Listen: Grizzly Bear Perform New Songs on BBC

Hear "Half Gate" and "Yet Again"

By

Laura Snapes

This morning, Grizzly Bear appeared on Lauren Laverne's BBC 6Music radio show to perform two songs from their forthcoming album Shields, out September 17 in the UK and September 18 in the U.S. via Warp. Click here to listen to the session, which starts around 2:07 with an interview followed by "Yet Again", and picks up at 2:37 with more chat and a performance of "Half Gate" at 2:43.
Check out the video for "Two Weeks" from 2009's Veckatimest below.
And Grizzly Bear will play Pitchfork Music Festival Paris, taking place November 1-3 at Grande Halle de la Villette. Tickets are on sale now.

Stream the xx's New Album Coexist

Track the album's path around the world

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Laura Snapes

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The xx's second album, Coexist, is out next week via Young Turks. Stream the whole thing below, courtesy of a nifty widget. In collaboration with Microsoft, the band have launched a website where you can track the album's path across the internet as it's shared from user to user.
"Send it to a friend and watch the path continue," the press materials explain. The band started the stream with one of their biggest superfans-- and it's spreading so fast that the site keeps dropping out, so be patient if it's slow to load.
Listen below, and watch a video of the band playing "Night Time" for Pitchfork.tv's "Surveillance". Read our "Update" interview with the band about the making of the album here, and a more in-depth feature interview here.

Deerhunter's Bradford Cox and Black Lips' Cole Alexander Revive Ghetto Cross Project

Listen to the new track "Still"

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Jenn Pelly and Amy Phillips

Ghetto Cross: "Still"

Deerhunter/Atlas Sound's Bradford Cox and Black Lips' Cole Alexander have revived their collaborative Ghetto Cross project, which they began in January 2008 with a new track called "Still". The band now also includes bassist Asha Lakra and drummer Frankie Broyles, formerly of Balkans. (See photo below.)

According to Cox, "Still" "is about the relationship that develops between two young boys, one of whom is autistic and cannot talk, and the other who is an outcast and beaten by his emotionally manipulative father."
Ghetto Cross released one track, "Dog Years", in 2008. Alexander also appeared on the Deerhunter song "Saved by Old Times" from Microcastle. (Cole contributed the spoken bridge via iChat video, as documented by Pitchfork.tv, below). Also, Cox guest Tweets via Black Lips' account.
According to Cox, "We recorded an album of songs around the time of Rainwater Cassette Exchange. We are revisiting them now as a fall project for fun."
The band will make their live debut on Tuesday, August 21, with a free show at Atlanta's Club 529. Both Cox and Alexander will also perform solo sets, as Atlas Sound and Old King Cole Younger, respectively.