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1 What Is the Best Indie Album of 2009?
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2 Song of the Day: Grizzly Bear, "Graceland"
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3 Concert Review: Feist and Grizzly Bear at the Fillmore, 6/27/07
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4 Live Clip: Feist Sings "1 2 3 4" with Grizzly Bear, AC Newman and More on "Letterman"
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5 Link Time! 12/30
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6 New Department of Eagles Video Is a Work of Art — Truly
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7 What to Download: New Music Today
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8 Music in the Movies: Jack Goes Boating With Grizzly Bear
Opening in limited release this weekend, Jack Goes Boating is Phillip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut. A drama about a burgeoning relationship, it's not just indie in regard to film genre; its soundtrack is stuffed with indie-rock cred as well. There are tracks from Fleet Foxes and Cat Power, but the movie's musical godfather is Grizzly Bear. The Brooklyn-based band collaborated on the score Read more
Some of these gifted artists may be bigger than what you consider "indie," but they all captured the spirit of the genre in '09. It's hard to pinpoint why they're just so cool, but they make it seem effortless. Personally speaking, I've been listening to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix and It's Blitz! by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on a repeat loop, but there were plenty of other albums to choose Read more
Tuesdays are big in entertainmentville: not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores. So I take a spin through each week's music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. Something sweet: Mandy Moore's new album is titled Amanda Leigh, which is also Moore's given name. It's a title that seems to signal that perhaps these new Read more
This week, Department of Eagles duo Daniel Rossen (of the band Grizzly Bear) and Fred Nicolaus debuted their new video for the song "No One Does It Like You" at New York's Museum of Modern Art as part of the museum's ongoing PopRally series of events. The video's creators were on hand to chat about this amazing video with a sold-out crowd. The director, Patrick Daughters, is also the man behind Read more
Ten entertainment Davids who deserve kudos this year. — The TV Addict Time to vote on what was the worst of 2008 TV (including "Worst Claire Wig": Claire Bennet of Heroes or Claire Littleton of Lost). — Watch With Kristin Nine of the least-wanted TV neighbors. — TV Squad Check out some first images from the next Transformers movie. — Cinematical Did you see any of these 20 great Read more
Monday's "Late Show with David Letterman" turned into a veritable convention of indie rockers when the musical guests took the stage. Feist dropped by the show to perform "1 2 3 4" from The Reminder, and she brought with her a full backing chorus — including AC Newman of The New Pornographers and members of Grizzly Bear, Broken Social Scene, The National and Mates of State. As if it wasn't Read more
Never having seen Feist perform live before, I wasn't sure quite what to expect from her live show this week at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Though I loved the "I Feel It All" video she did for the DL show, she didn't really take command of that tiny room, so I really wasn't sure how she'd do in front of a sold-out crowd. To my delight, however, Feist had stage presence to spare at the Read more
Grizzly Bear's second album Yellow House is a beautifully textured, trippy, and mellow piece of folk. On this cover of Paul Simon's "Graceland," they apply the same formula to an entirely different sort of folk music for a sound that's at once warm and chilling and very novel. Listen below and let me know what you think. Read more
Matt Damon welcomed a special costar onto the set of We Bought a Zoo in LA yesterday. He was in front of the cameras with a huge grizzly bear, but the actor was safely inside a car for the scene. Matt's getting back to work on his wild movie after taking a break to promote and release The Adjustment Bureau. The action film didn't get a lot of love at the box office, but we enjoyed all of Matt's Read more
You could be forgiven for not noticing tonight's debut of Big Hair Alaska, a reality series about the Beehive Beauty Shop. The two-part special, which follows the workers and clientele of a Wasilla, AK, salon — yes, it's where Sarah Palin has her hair done — airs this evening on TLC. Yet oddly, there's nary a mention of it on TLC's homepage beyond its small inclusion in a schedule. A preview Read more
