Watching Grizzly Bear on Saturday night—visibly tired, grizzled even, after more than a year touring—execute their complex, inundating songs with a surfeit of ease was, to put it too flatly and too simply, one of the best experiences of my life.  There was a kind of hallucinatory joy that attached itself to people as [...]

The first of our collaborative pieces with the Wordless Music Series in NYC, guest writer John Melillo covers Beirut’s recent double gig as part of this brilliant series of concerts.  The Wordless Music Series is dedicated to a seemingly obvious but never-acted-upon truth: that the worlds of music we call “indie rock,” “classical,” “improvisational,” “jazz,” [...]