The gargantuan Grizzly Bear today released the second song from their impending new album Shields, the first proper follow-up to their phenomenal 2009 album Veckatemist.  Check out Yet Again immediately below, followed by the first song released by the band off the album, Sleeping Ute.  Both bode well for the new album and impending tour.

Along with a whole lot of Olympics Track & Field coverage (finally!), Lollapalooza is happening this weekend in Chicago.  The entire festival will be streaming HERE starting at 11:30 am Pacific this Friday.  Our anticipated highlights are The Afghan Whigs (at 2:15 Pacific on Friday), War on Drugs (at 1pm Pacific on Friday), Dawes (at 5:30pm Pacific on Friday), Bloc Party (at 5pm Pacific on Saturday), The Walkmen (at 1pm Pacific on Sunday), and Jack White (at 6:30pm Pacific on Sunday).  You’ve been warned.

There’s a new Harrison in a new house.  George Harrison’s son Dhani has assembled a new musical collective entitled thenewno2, which has released a new album entitled The Fear of Missing Out.  Dhani was also a founding member of Fistful of Mercy,  with Ben Harper and Joseph Arthur. Check them out (with former Field member Thorunn Antonia on added vocals) playing Staring Out to Sea for KCRW and Make It Home on Conan.  Not only does Dhani look and sound like his father at times, he also plays guitar like a cross between George and the late, great Bob Welch (check it at 2:10 on the first video below of Staring Out to Sea).  Newly added:  video of the band performing I Won’t Go at Amoeba Records in Hollywood yesterday.  If you like what you see and hear, you can tentatively stream the band’s new, multifaceted album over at NPR.

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