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…   Read Story »

Fred and Dan recorded a few tracks for Daytrotter, including a few from In Ear Park and two unreleased cuts, "What Is Your Deal?" and the previously loved "1997," which came out particularly well. Go…   Read Story »

Dan Rossen Month continues with another cut from the Department Of Eagles DUMBO session that brought us the unreleased "1997," featuring Dan and Fred alone in a Brooklyn room with a view. This live…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

At some point last summer, after hearing the amazing job Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor did producing Dirty Projector's Rise Above -- we've been impressed, variously, with the way he's producing around…   Read Story »