Selling out: officially cool! Peep the Grizz’s latest at EW.

I am so goddamn proud. Plus, Tracy Morgan! And Stevie Wonder! I hope the Grizz can afford a pool for Yellow House now. Dudes deserve it.

Edward Droste of Grizzly Bear in Brooklyn / photo by Forklift

Due to a fuck-up in the chain of publicity/venue command, I wound up without a photo pass to Grizzly Bear‘s triumphant performance at the Hollywood Palladium on Tuesday night, a hometown show for singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen and the biggest solo headlining space they’d ever played. A shame. (And a continually troublesome failing in the concert industry at large’s dealings with journalists, but I digress.) Not a shame, at all, in fact, was the band’s show, which was large and cathartic enough to fill a room that could’ve swallowed them up. Read the rest of this entry »

Grizzly Bear at the Troubadour, 2007 | Photo by David Greenwald

Tonight’s Grizzly Bear show will be my fourth time seeing the band at their own headlining gig — sixth overall if you count their brief performance at the 2007 New York Revenge of the Bookeaters show and running into co-frontman @edwarddroste in Central Park after they’d opened for the Decemberists that summer. Notably, though, it’s the first chance I’ll have to hear the band burn through their tremendous Veckatimest material. I expect glory — and to see yr smiling faces there. P.S., folks, epic dude Kurt Vile headlines Spaceland on Friday, file that one under can’t miss, too.

Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”: mp3

More tour dates, as always, in the ongoing calendar.

With strings! Finally. Song of the year? (Yes.)

Photo by Christina Gubala

File under: Things I regret not doing this weekend. Too low on funds. How were they, folks?

Grizzly Bear – “Cheerleader”: mp3

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Grizzly Bear at the Troubadour, 2.21.07 / photo by David Greenwald

Grizzly Bear‘s Wiltern gig is apparently sold out, but they’ve added a night at the Troubadour on Saturday, June 20. Having seen the band there back in the day, I’d advise you to get ‘em while they’re hot. (Also just announced – Scotpop underdogs The Trash Can Sinatras on July 29! Yes!)

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The lead-up to Grizzly Bear’s May 26 release date for Veckatimest continues with “Two Weeks,” a video worth watching for Dan Rossen’s facial expression at the 1:15 mark, not to mention the David Lynch-y ending. Also, bowties! (It bears mentioning that the Yogi/Boo Boo-themed band shows up in a photo collage in the new issue of GQ deriding hipsters’ wholesale embrace of preppy culture; this video is not going to help. For the record, I’m typing this in boat shoes and a cardigan.) Another recent video, the band’s Black Cab session, is here.

Previously: First Look: Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest