concert review: fun fun fun fest 2008

did a write-up of the festival. setlists from atmosphere and recover are in the comments. hit up the minus the bear and clipse posts for their's. recover, clipse and atmosphere were my personal highlights. recover wasn't a part of the actual festival, but the dudes ripped it like it was 2002.

read the review here.

-grizzly bear

fun fun fun fest - austin, tx (2008)

headed to fun fun fun this weekend at austin's other big festival besides ACL and SXSW. on my personal agenda:

-clipse
-atmosphere (sorry, panda)
-minus the bear (interview coming soon)
-the toxic avenger (interview coming soon)
-dj z-trip
-rival schools (wtf)
-and you will know us by the trail of dead
-the octopus project
-islands
-annuals

also, a surprise twist to the weekend: recover is playing a show in austin this weekend for $5, so it looks i'll be scraping up the cash to hit that up. shenanigans shall ensue, drinks shall be consumed, and fun shall be had. expect reports, interviews, and whatever other shit in the next two weeks or so.

-griz griz griz

recover - rodeo and picasso (2001)

here's another one from a texas gold star, recover. we've posted about em before here and here, so be sure and grab those while you're at it and enjoy their debut lp, rodeo and picasso.

download:



-rodeo and grizzly

recover - challenger (2003)

this is a recover "album" posted after the release of this may be the year i disappear. it's more of a collection of b-sides and new demos the band had put on their website for free. it has a lot of good songs on it, and this is extremely hard to find.

also, grab ceci n'est pas recover while you're at it, here.

recover on myspace.

download challenger:



-grizzly

recover - ceci n'est pas recover (2002)

circa 2001-2004, every scenester in texas was required to either love or hate recover. most of my friends and i were huge fans, due to them being one of maybe three local acts that were worth a shit. recover released ceci n'est pas recover (translated, "this is not recover) soon after the very loved rodeo and picasso, to a lot of mixed reactions. i didn't like it at first, but it ended up growing on me, and is now one of my favorite EPs of all time. this band played about 7,442,123 shows in texas, and they never failed to impress. 3/4 members are in young love now, but they played a reunion show in late june 2007, and it was incredible. apparently, some more shows/tour are in the works, so look out for that.

add them on myspace:
www.myspace.com/recover

download ceci n'est pas recover:

-roshan