AS BAND LEADER/MEMBER
AS PRODUCER
AS SESSION PLAYER/ARRANGER
UPCOMING OR UNRELEASED

 

AS LEADER OR BAND MEMBER

 

        • World/Inferno Friendship Society – Just The Best Party (Gern Blandsten) BUY
          • keys, accordion, mandolin, bkg vox
        • World/Inferno Friendship Society – Hallowmas Live at Northsix (DCN/GoKart Europe) BUY
          • keys, acc, bkg vox
        • The Hold Steady – Almost Killed Me (CD on French Kiss; vinyl on Women Records) BUY
          • piano, organ
        • The Hold Steady – Crisp Songs eMusic exclusives: “Modesto Is Not That Sweet” b/w “You Gotta Dance” BUY
          • accordion, harmonica
        • Rock Against Bush – World/Inferno Friendship Society “The Expatriate Act” (Fat Wreck) BUY
          • keys
        • Anti-Social Music – Greatest Hits Live BUY
          • accordion, composer
        • Guignol – Guignol (Third Story Records TSR-002) BUY CD BUY MP3
          • accordion
        • World/Inferno Friendship Society – Speak of Brave Men EP/7″ (Gern Blandsten) BUY
          • keys, acc, bkg vox
        • The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (CD on French Kiss; Australian CD on Rogue Records; vinyl on Women Records) BUY
          • piano, organ
        • World/Inferno Friendship Society – Me V. Angry Mob CD/Vinyl (The Company With The Golden Arm) BUY
          • keys, acc, bkg vox
        • Guignol/Nanuchka – Drink The Best Wine First (Fistolo) BUY CD BUY MP3
          • accordion, keys, mandola
        • Mehanata Bulgarian Bar “New York Gypsymania” comp – Guignol “Agada” & “All Or Nothing Machine” BUY
          • accordion, piano, mandola
        • Anti-Social Music – Sings The Great American Songbook (Peacock Records) BUY CD BUY MP3
          • accordion, composer, vox
        • World/Inferno Friendship Society – Red-Eyed Soul (CD on Chunksaah, deluxe vinyl on Bankshot!, European CD/vinyl on The Company With The Golden Arm) BUY
          • keys, accordion, vox, castanets, mandolin, string arrangements, production/engineering
        • The Hold Steady – Boys & Girls In America (Vagrant) (plus B-sides) BUY
          • piano, organ, harmonica, bkg vox, accordion, saw, string arrangements
        • The Hold Steady – Acoustic Session Fall 2006 (acoustic versions of BAGIA songs plus “Against The Wind” and “American Music”)
          • piano, accordion, bkg vox, spoons
        • The Hold Steady – Chips Ahoy! b/w Girls Like Status 7″ (Full Time Hobby)
          • piano, organ, harmonica, vocals
        • “I’m Not There” OST (Sony) – The Hold Steady “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” BUY
          • piano, organ, harmonica
        • “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters Colon The Soundtrack” OST – The Hold Steady “Girls Like Status” BUY
          • organ, harmonica, backing vox
        • The Hold Steady – “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” (Minnesota Twins) Free Download
          • Wurlitzer, organ
        • The Hold Steady – Live at Fingerprints EP (Vagrant) BUY
          • accordion, harmonica, bkg vox
        • The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations CD single (b/w “Chips Ahoy! (Live at Fingerprints)”, “Teenage Liberation”) (Vagrant/Full Time Hobby) BUY
          • piano, accordion, organ, bkg vox
        • The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations 7″ #1 (b/w “Teenage Liberation”, “Chips Ahoy! (Live at Fingerprints)”) (Vagrant/Full Time Hobby)
          • piano, accordion, organ, bkg vox
        • The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations 7″ #2 (b/w “American Music”) (Vagrant/Full Time Hobby)
          • piano, accordion, spoons, bkg vox
        • World/Inferno Friendship Society – Addicted To Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s Twentieth Century (Chunksaah Records) BUY
          • keys, vox
        • The Hold Steady – Massive Nights CD single (Vagrant/Full Time Hobby)
          • organ, piano, bkg vox
        • Franz Nicolay “The Black Rose Paladins (Demos 2007)” BUY MP3
          • piano, guitar, vocals
        • The Hold Steady “Stay Positive” (Vagrant/Rough Trade) BUY
          • piano, organ, accordion, saw, mandola, harpsichord, bkg vox, string arrangements
        • The Hold Steady “Sequestered In Memphis” 7″ (Rough Trade) BUY
          • keys, bkg vox
        • The Dresden Dolls & Franz Nicolay – “Ballad of a Teenage Queen” on All Aboard: A Tribute To Johnny Cash (Anchorless Records) BUY CD VINYL
          • accordion, saw, percussion, bkg vox
        • Franz Nicolay “Major General” (Fistolo Records) BUY CD in U.S.; BUY CD in U.K. & Europe; BUY MP3
          • Producer, vocals, guitar, piano, organ, percussion, accordion, banjo, string arrangements
        • The Hold Steady “Atlantic City” (Springsteen cover) on Heroes (War Child benefit comp) BUY CD/MP3 VINYL
          • piano, bkg vox
        • The Hold Steady “A Positive Rage” DVD documentary/live CD package (Vagrant Records) BUY
          • keys, accordion, bkg vox, string arrangements
        • Franz Nicolay “St. Sebastian of the Short Stage” EP (Team Science Records) BUY VINYL BUY MP3
          • Producer, accordion, keys, guitar, vox
        • Anti-Social Music “Fracture: The Music of Pat Muchmore” (Innova) BUY CD BUY MP3
          • accordion
        • Guignol & Mischief Brew “Fight Dirty” (Fistolo Records, CD) BUY CD (The Cottage Records, cassette) BUY CASSETTE BUY MP3
          • accordion, piano, bkg vox
        • Emily Hope Price & Franz Nicolay “Z for Zachariah” STREAM
          • vocals, mandola, banjo, glockenspiel, xylophone
        • “World/Inferno Presents: Vox Inferne” 7″ (Team Science Records) BUY
          • vocals, arrangements
        • The Bushwick Book Club, Vol. 1: January-November 2009 (BBC-GBM) BUY
          • Producer, piano, accordion, percussion, vocals
        • Guignol “Live on WUML 3/9/10″ BUY
          • accordion
        • Franz Nicolay “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) [feat. Sxip Shirey]” on Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan’s “Bringing It All Back Home” (Reimagine Music) BUY
          • Producer, vocals, banjo, guitar, percussion
        • Franz Nicolay “Luck & Courage” (Team Science Records/Decor Records/Sabot Productions) BUY US/UK MP3
          • Vocals, banjo, glockenspiel, guitar, horn & string arrangements, keys, percussion, pong laang, ukulele
        • Anti-Social Music vs. Franz Nicolay “Unlucky & Discouraged (Remixes)” DOWNLOAD
          • Source material
        • Franz Nicolay “It Is Never A Mistake To Say Goodbye” on “Live Fast Get Folked” compilation Download
          • baritone ukulele, vocals
        • “Con Artist” (DVD) dir. by Michael Sladek, incl. music by Guignol & Mischief Brew BUY
          • accordion
        • Franz Nicolay “This Is Not A Pipe” on Xtra Mile Records “Xtra Mile High Club Vol. 3″ (compilation) BUY/Stream
          • Vocals, banjo
        • Franz Nicolay “Live Free (Tour EP 2011)” BUY CD BUY MP3
          • Vocals, banjo, guitar, accordion

        • Franz Nicolay “This Is Not A Pipe (Live) on “Roll Over, Pretty” (compilation) BUY

          •  Vocals, banjo

        • Franz Nicolay & Emilyn Brodsky “Party” (X-Ray Spex cover) on “REBEL ON THE UNDERGROUND: A Tribute to X-Ray Spex” BUY
        • Vocals, banjo, guitar
        • Anti-Social Music “Sleeps Around: Music of dalek & His Name Is Alive” BUY
        • Executive producer, vocals

 

AS PRODUCER

 

            • Mirah/Emilyn Brodsky/The Vibration – split 7″ (Third Story) BUY
              • producer, guitars, keys, acc
            • The Old Bailey “You Want It? They’ve Got It!” – Reds Strike The Blues: A Tribute To The Redskins BUY
              • producer, banjolin, piano, bkg vox
            • “Please My Favorite Don’t Be Sad” on World/Inferno Friendship Society – Red-Eyed Soul BUY CD/VINYL BUY MP3
              • producer
            • The Debutante Hour “The Birth And Death Of Meaning” BUY CD BUY MP3
              • Producer, additional engineering, guitars, glockenspiel, mandola, keys, baritone ukulele, ukulele, banjo, additional vox and percussion
            • Pearl And The Beard “Black Vessel” EP BUY CD BUY MP3
              • producer, engineer, string arrangement for “Manek & Ilona”
            • The Debutante Hour “Follow Me” EP BUY
              • producer, banjo
            • Pearl and The Beard “Killing The Darlings” BUY CD BUY MP3
              • producer, string arrangements, keys, accordion, additional vocals and percussion
            • Anti-Social Music “Is The Future Of Everything” BUY CD BUY MP3
              • producer, editor
            • The Debutante Hour “An Awkward Time With…” BUY
              • co-producer on “M. Bovary” and “Everybody Thinks I’m A Spy”

 

SESSIONS

 

          • Leftover Crack – Fuck World Trade (Alternative Tentacles) BUY
            • accordion, keys
          • The Blam – Caveat Emptor BUY
            • accordion
          • Mischief Brew – Smash The Windows (Fistolo) BUY
            • accordion
          • Nanuchka – A Carefully Planned Accident (self-released) BUY
            • keyboards, accordion
          • Demander – The Unkindness of Ravens (self-released) BUY
            • Moog, accordion
          • The Ratchets – Glorybound (Pirates Press) BUY
            • piano, organ
          • The Sharp Things – A Moveable Feast (Bar/None) BUY
            • accordion
          • The Loved Ones – Build & Burn (Fat Wreck Chords) BUY
            • piano, organ, accordion, harmonica, saw
          • The Max Levine Ensemble – OK Smartypants (Plan-It-X) Free Download
            • keyboards
          • The Living End “White Noise” (Dew Process) BUY
            • keys, string arrangements
          • Emilyn Brodsky “Emilyn Brodsky’s Greatest Tits” (Third Story Records) BUY
            • keys, accordion
          • Star Fucking Hipsters “Until We’re Dead” (Fat Wreck Chords) BUY
            • accordion, keys
          • Jennifer O’Connor “Here With Me” (Matador) BUY
            • accordion, piano, organ
          • Voltaire “To The Bottom Of The Sea” (Mars Needs Music) BUY
            • accordion
          • The 241ers “Murderers” (Household Name Records) BUY
            • accordion
          • Alan Semerdjian “The Big Beauty” BUY
            • accordion, tack piano
          • Likeness To Lily “Farewell, Recruit” BUY
            • accordion
          • The Loved Ones “Distractions” EP (Fat Wreck Chords) BUY
            • keys
          • Emily Hope-Price “The Crux and the Bluestocking” BUY
            • accordion
          • Pearl and the Beard “God Bless Your Weary Soul, Amanda Richardson” BUY CD BUY MP3
            • accordion
          • Mark Eitzel “Klamath” BUY
            • accordion
          • Demander “Future Brite” BUY
            • keys
          • Yoni Gordon & The Goods “Turning Chaos Into A Career” BUY
            • accordion, organ
          • B Is For Baroness “B Is For Baroness” BUY
            • accordion
          • Yoni Gordon & The Goods “Fairytale of New York (feat. Franz Nicolay & Emilyn Brodsky)” (Free Christmas single) Free Download
            • accordion, keys, bkg vox
          • Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley “Evelyn Evelyn” BUY
            • vocals
          • Maurice Davis Band “Are We Permanent” BUY
            • keyboards
          • The New Students “Ship of Fools” BUY
            • saw
          • Frank Turner “England Keep My Bones” BUY
            • accordion
          • Junior Battles “Idle Ages” BUY
            • keys, banjo
          • Anna Vogelzang “Canary In A Coal Mine” BUY
            • accordion
          • More Humans “Demon Station” BUY
            • keys
          • Voltaire “Riding A Black Unicorn” BUY
            • accordion
          • Anthony Da Costa “Secret Handshake” BUY
            • keyboards, accordion

 

UPCOMING OR AS-YET-UNRELEASED

 

      • Franz Nicolay/Mischief Brew split 7″
        • accordion, piano, percussion, vocals
      • Max Levine Ensemble “Government Center” (Jonathan Richman cover, Third Story Records)
        • keys
      • Untitled project from Hoots & Hellmouth
        • accordion
      • The Secret History “Americans Singing In The Dark”
        • vocals
      • Untitled project by Hamell On Trial
        • banjo, accordion, saw, keys
      • Untitled project by Jack River Kings
        • accordion, keys
      • Untitled project by The Cutups
        • keys