Every week, Amazon.com lets us select one album from its MP3 store to go on super sale (up to 75% off normal prices). At Amazon's request, going forward we're going to feature recent releases instead of old albums you probably... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM X AMAZON MP3 FRIENDLY DEALS #7: DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES' IN EAR PARK»
Posted on December 22, 2008 in , (23 comments)
Tags: Department Of Eagles | Grizzly Bear | The Drums
There a few more days of pretending to look busy at work ahead, but as far as our iTunes are concerned 2009 can't get here soon enough. We're done with the lists. It's time for the new. We pored over... CONTINUE READING THE 20 ALBUMS WE'RE MOST EXCITED TO HEAR IN 2009 »
Posted on December 19, 2008 in (257 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Antony And The Johnsons | Antony Hegarty | Beirut | Black Lips | Blikk Fang | Dan Deacon | Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear | Kings Of Convenience | Lightning Bolt | Lily Allen | M. Ward | Mastodon | MGMT | Morrissey | of Montreal | The Dead Weather | The Decemberists | U2 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Everyone's sorry! Enough already, we know. A byproduct of leak culture is the inevitable fallout from policing intellectual property rights. This can be interesting. But as suggested by both Avey Tare and State.ie in this new interview, the Web Sheriff/Grizzly... CONTINUE READING ANIMAL COLLECTIVE RESPOND TO THE WEB SHERIFF FIASCO, PLAN AN APOLOGY TO GRIZZLY BEAR»
Posted on December 9, 2008 (20 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Girl Talk | Grizzly Bear
The Merriweather Post Pavilion version of Animal Collective's already-the-jam-of-'09 "Brother Sport" recently made its way to the radio. Then it made its way to all the blogs. This included the Grizzly Bear blog, too, because Grizzly Bear also have ears.... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR APOLOGIZE TO ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, DOMINO, WEB SHERIFF»
Posted on November 24, 2008 (42 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Grizzly Bear | Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt
For all the building anticipation about Grizzly Bear's long awaited Yellow House followup, we haven't had much raw data to go on (unless it came in MP3 or .mov form). Thanks then to Drowned In Sound for extracting cold hard... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR SERVE UP SOME ALBUM DETAILS»
Posted on November 11, 2008 (30 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Jesca Hoop | Vampire Weekend | Victoria Legrand
The Björk fans will perform on Saturday, February 28 at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House, with Grizzly's set arranged by Nico Muhly. It's part of the Philharmonic's BP Presents series and tickets go on sale 10/20 at 10 AM at... CONTINUE READING FINAL FANTASY AND GRIZZLY BEAR ANNOUNCE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC SHOW»
Posted on October 14, 2008 (2 comments)
Tags: Final Fantasy | Grizzly Bear | Nico Muhly
Earlier this week the New York Times raised a few eyebrows with their profile on Dan Rossen's Department Of Eagles project. It's not surprising to see D.O.E. given such high-minded attention (they're suddenly everywhere, from last week's Conan to last... CONTINUE READING DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES AND GRIZZLY BEAR PROMISE THEY ALL STILL LOVE EACH OTHER»
Posted on October 8, 2008 (20 comments)
Tags: Beastie Boys | Bonnaroo | Coachella | Dan Rossen | Department Of Eagles | Ed Droste | Grizzly Bear | TV On The Radio
Not like live television debut, I mean like they had never before played as a band in public until last night, when they did so before a nationally televised audience. No pressure, guys. And yes that came pretty fast, but... CONTINUE READING DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES MAKE THEIR LIVE DEBUT ON CONAN»
Posted on October 2, 2008 in , (42 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Dan Rossen | Department Of Eagles | Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear | Holy Fuck | Louis C.K. | Menomena | Nat Baldwin
It took Grizzly Bear's Dan Rossen and his non-Grizzly songwriting partner Fred Nicolaus a good five years to sculpt their second full-length In Ear Park. With "1997," however, they're already one track into a third LP. So maybe there won't... CONTINUE READING NEW DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES - "1997" (NEW SONG, STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on September 29, 2008 in , (27 comments)
Tags: Dan Rossen | Department Of Eagles | Grizzly Bear
It's been a year and a half since Dan Rossen and his longtime songwriting partner Fred Nicolaus dropped us a demo of "No One Does It Like You" as a tease to the duo's first Department Of Eagles album since... CONTINUE READING NEW DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES - "NO ONE DOES IT LIKE YOU" (ALBUM VERSION)»
Posted on August 20, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Chris Taylor | Coachella | Dan Rossen | Department Of Eagles | Grizzly Bear | Jenny Lewis | John Hodgman | Paul F. Tompkins
Hats are off to the Grizzly guys for having the mettle to play 50% new stuff at these Radiohead tour stops. (It helps that the songs are being so rapturously received, although if the last LP I put out was... CONTINUE READING NEW GRIZZLY BEAR - "FINE FOR NOW" (LIVE AT ALL POINTS WEST)»
Posted on August 11, 2008 in (39 comments)
Tags: All Points West | Grizzly Bear | Sufjan Stevens
It's time to brave the ferry lines for another day in Jersey, but first: pretty pictures via the eye of Abbey Braden. As mentioned, things got off to a slow start, but from thereon the day belonged to Gregg... CONTINUE READING ALL POINTS WEST: FRIDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 9, 2008 in (25 comments)
Tags: All Points West | CSS | Duffy | Girl Talk | Grizzly Bear | Mates Of State | Radiohead | The Go! Team | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | Underworld
By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh In a sense yesterday was the first show of the Grizzly Bear/Radiohead trek (aka The Best Tour Of '08) -- the Brooklyn faves hitting the Citi stage two hours before Radiohead's day closer... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA 2008: GRIZZLY BEAR PLAY FOUR NEW SONGS»
Posted on August 2, 2008 in , (29 comments)
Tags: Andrew Bird | Grizzly Bear | Ida Maria | Lollapalooza | SXSW
You know something's going well when you can get a room full of drunks to shut up and watch David Letterman at 12:20AM. At the viewing party last night at Hi Fi, it was pretty much silence and smiles. Doveman's... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR BRING "TWO WEEKS" TO LETTERMAN»
Posted on July 24, 2008 in , (48 comments)
Tags: David Letterman | Doveman | Grizzly Bear
The new of Montreal record release is on the horizon (10/7), Grizzly Bear is finally playing Letterman, and those sound like great reasons for a party. If you're around the East Village tonight, come over to Hi Fi from 10PM-12:30AM... CONTINUE READING COME LISTEN TO OF MONTREAL'S SKELETAL LAMPING & WATCH GRIZZLY BEAR'S LETTERMAN PERFORMANCE WITH US TONIGHT»
Posted on July 23, 2008 (0 comments)
Tags: David Letterman | Grizzly Bear | of Montreal
"Late at night on an empty street, everyone I know walking beside me." Director Cat Solan doesn't have 'em walking, but by the time the highly watch-worthy Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson gets to that lyric in his point perfect, spirit-protest... CONTINUE READING NEW MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON VIDEO - "BURIEDFED"»
Posted on July 9, 2008 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Last April we got an unexpected and entirely welcome glimpse at the then-dormant Dan Rossen project Department Of Eagles, when Rossen's songwriting partner and fellow Eagle departmentalist Fred Nicolaus sent us a track as sweet, sweet reminder that D.O.E. were... CONTINUE READING NEW DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES - "IN EAR PARK"»
Posted on July 8, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Dan Rossen | Department Of Eagles | Grizzly Bear
Careful students of TiVO's scheduling guide have known for weeks that Dave scheduled Grizzly Bear to be his music guest tomorrow night, marking the band's first performance in the Ed Sullivan Theater (save the time they were indie rock choir... CONTINUE READING LETTERMAN RESCHEDULES GRIZZLY BEAR, ED OFFERS US THE CONTENTS OF HIS IPOD AS CONSOLATION»
Posted on July 1, 2008 in (11 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Santigold
Over the weekend, e-newsletter Thrillist sent 150 media folks to Las Vegas to drink and Twitter about their hangovers. Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste tagged along, and wrote about his Sin City weekend with the digerati for his friends at Refinery29.... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR MEETS JULIA ALLISON»
Posted on June 16, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: Ed Droste | Grizzly Bear
It's totally reductive to associate Memorial Day Weekend solely with drinking and eating (and not, you know, Memorializing), but here it is, that special weekend custom made for welcoming summer, getting drunk, and eating bbq, and yay for that. Before... CONTINUE READING AN MP3 MIX FOR YOUR MEMORIAL DAY»
Posted on May 23, 2008 in (20 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Awesome New Republic | Brendan Canning | Burning Star Core | Grizzly Bear | Hercules And Love Affair | Los Campesinos! | Mates Of State | Mount Eerie | Music Go Music | My Morning Jacket | Phil Elverum | Quiet Village | Takka Takka | Tokyo Police Club
Earlier this year, some sad news developed for Polaroid-loving hipsters (after the requisite wrist waving and blowing, of course): Polaroid is ceasing production on all instant film, thereby obsoleting your blog. So Tumblrers and Typepadders alike will want to consume... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY DAN IS BLESSED WITH PATRICK STEWART, PAUL SIMON, AND MAKES A FAN OUT OF GROBAN»
Posted on May 13, 2008 (7 comments)
Tags: Dan Rossen | Gillian Welch | Grizzly Bear | Josh Groban | Patrick Stewart | Paul Simon | Sufjan Stevens
Say what you will about Paul Simon, dude from Los Lobos, but the guy's written more of the Great American Songbook than anyone playing Coachella this weekend. Aside from Prince. And Black Kids. Last night a motley crew of performers... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR, JOSH GROBAN PAY TRIBUTE TO PAUL SIMON»
Posted on April 24, 2008 in , , (45 comments)
Tags: Amos Lee | Gillian Welch | Grizzly Bear | Josh Groban | Olu Dara | Paul Simon | The Roches
Few songs get as much of pre-release buzz-up and as many swoony mentions as the Grizz's first glimpse at post-Yellow House/Friend, "While You Wait For The Others." You know a good tune when you remember exactly where you were when... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR BRING "WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE OTHERS" TO CONAN»
Posted on April 22, 2008 in (20 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Grizzly Bear
When's the last time you want to an actual record store? Like where you have to walk through a door and can't just click "download"? Yes, we live inside a blog, but record stores are pretty great. Brandon worked at... CONTINUE READING TOMORROW IS RECORD STORE DAY»
Posted on April 18, 2008 (34 comments)
Tags: Björk | Built To Spill | Dead Meadow | Death Cab For Cutie | Deerhunter | Grizzly Bear | Interpol | Prurient | R.E.M. | Regina Spektor | Stephen Malkmus | SXSW | Tapes 'N Tapes | The Black Keys | The New Pornographers | Vampire Weekend | Young Widows
