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PAINTED RUINS has finally arrived!

If you haven’t already, support these guys by purchasing via their website or digitally on iTunes. Also be sure to see them on tour, you won’t be disappointed.

This will be my last post on this blog for the foreseeable future, but here are some great articles that have come out recently, if you’re not already convinced:

New York Times: Grizzly Bear Staves Off Despair With Beauty on ‘Painted Ruins’

USA Today: Grizzly Bear constructs a masterpiece on reflective 'Painted Ruins'

The Guardian: Painted Ruins review – intricate chamber pop from a band shaking back to life

A.V. Club: Grizzly Bear returns with some beautiful sounds inspired by bad times

NYLON: Grizzly Bear’s Latest Album Demonstrates Their Power As A Band

Consequence of Sound: The return of one of indie rock's sharpest bands was well worth the wait

Thank you to everyone who has followed this blog over the years and passed along a kind message. Means the world to me--Grizzly Bear fans are a community like no other. If you’d like to keep in touch, I have a personal instagram (@kstems) and Twitter (same handle). Drop me a line!

xo, Kerry

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Saying Goodbye to GBG

Hi everyone,

On August 18, when Painted Ruins is released, this blog will become an archive and I will no longer be updating with new content. I started this blog in 2009 because of my love for Grizzly Bear. At the time, there were no websites sharing the content I was continually finding online. What started a small blog for a handful of personal online friends grew into such a wonderful community with followers as passionate as I was about the band.

Because of this blog, I’ve been able to connect and meet with so many wonderful people from around the world. I read all the messages that were sent to me via DM or email. This blog has also connected me on a personal level to the band (and their families), which in turn, has provided some of my most loved and cherished memories I will carry with me all my life. For as much love I put out for them, I always felt it reciprocated right back.

However, circumstances change, and life is different for me now as the sole person continuing to update this blog. I will always support these guys with my whole heart but sadly ,my schedule does not allow for me to keep up with the rapid pace of press and online content being released like I used to. However, for those still eager for new content: there is an active Grizzly Bear Subreddit, which is a great community for people who are excited about the new album and beyond.

Please be sure to purchase the new album and support Grizzly Bear on whatever format best suits you. I was lucky enough to hear it a few months ago and I can say it is absolutely stellar and my favorite record they’ve put out yet.

Thanks to everyone who still reads this silly blog.

xoxo, Kerry

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Listen to Daniel Rossen and Chris Taylor break down how “Four Cypresses” came to be on Song Exploder

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Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste: Indie-Rock Role Model, Die-Hard Liberal, Gay Divorcé (via Out Magazine)

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“It’s funny, last night as I was going to bed at 8:30pm (this is Ed, I’ve been sick in bed for 3 days) I was thinking hmmmm what the hell am I going to share for my takeover week at the band IG, and just like that, I magically awoke to a text from my friend@sarahbrownsarah declaring she found some old photos in her shoe box while cleaning! This is from 2005 at the back room at Union Pool. You can really date a picture of us if we are all sitting (did that for one year because we were too nervous to stand 🤷🏻‍♂️)…..I’m fairly certain this was a stacked line up and also was a benefit but I’d need someone to chime in and confirm because I’m not totally sure. So there you go! Here’s baby us 12 years ago. Tuesday starts with a T also so #tbt”

From Grizzly Bear’s Instagram

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Grizzly Bear for Under the Radar Magazine Photo by James Loveday

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Grizzly Bear for Under the Radar Magazine Photo by James Loveday

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Get a limited edition Painted Ruins 12x12" litho print with any CD/Vinyl order from Grizzly Bear’s official web store.

PS - They have tees and merch from previous tours up now too

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Read Paste Magazine’s full feature and interview with Grizzly Bear from their Quarterly issue, which is still available to purchase here

In January of 2015, Taylor broke the ice with an idea. He’d start a Dropbox where they could share ideas, sounds, textures, chords, tracks, anything. The only rule: no rules. Take what you want, edit how you choose, or ignore entirely. If something sticks, great. If not, “it’s all mood board,” he says. Taylor, ever restless, was fine with that until six months passed and only two potential songs materialized. So he bought a guitar—”I don’t know how to play guitar,” he points out—then drove up to a friend’s house in Big Sur, taught himself, and wrote 14 songs for his band. He’d never been the one bringing in demos, but he uploaded them “like bwao!”, and the hibernation was over. Writing sessions began. Back east, Rossen and Bear closed the seven-hour drive time between them. Droste and Taylor went on retreats to the mountains above L.A.By June 2016, they were ready. Grizzly Bear reunited at Allaire, a disused studio on a 35-acre estate high above New York’s Hudson Valley and, says Rossen, “We slid right into the best part of working together.” He credits Taylor for bringing in a “completely different sonic format” (four of Taylor’s Big Sur demos made it on), and his time alone on the road for reminding him that he actually likes fading into a band. They ate dinners together, usually cooked by Bear or, in a final September stint, Bear’s wife. They raided the mansion’s cache of rare, sometimes broken instruments (a vintage Buchla synth makes a few cameos). And with all the Dropbox fiddling and writing they’d done in advance, they were free to try new things, be loose. “It was fun and playful,” says Taylor. “That’s a cool energy to bring to our band, which can be pretty cerebral.”

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Grizzly Bear’s video for “Neighbors”

Painted Ruins is out 8/16. Pre-order now.

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New track “Neighbors” available to stream at midnight 7/21

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An interview with Ed on The Standard detailing new album motivations, politics, marriage, fidget spinners and beyond--all over three drinks:

“I feel like every record we put out is like, listen at least 5 times. I think this one’s slightly more immediate, but I don’t know, someone could tell me the opposite. It’s hard to say when you made it. I think it’s the most propulsive record we’ve made. The drums are really front and center. It’s the most varied, but it’s still cohesive. It’s a sunnier, warmer journey. The last record was kind of cold.”

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Grizzly Bear in the Summer 2017 issue of Under the Radar Mag

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Grizzly Bear will cover the Summer 2017 issue of Under the Radar Magazine

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Proofs of Grizzly Bear’s ‘Painted Ruins’ CD/LP design heading for print!

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Grizzly Bear by Alexander Straulino

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Grizzly Bear by Alexander Straulino