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Grizzly Bear: Friend EP

By Megan • Nov 12th, 2007

Ryan Schreiber at Pitchfork reports:
“The tracklist of Grizzly Bear’s new Friend EP suggests it’s just your average collection of odds and ends, but it’s a trick: Actually a well-disguised 31-minute mini-LP of newly recorded (and largely newly written) material, it marks the band’s greatest leap forward yet, transforming them from purveyors of delicate fairytale [...]



Man Man Sign Signs to Anti

By Megan • Nov 6th, 2007

Aversion Reports:
“Man Man is movin’ on up, as the act’s left Ace Fu for a deal with Anti- Records. The experimental fusion-rock outfit is in the studio recording its debut for the Epitaph imprint. The album, which follows up last year’s Six Demon Bag (review) (Ace Fu), has yet to be titled, though will arrive [...]



Where the Cool Kids Are

By Megan • Oct 31st, 2007

The Chicago Reader reports:
“OVER THE PAST year and a half, a new crowd of omnivorous, beat-obsessive DJs and rappers — Flosstradamus, Kid Sister, Hollywood Holt, the Cool Kids, Mano — has done what nobody’s managed to do in years: developed what you could conceivably call a Chicago hip-hop sound. Though a number of local [...]