Posts Tagged ‘ grizzly bear ’

They tell you to swiftly move on to your next shopping experience, and to never stop consuming. They wrap the message up in the latest “indie” sound from Hipstown and beautiful young humans in fashionable clothes. They try to convince you that this new product will finally be the one that gives you immortality....
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Less is more. When a band has the ability to take the work of another artist, strip it down to it’s basics and add very few elements to make it their own it is a band that has some serious character. It’s hard to say exactly how they do it but Grizzly Bear seems...
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It has been a very prosperous year and I could write pages about my favorite albums of 2009. Instead I thought I would save much of the retreading of music we’ve already talked about, and write more personally on the music I discovered (or rediscovered) this year. More specifically I’d like to focus my...
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It’s Christmas time so there is not a lot to blog about… It means you have to create your own stuff. So here’s a crazy experiment I just did. I played Grizzly Bear’s Two Weeks both on my computer and my stereo with a short delay on the computer. I think the result is...
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There has been so many great visual additions to music this year. So I could have made this a VERY long list. Instead I chose to do a two minute brainstorm, and these are the videos that instantly popped up in my head. Luv Deluxe – Cinnamon Chasers Directed by Saman Keshavarz Ljósið – Ólafur Arnalds Directed...
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I’m very busy at the moment doing grown up stuff – no not the fun kind, the reading kind. So I haven’t had time to open all the usual doors on the internet to find tasty stuff. I did, however, have time to draw the pink mustache on the bear above. Anyway, I thought...
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New EP from the decade's most inventive band will blow your mind! Over and over again, Animal Collective cements their status as one of the most excellent and prolific bands this century. It was not even a year ago that they gave the world Merriweather Post Pavilion, most certainly one of 2009's best records....
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I was so close to calling this post “Neon Cheerleaders”, but I didn’t cause I thought it’d be immature. So here you go – a picture. Consider this a quick little presentation of three remixes that everybody must listen to. First two ones are Neon Indian remixes of the same Grizzly Bear song ‘Cheerleader’....
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In my musical meanderings, I recently stumbled upon a man named Arthur Russell. You’ve heard of him? If you have, you’re one of the lucky ones. This man, who has remained unknown to the greater masses since before his 1992 death, may have had one of the deepest influences on the music you listen...
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