Two bands making hazy, tinny pop music are going to be hitting the road together to make everyone’s indie-pop loving minds explode this fall. Grizzly Bear, still out supporting their most recent release Veckatimest, will be doing a slew of dates with Beach House as well as doing the Williamsburg Waterfont series in Brooklyn, Pitchfork [...]
So, it’s happened. We’ve crossed the half way point of 2009. The year no longer seems fresh. It means a little more when someone tells you that Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, or Andrew Bird is the best album of 2009. And it’s time for that great music journalist past-time, list-making. Ah, the great lists that [...]
The immaculate Warp20 box set (celebrating 20 years of Warp Records) has finally announced the full tracklisting of this monstrosity. The set will contain two double-CD sets, one single CD, a triple 10″, and a double 10″. Pitchfork has posted an array of photos of the set (which are gorgeous). One of the double CD [...]
Check out Grizzly Bear’s recent performance of “Cheerleader” from their new album Veckatimest.
Grizzly Bear performs “Service Bell” and “Two Weeks” with Feist in Toronto.
Check out the beautiful new music video from Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear for their track “Two Weeks,” from Veckatimest.
L.A.’s Foreign Born is just weeks from releasing their new album Person to Person on June 23. In support of the the band is hitting the road with an impressive lineup. Much of the tour will be dates with The Veils and other support, but a few dates line them up in Canada with Grizzly [...]
Animal Collective performs “Summertime Clothes” on Letterman:
Franz Ferdinand does “No You Girls” on Letterman:
Grizzly Bear on Jools Holland:
Performances from Jenny Lewis, Dolly Parton, Bat for Lashes, and more after the jump…
1. Franz Nicolay recorded a DayTrotter this past week that’s pretty great. It includes one unreleased track and a killer rendition of “Jeff Penalty,” the opening track from his debut solo disc Major General.
2. NYC Taper posted a live bootleg of the recent Waaves set at The Mercury Lounge in NYC. The recording isn’t amazing, [...]
