Today’s Sounds: Grizzly Bear
Record: Grizzly Bear, Shields (Warp) Recently cited as one of the 20 worst hipster bands by the L.A. Weekly blog, Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear are an especially easy target for hipster-haters. Unlike...
View ArticlePop Montreal day 5
Les Momies de Palerme, photo by Walmor Santos The Monday after Pop is always bittersweet. You don’t want it to end but your body is glad it’s over. You don’t know what to do with yourself other than...
View ArticleSusan Moss vs. Pop Montreal
Cult MTL at the Ukrainian Federation Local photographer to the stars Susan Moss was all over the Pop Montreal festival, from the electro and indie pop spectacles to the no-frills rawk shows, from the...
View ArticleToday’s Sounds: Toy
Record: Toy, Toy (Heavenly) Merging the density of shoegazing with the disco-light whirl of ballroom rock and a coat of goth paint in a way that’s somewhat reminiscent of the Horrors, Toy set their...
View ArticleThe Best Albums of 2012
Frank Ocean, at Coachella 2012 Lorraine Carpenter Tame Impala, Lonerism (Modular) Dum Dum Girls, End of Daze EP (Sub Pop) Django Django, Django Django (Ribbon) Frank Ocean, Channel Orange (Def Jam)...
View ArticleFriday, June 7
The XX, with Grizzly Bear tonight at the Esplanade du Centenaire du Lachine Canal Vintage fashion, houseware and art vendors Wunderkammer are having a two-day pop-up sale. Espace Pop (5587 Parc), 10...
View ArticleGrizzly Bear make indie rock by committee
Photo by Tom Hines There are bands with domineering frontmen. And then there’s Grizzly Bear. Sure, the Brooklyn indie rock quintet’s founding member, Ed Droste, began Grizzly Bear circa 2000 as a...
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