Bay Area favorites The Morning Benders drop their sophomore release, Big Echo, today. Judging by the album’s coastal artwork alone, we might assume that the Berkeley-founded and now Brooklyn-dwelling band is sticking to their beach bum ways. But as The Morning Benders have grown, their techniques have matured as well. Big Echo moves away from [...]

Maybe it was because one of America’s musical capitols was represented in the game, but there just seemed to be more music in this Super Bowl. There was the perfunctory opening anthems and halftime show, songs in ads — The Who even managed to be the halftime show act and sneak into an ad. Whatever [...]

Grizzly Bear just released a video for Veckatimest’s “Ready, Able”. The Grizz tapped artist Allison Schulnik to helm the project, a beautifully dark stop-motion piece.
MP3:

Grizzly Bear – “Ready, Able”
Grizzly Bear – “Ready, Able” [Live]

Welcome back to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
We took a little break after the insanity of Outside Lands, but now we’re back for another Friday Video Round-Up. This week, we’ve got video stimulation from Brendan Benson, Edward Sharpe & the [...]

Welcome back to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
Seems like slimmer pickings this week. What did we miss?
In the meantime, some video goodness from Bay Area locals Girls, plus Starlight Mints, Memory Cassette, Amanda Blank, Yo La Tengo, Pterodactyl, Antony and [...]

Welcome back to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
This week, there’s lots of action on the “live” front, including some notable live performances by Paul McCartney, Weezer, Grizzly Bear, Wilco and Feist, Japandroids, Spoon, and Cymbals Eat Guitars. After that, enjoy [...]

We told you about the rumors a few months ago, and now we’ve got a confirmed lineup for the 2009 Treasure Island Festival (with most of the rumors turning out to be true).
The two-day festival will be headlined by MGMT and the Flaming Lips. As with the past two years, the folks at Another Planet [...]

Yep, it’s time again for the quintessential “so far” list — no music site is complete without one! 2009 is shaping up to be an interesting year, with old favorites and newcomers alike issuing strong releases. In an attempt to make some sense out of everything, our staff got together to vote on our favorites.
We’d [...]

Well, it’s two weeks after the fact and I’m finally able to wrap my head around the musical smorgasbord that was Bonnaroo 2009. 75,000 people descended on Manchester, TN, (population: roughly 9,500 for 361 days of the year), for the festival’s eighth year.
The musical equivalent of Willy Wonka’s world of pure imagination, Bonnaroo once again [...]

Grizzly Bear have found themselves, much like their namesake animal, at the top of the indie rock food chain. They’ve been gaining attention and appreciation since their 2006 debut, Horn of Plenty, and there seemed to be a groundswell of anticipation leading up to the release of 2009’s Veckatimest. Reaction has been near unanimously positive, [...]