I really couldn’t tell you much about Grizzly Bear (barring that they are a relatively new band from Brooklyn and that their sound has been described as acid folk, neo-psychedelia, experimental rock, and lo-fi) without blatantly copying information from Wikipedia.
I first encountered Grizzly Bear on YouTube. I was watching some videos. I was watching […]

Into the Wild premiers this Friday: Sean Penn’s film about a young man who denounces his capital life and journeys into the great abyss, all to the tune of Eddie Vedder. Whether the movie lives up to expectations or not, the soundtrack is amazing: disheartened, acoustic somethings by a musical icon of my formative years. […]

A trusted source of good music, the very same person who introduced me to Bright Eyes so many years ago as we drove in her truck through a snow storm on the Western Slope of Colorado, told me today about Amiina. I Youtubed the group and found a live performance of their song “Seoul.” I […]

I was introduced to Okkervil River’s music by a few friends of the neo-folk influence. The first song I heard was “Red.” I listened to it for months. I listened to it a hundred times. In that song is one of the most haunting lyrics I have ever heard:
She said “I know it’s easy to […]

Hello, boys and girls. What it do? The Chemical Brothers released an album in July that is, well, there really isn’t any other word for it: badical. “The Salmon Dance,” on said album, caught my attention because of its overall dynamism, but also because of a strange dialogue in the song between Fatlip (of the […]