If Twitter’s good for anything (probably not), it could be the realization that most rock stars live lives primarily built of small moments just as routinely mundane as ours. Except for when they’re tweeting about stuff that makes this list. One e.g. from that spread was Ed from Grizzly Bear’s confession of undying <3 for Beach House, which he and his Grizzly mates took from the tweets to 6th Street in Austin this past Friday: First Department Of Eagles closed their set with a surprise cover of the Dead’s “Fire On The Mountain” with Beach House’s Victoria Legrand onstage as a makeshift Donna Jean Godchaux, and later that same night Grizzly Bear presented the Blackberry Showcase with the live debut of “Two Weeks” as recorded on Veckatimest, with Victoria’s wordless chorus vocal. The latter moment’s here for you.
That comes from Veckatimest, which is a good album. I took that pic from the back of the Cedar Street Courtyard; I was a little closer by the time Dinosaur Jr hit stage.
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Wow that RUUUUUUULES
i love you, stereogum
Animal Collective, < , >, boring, better, awesome, MPP, Yellow House.
There, those terms and “RUUUUUUULES” are all used up for this comment thread. So you guys have to construct a discussion using OTHER things. Good luck.
I didn?t get to see Beach House that night but when I saw Victoria come on stage to do that song?wow, it was amazing! One of the highlights of my night! Grizzly Bear rules!!!
this is endless sweet. did anyone happen to get any video clips from Department of Eagles cover of “Fire on the Mountain” by Grateful Dead with Victoria during the Pitchfork event at Emo’s? that fucking ruled.
boy, get your ray-bans out of my way!
When was this filmed? I feel like they played this when i saw them open for Radiohead in August of 2008. I haven’t got to hear Veckatimest yet but i have heard this song before.
Simply stunning!
song of the year from the album of the year
off “singles” alone…two weeks isn’t better than while you wait for the others…
says you, I say differently. Opinions apparently vary
That was pretty damn good as far as shakey cellphone/digital camera footage goes.
I’ve been trying to figure out which part she was singing on the album. Damn my shitty audio rip, it was so obvious!
My day has been made.
They sound good, but everyone needs to stop peeing in their pants about this band.
I will continue to pee my pants whenever Grizzly Bear is mentioned, thank you very much.
Pretty cool. But I need to see footage of them doing ‘Fire on the Mountain’
Love. It.
Victoria’s finger motions freaked me out.
Is it bad that I prefer Chris doing victorias part as seen on the david letterman video?
nope. I was a little surprised that’s the part she was singing. I guess I had just assumed it was Chris from the rip I have. Still an amazing song, even though I slightly prefer Chris.
yaaayyyyyyy!!!!!
is everyone on this thread deaf? she’s out of tune! in her defense it looked as if she was struggling to hear herself but jesus christ people…do you have ears or are you just so “into” this band that you don’t even care what they sound like anymore you just eat up the idea of them..
she was off a little at the beginning. but it got better. a little…
yeah…this was a horrible rendition.
It’s youtube , hardly an example of quality audio or a representation of of a good performance, you fucktard
people were excited to hear this???????
Extremely. You fuck.
This song is how summer feels. It doesn’t get any better than this.
This recording is terrible. I think Grizzly bear would not approve of this post, seeing as how they kinda care about how their music is presented (read the blog post about the leak). Shame on you Stereogum.
Unrelated, sometimes Chris Taylor reminds me of a more hipster Neil Patrick Harris.