Gorilla Vs. Bear Blog - Bands on tour

• new White Denim video :: "shake shake shake"

  Here's the brand new, appropriately filthy clip for White Denim's next UK single, "Shake Shake Shake." Directed by Tom Haines and starring a ragtag crew of South London junkyard-dwellers, the clip does a stellar job of capturing the dirty party vibe of the song. Also, the destructive little pyromaniac mullet...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Black Lips ON TOUR (US)
  • Broken Social Scene ON TOUR (US)
  • Grizzly Bear ON TOUR (US)
  • Rage Against The Machine ON TOUR (UK)
• j. tillman x aquarium drunkard

  J. Tillman is now an official member of Fleet Foxes, but we'll always remain partial to his solo stuff, which we've been fans of for a long, long while here at GvsB. So we were glad to hear that our good friend Aquarium Drunkard has just made Tillman's woefully underappreciated...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Fleet Foxes ON TOUR (US/UK)
• new lykke li video :: "breaking it up"

  I'm travelling to Chicago today for Lollapalooza, but when videos of Lykke Li busting new dance moves surface, rest assured that I'll still post them:...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Lykke Li ON TOUR (US/UK)
• we make it good vol. 4: xxxchange

  The already stellar We Make It Good mix series just stepped its game up, courtesy of our favorite producer of the last year or so, Spank Rock's XXXChange. Vol. 4 features amazing artwork (as has come to be expected from the We Make It Good people), and an eclectic and...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Isaac Hayes ON TOUR (US)
  • Kenny Rogers ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • London Symphony Orchestra ON TOUR (US)
  • Say Anything
  • Tangerine Dream ON TOUR (US/UK)
• new old A Tribe Called Quest :: "scenario" (unreleased version)

  Well, this made my day. Unkut has unearthed an unreleased version of one of my favorite hip-hop songs of all time. This version of A Tribe Called Quest's "Scenario" features unheard verses from De La Soul and Black Sheep. As Nah Right puts it, "it's not everyday that something with...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • A Tribe Called Quest
  • De La Soul
• blog radio :: july 28 + sirius & xm merger approved by FCC

  After well over a year of opposition and posturing from assorted douchebags, the FCC has finally approved the Sirius-XM merger (f*** you, Clear Channel). Hopefully this bodes well for our weekly GvsB Sirius radio show, which gains nearly 10 million potential new listeners. This week's show airs today at noon...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Bodies Of Water ON TOUR (UK)
  • Cass McCombs ON TOUR (UK)
  • Erykah Badu
  • Gang
  • Grizzly Bear ON TOUR (US)
  • Lights Out
  • Lykke Li ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • The Walkmen ON TOUR (US/UK)
• new takeaway shows :: lykke li + el perro del mar

  Here are a few wonderful new Takeaway Shows, featuring lovely Swedes Lykke Li + El Perro Del Mar. I only know this song from that one sample Rza used on Enter the Wu-Tang, but this is pretty great (I guess Lykke and Sarah have been closing their shows together with...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Lykke Li ON TOUR (US/UK)
  • Sebastien Tellier ON TOUR (UK)
• nature's got away

  Karl Blau is an extremely prolific guy, and yet, like many of my other favorite lo-fi singer-songwriters (see Cass McCombs and Chad VanGaalen), he remains somewhat unfathomably underrated. I was a fan of his psych-folk ode to Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne that dropped earlier this year, and he...(read full post)

  Artists mentioned:
  • Cass McCombs ON TOUR (UK)