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December 17, 2012Better than:Cinderella
"It feels amazing to be here tonight," the Antlers' Peter Silberman announced to a packed Terminal 5 on Friday night. "This is such a well-put-together event." It felt pretty amazing for me, too, since up until an hour previously I didn't think I was going to get on the press ... More >>
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December 5, 2012Solange steps out from Beyoncé's shadow
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September 25, 2012Grizzly Bear
Radio City Music Hall
Monday, September 24
Better than: Watching replacement refs ruin the NFL.
A mere three songs into Grizzly Bear's two hour set at Radio City Music Hall last night, the band already managed to exceed expectations. Singer Daniel Rossen stood proudly at center stage ... More >>
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September 25, 2012Better Than: Watching the corny parts of the "Watch the Throne" tour.
Hip-hop has always flirted with spirituality. The S.p.o.o.k.s. and Wu-Tang embraced a Buddhist vision; M.C. Hammer, God's Property, and P.M. Dawn charted with Christian themes; and the 5% Nation attracted many gifted creators of ... More >>
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August 13, 2012Colbchella: fun., Grizzly Bear, Santigold, Flaming Lips
U.S.S. Intrepid
Friday, August 10
Better than: All the world wars and Woodstocks combined.
Don't you ever question America's might. We do things bigger and crazier than other countries—and then we televise it. And while Stephen Colbert ... More >>
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September 7, 2011Voice Choices
January 5, 2011Seven hours of genre-pushing noise
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November 16, 2010Lets work on ditching some of these people real soon. Pics by Rob, more below.Sufjan Stevens
Beacon Theatre
Monday, November 15
He wouldn't be nearly as irritating if he wasn't so good, this guy. As such, he is a whole lot of both. Look at him up there, crooning his hideously overstuffed an ... More >>
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September 8, 2010Voice Choices
August 4, 2010Blogs
July 16, 2010Their album covers are still way better, thoughI will admit to being pretty super excited to learn that deathless heavy-metal icons Iron Maiden (who we love around here, as you may have heard) were suddenly taking public shots at Jay-Z's favorite Brooklynites. Confused? Yeah, that too. Skepti ... More >>
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June 29, 2010A free show with Bear in Heaven
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June 15, 2010Music
June 1, 2010A Greenpoint spot finds an particular clientele, for good and/or ill
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April 30, 2010That's how you listen to Ghostface! Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn the week M.I.A. broke the internet in a tidal wave of blood and guts and red hair, we did our best to put it back together.
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April 26, 2010If given the choice between debuting a new song on a music blog, Twitter, your own website, etc., why not choose the Washington Lottery? Starting today, an ad will start running in that state, featuring a new, unreleased track by Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear. Cole & Weber United, the ad agency tha ... More >>
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April 20, 2010Blogs
April 9, 2010TedLeo.comTed Leo loves popcorn more than youEveryone's favorite "goddamn American hero," Ted Leo, will be chord-chugging tonight at the Fillmore with Screaming Females. Though if you've been offended by his karaoke criticism, you can always check out mindlessly ecstatic lo-fiers the Sundelle ... More >>
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February 2, 2010Blogs
January 22, 2010We bleed for this thing. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week Jay-Z went all the way to the top of the singles list on our 2009 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, the rapper told SOTC that his two favorite songs of last year both came from Kings of Leon. With an honorable mention tip of the cap to the ... More >>
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January 19, 2010Lot of New York bands representing: LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Lucero, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Matt & Kim, Gil Scott-Heron, etc. Pretty fucking good show. Some other big ones--Public Image Limited, Grace Jones, Gorillaz, P ... More >>
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January 19, 2010Arguing about mellow indie rock, Lady Gaga, and the real grizzly bears
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January 8, 2010New Year's Eve...no idea, basically. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week we learned that Animal Collective's manager is apparently endowed with a baby leg, in the one dark place where that would be a meaningful statement, we did our best to otherwise cleanse the ol' SOTC soul, apologizing to ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
The really likeable thing about what remains an underrated (though, uh, not that underrated) Blueprint 3 was the spectacle of Jay-Z thinking pretty seriously about what it meant to be an enormously successful and pretty definitively middle-aged rapper. He's the first and only to do it, with apolog ... More >>
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October 28, 2009Grizzly Bear, major cultural force in this country: the second Twilight soundtrack sold 153,000 copies this week, good for #1 and easily enough to knock international cipher Michael Buble to the three spot, where he plays runner up to Tim McGraw's Southern Voice, debuting at No. 2 with 137,00 ... More >>
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October 21, 2009Crazy Love is still very much #1 in the country. But The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack--a goofy melange of what's warm in indie right now, e.g. Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke, etc.--sold 115,000 copies, good for #2. Those bands selling that many records would be stunning if this wer ... More >>
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October 20, 2009We shouldn't have to tell you this, but we'll try
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October 13, 2009--R.I.P. Brendan Mullen, who was one of the first DIY promoters of punk and independent rock and the first regular booker of punk bands in Los Angeles. The Masque, a venue that became home base for all that is first-wave L.A. punk--including the Germs and the Weirdos--was in essence his baby ... More >>
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September 15, 2009Voice Choices
September 1, 2009With love from England to you
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August 31, 2009Sam HorineHey, look, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste went to that Jay-Z show yesterday in Williamsburg. A whole summer's worth of Jelly NYC Pool Parties on the Williamsburg waterfront took a bow yesterday, as Grizzly Bear, Beach House, and Vega played the final Sunday of the 2009 series. Solange Kno ... More >>
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August 25, 2009Celebrating 20 years of weird radicalism with a label that didn't quit
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August 25, 2009A free show with Grizzly Bear
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August 21, 2009
Our Dylan, in action.
So this is making the rounds lately, and aside from that first quote (the first line of the piece, following a please-young-people-don't-kill-me disclaimer), key sentiments include:
* "Three stages were surrounded by hipsters, and for a short while I actually hung out with D ... More >>
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July 14, 2009
From the Grizzly Bear singer/lead Twitterer's Twitter comes this delightful snapshot from last night's star-studded Wilco/Yo La Tengo fete at Coney Island, about which much more later. The two gentlemen behind Droste and Feist have no idea they're sharing a car with such indie-rock royalty, and in ... More >>
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June 24, 2009Blogs
June 18, 2009Brooklyn Vegan has kindly noted Composer to the Indie Stars Nico Muhly's spirited and pretty much instantaneous riposte to the New York Times' "weirdly mean-spirited" review of late May's Grizzly Bear show. (Ben Ratliff's closing thought: "I left Town Hall grinding my teeth.") Nico, a major player o ... More >>
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June 5, 2009In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009.
Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>
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June 1, 2009The MVP, as usual. CREDIT
Grizzly Bear
Town Hall
Friday May 29
Things shouted at Grizzly Bear tonight, in ascending order of dunderheadedness:
"What's your favorite color?"
"Tweet something!"
"What kind of reverb pedal do you use?"
"Best album of the year!"
Knock it off. GB's Veckatimest is, ... More >>
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May 20, 2009Brooklyn quartet goes quietly, grandiosely epic
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May 20, 2009Voice Choices
May 20, 2009Grizzly Bear keep getting better
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May 19, 2009
Photo by Cary Conover.
What were the Obies like? We noticed mainly free drinks. James Hannaham saw a lot of winners of color ("Black is definitely the new black"), and many other details. List of laureates here; slideshow here.
Michael Feingold starts his Obie meditation by talking about depart ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 22, 2009Your favorite compilation is now a live show
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January 7, 2009Voice Choices
August 5, 2008Go find something you like at the All Points West Festival
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April 15, 2008A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
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July 31, 2007pazzandjop
January 30, 2007Critics were simply flabbergasted by harmonies in 2006, but we all needed them
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August 15, 2006Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear migrate north and maul a few mint juleps
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