A couple of months ago, we posted Bear In Heaven's "Lovesick Teenagers" in the midst of the deaths of John Hughes and Patrick Swayze. It colored the song then and has provided me a framework that still affects me when... CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: BEAR IN HEAVEN»
Posted on November 11, 2009 in Quit Your Day Job (0 comments)
Tags: Bear In Heaven | Motel Motel
One last gargantuan batch of photos from an exhausting, exhaustive week of NYC showgoing. On Friday Jessica Amaya joined us at Doveman's record release party at the Elevated Hole, a Chelsea loft owned by the Yale English Dept. chair Michael... CONTINUE READING CMJ '09: WEEKEND IN PHOTOS»
Posted on October 26, 2009 in Concert, Photo (2 comments)
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The first track we posted by Brooklyn quartet Bear In Heaven was their zeitgeist-locked "Lovesick Teenager." The warping "Dust Cloud," another song from the band's excellent second full-length Beast Rest Forth Mouth, basically sounds like a couple of swooning lovesick... CONTINUE READING NEW BEAR IN HEAVEN - "DUST CLOUD"»
Posted on October 5, 2009 in MP3, Tour Dates (3 comments)
Tags: Bear In Heaven | Girl Talk
Brooklyn quartet Bear In Heaven's second full-length Beast Rest Forth Mouth is out 10/13 on Hometapes. Before that, the collection's first single "Wholehearted Mess" shows up on a 12" EP with three remixes. In this week's Drop, we asked Bear... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP CVII: HEAR NEW BEAR IN HEAVEN, WIN A PEARL JAM GUITAR»
Posted on September 23, 2009 in Giveaway, MP3 (3 comments)
Tags: Bear In Heaven | Pearl Jam
After the recent deaths of '80s musical movie icons John Hughes and Patrick Swayze, an ebulliently downcast and darkly triumphant song that reminds us lovesick teenagers "don't ever die / they will live forever" sounds like the anthem of '09.... CONTINUE READING NEW BEAR IN HEAVEN - "LOVESICK TEENAGERS"»
Posted on September 15, 2009 in Album Art, MP3 (7 comments)
Tags: Bear In Heaven | Interpol | Julian Plenti
You don't need us to tell you that if you want to see R.E.M. tonight you should have started lining up at Stubb's two days ago. Also you know how big these SXSW crowds are getting every year. The best... CONTINUE READING SXSW: WEDNESDAY FEATURED SHOWCASES»
Posted on March 12, 2008 in MP3 (2 comments)
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