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“Twenty years ago, bands like us wouldn’t have had a career.” Ed Droste of the Brooklyn outfit Grizzly Bear tells JIM CARROLLabout the end of “massive” bands, and what success means in a changing musical landscape

ED DROSTE knows that everything is about to change. His band, Grizzly Bear, release their third album, Veckatimest, this month and while the Brooklyn outfit’s previous albums, Horn Of Plentyand Yellow House,took them quite a distance down the road which leads out of the indie underground, the release of Veckatimestwill deliver them into a new genre altogether. As has been the case for so many indie bands of late, the new album and attendant fuss mean a bigger stage is beckoning.