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The last night of a sell-out UK tour. Fleet Foxes play a triumphant set at The Junction leaving Rich's Thane and Hughes utterly gobsmacked.
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Fleet Foxes perform a sell-out show at one of London's prime venues; the Shepherds Bush Empire. It sold out within 24 hours, as did the subsequent tour. Surely this would be one of the most important and celebrative gigs of their short career so far?
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A few Sundays back, I was among the lucky few to attend the Fleet Foxes show here in Chicago. It was a perfect a show for a Sunday - tangible energy from the crowd and melodic music from the band. Yet, I caught Fleet Foxes back in July at Pritzker Pavilion and was a little [...]
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Since hearing their stellar debut earlier this year, I've been dying to see Fleet Foxes in concert. I was a little worried that my high expectations wouldn't quite be met, but that fear proved to be unfounded as I was totally blown away by this young band's performance. The venue, a small, crowded music club called "In The Venue," seems an unlikely place to have a transcendent musical experi...
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As the year comes to a close and we all start to compile our "Best of 2008" lists, New and Used Records has asked our artists to think of their favorites from the past year. Today we present the collective top ten list from Dave, Cindy and Andrew of Tigers Can Bite You... (In no particular order) Third , Portishead Microcastle/Weird Era , Deerhunter Nouns , No Age Do You Like Rock Music? , B...
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The new video from Fleet Foxes for 'He Doesn't Know Why'. Simply lovely… Get this album free via eMusic's 50 Free MP3 Promo buy it at insound!
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Fleet Foxes is a five-piece Seattle based band signed to the labels Sub Pop and Bella Union . [1] The Fleet Foxes' first release was a self-titled EP in 2006. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of a second EP, Sun Giant , and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes . Both Sun Giant and their eponymous debut album received much critical praise and reviewe...
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Fleet Foxes were on Saturday Night Live this weekend and performed a couple of tracks. They performed 'Mykonos' and 'Blue Ridge Mountain'. You can watch both performances below. [Photo Courtesy of Live on 35mm ]Mykonos Blue Ridge Mountain Fleet Foxes - Mykonos (Alternate Version)
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