Deconstructing: Jason Molina, Uninsured Musicians, And The Importance Of Health Care
Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.'s Jason Molina died of natural causes in his Indianapolis home.
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Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.'s Jason Molina died of natural causes in his Indianapolis home.
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Last year, Brooklyn indie-rockers Grizzly Bear released their fourth studio album, Shields , via Warp, and The Creators Project have just published a video featuring the band mulling over the record - have a watch above.
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Since writing, producing and remixing for the likes of Foxes, St Lucia and MSMR, D-E-W-L shifted focus to experimenting with their own sounds, and released their debut single, 'Nobody Make A Sound', last month.
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Before Grizzly Bear's show at the Brown Theater, singer Ed Droste tweeted that Louisville should come out to the show because it was their first time bringing their new light show through the area.
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After watching Dave Grohl's "Sound City" documentary, one is forced to wonder if the kids these days even know or care what a recording studio is.
Read MoreReleased in the spring of 2009, a few months after Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion , a couple of weeks before Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca, Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest was one of the brightest lights in the astonishing efflorescence of US indie at the turn of the decade.
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A few months ago, when Young Dreams covered a song by former tourmates Tame Impala , they renamed it "Feels Like We Only Go Bach wards".
Read More5-10-15-20 features artists talking about the songs and albums that made an impact on them throughout their lives, five years at a time.
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"Gun-Shy," the latest single off Grizzly Bear 's excellent 2012 record Shields , has premiered this morning with a stunning (and at times squirm-inducing) video treatment.
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In a September 2012 feature for New York magazine , Pitchfork contributor Nitsuhe Abebe spoke with director Kris Moyes about a video he made for Grizzly Bear -- which sees Ed Droste, Daniel Rossen, Chris Taylor, and Chris Bear undergoing a series of bodily extractions, their blood, skin, hair, nails, and tears removed with an array of razor blades, surgical scisscors, knives, IV tubes, and more.
Read More"Every Single Night" sets the tone on this personal record that is a powerful listen in ways that only Fiona is capable of.
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The conclusion of Ca Va Cool's best albums of 2012 picks up where the first half left off , featuring old favourites and brave new sounds side by side: indie pop sits next to a "post-internet" patchwork sound; thematically-advancing hip-hop sidles up to our beloved indie rock.
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With less than a week before Christmas Grizzly Bear 's Ed Droste yesterday took to Twitter to wish everyone a great holiday and share a special YouTube clip featuring their latest record Shields rearranged for fans of New Age piano.
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Happy Holidays from Grizzly Bear to you-- yesterday Ed Droste took to Twitter to share a very special YouTube clip, featuring their excellent 2012 record Shields rearranged for solo piano.
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We breach the top ten today as out Top 40 Albums of 2012 details our obsession with the long players at numbers 10 to 6 from Grizzly Bear, Beth Jeans Houghton And The Hooves Of Destiny, Django Django, Flying Lotus and Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeroes. 10.
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"So, you guys go to a lot of shows?" asked Ed Droste of the Bowery Ballroom crowd last night (12/10) which was private "Year in Music" party thrown by SPIN , mostly for advertisers.
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Grizzly Bear 's Ed Droste has spoken out against the recent Grammy nominations after his band failed to feature.
Read MoreWhen Jay-Z and Beyoncé showed up at a Grizzly Bear show in Brooklyn three years ago, I was working for Pitchfork and had to write a news story about it, because that's what my life is like.
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Record an hour-long radio drama about the human-head-shaped tumor on the inside of his leg.
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The Flaming Lips , McSweeney's , and KCRW put together a sci-fi radio drama in the style of the Orson Welles radio classic War of the Worlds.
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In a year that has featured some brilliant and at times sublime live music I think Friday night might have topped everything.
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If you had told Ed Droste 10 years ago that thousands of people would be serenading him on his 34th birthday under the adoration of his then solo project Grizzly Bear , I'm sure he would have politely dismissed such a seemingly ridiculous notion.
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Singer Ed Droste has been known to bemoan the quietness of recent Grizzly Bear shows, criticising the Newcastle audience of being like zombies and willing people to move their feet.
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Grizzly Bear have criticised their fans after a concert in Newcastle last night.
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Taken from their fourth and latest studio album Shields, the track was debuted on BBC Radio 1 recently and can be heard below.
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I only saw some of the Lower Dens opening set, but it sounded pretty and an appropriate thematic lead in for Grizzly Bear. By the time the headliners came on stage, right on schedule at 8:45, all the seats had filled up.
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Director's Cut features interviews with the people behind today's best music videos.
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Grizzly Bear's first Los Angeles show of note was at the Satellite , then Spaceland, in September 2006, just over six years ago.
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Guy Fieri is too much of a bro, Ina Garten is cool in the same way your mom is, and Giada De Laurentiis is far too pretty and distracting to glean any tips from.
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Even as Grizzly Bear has evolved from midnight whispers to gorgeous sonic panorama to exquisitely crafted chamber pop, the band has always been about finesse more than power.
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Grizzly Bear is a democracy," wrote Lindsay Zoladz in her review of the band's new album, Shields.
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In his lengthy profile of Grizzly Bear for New York magazine , writer Nitsuh Abebe goes into great detail about the band's past and the sometimes-contentious sessions for Shields --your typical topics for rock writing.
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The Big Apple's answer to the hipster heaven of East London is a hotbed of musical output, birthing groups from The Strokes to Yeasayer , Interpol to Vampire Weekend.
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Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription.
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A quick look back to Grizzly Bear past before I address Shields. 2006′s Yellow House was the first album to establish the band and the sound, a snakey, forlorn trip through psychedelic pastures and atmospheric entrancing melodies (prompting one dude to say the album syncs up perfectly with Jean Pierre Jeunet's The City Of Lost Children ).
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"This is surreal," said Grizzly Bear 's Ed Droste upon taking the stage the historic Radio City Music Hall last night (9/24) -- the band's largest headlining hometown gig to date -- "It makes me think back to our first show at Zebulon in 2004."
Read MoreGrizzly Bear, even in their blandest moments, excel in composing interlocking guitar parts that weave rhythmic elements from folk with the textures of art rock.
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As Grizzly Bear glided through "Adelma," an ambient interlude from their new album , Shields , the band's rainbow-hued stage lights faded to black.
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The End of the Road festival, located at Larmer Tree Gardens in Salisbury, Dorset has become a haven for fans of music that either is, or sounds like it should be on the Bella Union label.
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