That's right. TV's a tough business.

And Grizzly Bear's date to perform on David Letterman has been moved from July 2^nd to July 23^rd. They'll still be debuting their new song live. Unfortunately the date change has made it impossible for Nico Muhly—composer extraordinaire—to join them.

But it also means that they'll be joined by Thomas Bartlett of the ever-enchanting Doveman. So it's one genius for another. We'll take that!

Cheers, happy summering, and happy 4^th of July!

Grizzly Bear's headlining show on August 2^nd at the 930 Listening Room in Louisville, KY will be co-presented with the Fairness Campaign, an organization whose primary goal is comprehensive civil rights legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

For more information on how you can get involved, visit fairness.org.

In your FACE!

Hey, all you vinyl lovers, fetishizers, mythologizers, and nostalgismizers:

• Yellow House has been reprinted!
  Click here to order.
• FRIEND is available on vinyl, too!
  Click here to order.

No one likes being left out. Luckily for you, GB have added some more dates to their already amazing summer tour. New additions in bold:

• Jun 25, 2008 - Calgary, AB - Central United Church for the Sled Island Festival
• Jul 31, 2008 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge*
• Aug 01, 2008 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
• Aug 02, 2008 - Louisville, KY - 930 Listening Room*
• Aug 03, 2008 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center w/ Radiohead
• Aug 04, 2008 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center w/ Radiohead
• Aug 06, 2008 - Montréal, QC - Parc Jean Drapeau w/ Radiohead
• Aug 07, 2008 - Northampton, MA - Calvin Theater w/ The New Pornographers
• Aug 08, 2008 - Jersey City, NJ - All Points West Music & Arts Festival
• Aug 11, 2008 - Washington, DC - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue*
• Aug 12, 2008 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center w/ Radiohead
• Aug 13, 2008 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts w/ Radiohead
• Aug 14 - Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Aug 15 - Toronto, ON -Molson Amphitheatre

* Presales for these dates begin Monday, May 5 at 3 PM in the local time zone of the venue.

https://tixx1.artistarena.com/grizzlybear/
Username: grizzly Password: bear

Regular sales will begin Friday, May 9.

In case you missed it, here are Grizzly Bear on Conan O'Brien, performing their brand-new song "While You Wait for the Others."

And... and! an MP3 of the same song when the guys were featured on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic.

Download:
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others [Live on KCRW]

Grizzly Bear is set to perform on NBC's Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Monday, April 21^st at 12:35 EST/11:35 CT. They'll be debuting a new song— While You Wait for the Others."

You've seen it here and there, but Grizzly Bear can now let the cat—erm, bear—out of the bag (cage?): they'll be touring with Radiohead for several dates this August. In between those dates, you'll be able to catch them at a few festivals.

Needless to say, GB are thrilled 'nd anxious. Aren't you? You will be. Thrilled, that is. Here are the August dates:

• Fri 08/01 Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL
• Sun 08/03 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN w/ Radiohead
• Mon 08/04 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH w/ Radiohead
• Wed 08/06 Parc Jean Drapeau, Montréal, QC w/ Radiohead
• Fri 08/08 All Points West Music & Arts Festival, Jersey City, NJ
• Tue 08/12 Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ w/ Radiohead
• Wed 08/13 Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, MA w/ Radiohead
• Fri 08/15 Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON w/ Radiohead

Possibly… maybe… probably… Okay—actually! Ed and Owen Pallett (a.k.a. Final Fantasy) have collaborated and contributed their own fluttering version of "Possibly Maybe" to Stereogum's brand-new, 12-track Enjoyed: A Tribute to Björk's Post compilation. They join covers by the likes of Liars, Dirty Projectors, High Places, Bell, Pattern Is Movement, Evangelicals, Xiu Xiu, White Hinterland, El Guincho, and Atlas Sound. You can stream or download each MP3 or the entire comp for free. ENJOY!

Grizzly Bear are pleased to announce that they have been added to the 13artists booking roster.

For UK/Europe booking, contact Lucy Wilkinson.

Look who's in the latest issue of The New York Times's TMagazine!

Check out what some folks had to say about the LA Philharmonic concert Grizzly Bear did this past weekend.

From the LA Times:

Grizzly Bear comprises four strong characters, each seemingly unique and indispensable to the band's intricate weave of sound, each handling the often unfamiliar emotions evoked by such sonic admixtures with intelligence and refinement—a bit like classical musicians.

Click for larger view

From Variety:

Opening with the gently shuffling "Easier," the band sounded both more delicate and spacious than on record. Each element locked in and out of phase with the others, and the songs flowed into each other.

[...]A show as well conceived and executed as this one can only help build a new audience for serious music.

And from the LA Weekly blog:

The band, one of the best in America, delivers a curious mix of folk, indie and art rock, creates this unclassifiable bouquet of beauty which has at its center some of the most stunning, spot-on harmonies recorded this century.

Grizzly Bear will be performing on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson this Thursday, March 6^th. Other guests include, Wanda Sykes and Saffron Burrow. Tune in to CBS, 12:35AM ET/PT.

The fine folks at KCRW have posted Grizzly Bear's Mourning Becomes Eclectic session. And not just audio; you can watch all the in-studio goings-on and see how the fellas make their spellbinding sounds.

Tracklisting (and yes—#3's a brand new song!):

1. Alligator
2. He Hit Me
3. While you wait for the Others
4. Deep Blue Sea
5. Knife
6. Little Brother

The boys will be hosting a special session of Morning Becomes Eclectic this tomorrow—Wednesday, Feb. 27—at 11:15 AM. KCRW would be the becoming place to listen in!

UK fans and UK-philes, in case you missed it, here are the first five minutes of the season 2 premiere of the hit television show Skins, featuring "Knife" from Grizzly Bear's Yellow House.

It was hard sitting on this news, but now the word is out: Grizzly Bear are slated to co-headline a concert with the LA Philharmonic on March 1^st, as well as in the special Brooklyn Academy of Music concert series celebrating the work of Paul Simon.

From the LA Phil program notes:

The first half features the orchestra playing selections hand-picked by Grizzly Bear and the LA Phil, reflecting classical music's influence on the band's sound. Grizzly Bear's full set follows, showcasing their dreamy melodies, adventurous instrumentation and seductive vocal harmonies.

Saturday, March 1, 2008, 9:00 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall (Map/Directions)
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.850.2000

Tickets ($24–34) go on sale February 2^nd.

From the BAM notes:

In an unprecedented month-long residency at BAM, Paul Simon collaborates with an extraordinary range of artists to offer three musical constellations from the career of one of America's greatest songwriters.

Latin beats and 50s doo-wop fill New York City's nights with Songs from The Capeman. In Under African Skies, Simon rekindles a love affair with the sounds of South Africa and Brazil which began with his masterpieces Graceland and The Rhythm of the Saints. Finally, Simon revisits the quiet railway stations, urban rhythms, and immigrant dreams of his greatest American Tunes.

It is in this American Tunes series that Grizzly Bear will take part, joining Olu Dara, The Roches, and Paul Simon himself.

Apr 23—27 at 8pm
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Ashland Place & Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
718.636.4100

Tickets ($45–95) go on sale Feb 11. (Feb 4 for Friends of BAM and Visa Signature cardholders.)

Grizzly Bear are thrilled to be taking part in this year's MusicNow Festival, joining a lineup that includes Dirty Projectors, Andrew Bird, Band on a Can, Bill Frisell, Wilco, the National, and Glenn Kotche.

Saturday, April 5th
Grizzly Bear and Andrew Bird
Memorial Hall
Cincinatti, OH

Tickets—$15 for individual concerts, $40 for 3 nights at Memorial Hall—online.

Grizzly Bear were excited and flattered to learn that Radiohead chose to play GB's "He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)" from their latest release—the FRIEND EP—yesterday in their set on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe Show.

Stereogum has named Grizzly Bear's Wordless Music Concert, at the New York Society for Ethical Culture (Nov. 3), its favorite show of 2007.

“[T]his show—as part of the Wordless Music Series, set in a secular room of spiritual design and heavenly acoustics—exhibited all the reasons for the late-year talk surrounding Grizzly Bear and its Friend EP. It's a special thing, to watch a group grow into something great. And pride aside (but hyperbole fully engaged), after this concert—the psych-whatever template coming easy, sounding otherworldly—I felt like I had seen one of most important bands in this indie epoch. And, particularly after hearing that perfectly pop-melodic Beatles-leaning new tune, one that's just getting started. Congrats Grizzly Bear—this is our way of saying you had a helluva year.”

Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear will be participating in a special evening at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles—Concrete Frequency: Songs of the City, Tuesday, January 8. He will be playing one song that evening.

More details from the Concrete Frequency press release:

On Tuesday, January 8, Songs of the City features artists whose lives exist on the road - artists who travel with little else than their songwriting craft from one city to the next. Using music as expression for their unique urban experiences, Biirdie, Franklin Bruno, Zooey Deschanel, John Doe (from X), Inara George (The Bird and the Bee), Stevie Jackson (Belle and Sebastian), Sean Lennon, Sondre Lerche, Bob Mould, Zach Rogue (Rogue Wave), Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear), and additional special guests, each give a stripped-down, heartfelt performance that portrays their mobile, civic existence. Although their songs draw from diverse experiences, the emotions evoked are universal. Walt Disney Concert Hall becomes the living room for the city with this intimate evening, as these urban troubadours share the songs that have become the lo-fi soundtrack to our inner-city existence -- joy, urgency, depression, and heartache expressing the raw emotions contained and cultivated in the city.

Check out the Press page, where new reviews of the FRIEND EP have recently been added.

Here's one from Rolling Stone. Click the image for a larger version:

The videos for "Knife" and "Central and Remote" are both up Subterranean's Best of 2007. Go to the Subterranean site and click "Vote" at the top.

And then tell all your friends.

Just a heads up: "He Hit Me" (from the FRIEND EP) will be featured on NPR's All Songs Considered on Thursday!

Grizzly Bear was also featured on Morning Edition. Click here to listen.

Cheers to NPR!

Grizzly Bear regret to announce that its upcoming appearance on Conan O'Brien has been cancelled, due to the writers' strike.

They're especially sorry because they'd been rehearsing with a very talented group of Brooklyn teenagers who were to perform as backup chorus with them on the show. In the meantime you can check out three of the teens in their R&B group SideTrack.

Jon Pareles has included Grizzly Bear's Friend EP in his "Playlist" piece in Sunday's New York Times. Here's a teaser quote:

“With their larger-than-life harmony chorales and meticulous transitions, Grizzly Bear's songs are already cinematic. That makes the 'Friend' EP (Warp) something like extras on a director's-cut DVD.”

Read more online, or click on the image for a larger version.

Join Grizzly Bear at 7:00 PM on Nov 7^th at the Virgin Union Square Megastore. They'll be presenting live performance at the Cafe. Come early, as it is a free event and space is limited!

Just confirmed! Grizzly Bear will be the musical guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on November 6^th, the same day as the release of the Friend EP.

Be sure to tune in!

For a limited time, when you pre-order Friend, Grizzly Bear's forthcoming EP of new, reworked, and re-recorded material (including covers and collaborations), you can receive special edition gifts from Newbury Comics (an autographed digipak) and In Sound (a lithograph print, seen below)

See their respective sites for more details.

Tickets for the Grizzly Bear edition of the Wordless Music series— Saturday, November 3 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture—are now on sale.

This will be Grizzly Bear's last show for quite a while, so get 'em while you can!

Tickets here.

Stereogum is premiering the new Choir Version of Grizzly Bear's "Alligator," from the forthcoming FRIEND EP. The track features Beirut and the Dirty Projectors.

Grizzly Bear is very pleased to announce the release of the Friend EP, a collection of new songs, covers, and alternate interpretations of songs, released on November 5/6 worldwide on Warp Records. The EP features covers of Grizzly Bear songs by CSS, Band of Horses and Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter), not to mention collaborations with Zach Condon (of Beirut) and the Dirty Projectors. Below is the full track listing. Get excited, friend!

1. Alligator (Choir Version, feat. Beirut/Dirty Projectors)
2. He Hit Me
3. Little Brother (Electric)
4. Shift (Alternative Version)
5. Plans (Terrible vs. Nonhorse: Sounds Edit)
6. Granny Diner
7. Knife (covered by CSS)
8. Plans (covered by Band of Horses)
9. Knife (covered by Atlas Sound)
10. Deep Blue Sea (Daniel Rossen home recording)

Sept! We tour! Oct! We tour more!

Come see us and our friends Beach House on the new October tour dates, to the right. We'll be playing some shows through the Midwest and East Coast this October. Tickets are available by clicking the link for each venue.

Grizzly Bear are excited to announce that they'll be back on the road at the end of August. The tour will kick off with the 826 NYC Benefit with AC Newman, Feist, and Jim James. Then they'll be playing with Feist and Kevin Drew at McCarren Park Pool.

For all other shows, there will be a fan pre-sale starting tomorrow at 3pm. Click here and enter "grizzly" for the username and "bear" for the password to get tickets.

Looking forward to seeing all your faces next month.

Check out today's New York Times, where the Wilco man himself professes his love for Yellow House. YAY!!! Click here to read for yourself.

Join Grizzly Bear for a free, live in-store performance sponsored by Urban Outfitters and Yaris. Click the flyer for more info.

The new video for "Central and Remote" (directed by Jesse Ewles) will premiere this Sunday, July 9^th, on MTV2's Subterranean at 1 AM.

It seem the band have had some serious car trouble. They're broken down in Mankato, MN and consequently have to cancel tomorrow night's show at the Boulder Theater.

That's life when you have a van and can't afford a sleeper bus. Someday, boys!

Grizzly Bear selected one of the song sent by the readers of La Blogothèque and performed it live in Paris (with the help of a few friends). The song, entitled "Venus en Mars," featured lyrics by David ’BobGeldof' and music composed by Daniel Rossen.

To read more and see a video of the performance, click here!

Grizzly Bear will be back for a show in Paris this week, and their favorite french website La Blogothèque is putting a competition online to share the love…

You can write lyrics for a song—crazy, funny, epic, poetic, short, sounds, long—whatever you want, and the band will choose its favorite ones and make a song of it. The song will be filmed for you by the band during the tour, as they have already shown that they like to have fun while they are on the road.

The winner will also receive some surprises from the band! You can send your lyrics to blogotheque (at) gmail (dot) com.

From the Warp website:

New Seven inch from Grizzly Bear with two different versions of two of the best tracks from the album. The "Knife" version is extra luxury, with grandiose strings and extra "swoon," whilst the version of '"Easier" adds some acoustic depth. We personally think these interpretations are better than the ones on the album. A gentle summer 7 inch in a limited edition. PLEASE NOTE THIS WILL NOT BE RELEASED AS A SINGLE IN THE USA, but you can still get it from us wherever you are.

Get it while you can

Click here!

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Firstly: Ed will be acting as RollingStone.com's eyes and ears at Coachella and reporting all weekend long from behind the battle lines.

UPDATE – Complete Coachella coverage:

1. From touchdown to the first part of Day 1
2. More Day 1, Day 2 part one, Coachella Awards
3. Day 2 wrap-up, Day 3, final verdict

Second: Tonight at Union Pool, Ed and Chris Bear DJ in support of DNTEL's new Sub Pop release Dumb Luck (on which Ed contributed vocals to the song "To a Fault." There is no list, so come one, come all. Jimmy Tamborello (DNTEL) DJ's first at 10pm, followed by Ed and Chris.

That's right. 3:30 PM. This Sunday, April 29th. The Gobi Tent. And you'll only have to miss the Kooks in order to see 'em!

Grizzly Bear is the special guest on MTV2's Subterranean, which airs Sunday night at 1am EST. Be sure to tune in!

UPDATE: You can watch the whole episode and extras online at http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1557671&vid=144102

From Grizzly Bear:

This weekend's college shows cancelled; there was a passing in the family. Apologies and love.

For the Aired Episode, click here.

For the full, UNEDITED version with all our songs and some raunchy interview talk, click here.

Click http://scheduletwo.com/video/grizzly_bear/the_knife to view Grizzly Bear playing "Knife" and five other songs. Thanks to Schedule Two for the great camera work and, of course, Matt Little John for the great sound!

That's right, two quick TV announcements:

1. It's already been blogged, but be sure to catch Grizzly Bear on the Last Call with Carson Daly show at 1:35 AM/12:35 Central, Thursday late night on NBC.
2. Canada's MUCHMUSIC caught us one morning in Toronto and got us to demonstrate how to use a Neti Pot. Naturally we obliged. Stereogum highlights the event here.

Stereogum can stop drooling; Grizzly Bear's video for "Knife" is FINALLY DONE!

Click to watch the video.

A million thanks to outstanding directors Encyclopedia Pictura.

A few things:

1. The Wonderful Beach House will be opening alongside The Papercuts for our March 6th Bowery Ballroom show.
2. The Girl Talk remix is almost done and it's amazing and is half mash up with—gulp—Clipse, half remix.
3. CSS are almost done with their stellar cover of "Knife," which I'm excited to hear and might be released on a tour-only 7-inch. NME reports it.
4. The elusive, mysterious and gorgeous "Knife" video is SO CLOSE TO COMPLETION I can taste it. The Encyclopedia Pictura Boys are working so hard!
5. Since all those old links for MP3s of our KEXP sessions went down recently, The Smudge of Ashen Fluff (a great blog if you haven't seen it) has kindly done a post archiving them all.
6. Thanks to everyone that voted for on at Stereogum! We were #3 of the year!!!
7. We've just completed a guest post reviewing some songs at the ever-growing, ever-lovely, Paper Thin Walls. It's four tracks; check each one out.
8. The Knife vs. Grizzly Bear mash up is done! Download it at super duper Brooklyn Vegan.

We can't wait to hit the road with some new gear (yup we're slowly accumulating things again) and to do our first ever headlining tour!

Thanks again for all the support!

The original version of "Easier" featured on the band's album YELLOW HOUSE, released in September 2006. This alternate edit features all the harmonious and warming Grizzly Bear trademarks, with the album track being reworked to create something completely new and almost unrecognisable from the original. A must listen for fans of the band.

• Easier (Alternate Edit) on ROUGH TRADE
• Easier (Alternate Edit) ON BLEEP.COM

The track is only available for one week. Go to!