Music is Art — The members of Brooklyn foursome Grizzly Bear release their sophomore album, Veckatimest, on May 26 through Warp Records.  Just in time to celebrate spring, they have shared the magical single “Cheerleader”,  a working title originally kno... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) This edition of LiveDaily's Weekend Podcast features tour, ticketing and music news about U2 [ tickets ], Elvis Costello [ tickets ], Melissa Etheridge [ tickets ], Carlos Santana [ tickets ], Incubus [ tickets ], Grizzly Bear, J.J. C... more info

JamBase — DAVID BYRNE ADDED TO THE BILL FOR DARK WAS THE NIGHT LIVE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Concert Taking Place Sunday, May 3, 2009 BYRNE TEAMS-UP WITH BRAZILIAN GIRLS David Byrne 4AD is pleased to announce that yet another artist has signed on to parti... more info

Pasta Primavera — IGIF recently posted the first remix I’ve heard of Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” off of the highly anticipated Veckatimest.  Knoxville’s Tomato splices the wondrous track with some hip hop - mainly Jay-Z.  Save this one for the weekend f... more info

Rolling Stone — The Allman Brothers leave the Beacon and schedule a summer trek with Widespread Panic, the Hold Steady map out five June dates after the release of their live CD/DVD A Positive Rage and Grizzly Bear celebrate the release of Veckatimest with a summer ... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Indie-pop quartet Grizzly Bear [ tickets ] plans to head out on the road in May to begin supporting the band's forthcoming studio album, "Veckatimest."... continued more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Tom Ato a.k.a. "Killer Tom Ato" a.k.a. "KTA" (or just simply "Tomato") has completed a remix of Grizzly Bear's lead single from their upcoming Veckatimest LP. Jay-Z makes the biggest appearance, with a few chorus lines from Tag Team and I think I he... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Ben Tousley (a.k.a. Wilkerton), a well-known graphic designer and artist who designed the artwork for Grizzly Bear's last three releases (including the sexy cubist Veckatimest cover), just uploaded via Twitter the first (unofficial) pictures of Grizz... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — At Drowned in Sound, Grizzly Bear frontman Ed Droste shares experiences from touring with Radiohead. Newsarama concludes its interview with author Ian Rankin (who is writing a graphic novel). NRAMA: But getting back to comics, there have been a lot..... more info

Guardian Music — The groundbreaking indie label is asking fans to nominate tracks with the biggest Warp factor for a compilation albumThe British label Warp Records is to celebrate its second decade with a series of special gigs, previously unreleased archive materia... more info