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Foster The People lead singer Mark Foster at the Which Stage at Bonnaroo 2012

Bonnaroo is less than two weeks away, and the fans aren’t the only one’s gearing up for the event. American Songwriter Magazine sat in on a conference call Wednesday with Alice Cooper, Leslie Feist and Jack Antonoff of fun., where the artists talked about their plans for the festival. Cooper said that he is excited [...]

Feist and her backing band came to Nashville and played a surprise show at Jack White’s Third Man Records.

There is something so appealing about the narrative of being plucked from semi-obscurity and becoming a star, not through luck, though, but because of your skill: You write a song so catchy and undeniable – “1234” – that the right opportunity – a 2007 Apple ad – can lead to four Grammy nominations – and [...]

Feist Metals (Cherrytree) 3.5 Stars “So much past inside my present,” it turns out, is the one-liner from Feist’s wildly popular album The Reminder that has stuck around. What seemed like just one of many quaint choruses on an album full of them four years ago now hovers and looms over Metals, the new album [...]

Feist Look At What The Light Did Now (Interscope) Rating: Woozy, soft-focus concert footage–the glow of camera flashes and cigarette lighters rendered as a blur of colored dots–immediately introduces the recurring theme of this documentary about Canada’s queen of ethereal indie-folk, Leslie Feist. Her music and videos are all about the play of light and [...]

What’s the key to good songwriting? Doug Paisley is probably being disingenuous when he says “I have no idea.” Clearly, the Canadian singer-songwriter is on to something – you only have to take one listen to his new album, Constant Companion, to know that. For his sophomore effort, Paisley was able to pull in Feist [...]