Tonight Grizzly Bear wrap up their five-month US tour with a sold-out Solana Beach gig before heading to Europe with St. Vincent. Yesterday we showed you a few pics from their Treasure Island set; today we've got a gallery from... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR/BEACH HOUSE @ HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM, LA 10/20/09»
Posted on October 21, 2009 in , (11 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Grizzly Bear | The Flaming Lips | Victoria Legrand
The last time Grizzly Bear visited Conan, the Tonight Show host was still doing his show out of NYC and the band was just starting to prime the pump for Veckatimest with a pre-release performance of "While You Wait For... Veckatimst'">CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR BRING "TWO WEEKS" TO CONAN, ANNOUNCE DELUXE VECKATIMST»
Posted on October 13, 2009 in (25 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Cryptacize | Foreign Born | Grizzly Bear | Matt Popieluch | Victoria Legrand
While Death Cab and Annie Clark talk up their New Moon contributions, Thom Yorke has remained suspiciously mum. We can only assume he is a fan of vampires and of letting his music speak for itself. His "Hearing Damage" leaked... CONTINUE READING ZOMG NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK LEAKED»
Posted on October 11, 2009 (69 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Grizzly Bear | New Moon | St. Vincent | Sufjan Stevens | Thom Yorke | Twilight | Victoria Legrand
Grizzly Bear, who are just about as all-over-the-place as Thom Yorke these days, join the Radiohead-head and some other indie luminaries on the OST to the Twilght sequel. But you read the internet, so you already knew that. What's eluded... CONTINUE READING HEAR GRIZZLY BEAR'S "SLOW LIFE" IN FULL»
Posted on October 2, 2009 in (7 comments)
Tags: And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | Beach House | Grizzly Bear | New Moon | Twilight | Victoria Legrand
Whoops, looks like two cultures just got shocked. Obviously that headline is a joke! Except that maybe it isn't? Rumors had been swirling about Thom Yorke and Bon Iver penning songs for the The Twilight Saga: Teen Vampires In Love... CONTINUE READING IS THE NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK THE BEST ALBUM OF 2009?»
Posted on September 21, 2009 in (160 comments)
Tags: Alexandra Patsavas | Alexandre Desplat | Anya Marina | Beach House | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Bon Iver | Death Cab For Cutie | Editors | Grizzly Bear | Hurricane Bells | Lykke Li | Muse | New Moon | OK Go | Radiohead | Sea Wolf | St. Vincent | The Killers | Thom Yorke | Twilight | Victoria Legrand
Earlier this month the Baltimore bands' homecoming at Metro Gallery culminated in a joint tribute to Michael Jackson, who died you know. Watch it here along with other highlights from the night.... CONTINUE READING BEACH HOUSE & CELEBRATION COVER "BILLIE JEAN"»
Posted on August 27, 2009 in (3 comments)
Tags: Baltimore | Celebration | Michael Jackson | Rain Machine | Victoria Legrand
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
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy The last day at SXSW is always tinged with a depressing end-of-the-summer vibe. (Or maybe end of the school year?) However you want to frame it, once the Saturday sun sets, the remaining hours... CONTINUE READING SXSW 2009: SATURDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 23, 2009 in , (4 comments)
Tags: Common | Dirty Projectors | Erykah Badu | Ganglians | Girls | Grandaddy | Jason Lytle | Kanye West | King Khan | Little Boots | Natalie Portman's Shaved Head | Peelander-Z | Perez Hilton | Real Estate | Rye Rye | Solange | SXSW | Theophilus London | Thom Yorke | Thunderheist | Victoria Legrand
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
The Baltimore duo did a slow and non-Queen-like cover of Queen's "Play The Game" for Dark Was The Night. It was left off the compilation proper because of licensing issues, though it can be had as a bonus track when... CONTINUE READING BEACH HOUSE COVER QUEEN»
Posted on March 2, 2009 (4 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Queen | Sharon Van Etten | Victoria Legrand
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
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 #6: BEACH HOUSE'S DEVOTION»
Posted on December 15, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Bonnaroo | David Byrne | Green Man Festival | Jarvis Cocker | Victoria Legrand
We filled you in on Beach House's "Used To Be" 7", then the Baltimore duo headed down to a beach (complete with waterfalls) to perform it. At first glance I thought Victoria and Alex raised the conceptual arc a notch... CONTINUE READING NEW BEACH HOUSE VIDEO - "USED TO BE"»
Posted on November 19, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Maldives | Victoria Legrand
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
A few days ago Jens Lekman played "Black Cab" in a black cab and now Beach House are playing on the beach. These are wild times. I look forward to Fuck Buttons continuing the trend. Anyhow, the Baltimore duo's sandy... CONTINUE READING BEACH HOUSE PLAY THE BEACH »
Posted on October 23, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Dirty Projectors | TLC | Victoria Legrand
More great Beach House. Lately the Baltimore duo have been giving us new songs and revamped oldies via trains and automobiles, but this dose comes from the studio. Alex and Victoria have taped a new single "Used To Be," to... CONTINUE READING NEW BEACH HOUSE - "USED TO BE"»
Posted on September 23, 2008 in (10 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Victoria Legrand
On their recent swing through Europe, Alex and Victoria seem to have partaken freely of all local cultures and their relevant web-friendly music features. To wit: The Baltimore duo accepted the challenge of writing and recording an original piece of... CONTINUE READING BEACH HOUSE SHOULD PLAY IN BLACK CABS MORE OFTEN»
Posted on August 15, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Coachella | Crystal Castles | M. Ward | Victoria Legrand
I couldn't make Siren Festival this year and Amrit and Brandon were at Pitchfork, so ... how was it? Based on the photographic display from Kyle Dean Reinford I guess sweaty? How was the sound? Did you shoot the freak?... CONTINUE READING ISLANDS AND ANNUALS AND JICKS: SIREN FEST 2008 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Annuals | Beach House | Broken Social Scene | Dragons Of Zynth | Film School | Islands | Jaguar Love | Parts And Labor | Ra Ra Riot | Stephen Malkmus | The Dodos | The Helio Sequence | These Are Powers | Times New Viking | Victoria Legrand
Aside from the horrible exchange rate and like $50 beers, Norway's a very cool place. Stereogum's got a soft spot for it: that's where Brandon and I first joined forces, during coverage of Øya Festivalen 2006 in Oslo. Annie and... CONTINUE READING BEACH HOUSE WRITE A SONG ON A NORWEGIAN TRAIN»
Posted on May 29, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Beach House | SXSW | Victoria Legrand | Women
Beach House certainly aren't camera shy. After releasing Devotion, one our '08 favorites, the Baltimore duo's showed up with slow fades and soft dissolves for "You Came To Me" and with a shopping cart and treasure map in "Heart Of... CONTINUE READING NEW BEACH HOUSE VIDEO - "GILA"»
Posted on April 10, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Victoria Legrand
We've mentioned how much we like Devotion. One of the album's stand out tracks from day-one has been "Heart Of Chambers." In Beach House's lovely video treatment for the song -- directed by Victoria's brother Alistair -- we see a... CONTINUE READING NEW BEACH HOUSE VIDEO - "HEART OF CHAMBERS"»
Posted on February 28, 2008 in , (1 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Victoria Legrand
The main thread running through our PE of Beach House's great, gazy second effort was to examine the band's marked growth, "You Came To Me" being particularly on point: "We don't think they could've written this song a year ago."... CONTINUE READING NEW BEACH HOUSE VIDEO - "YOU CAME TO ME"»
Posted on February 13, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Victoria Legrand
Run don't walk your clicking finger to Beach House's MySpace for another listen of what the duo's got in store on their second full-length. When "Gila" came down the pike, we were left well impressed and hopeful for the LP.... CONTINUE READING NEW BEACH HOUSE - "HEART OF CHAMBERS"»
Posted on January 10, 2008 (10 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Victoria Legrand
Beach House's autumnal, Baltimore dream-pop wooed and wowed at CMJ '06, delivering a spellbinding set at Cake Shop that landed in our top five for the year, setting the stage for this year's small-scale victory lap -- performing festivals and... CONTINUE READING NEW BEACH HOUSE - "GILA"»
Posted on December 11, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Victoria Legrand
