Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. Dying Scene recently named him 1 of Punk’s 10 Best Accordion Players.
He is best known for playing the accordion and piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society. Nicolay has worked as a producer, arranger, session musician, and collaborator with Mischief Brew, Leftöver Crack, The Dresden Dolls, The Loved Ones, and The Living End. Franz Nicolay (born 1977) is an American musician and writer. He studied music at New York University and writing at Columbia University (where he. He is also notable for founding Anti-Social Music, a composer/performer collective based in New York City, and for performing in the Balkan jazz quartet Guignol. Franz Nicolay is a musician and writer living in Californias East Bay.He is best known for playing the accordion and piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society and keyboards in The Hold Steady from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2016 onwards.It’s a book that will haunt me for a long time to come. Franz Nicolay (born 1977) is an American musician and writer. With a sharp ear and an unsparing eye, Franz Nicolay has reinvented the road novel, stripping it of wide-eyed, Kerouac-ian grandeur to expose the frozen landscapesboth external and internalthat are part and parcel of a rootless existence. Nicolaywho made his name as a musician first with bands like The Hold Steady and The World/Inferno Friendship Societyhit the road for a stretch in 2012, then again in 20, sometimes. In Franz Nicolay's haunted and redemptive new album Luck & Courage (out October 12, on CD/Digital from Team Science Records and vinyl from Sabot Productions in the US and Decor Records in the UK/EU), he expands the idea and writes the history of the rise and fall of one such country, one inhabited by the titular characters Felix & Adelita - in.
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