It's not to say that the Album Of The Week selection for this second week of September has always been a foregone conclusion. This slate on September 18th is actually full of great efforts by a broad…   Read Story »

Yesterday, Grizzly Bear kicked off their new album cycle with "Sleeping Ute," a tempestuous Rossen-penned gem that the comment section wanted to marry. ("I do!" - You guys.) The band's still-untitled…   Read Story »

Dan Rossen has always been Grizzly Bear's Earth element, a perfectly polar foil to Ed Droste's more honey-dipped ethereality, and in this video he indulges that grounded, dusty, salt-of-the-earth…   Read Story »

Daniel Rossen, the man behind many of Grizzly Bear and Department Of Eagles' finest moments, and the child prodigy behind this insanely delightful Elvis impression, is releasing his proper solo debut…   Read Story »

Grizzly Bear's Dan Rossen produces this MP3 from BTW Family Band, recorded for Weathervane and WXPN's Shaking Through series of one-day song-recording documentaries. (Previously: Twin Sister, Reading…   Read Story »

After watching the recently unearthed footage of Arcade Fire playing a house party in 2002 and a 17-year-old Robin Pecknold covering Radiohead and Simon & Garfunkel, I thought it would be fun to…   Read Story »

If Ezra Koenig's impression of a dorm room YouTube Dave Matthews balladeer wasn't on point enough, try this perfect rendering of Elvis by Grizzly Bear singer/guitarist Dan Rossen. He's REALLY CUTE.…   Read Story »

California folk singer (and the first person signed to David Geffen's Asylum label) Judee Sill died of a drug overdose in 1979 at the age of 35. Before that, she released two beautiful, highly…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »