Tag Archives: Win Butler

Grizzly Bear – Shields

19 Sep

Review originally posted on Pop’stache

Since its conception, Grizzly Bear has a seen a tremendous evolution.   The eerie, lo-fi bedroom musings of leading man Ed Droste were appropriated for their debut Horn of Plenty with the aid of drummer Christopher Bear.  Grizzly Bear’s second release, Yellow House, saw an unexpected and exponential sonic expansion with the admission of multi-instrumentalists Daniel Rossen and Chris Taylor.  With the ante upped and Continue reading

Shut Up and Play the Hits: The Very Loud Ending of LCD Soundsystem

22 Jul

Jonny J was kind enough to take point on LCD Soundsystem’s documentary which played for one night only in select theaters this past week.  A big thank you is in order for Jon as he purchased a pair of tickets for him and I to the last show as an early birthday present for me last spring.  I shared the concert with someone great!

I was fortunate enough to see LCD Soundsystem’s rock-doc in Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image, where the theater acoustics were the most perfect I have heard in any theater to date. The concert segments made you feel you were actually at the show, superbly recorded in audio and film.

The film opens with Continue reading