Grizzly Gets 9.0

Come on! Like you didn't see it coming. Grizzly Bear's extremely buzzed about Veckatimest, which is reaching heights of Merriweather hype, just dropped a 9.0 on P4K and a Best New Music. Sometimes, it's just too easy. The album is out today, so do with it what you will.

We enjoyed a fantastic Memorial Day off, munching pizza, buying Vaselines (the band) and drinking grenade-size ginger ales at our favorite music watering hole, Other Music; it was the Veckatimest listening party (see previous post.) We had to.

Anyway, just an FYI because this shit is all you're going to read about for awhile. Thought we would alert you.

Veckatimest Listening Party

In case you've been living in a cave for the past several weeks, you're aware that the new Grizzly Bear record Veckatimest is coming out on Tuesday via Warp. It leaked a while ago, but we're looking forward to hearing it in the quality format in which it was intended, not just some crappy web rip. Other Music is hosting a listening party on Memorial Day (Monday) from 4-6 pm with free pizza and other giveaways. Most importantly they will have limited edition versions of the LP and CD for purchase a day early. We leave you for the weekend (I think) with the video for their single and arguably best song on the record "Two Weeks" directed by Patrick Daughters. Poor guys and their exploding heads.

Here We Go Magic Tour with Grizzly Bear - New mp3

Here We Go Magic - Fangela - mp3

We've been going on long enough about Luke Temple's awesome project Here We Go Magic. Today, we just wanted to share a new mp3 "Fangela" and to post Here We Go Magic's upcoming tour dates with Grizzly Bear. A pretty nice get for Mr. Temple we'd say. They will be hitting Town Hall in New York in May, and we'll be there to let you know how it is. Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest, if you haven't heard or guessed by now, is pretty amazing. Coming on May 26 via Warp. Full tour dates for Here We Go Magic in including SXSW after the jump.

US Tour Dates
03/12 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway*
03/13 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen*
03/14 Rock Island, IL Daytrotter Session
03/14 Rock Island, IL Daytrotter Presents @ Huckleberry's Pizza Parlor*
03/17 Dallas, TX Mountain House*
03/17 Dallas, TX – 6 PM INSTORE AT GOOD RECORDS
03/22 New Orleans, LA Marigny Theatre*
03/23 Atlanta, GA 529 Club**
03/24 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506**
03/25 Baltimore, MD Ottobar**
* w/ Callers
** w/ Titus Andronicus

SXSW Dates
3/18 WEDNESDAY
3 PM: Austinist/Gothamist party @ Mohawk
with Akron/Family, Vetiver, Young Widows

3/19 THURSDAY
1:45 PM: Gorilla vs. Bear day party @ The Peacock --- 1:45 PM slot
w/ WAVVES, White Denim, Vivian Girls, The Golden Filter, Girls, Harlem, DJ Sober
1 AM: Western Vinyl Official Showcase @ Club 115 --- 1AM slot
w/ J Tillman, Balmorhea

3/19FRIDAY
1 PM: Other Music show @ French Legation Museum
w/ Dent May, Blk Jks, Marnie Stern, WAVVES, These Are Powers, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
3 PM: Park The Van Records / Partisan Records / indie outlaw / The Knitting Factory Day Party @ Side Bar
w/ Deer Tick, The High Strung, Golden Boots, Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Themselves, The Subjects, and Generationals

US Tour With Grizzly Bear
Thu - 05.28 - New York, NY Town Hall
Fri - 05.29 - New York, NY Town Hall
Mon - 06.01 - Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Tue - 06.02 - Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Theatre
Wed - 06.03 - Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center
Thu - 06.04 - Montréal, QC Le National
Fri - 06.05 - Toronto, ON Phoenix
Sun - 06.07 - Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center
Mon - 06.08 - Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theatre
Tue - 06.09 - Bloomington, IN Buskirk - Chumley Theater
Thu - 06.11 - Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
Mon - 06.15 - Dallas, TX Granada Theater
Tue - 06.16 - Austin, TX The Parish
Fri - 06.19 - Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
Sun - 06.21 - San Francisco, CA The Fillmore

Tracklisting
Only Pieces
Fangela
Ahab
Tunnelvision
Ghost List
I Just Want To See You Underwater
Babyohbabyijustcantstanditanymore
Nat's Alien
Everything's Big




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