Feist (Singer)

Chilly Gonzales the Musical Genius on Failure, Satire, and Working With Drake

You may know him as Feist's or Peaches' producer. Or perhaps you read about him in the Guinness Book of World Records, in which he holds the title for longest piano solo (27 hours, to be precise). If you're a fan of Drake, then you've heard him playing piano on "Marvin's Room." You could have seen h ... More >>

Five Cover Songs That Are Better Than the Originals

As musical pairings go, they don't come much more oddball than Mastodon with Feist. But -- we can't quite believe it either -- on Record Store Day (April 21st), the unlikely collaborators are releasing Feistodon: a split single that will feature Mastodon covering Feist ("A Commotion") and vice versa ... More >>

Is This the Coachella 2012 Lineup?

Coachella 2012 is still more than four months away -- so naturally, it's time to start hyperventilating over rumored lineups for the first year the festival will stretch over two weekends. One "leaked" lineup appeared last week on StarzUncut, a celebrity gossip website with more than 58,000 Twitter ... More >>

Music Links: Hear the New Wax Idols Record, Kreayshawn Draws the VIPs, and Pondering the Future of Google Music

Listen to this.​ Hear No Future, the new album from SF's Wax Idols, and check out their release show at Vitus in Oakland. [The Bay Bridged] You didn't sleep through it: Feist didn't actually play "1 2 3 4" at the Warfield on Monday. [SF Gate]

Last Night in Photos: Feist at the Warfield

Christopher VictorioFeist at the Warfield last night. ​ Feist Chili Gonzales Nov. 14, 2011 The Warfield Feist brought the quiet solitude of her new album, Metals, to a packed house at the Warfield last night. SF Weekly photographer Christopher Victorio was on hand to capture her set along wi ... More >>

Drake's Take Care: A First Listen

​ Funny thing about Drake: I'm forced to care. This goes beyond my duties as a music writer; rap now is in a state where someone like Drake or Rick Ross becomes the sun and everyone surrounding becomes an orbiting satellite. I'm a huge fan of co-Money Youngins Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, and I ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: 10 Bands to See for Free

Broken Social Scene To Go on Hiatus After October S.F. Shows

Broken Social Scene at Treasure Island last year.​ Canadian art-rock collective Broken Social Scene is coming to the Bay Area at the beginning of next month for two shows on Oct 1: One at the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, and one at the not-free Fillmore. But while we've grown used ... More >>

Feist Comes to S.F. in November; Local Violinist Dina Maccabee Played on New Album Metals

Feist. Here. In November.​ Public service announcement: If you wanna hear that voice, that incredible voice, and hear that song -- and if, like us, you're excited by the prospect of new that songs to listen to on rainy evenings and sunny jaunts down coast-hugging roads with windows down -- tak ... More >>

James Blake's Lonely Beginnings

SXSW Day 2: James Blake's Bass Shakes the Earth, Confounds Labeling

James Blake at Stubb's in Austin.​British electronic artist James Blake played one of the most anticipated sets of the first day of South By Southwest yesterday. But two songs into his evening show at Stubb's, many were still struggling to describe his mesh of slow, thunderous bass hits and melanc ... More >>

James Blake, Waifish Beat-Whine Hero, is Coming to San Francisco in May

James Blake's head is still spinning from all the blog buzz he's gotten.​Under the category of "shows that will sell out faster than you can say Best New Music," British Pitchfork darling/waif/producer of distressed electronic pop James Blake is coming to San Francisco in May. It is, as far as we ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings for February 23-March 1, 2011

Noise Pop 2011 -- The Films: Arcade Fire, Feist, José González, the Making of Noise Pop, and More

The Flaming Lips in This Is Noise Pop​S.F.'s annual Noise Pop Festival is mostly known for bringing a week of awesome indie music shows to the city. But the fest usually pulls in a pretty good selection of new films for music nerds -- and this year is no exception.With film subjects including the ... More >>

Little Wings Warms a Bitterly Cold Night at Amnesia

Little Wings at Amnesia ​Little Wings Prairie Dog January 6, 2011  @ Amnesia Better than: Heating socks up in the microwave for frozen toes It was aberrantly chilly last night. Too cold to go out really, to leave the safety and warmth of home, but for Kyle Field, also known as Little Wing ... More >>

Best Practices for Drinking Coffee in San Francisco

​ Yelp/Dan W.​ In the '80s coffee was funny ― Maxwell House, Yuban, Chock Full o'Nuts. They thought we were idiots. Perhaps we were: Only the best of us rejected the aluminum-tin allure of General Foods International Coffee. "It tastes like a candy cane dipped in Bosco!" gushed one com ... More >>

Exclusive DJ Mix: K Avalon Gets Wild

K Avalon​San Francisco is brimming with bright, young talent precociously teetering on the edge of social obscurity and becoming your new favorite DJ/producer/party-starter. One such up-and-comer is recent Arizona import Kahley Emerson, or -- as she's referred to on the flier for Zoology, her new ... More >>

Gypsy Jazz, Masked Punks, Crafts and Beers, Doom Metal, Grease, and Free World Music

Angélique Kidjo plays for free this Sunday as part of the Stern Grove Festival​This weekend, you can join in a group Grease sing-along, witness a masked punk legend in action, celebrate the art of craft, check in with the world-music scene and ride a seven-person bicycle -- all for less than two ... More >>

Odd Bird

Jamie Lidell's genre-wandering wings show no signs of being clipped on his latest album

Five Opening Bands To Show Up Early For This Week

Fang Island​Five nights of solid shows and at least one good band to kick off each one. So head out and get your grub 'n' sauce on if you gotta -- but don't dawdle past the start times of these excellent openers: Tuesday: Weekend with The Mantles and Dimmer at Rickshaw Stop. S.F. trio Weeke ... More >>

Concert preview: Broken Social Scene

What to Do? Wednesday's Pick: Metric at the Fox

​Thanks to an appearance in Zombieland (as well as showing up in Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, and a popular soccer videogame), "Gold Guns Girls" has given Metric's year-old Fantasies a second wind. So the Canadian indie-pop act is back on the road supporting its first album since 2005's Live It Ou ... More >>

Metric

Rubies travel the world to find their Center

Rubies Video: "I Feel Electric"

San Francisco's folk-disco globe-trotters Rubies are hosting a homecoming/CD release party for their latest CD, Explode from the Center at Rickshaw Stop this Thursday. The CD has a number of buzz-worthy guests, from Feist to members of the Concretes, Sorcerer, and Kings of Convenience, but the two ... More >>

Wilco loves you

NARIP Presents Music and Advertising Seminar @ SFSU

NARIP.comJeff DanieMusic is only one part of the music business. The other part, of course, is business, and a big part of that business revolves around how artists are marketed. With that in mind, the National Association of Recording Industry Professionals, or NARIP for short, is offering a one-da ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Dysfunctional Family Re-Opens Fancy-Schmancy Restaurant

By Meredith Brody You may have noticed that there's precious little new stuff to watch during the holidays - a period which The New York Times describes as "a profound holiday slumber of repeats and musical specials." But we can't even find any musical specials, and are reduced to re-watching A Co ... More >>

Schedule Outside Lands trip with playlists of our favorite artists

Bands fume over bounced checks from Bay Area Indie Music Festival

From Russia with Love: Auktyon's avant-rock

Wrecking Rampant Idolatry: Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip

The new Fox Theater, the arty Red Poppy, and the hustlin' Demolition Men

The Bay is looking up in 2008

Feist Back in San Francisco Early November: Indie-boner --- risING

Gimme Indie Rock!

Local promoters take a big risk to give S.F. a music fest that will restore the city's cool cred

Previewing Bandwidth

Nomo, Lovetones, Feist -- ASD's Live Music Picks, June 26

Dinner With Leslie

Feist gets second-date deep with The Reminder

Baseball season! San Francisco's musical farm team down south

Gonzales

Solo Piano (Sunnyside)

Peaches

(XL/Beggars)

Walking Her Walk

The music of cities

Maple Leaf Boogie-Woogie

A cheat sheet of bands from the new Seattle -- that's right, Canada!

Blame Canada

Thus arrives another musically savvy Canuck, Leslie Feist, with a sultry voice and a bottomless bag of tricks

A Beautiful Mess

Once a simple indie rock duo, Broken Social Scene added 13 band members and ended up with a complex, precious sound.