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All Points West '08 Recap: Friday

Radiohead return to the site of their storied 2001 stop in the NYC area. New Pornographers and Grizzly Bear battle for young minds. Dance music owns the day, with CSS, Girl Talk, and Underworld serving grooves.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke / Photo by Shawna Adams
Radiohead's Thom Yorke / Photo by Shawna Adams

The New Pornographers and Grizzly Bear: Eating Indie Rock for Dinner:
Grizzly Bear and the New Pornographers, two bands comfortably considered indie rock staples in their own right, played opposite each other, but the major difference between the two? Age. Choosing between these two was like being situated at the adult table or the kids table during a family holiday dinner.

It was gray hair and cargo shorts at one end, or neon baseball hats and yes, a pretty good amount of kids sporting braces at the other. You could see New Pornographers play the more refined and classic songs -- like having a mature and intimate conversation for the sake of catching up. Or, you could check out Grizzly Bear and endure the curiosity and ingenuity of a table filled with younger kids expressing imagination.

Grizzly Bear was especially impressive, playing "Little Brother" and "Knife" from 2006's Yellow House early on as an introduction to a handful of new material that proved their maturity and pretty-sounding rigidity beyond their relative rookie status.

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