
Panda Bear, Broken Social Scene, Girls, Bear in Heaven and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are among the acts added to the Pitchfork festival in July. The official announcement follows a report yesterday that Panda Bear and Jon Spencer agreed to play the fest. Broken Social Scene , which releases a new album next month, will play Friday night with Modest Mouse. Panda Bear, Jon Spencer and Bear in Heaven play Saturday. Girls play Sunday. Three Chicago bands were added to the weekend lineup: the Smith Westerns, Cave and Alla. Also announced: Hip-hop vet El-P [...]

Last Saturday at the Waterfront in Toronto, Broken Social Scene played a memorable free show , with a lineup that included Feist, Emily Haines, Amy Millan, Jason Collett, Jimmy Shaw, Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff and more... Stereogum reported on this earlier in the week and they have since embedded some more youtube videos including Anthems for a 17-year-old Girl , Safety Bricks and 7/4 , which you can also watch below. - David [...]

Leslie Feist & Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste on the Cyclone - July 13, 2009 Like she will Tuesday on Letterman (tonight, 7/14), Leslie Feist joined Wilco on stage at Keyspan Park in Coney Island on Monday night (7/13) for a few songs. Edward Droste of Grizzly Bear played with them too. Collectively they performed Woody Guthrie's "California Stars". Yo La Tengo opened the show, and then also joined Wilco on stage during the encore. Pictures and more from the show coming [...]
From last Saturday and here's 7/4 shoreline for good measure ...