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Eleanor Friedberger (born September 2, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is best known as one half of the indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces, alongside her older brother Matthew Friedberger. In the band she contributes the majority of the vocals both on record and during their live performances.
Jul 11, 2013 · ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER: I had a boyfriend in high school who listened to the doors exclusively– which turned me off the doors for about 20 years. STEREOGUM : That would do it! So you just got...
Oct 6, 2013 · Later, in high school, she played softball, basketball, and soccer. “I just think it’s a different type of performance. I never did any kind of theatrical performing until I was in my twenties.
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But when your grandchildren are Matt and Eleanor Friedberger, the brother-sister duo at the helm of the Fiery Furnaces, well, you get used to musical surprises.
Eleanor describes chicken dances to Baltic bands. Walking empty streets with some hyena-aspected, plausibly necrophagous familiar, bunkering down at an off-brand discotheque in the Bottom of the Balkans in February, we nod our heads to “The opposite of what he thought he thought.”
Jun 24, 2013 · Here’s what Friedberger had to say about eight tunes sh’s loving right now, from old English folk to new Bowie to a reggae cover of the Everly Brothers: The Doors , “Light My Fire”
Aug 9, 2018 · Don't be concerned for Eleanor Friedberger if you see her mouthing words or even mumbling to herself when she's out for a walk. It's her storytime. And it's during these times that song ideas come to her.
