A great record that Daniel Rossen has called "too personal" for main band Grizzly Bear gets even more personal in this session recorded live at the Atlantic Sound Studio in Brooklyn's DUMBO area. "Those nights you wandered online/ You won't get to relive them," Rossen sings on "Herring Bone", a tune from In Ear Park, his Best New Music-crowned l...

The Duke Spirit have announced that they will join Eagles Of Death Metal on their forthcoming autumn tour of North America.

Last night I was reading a "Hall Of Fame" piece on Sky Valley in the new Decibel and found myself thinking about Josh Homme's path from Kyuss to Queens Of The Stone Age and, well, to this. As mentioned, Eagles Of Death Metal's third studio album Heart On is out later this month. Fresh off their co-headlining tour with the Hives, Josh and Jesse g...

Earlier this week the New York Times raised a few eyebrows with their profile on Dan Rossen's Department Of Eagles project. It's not surprising to see D.O.E. given such high-minded attention (they're suddenly everywhere, from last week's Conan to last night's Bookeaters Benefit at Town Hall, and deservedly so). But the article uses contextually ...

In her review today of Department of Eagles' fine In Ear Park, Amanda Petrusich calls the album "Ambitious and complex... stuffed with cocooning harmonies and shimmering, sunlight-smacking-the-Pacific melodies-- a languid, easy West Coast record (think Randy Newman or SMiLE), infused with classic East Coast anxiety." Nowhere on the album is this...