Eleanor Friedberger is a musician who grew up in Oak Park, IL. She studied film and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. After a brief stint in London, she moved to New York City where she formed the band The Fiery Furnaces with her brother Matthew in 2000. They recorded nine albums and last performed together at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona in 2011. Her first solo album, Last Summer was released later that year on Merge Records. She has since released three more critically acclaimed albums and toured extensively in North America, Europe and Australia. Throughout her career, Friedberger has comfortably occupied the worlds of art, fashion, music and performance. She has collaborated with The Andy Warhol Museum in Exposed, live-scoring previously unseen Warhol films, has performed regularly in the 8G Band on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers, has appeared in numerous advertising campaigns including the iconic Italian fashion label Miu Miu, and participated and appeared in the renowned multi-media artist Doug Aitken's experimental train project and subsequent film, Station to Station. Friedberger currently lives in Ulster County, NY.
ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER DISCOGRAPHY Rebound, Frenchkiss 2018 New View, Frenchkiss 2016 Personal Record, Merge 2013 Last Summer, Merge 2011
THE FIERY FURNACES DISCOGRAPHY Take Me Round Again, Thrill Jockey 2009 I’m Going Away, Thrill Jockey 2009 Remember, Thrill Jockey 2008 Widow City, Thrill Jockey 2007 Bitter Tea, Rough Trade/Fat Possum 2006 Rehearsing My Choir, Rough Trade 2005 EP, Rough Trade 2005 Blueberry Boat, Rough Trade 2004 Gallowsbird’s Bark, Rough Trade 2003
MISC DISCOGRAPHY "Chelsea Midnight" on RM Hubbert Telling The Trees 2016 "Shivers" 7 Inch Single (The Boys Next Door Cover) The Vinyl Factory 2015 "Open Your Soul To Me" 7 Inch Single with Greg Saunier (Yoko Ono Cover) Merge 25th Anniversary 2014 "Oh Oh I Love Her So"/"Free Money" (Ramones/Patti Smith Covers) Live in NYC 7 Inch Single with Superchunk 2014 "Old Shanghai" on Beck Song Reader 2014 "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me" on Holiday Rules 2013 "I'll Never Be Happy Again"/"Dallas" (Flatlanders Cover) Ballroom Marfa 7 Inch Single 2013 "I'm Leaving" (Junior Kimbrough Cover) with The Fiery Furnaces on Sunday Nights, Fat Possum 2005 "Winter" (The Fall Cover) with The Fiery Furnaces on Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, Rough Trade 25th Anniversary 2003
TELEVISION APPEARANCES Late Night with Seth Meyers 2016 Late Night with Seth Meyers, 8G Band member 2014-2015 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 2013
FILM APPEARANCES Carmine Street Guitars, Ron Mann TBD Slow Machine, Joe DeNardo and Paul Felten TBD False Alphabets, Sara Magenheimer TBD Station to Station, Doug Aitken 2015 She’s A Mirror, Joe DeNardo 2013 VPL Her/She, James Oakley 2010
RESIDENCIES AND COMMISSIONS The Kitchen performance of "Reducing the Tempo to Zero" by Ben Vida, with Ryan Sawyer and Nina Dante, New York 2016 Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films, 2014-2016 composition and performance (with Tom Verlaine, Martin Rev, Dean Wareham and Bradford Cox) at Carnegie Music Hall Pittsburgh, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barbican Centre, Le Lieu Unique Nantes, Paris Philharmonie Recess Activities composition and performance, (with Sara Magenheimer) New York 2015 Ballroom Marfa residency, recording and performance, Marfa 2012
ADVERTISING Segura Viudas digital campaign 2015 Lucky Brand Jeans digital campaign 2014 VPL // VPL TWO look book Fall 2012 Madewell digital campaign 2011 Vena Cava digital campaign 2010 Converse print campaign 2008 Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti print campaign 2006 Miu Miu print campaign 2005
SELECTED RADIO AND PODCAST APPEARANCES The Adam Buxton Podcast 2018 Consequence of Sound, Track by Track 2018 Aquarium Drunkard Sidecar Transmissions podcast 2016 Dinner Party Download podcast 2016 WBEZ Sound Opinions 2016, 2008 RiYL podcast 2016 KEXP In-Studio Performance 2016, 2013 No Effects podcast 2014 Worst Gig Ever podcast 2014 Beginnings podcast 2013 WNYC Soundcheck 2013, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2005 KCRW/McSweeney's Wayne Coyne's Human Head Shaped Tumor 2013 WNYC Kings County 2012 NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross 2006 KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic 2006
WRITING London in Stereo, Tales From The City 2016 The Talkhouse, Talks Yusuf's Tell 'Em I'm Gone 2014
FEATURED LIVE PERFORMANCES Summer Nostros Festival at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens 2017 Trans-Pecos Festival, Marfa 2016 Electric Picnic Festival, IR 2016 End of the Road Festival, UK 2016 Red Bull Studios NYC, Scenario in the Shade by Freeman & Lowe 2015 Brooklyn Academy of Music/Onassis Cultural Center, Narcissus Now 2015 Euguene Mirman Comedy Festival, Brooklyn 2015 Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh 2015 Saristra Festival, Kefalonia Greece 2014 Casa de Musico, Porto 2013 The Town Hall, NYC with Rodriguez 2013 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival 2013 Sydney Festival 2012 Portlandia Tour, Multiple Cities 2012 River to River Festival at South Street Seaport NYC 2012 Vodafone Mexefest Festival, Lisbon 2011 Primavera Sound Music Festival 2011 Le Poisson Rouge NYC, What Kind of Love is This: The Music of Bob Dylan & The Band 2010 Austin City Limits Music Festival with Spoon 2010 Radio City Music Hall with Spoon, 2010 La Route du Rock Festival, St. Malo 2010 All Tomorrow's Parties Festival: curated by Pavement (2010), Sleater-Kinney (2006), Stephen Malkmus (2004) Guggenheim Museum, NYC, Rob Pruitt's First Annual Art Awards 2009 Royal Festival Hall London, Life Along the Borderline: A Tribute to Nico 2008 East River Park Amphitheater, NYC 2008 Pemberton Music Festival 2008 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2008 Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC Queens 2007 Arthur Nights Festival at the Palace Theater, Los Angeles 2006 Austin City Limits Music Festival 2005 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2005 London ICA 2005 Iceland Airwaves 2005 Radio City Music Hall with Wilco 2004 Splendour in the Grass Festival 2004 Fuji Rock Festival 2004 Roskilde Festival 2004 Siren Music Festival 2004
SELECTED MUSIC VIDEOS Everything 2018 Make Me A Song 2018 In Between Stars 2018 Your Word 2016 Does Turquoise Work? 2016 Never Is A Long Time 2016 Because I Asked You 2016 Sweetest Girl 2016 He Didn't Mention His Mother 2015 False Alphabet City 2015 My Own World 2013 When I Knew 2013 She's A Mirror 2013 Stare At The Sun 2013 Heaven 2012 I Won't Fall Apart On You Tonight 2012 Roosevelt Island 2011 My Mistakes 2011 Even In The Rain 2009 Charmaine Champagne 2009 Duplexes Of The Dead 2008 Navy Nurse 2007 Ex-Guru 2007 Benton Harbor Blues 2006 Tropical Ice-Land 2004