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Feist

   
Artist: Feist

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   Folk
   Pop
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The Reminder

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 Open Season

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 15


   
 Let It Die

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 Mushaboom - Maxi CD

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 4


   
 Monarch

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Live at KCRW

   Year:    
Tracks: 7

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She was born Leslie Feist in Calgary in the mid-'70s only goes by her last name when it comes to making music for a living. The Jhay-inspired songstress got her take up performing in a high schooling spunk dance band called Placebo (non to be upset with the U.K. new john Rock act of the same identify). After winning a engagement of the bands contest, Placebo played their first gig opening for the Ramones, and for the next cinque years, Feist perfected her john Rock shipway. Touring cross-Canada in the end took its toll on Feist. She had forced her voice so lots, she was told she'd never blab out once again. To regain focus and medical aid from some other specialiser, Feist fled her hometown to locate in Toronto in 1998. She spent six months holed up by herself in a basement with a four-track registrar. She bought a guitar as a means of temporarily replacement her voice and began crafting a natural pop legal. A year afterward, Feist was playing guitar for By Divine Right. She went on to play in front of unnumbered arena crowds as By Divine Right opened for the Tragically Hip across North America. Somewhere in betwixt touring with some of Canada's biggest acts, Feist constitute time to record and self-released her first base solo record album, 1999's Monarch butterfly (Lay Down Your Jeweled Head). After playing some littler local gigs in and around Toronto, Feist touched in with electroclash rap vixen Peaches in 2000. Peaches christened Feist Bitch Lap-Lap and from in that respect, Feist sang on and toured in support of Peaches' debut album, Teaches of Peaches. Not one to remain too long in once place, Feist united Broken Social Scene in the transcription of their soph cause, You Forgot It in People. The record album, which was released in 2002, became a critical succeeder among the indie crowds after winning a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year in 2003. Feist had already had plans for a instant solo album by this time. When she wasn't touring North America and Europe with Broken Social Scene, Feist and Renaud Letang of Manu Chao and Chilly Gonzales went back and away 'tween Calgary, Toronto, and Paris for its transcription. Get It Die was released on Arts & Crafts in May 2004. Feist has likewise contributed vocals to workings by Kings of Convenience, Apostle of Hustle, and Jane Birkin. In 2006 she released Opened Season¸ a ingathering of remixes, collaborations, and other songs and began work on her following uncut. Recorded and assembled in one hebdomad in a rented house skinny Paris, The Reminder strike shelves in the spring of 2007.

Amy Winehouse gets one million to play Abramovich gig - Daily Gossip

Welcome to the Daily Gossip: your daily stop-off to find out who in the world of music has been up to what.

Today's top gossip:

Amy Winehouse is set to be paid �1 million to play a special gig for Roman Abramovich's girlfriend model Daria Zhukova (The Sun)... Meanwhile The Daily Mirror is reporting that her musical collaboration with Pete Doherty is not going according to plan. She keeps telling him every song he writes for her is "rubbish".

From the papers:

Coldplay's Chris Martin donated a piano to St David's School in Moreton-in-Marsh after their original was wrecked in the floods last June (Daily Star).

Duran Duran have said that Mark Ronson's mum Ann suggested their up-and-coming collaboration (Daily Record).

Cage The Elephant have requested women's tights on the rider for their appearance on a Channel 4 show. Apparently they like the put them on their heads to relax before gigs (The Sun).

From NME.COM users

Trip-hop old timer Tricky trying and failing to get into the Macbeth in Hoxton so choosing to spar in the middle of the road with a boxer from his entourage instead (from Camilla).

Check on Monday for the next Daily Gossip. E-mail your spots to news@nme.com.