Stereogum — Well, that was wonderful. On Saturday night at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Final Fantasy and Grizzly Bear experimented with full sets of material accompanied by the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The results were masterful, obvs. Final Fantasy's material ... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — [photo]Our friends at Beggars recently sent over some extremely promising new demos from four 19-year-olds from South London called The xx. The group recently signed to Beggars imprint Young Turks, and these wistful slow-jams are basically the exact ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Kyle Dean Reinford Grizzly Bear Thursday night (2/26), Sufjan Stevens and Shara Worden joined members of The National (Clogs) and Arcade Fire (Bell Orchestre) on stage with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM. Two nights later (2/28), members ... more info

New York Times — This concert fleshed out an idea, in a few different ways and with varying degrees of success. more info

Rawkblog — The Beatles (!) and Phoenix dropped new tunes; I re-posted Elliott Smith’s complete live covers, hopefully for the last time. I saw and shot The Broken West, the French Kicks (pictured) and the One AM Radio, who told me some news about his forthcom... more info

Rawkblog — Last night, Grizzly Bear debuted a number of Veckatimest songs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, along with the able backing of the Brooklyn Orchestra. From the looks of things, this was one for the ages — and there’s already a solid bootleg of w... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Grizzly Bear played with the Brooklyn Philharmonic last night at BAM in Brooklyn. Ed Droste posted the full setlist from the show on Twitter, and according to Ed (also via twitter), they'd never played most of these songs live before, and likely won'... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Beach House's hazy and haunting cover of Queen's "Play the Game" was inexplicably left off of the physical release of the recent Dark Was The Night charity compilation, only to be later tacked on as an "album only" bonus track that can only be had at... more info

Pitchfork — Drum roll: The fourth annual Pitchfork Music Festival will take place in Chicago July 17-19. So cancel that "screw the recession" European vacation ASAP-- it's not worth it. The Pitchfork Music Festival, on the other hand, is definitely worth it. No... more info

Stereogum — Since we first labeled Bell a Band To Watch and asked her to cover Björk, the Moscow-born, Alaska-raised Brooklyn piano instructor and composer has added fractures, spaces, and fake-outs to her already ambitious constructions. When she played the ... more info