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...Foxes’ Robin Pecknold came back to Twitter some time ago, until just a few minutes ago where he announced a bit of an internet hiatus. “As a parting shot,” though, comes this video for Helplessness Blues’s “Grown Ocean,” set to images captured by his brother...
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Beard here now ... Fleet Foxes proudly display their facial fuzz at Glastonbury 2009. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
Fleet Foxes have revealed that they are planning a new album for 2010, and rest assured – it'll be more boring than their debut. Frontman Robin
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Fugazi, Stage Banter [Stage Banter]
So, let’s be clear about something: Single Minded loves Fugazi. Loves. And hearing this stage banter — charming, confrontational, aggressive, passionate — just reminds us of all the reasons why.
The Bravery, “White
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Robin Pecknold, frontman for Fleet Foxes, sat down with Pitchfork to discuss the band's newest album which, according to Pecknold, is in the beginning stages of the recording process and should be out sometime next year.
Some of the more interesting
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J Tillman, drummer and backing vocalist for Fleet Foxes, is six records (and two EPs) in on his own eponymous album-making venture. The sixth LP, Year In The Kingdom, came out this September on Western Vinyl. Two restrained folk takes from that are
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Current's latest episode of Embedded follows Ben Harper, Nick Harmer from Death Cab for Cutie, and Fleet Foxes. Check it out here and find out more about the show in the replies.
Current Music Presents: Embedded kicked off with a one-hour premiere
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MUSIC NEWS - The Fleet Foxes' J. TILLMAN brings us his new, Year in the Kingdom (out via Western Vinyl) release and unravels some kind of galactic wilderness. Tillman's 6th album lyrically borders on mystic; proffering a transcendent union, an
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Can people be blinded by hype into accepting absolute garbage into the rock'n'roll canon? I refer to a dispute I had recently over the meteoric rise of Fleet Foxes. A friend of mine believed that to truly judge whether an album is a "classic" you have
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Quincy Jones, Fleet Foxes, and KEXP have won some of the highest, most official honors available to those in the local music scene—or who were in it. For that they'll be celebrated Oct. 14 at Showbox at the Market, with performances by Maldives, Pearly
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SEATTLE quintet Fleet Foxes are an unassuming bunch who appear more surprised than anyone that their eponymous debut album has become the sleeper hit of the last year.
They sloped on to the Academy's large stage looking mildly stunned at the size
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He is a drummer for alt.folk darlings Fleet Foxes and a respected songwriter in his own right, but J Tillman is more than an indie Phil Collins, as
Sinéad Gleeson discovers
DOWN A crackly phone line from Seattle, Josh Tillman – or plain J Tillman as
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Irish Times
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Fleet Foxes and Dungen's joint tour wrapped up in Minneapolis last week at a super sold out First Avenue, and to celebrate finishing the tour, the bands got into some collaborations onstage. In the video above, Gustav Ejstes of Dungen rocks out on
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Harmonious folk revivialists Fleet Foxes recently wrapped a headlining tour, four shows of which came with a treat for bargain hunters via opening act Dungen. Back when Robin had a public Twitter, he tweeted up the Swedes as one of his obsessions so
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wow i can't believe how big they've gotten, good for them
Never thought I would see Fleet Foxes on ONTD.
I had never heard of them, then I saw them on a repeat of SNL this past weekend, and now love them.
curse everyone that was there
i hate all of
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5 p.m. PlayStation Stage
Fleet Foxes are one of the few bands that work on any stage, from dim clubs to Friday's venue -- a sprawling festival. The Foxes' hour-long set was familiar to anyone who has seen them before, drawing largely from their "Sun
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Hearing the Fleet Foxes is like listening to some great lost '60s band in a dream. You'd undersell the Seattle band's enchanting music by calling it merely folk-rock. The quintet tastefully draws from a wide spectrum of styles to craft something
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It’s not a multi-platinum sensation — or even a gold record, for that matter.
But Fleet Foxes debut album has quietly made the Seattle quintet one of the hippest bands in the U.S. and an award-winner in England, all of which has freaked out frontman
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August 1, 2009 - Fleet Foxes' self-titled debut was one of 2008's most critically adored records. The Seattle band pairs layers of harmonized vocals — the sort of sound that could have emerged from
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...their pitch-perfect harmonies, baroque acoustic guitar figures, and pastoral lyrics, Fleet Foxes can induce certain unintended side effects. Drowsiness, for one. Their reverb-soaked voices can either soothe, or weigh heavily on the eyelids, depending on the...
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Rock Band by Fall
Proving that they continue to know what’s going on in the music industry, eternally awesome Seattle label Sub Pop has revealed that it is looking into new Rock Band technology to turn its entire catalogue into playable songs
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- Fleet Foxes sound a lot like Grizzly Bear if they ever got lost in the forest and started composing songs around a campfire. This Seattle
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It’s one thing to be flattered by your peers, but receiving flattery from your idols is on a whole other level. Seattle indie folksters Fleet Foxes found out exactly what that feels like recently when Al Jardine of the legendary Beach Boys
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hmmmm. barely a week after the Picnic.
I’m working out here that I could see Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors in Dublin this autumn for about a THIRD the price of an Electric Picnic ticket
dirty projectors are playing dublin?! why was i
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Rapturously received at the Isle of Wight festival: Neil Young
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Music that has an air of humility and depth: Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes
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There is no single Glastonbury experience. The physical sprawl of the site
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While enjoying the acclaim heaped upon finally-made-it Brooklynites Grizzly Bear, it’s been frustrating to read that so many mainstream music journalists attribute this success to the influence of Fleet Foxes. Animal incompatibility aside, most Grizzly
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- I am always challenged and hard pressed to find new music in the "indie" genre that is both nostalgic (I'm talking '60s and '70s classics here)
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Fleet Foxes’ self titled album was considered by Pitchfork and many other music critics to be the best album of 2008. Interestingly, Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold says the band could not have made the album without the inspiration he got from the
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Aerosmith & ZZ Top have finally named the venues to go along with the previously announced dates and cities for their joint tour. Plus, 2008’s Rookies of the Year Fleet Foxes schedule a theater tour around festival gigs at Sasquatch!, All Points West
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Indie folk-pop group Fleet Foxes [ tickets ] will head out on the road this summer for a quick tour that includes appearances at a few outdoor festivals.
The Seattle-based five-piece, which played Indio, CA's Coachella Festival last month, kicks off
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...the three dates. Not bad for a band that has yet to register with the general public. All of that combines to make the Fleet Foxes one of 2009's best stories. The group only has one full-length record — its eponymous debut, released in June by the Pacific...
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all that retro. That's because the band members are able to take the influences they wear on their sleeves and knit them into something decidedly new.
Fleet Foxes lead singer Robin Pecknold performs in concert at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, Calif., on
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...tally over such a brief window in one single metropolitan area. What makes the accomplishment really remarkable is that the Fleet Foxes have yet to really register with the general public. All of that combines to help make the Fleet Foxes one of 2009’s best...
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For its 50th anniversary, the Newport Folk Festival has recruited two artists who took the stage at the inaugural 1959 event: Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. Newer acts like Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, the Decemberists, Neko Case and Breaking artists the Low
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Text from Desert Jeff around 7:30 p.m. Saturday: “TVOTR are this year’s Arcade Fire. They’ll never play anywhere smaller than the Greek again. What a set.”
I agree wholeheartedly on the last two points, but I think he’s wrong about that first one,
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They may not have sold 22 million albums yet, but there were probably just as many scalpers doing brisk business outside Fleet Foxes' sold-out show at the Fillmore on Tuesday as there were across the bay for Green Day.
It's been a slow ascent for the
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by Staff | 03.31.2009
Seattle quintet, Fleet Foxes, have announced plans for a West Coast tour in April. They will also hit the festival circuit with confirmed appearances at Coachella and Sasquatch.
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LEGENDARY blues artist B.B. King comes to the MEN Arena on June 24 - and we have a pair of tickets to give away to see him. The lucky winner will also receive an Epiphone Lucille guitar.
SAMSUNG is offering CityLife visitors the chance to win a very
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Fleet Foxes, Explosions In The Sky, Okkervil River, The Broken Family Band and The Dodos have been added to the line-up of the End Of The Road festival.
Magnolia Electric Co, The Acorn, and have also been added to the line up.
The bash is set to take
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Lights are strung up like an old-fashioned barn dance, and the stage is filled with bearded boys from your best American dream. As the Fleet Foxes begin to sing you remember that, in the same way that bad publicity can unjustly taint your humble
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A week after their self-titled album was awarded platinum status (for sales in
the UK of 300,000 copies), Fleet Foxes began a three-night run at the
Roundhouse with a show of rich and exultant musical textures. The youthful
band from Seattle have
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What a pretty song. You have selected a musical treat tonight, Logan!
Thanks calgarylady. It is a great song and these guys are very talented.
Fleet Foxes are fantastic. I first heard about them when I read a review that described them as The Beach
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With pastoral harmonies, gentle acoustic guitars, and catchy folk songwriting, Fleet Foxes are one of the most adored bands to emerge from 2008 -- hell, even Starbucks loves 'em. But with their brand new music for "Mykonos," the Seattle boys are
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Most of you will have have heard of Fleet Foxes, if not actually heard them. To some, these Folkish-beardy-rockers were hyped to the hilt last year, leaving a sick taste in the mouth of those who believed the lavish praise to be unwarranted. Relevance?
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After reports circulated that the Fleet Foxes had signed with Virgin, Pecknold put up a MySpace blog post to stomp them down in the most unambiguous possible manner:
“So, I went to the (truly insane and heart-swelling) Dept of Eagles show at Neumo’s
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it technically remains an indie? thats pure bullshit. the fact that Warner even has a stake makes them a major player in a major label world. period. no argument.
these Fleet Foxers are huffing on the cock shaped major label tailpipe. end of story.
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One way to stay sane in the big gray city is to seek out the wilderness pulling at its seams. In Los Angeles, it's easy. The chaparral pokes through everywhere, throwing tumbleweeds into car lanes; coyotes cross into our gardens at night. The shift in
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I stayed in this weekend while my lady hit the town with friends. I watched Foot Fist Way and Saturday Night Live. SNL proved to be one of the worst I've ever seen aside from two phenomenal performances by Fleet Foxes...
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...Feresten, with guests Lisa Kudrow and Todd Barry. At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live with guests Rosario Dawson and Fleet Foxes. Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to...
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...Food Network has two new episodes of Rachel's Vacation. At 11, FOX has the season premiere of Talk Show with Spike Feresten, with guests Lisa Kudrow and Todd Barry. At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live with guests Rosario Dawson and Fleet Foxes....
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