Subject: Grizzly Bear (Band)

• She and Him, Charlie Louvin, Grizzly Bear, Def Leppard

  August 7, 2008

• Tracing Influences

  July 31, 2008

• Six Degrees of Feist

  November 15, 2007

• Halfway to Christmas: The Best Records of (the First Half of) 2009

  This is my neighbor, Doug, at last year's Xmas party. He's no longer with us.At the end of every year, our esteemed corporate overlords at Village Voice host what's known as the Pazz and Jop Poll. They send ballots out to various music writers under their benevolent corporate umbrella, and we send them back filled out with our favorite albums and singles of the year. It's a fantastic opportunity to feel self-important--and self-importance is literally an attitude that music critics need in order

  June 10, 2009

• Maximize your Bonnaroo experience by sticking to what (and who) you know

  June 11, 2009

• Roo-minations: The Spin Rages On

  * Drunk people running to catch an artist they're late for = pure gold. Sorry. It's true. If you're going to shriek "Oakenfold!!" with your arms outstretched as you fall flat on your face, you should expect someone to laugh at you. Don't be so defensive. * Good turnouts for all of the Nashville talent this year. Heypenny seemed to attract some attention by stomping about in their marching-band uniforms in Centeroo. * Despite rumors of a cancellation, Phoenix started their set last night right

  June 13, 2009

• Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear & TV on the Radio at Bonnaroo 6/12/09

  Photo by Steve CrossAnimal Collective's Panda Bear For more photos, check out the slideshow. After a rain-drenched rager of a first evening, Camp Spin woke up Friday amid a swamp of fishy-smelling (Phishy-smelling?) mud puddles with Ghostfinger's Richie Kirkpatrick as a neighbor. (By the next day, folks from the Lake Fever and Mercy Lounge crews would move into the hood as well.) While trudging through the muck toward Centeroo, we came across local Road to Bonnaroo 8 off 8th champs Heypenny in

  June 15, 2009

• Used MP3s: Consumers try hawking 'old' digital music files through new website

  June 18, 2009

• Bonnaroo 2009: Bruce Springsteen, Animal Collective, Nine Inch Nails and more

  June 18, 2009

• Press Release Round-up: Hot Shows Coming to Mercy Lounge

  D. Ricky RodriguezAll Juggalos welcome, except for this one​ Yesterday our good friends over at the Mercy Lounge tried their damnedest to confuse our spam filters by blasting us with five press releases in the span of 61 minutes. Since it would be a gratuitous waste of bandwidth to post about these shows individually I've opted for a bit of press release round-up. Here goes: Boom! Lord T and Eloise will provide a night of hipster-trash aristo-crunk on Sep. 4. Al Kapone [sic], of Hustle a

  August 5, 2009

• Playlist: The Girls' Guide to Rocking Author Jessica Hopper

  ​Jessica Hopper played in Challenger, along with Al Burien of the Burn Collector zine. She's since written a book called The Girls' Guide to Rocking, which is, well, what its title implies. I asked Hopper about the Southern Girls Rock and Roll Camp and similar programs, and she had this to say: I meet plenty of 9-, 10-, 11-year-old girls who are isolated in their love of music, in their family or at their school only sports are cool--[at music camps], for a week they can meet other girls

  August 26, 2009

• Sam & Ruby's Debut Named 'Best Album of the Year' by Associated Press

  Scene intern Lance Conzett contributed this post. There's a certain point in December where "best of" lists hit critical mass and our brains start turning to mush at the sight of yet another indie rock slapfight over which Radiohead album released this decade is the king of popular music until 2019. But then a major news organization will throw out a list so bizarre that it demands our attention. The Associated Press released their picks for the best records of the year today and, inexplicably

  December 11, 2009

• The indie-fication of metal, 2009

  December 24, 2009

• 2009: Grimey's Top Sellers and Staff Picks

  ​If you're one of the few people who actually paid for records in 2009, then you likely paid for them at Grimey's New & Preloved Music--Nashville's favorite record shop. If there's one group of geeks in this town who trump us with their music knowledge, then it's easily the staff at this beloved local establishment. Hell, Doyle Davis probably knows more about Guided by Voices than Mr. Miyagi knows about karate--Bee Thousand is the crane kick of indie-rock, BTW. This morning, Grimey's "indi

  January 4, 2010

• Road Trip to Indio, Calif.: Coachella Lineup Announced

  Music geek porn.While we here in Middle Tennessee have no shortage of long, large-scale, sun-drenched music festivals to look forward to, it's hard not to be jealous of the lucky fucks in Southern California today. And it's not because their hot days are dry, winters don't exist, they aren't a decade behind the cultural curve and they have an ocean. This bit of coastal-envy is inspired by the Coachella line-up that was announced yesterday. It's un-fucking-real. Peep it after the jump.

  January 20, 2010

• Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, The Dead Weather and More Chart in Pazz and Jop 2009

  Yesterday, the Village Voice's yearly Pazz and Jop poll results went live. (Remember when D.P.R. was filling out his ballot?) To the shock and amazement of this one guy who lives in Jersey, Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion topped the albums chart. If you've been near an Internet in the past year, most of the Top 10 probably won't surprise you much: Phoenix, Grizzly Bear, The xx, Dirty Projectors and so forth. Meanwhile, to the mild shock and bemusement of this critic, Jay-Z's "Empi

  January 20, 2010

• Newsy Bits: Heypenny's 'CopCar' Video in SXSW Film Conference, JEFF Single Pre-Sale, John Mayer Says the 'N' Word & More

  "How do ya like me now?"​• Local arbiters of robot-parade rock Heypenny have had their video for "CopCar" accepted into South By Southwest's film conference. It's one of just 20 music videos selected for the short film list, and they're in the company of Grizzly Bear and Passion Pit, among others. Congrats, H.P. Marchingbandcraft. • Infinity Cat tells us that Rough Trade is now taking pre-orders for JEFF the Brotherhood's "U Got the Look / The Tropics" single. There are only about 500

  February 10, 2010