By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh Not that it's a competition, but at any summer festival you'll be expected to answer What Was The Best Set So Far several times a day. We have a tie for Friday, at least... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO 2009: BROOKLYN GO HARD»
Posted on June 13, 2009 in , (37 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Beastie Boys | Bonnaroo | David Byrne | Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear | Nas | Phish | TV On The Radio | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Grizzly Bear continue to be everywhere lately: the Top 10 of Billboard's album chart; on the cover of comics when I attended MoCCA (small-press comic fest) this weekend; Canada. You know, everywhere. When Ed landed in Toronto, he twitterly lamented... CONTINUE READING FEIST JOINS GRIZZLY BEAR IN TORONTO»
Posted on June 8, 2009 in (21 comments)
Tags: Feist | Grizzly Bear
The band's third LP moved over 33K albums in the first week to land at #8 providing, at the very least, an objective metric for the > or < Merriweather debate. Veckatimest comes in behind the likes of Eminem, Green... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR'S VECKATIMEST DEBUTS IN BILLBOARD TOP 10»
Posted on June 3, 2009 (116 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Jim James | My Morning Jacket
Between the late night performances, the radio sessions, and the abundant etcs., everybody's seen enough clips of "While You Wait For The Others" and "Two Weeks" to know that Grizzly Bear are capable of harmonizing in a live setting. On... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR BRING "READY, ABLE" & "CHEERLEADER" TO THE INTERFACE»
Posted on May 29, 2009 in (85 comments)
Tags: Cass McCombs | Grizzly Bear | Leeds | Noah And The Whale
Turns out Grizzly Dan's mom loves her indie rock. Drowned In Sound has a sampling of Wendy's emails to Daniel over the years about Beirut, Feist, and yes whether Animal Collective really is > her son's band. Lots Of Love.... CONTINUE READING WENDY ROSSEN'S INDIE CORNER»
Posted on May 28, 2009 (6 comments)
Tags: Backwards Clock Society | Billy Corgan | Dan Rossen | Eagles Of Death Metal | Grizzly Bear | Leeds
Ed Droste's behind-the-scenes photos suggested frequent Feist director Patrick Daughters was taking Grizzly Bear to church for "Two Weeks." True. But the video for the Veckatimest standout (though, some would argue all of it's a standout) is not what we... CONTINUE READING NEW GRIZZLY BEAR VIDEO - "TWO WEEKS"»
Posted on May 22, 2009 in , , (133 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Patrick Daughters
It happens to the best of 'em. GM's Bob Lutz talked so much on last night's Late Show, there was no time for a string quartet-assisted "Ready, Able." A bummed Ed Droste reports they've rescheduled for July. ... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR BUMPED FROM LETTERMAN»
Posted on May 21, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: David Letterman | Grizzly Bear
Just when you were thinking of being over "Two Weeks." The Remixer Of The Year race I just made up seemed to be tipped in the Golden Filter's favor just weeks ago, but after the Filter and Fred Falke's showdown... CONTINUE READING FRED FALKE REMIXES GRIZZLY BEAR»
Posted on May 11, 2009 (22 comments)
Tags: Fred Falke | Grizzly Bear | Scott Matthews | Weezer
In addition to their UK TV debut with "Two Weeks" last week, Grizzly Bear performed Veckatimest's other pre-release sensation "While You Wait For The Others" for Jools's Friday show. Watch them both here. And good news: the "Two Weeks" version... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR'S "WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE OTHERS" ON JOOLS»
Posted on May 11, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Jools Holland
Grizzly Bear finally broke the telly-glass ceiling last night. Via Ed's Twitter account of the evening, we know one song went live, with two more recorded for Friday's extended show. First up is "Two Weeks," which is a good choice... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR MAKE THEIR UK TV DEBUT ON JOOLS HOLLAND»
Posted on May 6, 2009 in (60 comments)
Tags: Green Man Festival | Grizzly Bear | Jools Holland | Neon Indian | Wooden Shjips
Well, it was actually for Ed Droste's birthday, but he performed it as part of the New Yorker's "Love Is Strange" Speakeasy event this past Valentine's Day at Galapagos in Dumbo. You remember, it was the song we posted when... CONTINUE READING DAN ROSSEN COVERS JOJO FOR THE NEW YORKER»
Posted on April 15, 2009 in (15 comments)
Tags: Dan Rossen | Department Of Eagles | Grizzly Bear | JoJo | Sleigh Bells
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.... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR DOES "TWO WEEKS" LIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH VICTORIA FROM BEACH HOUSE»
Posted on March 25, 2009 in (31 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Grizzly Bear | Music Go Music | Sufjan Stevens | SXSW | Victoria Legrand
Yesterday, in Stereogum's 101st blog post (jesus) on Grizzly Bear, we highlighted "Cheerleader," which Amrit called "an outright standout on an LP full of them." It's now the most commented new thread on the site, with you guys arguing over... CONTINUE READING NEW GRIZZLY BEAR - "SOUTHERN POINT"»
Posted on March 18, 2009 in (67 comments)
Tags: Daniel Johnston | Grizzly Bear | SXSW
Oh right, Grizzly Bear have a new record. Whatever you think of Veckatimest, and most of you seem to think a lot vis a vis this year's record from that other set of collected animals, "Cheerleader" is an outright standout... CONTINUE READING NEW GRIZZLY BEAR - "CHEERLEADER"»
Posted on March 17, 2009 (140 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Lucky Dragons
These days the new cool is getting artist blogs to blog about other artists. Extra cool hunting points are awarded if you go Kanye-style and start premiering songs and videos for your RSS subscribers. So in addition to owning the... CONTINUE READING NEW FOREIGN BORN - "VACATIONING PEOPLE"»
Posted on March 6, 2009 in (10 comments)
Tags: Foreign Born | Grizzly Bear | U2
No secret we've been excited about this one for awhile. And as the band blogged, it's no secret that a transcode of the album is burning up torrent sites a bit earlier than anticipated. On the other hand, between live... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: GRIZZLY BEAR - VECKATIMEST»
Posted on March 5, 2009 in (187 comments)
Tags: Chris Taylor | Dan Rossen | Ed Droste | Grizzly Bear | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | Victoria Legrand
If you didn't hear from your message board or torrent tracking site of choice, you probably did from Ed Droste's Twitter: Veckatimest leaked. If you know that, you probably know that Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold has already called it "the... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR BLOG ABOUT VECKATIMEST LEAK, ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES»
Posted on March 4, 2009 in (79 comments)
Tags: Deerhunter | Grizzly Bear | The Flaming Lips
Well, that was wonderful. On Saturday night at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Final Fantasy and Grizzly Bear experimented with full sets of material accompanied by the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The results were masterful, obvs. Final Fantasy's material is inherently symphonic,... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR/FINAL FANTASY WITH THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC @ BAM, BROOKLYN 2/28/09»
Posted on March 2, 2009 in , , , (47 comments)
Tags: Black Lips | Final Fantasy | Grizzly Bear | Nico Muhly | Rain Machine | The National
So after finding out what the-album-that-somehow-comes-up-in-every-comment-thread was called, the only outstanding issue was: how exactly do you visually conceptualize a Veckatimest? I figure either you incorporate imagery of the namesake uninhabited isle, or create sort of a hand-drawn collage of... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR'S VECKATIMEST ALBUM ART, TRACKLIST»
Posted on February 13, 2009 in (82 comments)
Tags: Esau Mwamwaya | Grizzly Bear | Oneida | The Very Best
You know, one of the Elizabeth Islands of Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA.? But you already guessed that from Ed's recent Twitter riddle: New album title begins with the letter V. Close enough to Y for Yellow House. Only W and... CONTINUE READING NEW GRIZZLY BEAR ALBUM GETS A TITLE AND IT'S ... VECKATIMEST»
Posted on February 8, 2009 (63 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Kings Of Convenience | Real Estate
NAME: Grizzly Bear PROGRESS REPORT: Mixing ... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: GRIZZLY BEAR»
Posted on February 4, 2009 in , (75 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Grizzly Bear | Nico Muhly | Victoria Legrand
On Horn Of Plenty, "Service Bell" was just a lonely little Droste with a dorm room and a four-track. Years later he gets to revisit the track with a band full of Brooklyn's finest and a lady named Leslie. It's... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR'S "SERVICE BELL" NOW WITH EXTRA FEIST»
Posted on January 28, 2009 (5 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Dark Was The Night | Feist | Grizzly Bear | Low Vs Diamond
Continuing the daily track-by-track unveiling of the Dressner brothers' Dark Was The Night charity comp, today's tune is a reworked studio version of Grizzly's "Deep Blue Sea" cover, basically the Friend version with a little more Grizzly filigree. Hear it... CONTINUE READING NEW GRIZZLY BEAR - "DEEP BLUE SEA"»
Posted on January 19, 2009 (15 comments)
Tags: Dan Rossen | Dark Was The Night | Explosions In The Sky | Grizzly Bear | Holy Fuck
