department of eagles

Directed by Patrick Daughters, who also helmed Grizzly Bear's upcoming "Two Weeks" video: mp3: *****************

Head over to Daytrotter to download their recent session with Department of Eagles. Worth your time, if only to grab the best existing recordings of new songs "1997" and "What is Your Deal?," a brand new Daniel Rossen gem that, by his own admission, is "slightly unfinished with some loose ends...

Fred Nicolaus + Grizzly Bear - Ed Droste = a modified Department of Eagles lineup, playing this incredible "alternate version" of "No One Does It Like You," from their freshly BNM'ed In Ear Park: (via) *********************************************

I think we can all agree that Department of Eagles' "No One Does It Like You" is one of the best songs of '08, but we haven't yet heard it quite the way it was performed last night on Conan, with Dan + Fred expanding the group to a 5-piece, with Dan's vocals complemented beautifully by female harmonizing from an unknown singer (EDIT: that's Angel Deradoorian from Dirty Projectors... Rea

I leave you for the weekend with this beautiful live footage of Fred Nicolaus + Daniel Rossen -- aka Department of Eagles -- playing the mesmerizing title track from their forthcoming LP, In Ear Park. Like St. Vincent's amazing DUMBO Session from last year, the performance was filmed high above the East River in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood at Atlantic Sound studio...

Department of Eagles' new LP In Ear Park has been on repeat around here over the last few days, and apparently Ed Droste is into the record too (although he might be a little biased). The new album version of "No One Does It Like You, which we've blogged numerous times over the last year or so in its various incarnations (hell, the rough demo version was one of my favorite songs of last year