
#50 to #41 // #40 to #31 // #30 to #21 // #20 to #11 // #10 to #1 ------------------------------ ------------ 10. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar With The Lion's Roar , Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg take the jump from relative obscurity to deserved acclaim. Their reputation has grown steadily since their 2008 cover of Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song", which aided the critical recognition of 2010 debut The Big Black & The [...]
Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen has released a demo from December 2009 that he says is "too old to work on anymore and won't see the light of day in any other format". If you want to enjoy this Rossen original, I suggest listening below.

Nuovo video estratto dall'ultimo disco dei Grizzly Bear . Da oggi su YouTube "Yet Again": VIDEO: Grizzly Bear - Yet Again pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

Nuovo estratto dal prossimo LP dei Grizzly Bear in uscita il 17/18 settembre. Da "Shields" (Warp Record) questa è "Yet Again": TRACK STREAM: Grizzly Bear - Yet Again pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES
Grizzly Bear unveiled a second track off their upcoming album Shields, out September 18th via Warp. "Yet Again" finds Ed Droste returning with his silky-smooth vocals, with the dash of eternal melancholy that makes his croon so recognizable. The track is a highly developmental one for Grizzly Bear, who are generally known among casual fans [...]
Grizzly Bear have announced the follow-up to 20092s Veckatimist will arrive September 18th via Warp. Although the album is yet to be titled, the track list has been revealed as well as Grizzly Bear's tour schedule where they will be performing several new songs from the new album that we are [...]
Que? Zoo and Dr. Skull is the alias for Philly-based Brandon Seawell, who recorded the six songs on Days At the Zoo in his bedroom "with two microphones, a mixer from the Back To the Future era, and my laptop." Three songs from the release are inside
Grizzly Bear/Department of Eagles multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Daniel Rossen will release a new EP, Silent Hour/Golden Mile, on March 20th. The five-track EP will be released on Warp Records, with appearances by Ian Davis, Scott Hirsch, Kris Nolte, and Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick. You can listen to one of the EP's tracks, "Saint Nothing",

Department of Eagles, side-project of Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen, have a new album/compilation coming out in July. The album is called Archive 2003-2006 and features outtakes and b-sides from the duo. We don't really know what to expect from it, but this track "Brightest Minds" might give us an idea. Brightest Minds by Bella Union Archive 2003-3006 is coming out on July 20th through American Dust, and the day before via Bella Union in the UK/Europe.
Grizzly Bear has lent a new (untitled) song to a recent Washington State lottery ad. The lottery ad was directed by Patrick Daughters who also directed the "Two Weeks" video for Grizzly Bear. As to be expected with this combination - the result is awesome. I'm not one to gush for a lottery ad, but here you get a great video + new Grizzly Bear song. What's not to like? Hopefully the song sees a full release at some point.
It was hard not to notice the prominence of indie bands featured in this year's Super Bowl commercials. We had heard that NFL licensed Wake Up from Arcade Fire and that all proceeds would go to help Partners in Health in their Haitian relief efforts. But we were surprised to find Arcade Fire's song used as the NFL anthem, with several versions playing throughout the game. Then to hear Grizzly Bear [...]

Efterklang 's new album, Magic Chairs , is approaching fast: February 22nd in Europe and 23rd in North America. The band signed to 4AD Records in September, 2009, marking a major step forward for this Danish act. Rasmus Stolberg and band members manage their Copenhagen-based record label, Rumraket , and have been the Danish home for Grizzly Bear , Taxi Taxi! , Amiina (Sigur Rós' string section) and many others. Efterklang 's earlier work was [...]
Grizzly Bear has a new video for Ready, Able from their latest album Veckatimest . The video is set in a stop-motion with claymation creatures, directed by Allison Schulnik . It's always interesting when directors mix types of animation together, and Allison does it well! YouTube - [...]

Before normal service resumes, a little bit of housekeeping.. Nialler9 won the Best Music Site at the Irish Web Awards 2009 on Saturday! Thanks to all who were involved be it in voting, judging, organising the thing ( Mr. Mulley , Rick and co.) It's the best goddamn web awards going. Sure where else would you get bags of crisps and rude t-shirts thrown into the audience? Great stuff. Full ist of winners here . This weekend sees Hard Working Class Heroes kick off again and there are a [...]
Grizzly Bear released an official video this week for While You Wait for the Others , from their latest (and stunning, we might add) album, Veckatimest . The video was created by Grandchildren : Sean Pecknold directed/animated and Joy Saez produced the video. Bravo. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others The video is also available on Youtube . Grizzly Bear - While [...]

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