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Last fall I had the privilege of seeing Animal Collective at DC’s 9:30 Club, a show that featured several live renditions off the group’s forthcoming Merriweather Post Pavilion (due out on January 20th). I figure there will be a slew of posts on this album so I thought I would post a live track off [...]

Monday night at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue Grizzly Bear took a break from their tour with Radiohead to play a set of almost all new material. It was one of the better shows I’ve seen in awhile, mainly due to the way the temple acoustics carried the band’s four part harmonies and multi-instrumental [...]

After his first serious band imploded a few years back, Justin Vernon moved home to Wisconsin and spent the winter living in the woods alone. Instead of mailing of explosives to federal office buildings, or pondering transcendentalism, he used his isolation to write the songs that would eventual become Bon Iver’s first album, For Emma, [...]