Grizzly Bear Plays 1st Show Since 2019

Grizzly Bear kicked off a five-show run at Brooklyn Steel in New York City on Monday, their first concert since 2019. The hometown engagement saw the band offering a live debut and breaking out a trio of tunes.

Grizzly Bear — Ed Droste, Daniel Rossen, Chris Taylor and Chris Bear — are back after pursuing various other projects. The Brooklyn Steel residency is part of a wider tour, the band’s first extended trek since 2018, that will see them going coast-to-coast this fall.

After kicking off the show with “Southern Point” from their 2009 album, Veckatimest, the band performed “Alligator,” off their 2004 debut Horn Of Plenty, for the first time since 2008, according to SetlistFM stats.

The quartet also unshelved “Little Brother” (first time since 2014) and offered the live debut of “Will Calls,” a song that landed on the band’s Shields: B-Sides record in 2013. Grizzly Bear also offered a number of additional favorites from their catalog in the main set including “Two Weeks,” “Ready Able,” “Yet Again,” “Mourning Sound,” “Foreground,” “While You Wait for the Others” and “Sleeping Ute.”

Grizzly Bear launched the encore with the first known performance of “Deep Sea Diver” since 2005. The band sealed the show with “Sky Took Hold.”

Watch Grizzly Bear’s first concert since 2019 below: