VIDEO: Grizzly Bear "While You Wait For The Others (live on Conan)"

NEW SONG: Grizzly Bear "While You Wait For The Others"

Grizzly Bear recently performed on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Electic" (on my b-day 2/27!), and debuted a new song (presumably from their next album) called ""While You Wait For The Others". As with almost everything they do...it is really, really good.

Atlas Sound "Knife" (Grizzly Bear cover)

I mentioned Grizzly Bear's upcoming "Friend" EP a couple of posts ago, now it has a track listing (see below) and a release date, Nov. 6. P'fork has been kind enough to stream the Atlas Sound (Bradford from Deerhunter, solo project) cover of "Knife" from the EP, which is a really, really great cover for so many reasons. Check it out below as well.

"Friend" tracklist:
01 Alligator (Choir Version) [ft. Zach Condon and Dirty Projectors]
02 He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
03 Little Brother (Electric)
04 Shift (Alternate Version)
05 Plans (Terrible vs. Nonhorse: Sounds Edit)
06 Granny Diner
07 CSS: "Knife"
08 Band of Horses: "Plans"
09 Atlas Sound: "Knife"
10 Deep Blue Sea (Daniel Rossen Home Recording)



Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox) - Myspace

Grizzly Bear to release new 10-track "Friend" EP

I'm back! New York was a blast thanks to two very amazing friends of mine (Sarah & Andrew, you are the BEST!). The Bookeaters benefit show was interesting, short sets by some very amazing talents (I will post pics/show review later this week), including Kevin Drew who I wasn't even expecting to be there (he was very good BTW). But onto the news at hand, Grizzly Bear (who also had an amazing set at the Bookeaters show) are set to release a 10 song EP, Friend, via Warp Records on November 6th. No track listing yet, but I'm sure we'll see more info soon. This will be the first new material since last year's fantastic Yellow House (which was #2 in my Top 25 of 2006).

Grizzly Bear - website

Revenge of the Bookeaters (826NYC Benefit) adds Britt Daniels & Eugene Mirman to it's lineup!!

So I'm gonna be going to see the Revenge of the Bookeaters benefit show in New York in a couple of weeks and I couldn't be more excited to see that Britt Daniels (Spoon), as well as comedian Eugene Mirman, have been added to the already amazing lineup that includes musicians Feist, A.C. Newman (New Pornographers), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), & Grizzly Bear...writer/humorist Sarah Vowell & comedian Demetri Martin (Daily Show) who is hosting the event. Yay. I mean YAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!! Tickets are still available here. All proceeds from the show go to student programming at 826NYC.

"826NYC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around our belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success."

826NYC - website

Feist & Grizzly Bear TOMORROW NIGHT!!

Just a friendly reminder, that Feist & Grizzly Bear are playing tomorrow at The Variety Playhouse in Atlanta. I am one excited mo-fo. This will be good. EDIT: This show is sold out. If ya' ain't got tickets, then you are "sad, like a rainbow at night time."

FREE Grizzly Bear tracks over at Daytrotter

Daytrotter has some new (and free) Grizzly Bear tracks here (or click the pic to the left to whisk you magically there, whatever floats your boat). As always they seem to be able to kidnap and record some of the best bands. Good show Daytrotter!! Good show!! (light clapping)

NEW MUSIC: Magic Arm "Outdoor Games"

A friend of mine turned me onto this band over the weekend: "Have you heard of Magic Arm?" "No." "I guess I better check 'em out". So I headed over to their MySpace page, and listened. Pretty nice stuff. And I do mean pretty. Dreamy folk with hush-then-soaring vocals, acoustic finger-pickin', and a keyboard melody that starts to drift in at just the right moment. I was hooked, so I did a little Sherlock Google action and found that they have no label, no website...but apparently Ed Droste from Grizzly Bear loves them. On his band's blog, he asks you to download the track "Outdoor Games" & dares you to tell him this song sucks. I think this song is great, but maybe you have no taste in music and would like to tell Ed so. Accept the challenge, download it & reply to him HERE. Hopefully these guys hook up with a label soon, I wanna hear more.
UPDATE: According to their MySpace they are recording an album and releasing a single (I guess this song is it) in early 2007. Sorry that's ambiguous. It's all I got.

Upcoming Atlanta/Athens shows.

Just thought I'd share some upcoming Atlanta/Athens shows with everyone:

Sat. 1/06/07 - Harry & the Potters, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin @ The Masquerade
Wed. 1/17/07 - Camera Obscura @ The Earl
Fri. 1/19/07 - Deerhunter @ The Earl
Sat. 1/20/07 - Gringo Star @ The Earl
Fri. 1/26/07 - The Dears, Annuals @ The Variety Playhouse
Sat. 1/27/07 - The Rapture @ The Masquerade
Sat. 1/27/07 - The Features ***FREE SHOW!!!!**** @ The Earl
Wed. 1/31/07 - Mastodon, Converge @ The 40 Watt Club
Sat. 2/03/07 - Yo La Tengo @ The Variety Playhouse
Sat. 2/03/07 - The Letters Organize **FINAL SHOW** @ The Drunken Unicorn
Sun. 2/04/07 - Midlake @ The Earl
Wed. 2/21/07 - Deerhoof @ The 40 Watt
Sat. 2/24/07 - Dr. Dog @ The Earl
Sat. 2/24/07 - Of Montreal @ The Variety Playhouse
Tue. 2/27/07 - Mixel Pixel @ The Earl
Fri. 3/02/07 - P.O.S., K-OS, RX Bandits @ The Masquerade
Fri. 3/02/07 - Grizzly Bear, Deerhunter @ The Drunken Unicorn
Sun. 3/04/07 - Sparklehorse, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter @ The Variety Playhouse
Wed. 3/07/07 - Elvis Perkins @ The Earl
Thu. 3/08/07 - Isis, Jesu @ The 40 Watt Club
Tue. 3/13/07 - Explosions in the Sky, The Paper Chase, Eluvium @ Lenny's Bar
Wed. 3/14/07 - Badly Drawn Boy @ The Loft
Fri. 3/16/07 - Maserati, A. Armada @ The Earl
Fri. 3/23/07 - Cold War Kids @ Vinyl
Thu. 4/12/07 - TV on the Radio @ The 40 Watt Club
Fri. 4/13/07 - TV on the Radio @ The Variety Playhouse
Fri. 4/13/07 - Trans Am, Zombi @ The Earl
Fri. 4/20/07 - Acid Mother's Temple @ The Earl
Thu. 5/10/07 - Mono, World's End Girlfriend, Grails @ The Earl

I'll keep an eye out for more, and post 'em when I do.
Links for these venues can be found in the sidebar.
(Thanks to Ryan for some show updates)