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Download: Grizzly Bear; February 27, 2008 (Broadcast)

Grizzly Bear
February 27, 2008 (Broadcast)

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Free Live Shows (MP3) From NPR & KEXP via iTunes Store

There are a ton of free live shows available through the iTunes store.

Check out these links:

KEXP: Includes shows from Thurston Moore, Twilight Sad, Battles, Beirut, Watson Twins, Stars, Grizzly Bear, Wrens, Magic Numbers, Okkervil River, etc.

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Review: Grizzly Bear/LA Philharmonic; March 1, 2008 at Walt Disney Concert Hall; Los Angeles

Review: Grizzly Bear/LA Philharmonic; March 1, 2008 at Walt Disney Concert Hall; Los Angeles

Grizzly Bear and the LA Philharmonic split a bill at the impressively designed Walt Disney Concert Hall. You must see this monstrosity designed by Frank Gehry. I swear there is not a single right angle inside or outside, and I’m willing to wager that it was constructed with stealth technology.The LA Philharmonic played the first set, and the clarity delivered by the venue is phenomenal. It’s easy to realize that no medium (be it vinyl, CD, or reel-to-reel) really does a symphony justice. Selections of their performance were pieces chosen as influences by Grizzly Bear.

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Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 (II)

Note: Photos in this essay depict re-enactments of actual events, not the events themselves.

Thursday, July 12
McCaskill picked me up at my folks’ house at 9PM. We weren’t planning to leave Jackson until about 1 or 2AM, but we’d decided to hang out a while and say goodbyes because, naturally, we may never come back.

Instead of going to the bar, for obvious reasons, we opted for dinner. Regardless, as with alcohol, we are both bottomless pits for food. The meal was uneventful, save for the fact that our waitress had apparently served McCaskill once before, and had taken offense to a conversation about foreskins. Despite this, the food was palatable and (hopefully) spit-free.

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Hosted Live Download: Grizzly Bear; February 16, 2007

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Grizzly Bear
February 16, 2007

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Grizzly Bear - Yellow House


2006, Warp Records

There is a gorgeous Yellow House in my dreams.

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Hosted Live Download: Grizzly Bear; October 4, 2006

Grizzly Bear
October 4, 2006
Seattle, WA

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