Like for one, it’s coming out pretty soon! Teen Dream is slated for a January 26 release on Sup Pop to be exact. And secondly, the album will b epackaged with a companion DVD that has a video for every track on the album, each by a different director. Maybe the one we made up in our head to “Apple Orchard” about the cute girl we always walking her dog at the park and us falling asleep on a blanket and waking up in a delightful meadow pickign apples and skipping will be a bonus cut. It could happen…  Here’s the tracklist:

Teen Dream:

01 Zebra
02 Silver Soul
03 Norway
04 Walk in the Park
05 Used to Be
06 Lover of Mine
07 Better Times
08 10 Mile Stereo
09 Real Love
10 Take Care

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Among the initial list of indie rock acts confirmed for this year’s Musicfest Northwest in Portland, Oregon, are freshly reunited emo OGs Sunny Day Real Estate and the Get Up Kids, two bands that couldn’t help but pop out at us from amongst a heap of wussy no-names like Mudhoney, Explosions In The Sky, Bad Brains, Dirty Three, Twilight Sad, Pink Mountaintops, Amazing Baby, Girl Talk, Beach House, Monotonix, Grouper, Titus Andronicus, The Long Winters and fittingly, Pains of Being Pure At Heart. Good heavens! One of the Pacific Northwest’s largest, the Willamette Week-founded festival will be descending on PDX’s many venues for four days and nights starting on September 16. Stay tuned for additional lineup additions and snag your wristbands right here before they’re all gone and you feel silly.

We’ve shown you the video of them playing it live at SxSW. There are a ton of fan tribute videos for it. It features possibly our favorite guest vocalist and we’re even giving away copies of it on both CD and vinyl, so damnit, we’re just going to play the song that everyone can’t stop creaming their pants over.
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There has been a load of hype swarming around Grizzly Bear’s new record, Veckatimest, since the beginning of the year, and the album hasn’t even come out yet (but it’s not like we haven’t heard it already). Grizzly Bear has announced the first single from the album will be “Two Weeks” and will be released on May 12 (May 18 in EU, June 1 in the UK).
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During a stellar performance at SxSW, Grizzly Bear showcased some of the new material from their upcoming album, Veckatimest, and if you haven’t already heard the album’s leak, get ready to give your ears a nice surprise. The grizzly men premiered the song “Two Weeks” with guest vocalist Victoria Legrand from Beach House at the showcase, and it was the first time the two forces joined up to perform the new song live.
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