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Ben Folds Five Reunite For Reinhold Messner
Stereogum —
... 's "Front To Back" music series. It'll take place Thursday, 9/18 at UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall where the trio will play 1999's The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner in its entirety. Tickets go on sale Monday, 9/8. Check out the "Front To Back" MySpace for more details. (Thanks for the tips, everybody.) Way To Normal is out 9/30 via Epic. Good timing, Ben. Posted at 9:31 AM by ...
Ben Folds Five Jump On The "Let's Have Bands Perform Their Old Albums Live" Bandwagon [The End Of Ideas]
Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip —
... Cheeky piano-heavy trio Ben Folds Five have announced that they're reuniting for a show where they play their 1999 album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner in its entirety. The concert—which takes place in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sept. 18—is the first installment in the "let's have bands play the albums you love so they can keep raking in the nostalgia cash" series Front To Back, which is sponsored in part by ...
Ben Folds Five Reunite to Play Reinhold Messner
Pitchfork Media - Today —
... 's "Front to Back" series, in which artists perform complete albums from their back catalogs in sequential order. Hmmm... ...
Ben Folds Five Do Reunion Gig
URB Magazine Daily Blogs —
Ben Folds Five Do Reunion Gig Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 @ 03:56 in Music by Michael Vazquez Ben Folds Five Do Reunion Gig I'm hoping they'll do some of the Fear Of Pop shit as a surprise, 'love that album, man. From our inbox to your screen, here's the press release. MYSPACE LAUNCHES NEW MUSIC PROGRAM "FRONT TO BACK"LOS ANGELES- September 3, 2008- MySpace, the world's premier social network, today announced the exciting launch of its newest music program, "Front to Back," celebrating iconic albums that have helped shape the MySpace Generation. MySpace kicks off this program by reuniting beloved ...
Ben Folds Five REUNION!!!!
Oh No They Didn't! —
... 's "Front to Back" series, in which artists perform complete albums from their back catalogs in sequential order. Hmmm... ...
Van Morrison to Play Astral Weeks in Full
Pitchfork Media - Today —
Yep, full album nostalgia is in full-swing, whether it's ATP's pioneering "Don't Look Back" concert series, MySpace's recently inaugurated "Front to Back" deal, or Oneida's characteristically creative approach to the trend. Nonetheless, it's nice to see somebody play through an honest-to-goodness classic, and few classics come as lauded as Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. Mr. Morrison intends to revisit the seminal 1968 set in ...
Now You Can Indie Rock Out Like It’s 1999
Best Week Ever —
... was reuniting to perform their last album as a band, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, in it's entirety in Chapel Hill, NC, the band's home (and my alma mater....go, go you sweet Tar Heels). I was really bummed that I couldn't go, what with the jet setting lifestyle I had, I was in Tokyo with Barack Obama and Diddy, but man, so I had to miss it. But yesterday MySpace announced they are streaming THE ENTIRE SHOW WITH INTERVIEWS FROM THE BAND from their site. The show is really good and ...
I'm So Envious Of Everyone There
AbsolutePunk.net - News —
... The Ben Folds Five reunion and "front to back" performance of their last studio album is now streaming on ...
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Paste: The Informer - This Week —
... into Ben Folds Five's first show in eight years, the regrets were already pooling up. "If I'd known about this gig, I'd have sequenced the album differently," Folds heaved, grabbing for a water bottle as the last notes of "Narcolepsy" were swallowed by the crowd's applause. Fair enough: The song works beautifully as the opener of The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner , the band's last album, which they played in its entirety last night at UNC Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall at the behest of MySpace and for ...






