[The following is a transcript of a speech given by the Fiery Furnaces in a motel breakfast room somewhere on the side of some road in Virginia before 9:00 am Sunday morning.]
Friends, Democ-Rock versus Bore-Core: The struggle has begun. In pursuit of a more perfect ‘DEROCMACY’: the Fiery Furnaces will record a series […]

[Read more →]

A series of rallies in support of that exciting new trend, Democ-Rock, begins tonight in Hoboken, New Jersey. These rallies will be held over the next four weeks in various swing-ing states. (They will all feature live entertainment by Democ-Rock band The Fiery Furnaces.) See below for specific dates and places.
(By the way, the caucusing […]

[Read more →]

Democracy fever has the Fiery Furnaces swooning. Excess Patriotism has lead to an attempt to truly open up the political-artistic process. The Mobilization Movement needs to be flipped over onto your record player.
Therefore, the On-Line Non-Binding Caucus to determine what the Fiery Furnaces’ next studio album will be begins today! Please go stand […]

[Read more →]

The Fiery Furnaces are All Fiery-ed Up and Ready to Go on their ROLL THE DICE/LEAP OF FAITH tour 2008.
The Fiery Furnaces encourage everyone to “roll the dice” and make the “leap of faith” these next few months.  The most obvious place for the application of this attitude is the polling place. But why not […]

[Read more →]

In no highlight-ly order:
“”I prefer it to be called the Mephistopheles Speakeasy.””
by Megan Baskin
“Madame comes to check my work”
by Sierra J
“Sip from my nipperkin-formented black morello cherry-and allay my sway to the allergando strikes of the one who made mensh music, lofty lad, thought the words made me weary…”
by Candice Cross
“By the time I’d finished […]

[Read more →]

KIM VANDERPOORTEN, SASHA OPEIKO, LEANNA McMILLEN, PANAGIOTIS PAPADOPOULOS, AND DONKEY BEADS: WINNERS OF THE MOONLESS MONDAY SONG-WRITING COMPETITION (LYRICS)
Remember, there are no losers: only winners. And remember that the winning entries were dubbed so because of the felicitous way they were thought to combine. They were judged to combine with each other in a […]

[Read more →]

The deadline for the Cabaret of the Seven Devils Songwriting Competition (lyrics portion) is December 1st.  Please send in your submissions by midnight, December 2nd.  We look forward to judging them.

[Read more →]

We think that this letter from Dennis (sent to Bob at thebigfoist@gmail.com) speaks for itself.  However, we all did have a lot of fun playing the show in question.  And we all smiled a lot.
Date: Nov 23, 2007 1:08 PM
Subject: Your Show in Berlin
To: thebigfoist@gmail.com
Dear Fiery Furnaces,
yesterday I attended one of the greatest concerts in […]

[Read more →]

Do you know how many people on “Facebook” have “St. Louis,” “Gay,” and “The Fiery Furnaces” in their self-description? One! Did that make Eric’s odds good or bad?
Good, it turned out. Eric drove the 4 hours from his forest by the lake in God-knows-where, Missouri, to have a date with “St. Louis/Gay/The Fiery Furnaces”: Tommy. […]

[Read more →]

The Fiery Furnaces are proud to announce the beginning of their six-part adaptation of that classic work of the European Imagination, Giambattista Basile’s Lo cunto de li cunti. Believing that rock music is ideal for the dramatization of this work when the title is left un-translated (which of course it should be), the Fiery Furnaces […]

[Read more →]