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Echo Chamber: Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger
"'Oh, please listen to our new song about Harry Patch'. Fuck you! You brand yourself by brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool. That is bogus. That's a put-on. That's a branding technique, and Radiohead have their brand that they're popular ...
Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus'
Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus'
spinner.com — Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Holy Hell When the Fiery Furnaces -- the... sibling duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger -- recorded 'I'm Going Away,' they adjusted their usual penchant for mad rhythms, inscrutable vocals and ... (more) Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus'
Take Me Round Again
Take Me Round Again
fina-music.com — Take Me Round Again: The Friedbergers cover the Friedbergers. The Fiery Furnaces have been reworking, rearranging, and... rewriting their songs live since they first started touring in 2003. They have taken this practice one step further on their new ... (more) Take Me Round Again
Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger calls Radiohead 'bogus' | News
nme.com — The Fiery Furnaces ' Matthew Friedberger has blasted Radiohead as "bogus" after they released a tribute song... about Harry Patch – but it looks like he's got the wrong guy. Patch , who was the UK's last veteran of World War I, was saluted in the song ... (more) Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger calls Radiohead ...
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Fiery Furnaces Matthew Friedberger Disses Thom Yorke, Harry Patch, Harry Partch And/Or Self...
The Daily Swarm — ... popular and intelligent. So they have a song about Harry Patch…..“How’s the song?” Friedberger asks. “Is it 48 notes to the octave? What does it have to do with Harry Patch? Oh, my wife says I am being very rude. She doesn’t like me insulting Radiohead. She’s afraid they will send their lackeys through the computer to sabotage us. But they needn’t worry—we are a band that sabotages ourselves.” Pitchfork: UPDATE: According to Matthew Friedberger’s publicist, ...

Radiohead News: Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger Continues Radiohead Fight
XL Recordings — In a Spinner interview that made the rounds yesterday, the Fiery Furnaces' brotherly half, Matthew Friedberger, had some choice (and vaguely confusing) words for Radiohead. The issue at hand was Radiohead's song "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", Radiohead's tribute to Harry Patch, the last surviving British World War I veteran, who died in July. (Patch was often known as "the last Tommy," a "Tommy" being an old term for a British soldier.) But Friedberger went the fuck ...

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