Canadian singer-songwriter Feist plans to work with American heavy metal band Mastodon to create a record especially for Record Store Day, which is a celebration of independent music stores around the world, reports NME.
For the occasion, the 1234 singer will cover a song by the Atlanta, Georgia-based band, while the heavy metal band, just nominated for a Grammy, plans to take a Feist song and turn it into heavy metal, and both will be released on a split 7” single on April 21.
“The idea is for Mastodon to cover a Feist song and throw some hair and dirt on it. [Feist will] take a Mastodon song and pretty it up a little bit," explained Troy Sanders of Mastodon.
The acts met recently in October on the BBC show Later…with Jools Holland, and Feist said: "Brent [Hinds of Mastodon] and I were nodding at each other, and he’s like, ‘nice riff,’ and I’m like ‘nice tone’."
Feist recently announced that she will perform two concerts in England in March 2012 at London’s Royal Albert Hall and Manchester’s O2 Apollo.