Tagged: Grouper
Silk Flowers Go On Tour, Have Grouper Make Their Music Sound Like The Winds Of Death
If you’re familiar with Silk Flowers then you know they can get kinda baroque, which is cool because moping and dancing don’t necessarily have to be mutually exclusive. Their track “Thin Air,” however, is not … read more »
Audio: Grouper, “Hold”
Listening to Grouper is less about the individual song than the experience. Like, imagine if someone rolled up to you and was like HOT NEW GROUPER JAM IS OUT OF CONTROL and then they played … read more »
Grouper, “Little Boat” / “Bone Dance (Audrey)” MP3
There is absolutely nothing to grab onto here. Two songs melded into one, no discernible words or riff, just pervasive echo and heavy fog. It’s background music that is powerful enough to flip everything else … read more »
Grouper and Honey Owens Don’t Want You to Move to Portland
The Portland, Oregon-based advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy has been running with a dope series on its home city called “Don’t Move Here,” a sentiment some of us totally get since we in fact did … read more »
The FADER Issue 65 Podcast MP3
One song we wish we could have had on this podcast of artists from FADER 65 is a cover of Bel Biv Devoe’s “Poison” by the teenage version of Animal Collective, an actual occurrence that … read more »
Video: Grouper, “Hold the Way”
Perusing Beautiful Losers scion Aaron Rose’s blog recently, we noticed he’d used something we found familiar as captions. Rose likes to underscore his photos with bits of prose and poetry, usually from ancient sages. But … read more »
ATP New York 2009: Babies and Drums
Boredoms’ drummer Yojiro (YO2RO) Tatekawa was carried into the main performance space on a platform carried by eight dudes, ten minutes into the already heart-exploding Boadrum 9 reprise at ATP New York last Sunday. He … read more »
Musicfest Northwest Lineup Packs Serious Emo Heat
Ready yourself for one of the best Get Up Kids jokes you’ve ever heard. read more »
Animal Collective, Grouper @ Terminal 5 | NYC
Animal Collective‘s current tour finds them content with where they are for the first time, spreading selections from their entire discography over almost 2 hours for a packed and sweaty Terminal 5. read more »
Schnipper’s Slept On
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Grouper’s Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill. Listen to “Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be … read more »
