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...fast, Hipster #1. The band in question is actually Grizzly Bear, an un-Collective-affiliated act led by Edward Droste. The Watertown native, who wrote and performed almost all of Grizzly Bear??s debut Horn of Plenty, grew up listening to the Pixies and his mother’s Scottish folk records, not the Brian Wilson symphonies that other, trendier loopy psychedelic duo always seem to be pining...
Besides, Droste doesn’t even think the Animal Collective comparison makes much sense—not that that’s stopped this bestial analogy from showing up prominently on Grizzly Bear??s own website...
...sophomore release—good, but not carrying through on the promise of their breakthroughs. A couple of specific moments clinched this year for me. One was in early March, when some friends dragged me off to hear this band Franz Ferdinand at a full house at TT the Bear??s. That was the last time that band will be playing a venue so small for a long time, and though before this I had heard more of the formidable buzz than of the band itself, at the show the three Scots seemed nothing but incredulous...
...invitation to jam. Emerging from several sessions that just consisted of playing around with Radiohead covers, the group, by then dubbed the States, began playing in the local circuit at Springfest and Loker Commons before moving on to play at the Sky Bar, the Middle East, T.T. the Bear??s, Kirkland Café and the Roxy in their senior year...
...four-piece from Baltimore, Maryland all went to high school together and are now based out of New York. Each member has a different persona: Noah Lennox is “Panda Bear?? and has his own side project on Animal Collective’s label, David Portner plays the role of “Avey Tare,” Brian Weitz, who wears a miner’s light over the effects box and minidisc players he operates, is “The Geologist,” and Conrad Deaken is (somewhat less creatively...