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  Green Day, Feist, St. Vincent Set for Final 'Twilight' Soundtrack

  October 5, 2012 – Though any supposed divide between literature and popular fiction has long since been exposed as arbitrary and pretentious, the Twilight movies continue to garner soundtrack rosters whose critical acclaim and collegiate appeal bely the books' perhaps undeserved guilty-pleasure image. Beck and Bat for Lashes, Bon Iver and St. …
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  Feist Wins 2012 Polaris Prize, Responds by Hiding Under Table

  September 25, 2012 – In perhaps the most anti-Kanye move in the history of award receiving, when Feist's Metals was named the winner of the 2012 Polaris Music Prize — a Canadian honor for recorded music that comes with $30,000 — last night, the singer/songwriter first hid under her table, then announced it was her "worst fear."According to the CBC, 36-year-old Leslie Feist eventually made her way the podium to receive a comically oversized check, where she  …
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  The Shins, Feist Stop by 'From the Basement': Watch Full Episodes

  September 21, 2012 – Four new episodes of Nigel Godrich's sessions series From the Basement are available for streaming online — and in 3D! …
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  Watch Feist's Beautiful 'Anti-Pioneer' Clip

  August 10, 2012 – In most ways, "Anti-Pioneer" scans as a toothsome microcosm of all that made Ms. Leslie's Feist's most recent full-length, last year's Metals, a record to remember. Stark, gnarled, understated — if the Reminder-borne singles that propelled her to mainstream stardom boasted airborne hooks, her latest often felt like a freefall into bottomless, equally beautiful depths. …
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  Crossfade Feist and Mastodon With the 'Feistodon' Video App

  July 31, 2012 – After putting out a highly coveted split 7-inch for Record Store Day this year, singer-songwriter Feist and proggy hard rockers Mastodon are releasing a digital version of the record, titled Feistodon, today. …
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  Polaris Prize 2012 Short List: SPIN's Guide to the 10 Key Acts

  July 17, 2012 – After announcing its long list last month, Canada's Polaris Prize jurors have whittled the pool down to ten native acts whose recent albums deserve short-list status for the $30,000 award that commends each year's "best album based solely on artistic merit without regard to sales or genre." When the list was released today, we realized we've weighed in on almost all of them, so consider this a SPIN User's Guide to the 2012 Polaris Prize …
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  Feist, Drake, and Japandroids Make Polaris Prize Long List

  June 15, 2012 – What artist's album will join the ranks of Arcade Fire's The Suburbs and Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life as a recipient of the Polaris Music Prize? …
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  Radiohead at Bonnaroo 2012: Plus 11 More Friday Standouts

  June 9, 2012 – SPIN's Manchester journey continues as Thom Yorke teases a collaboration with Jack White and Major Lazer send the crowd on an interstellar journey, but a handful of fierce ladies with guitars truly own the day. Don't miss our most amazing live photos from Bonnaroo '12! Radiohead The crowd was so thick in all places that, to really catch a glimpse of Radiohead in the flesh, you'd have to be patient. …
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  There Will Be Blood at Bonnaroo Says (Duh) Alice Cooper

  May 24, 2012 – Alice Cooper has a warning for fans planning to check out his midnight Bonnaroo set. "If you're in the first 20 rows you'll probably get some blood on you," the gory hard rock legend told a group of journalists during a recent festival conference call about the eclectic 2012 event, featuring everyone from Radiohead to Kenny Rogers and Phish performing at a sprawling Manchester, Tennessee farm from June 7–10. …
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  See Feist Play on a San Fran Street While Turf Feinz Dance

  May 16, 2012 – During a recent trip to San Francisco, Feist and her backing vocal crew Mountain Man stopped on a street corner for an impromptu performance of delicate Metals ballad "Cicadas and Gulls." Looney and No Noize of Turf Feinz provided some turf dancing. Members of the same crew recently gave Cornershop an assist in their "Milkin' It" video. Totally random, and very mesmerizing: Play  …
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