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 questionable quotes and insinuations as to the reason Droste was the odd man out on D.O.E. to suggest the future of Grizzly Bear, and more fundamentally Dan and Ed's friendship, is remarkably strained. True, Dan shares some GB-related frustrations, but the rest seems selectively framed for maximum drama. (The pièce de résistance is Ed's out-of-nowhere introductory quote, starting "Is the band going to break up? I think that's the furthest thing from our minds." I may not be a lawyer -- oh wait, yes I am -- but that's leading the witness, NYT.) Since then Dan's been bent on clearing up the Times' distorted portrait. The night after the piece ran, D.O.E. played their first full set at the Bell House, where Dan dedicated two songs to his Grizzly partner (a cover of Jo Jo's "Too Little Too Late" which he initially recorded as a birthday present to Ed last year, and the slightly less subtle "If You'd Forgive Me"). Today Rossen takes it one step further on the Grizzly Bear blog with a post titled "Dept of Eagles and Grizzly Bear: Friendships Are True":