Features
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best 60 Albums of 2009
PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet.
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best Singles of 2009
PopMatters kicks off our annual two-week-long best music of the year feature with the 50 best singles of 2009, highlighted by a trio of American indie rock headliners.
Reviews
Tuesday, July 14 2009
Grizzly Bear: 1 June 2009 - Washington, DC
Those who criticize the perceived overuse of studio trickery would be surprised to find that the live performance captures much of the record’s sonic atmosphere.
Tuesday, May 26 2009
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
By pulling all four of their heads together in the conception process and tweaking the nuts and bolts of their design in the three years following Yellow House, Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear have produced their finest record to date.
Monday, March 31 2008
Grizzly Bear with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
For the first portion, Joana Carneiro conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic though three classical pieces that prefaced and weirdly mirrored Grizzly Bear’s subsequent sweeping and hauntingly beautiful performance.
Monday, November 26 2007
Grizzly Bear: Friend EP
Grizzly Bear's Friend EP marks yet another evolution for the group, one that pushes them into full-blown rock band status.
Friday, December 22 2006
Grizzly Bear: Yellow House
Beguilling, beautiful and bewitching pop-folk-prog from a big-hearted Brooklyn bear.
Blogs
Friday, November 6 2009
Grizzly Bear - "Ready, Able" (video)
Grizzly Bear continues to get mileage out of Veckatimest with this video for "Ready, Able". The song is as good as ever, but the stop…
Thursday, October 15 2009
Grizzly Bear Releases Veckatimest Special Edition (video)
Grizzly Bear will release a special edition of the exalted Veckatimest both in the US and the UK on November 2nd. The special edition features…
Monday, July 20 2009
Grizzly Bear - "All We Ask" (Live @ the Pabst Theater) (video)
This past June Grizzly Bear played a Milwaukee show at the Pabst Theater and here's a glimpse of that appearance.
Monday, June 29 2009
Grizzly Bear - "Cheerleader" (Live on Jimmy Fallon) (video)
Grizzly Bear played "Cheerleader" off their recent album Veckatimest Friday night on Jimmy Fallon's show. Mike Newmark said of the song that it "reaches back…
Tuesday, June 2 2009
Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks" (Live) (video)
Spinner shows us that Grizzly Bear's angelic harmonies are just as potent live as they are on disc.