Grizzly Bear are one of the most promising bands making music right now. Yellow House is a gorgous album that will stand as one of the most cherished albums of this decade. We are still waiting to see how amazing their follow up to “Yellow House” will be. They put on dreamy live performances and absolutely impressed me live at All Points West. Now Ed Droste has given me another reason to adore him and his band. The band runs their own blog, with most of the posts coming from Ed. The other day Ed posted the Animal Collective brilliant new song “Brother Sport” just like I did (and I spelt it wrong..oops). Similar to me, Ed got a message from the web sheriff asking me to take it down.
Ed posted the message he got for all of us to read:
I haven’t fallen in love with an Animal Collective song so hard since Leaf House!
All hail “Brother Sport.â€
Gorgeousness!
UPDATE (The Boss Has Spoken):
This is to inform you that, currently your relevant artist’s web-site is acting as the global-leak-source of the track, “Brother Sportâ€, by our aforementioned client,Animal Collective, which track is not due for release by Domino untilJanuary 2009 (please see http://www.grizzly-bear.net/media/brothersport.mp3 ). As such, both the individuals collectively trading / performing as “Grizzly Bear†and, indeed, yourself are personally liable to our said clients for all commercial and other losses arising from this blatant act of piracy.
In all of the circumstances, we must insist that you now A. removethis pirated file / track without further delay and that you also B. publish the following apology on the Home Page of the Grizzly Bear web-site :-
Animal Collective – Apology
Following contact from Web Sheriff, we can confirm that Grizzly Bear
has withdrawn its stream of unreleased material by the Domino Records artist Animal Collective :
Grizzly Bear wish to apologize to Animal Collective, Domino and Web Sheriff
for the disruption caused to their marketing and release plans by this leak.This apology must be published for a minimum period of 7 days.
As you will appreciate, this is no laughing matter and, as such, should you refuse or otherwise fail to comply with the above request, we would ask you, in the alternative, to simply provide us with the details of the US attorneys, UK solicitors, French advocats and German advocats whom you would instruct in relation to the service of such multi-jurisdictional proceedings as shall ensue.
It is pretty cool to see Ed posting mp3’s just like yours truly here, but kind of scary to see them get a message like that and have to apologize. I guess no one is allowed to post these mp3s. Not even a guy who is in a band himself. Go figure…..
Cheers to Ed though!
[MP3] : Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
[MP3] : Grizzly Bear – Knife
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