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

Brooklyn Vegan — Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear return May 25th with a new album Veckatimest (pronounced veck-ah-tim-est) , the follow up to the 2006's critically adored 'Yellow House'. Featuring contributions from Beach House's Victoria Legrand and... more info

Pasta Primavera — I can’t seem to remember there ever being a compilation this chocked full of amazing original tracks.  You name it and it’s on Dark Was The Night - Sufjan Stevens, The Books, Feist, Grizzly Bear, Spoon, David Byrne, The Dirty Projectors, Jo... more info

JamBase — FIRST FULL-LENGTH IN THREE YEARS OUT IN MAY Grizzly Bear will release Veckatimest on May 26 on Warp Records. The title, pronounced "VECK ah TIMM est," is taken from a small, uninhabited island off the coast of Massachusetts. Some of new songs w... more info