Grizzly Bear contributes music to new film

The guys from Grizzly Bear must be so happy right now. They are being name-checked by every Tom, Dick and Harriett who wants to sound cool and current. Heck, even Jay-Z has been mentioning them so he won’t look like an old geezer.

But unlike some of the more recent indie breakthrough success stories, Grizzly Bear can actually be found doing work in more mainstream environments. For example, in the movies.

The band has been contributing songs to movies, which used to be such an uncool thing to do, until Death Cab for Cutie turned the world on its ear by contributing a song to the Twilight movie (egads!). Grizzly Bear has made the music score to the new Ryan Gosling/Michelle Williams movie Blue Valentine.

But it doesn’t end there. It seems that they are also contributing a song to Jack Goes Boating, the directorial debut of one of my fave actors Philip Seymour Hoffman. There is speculation on what kind of contribution Grizzly Bear actually makes on Hoffman’s film. There are some who say that the band will not be the main contributor for the music’s score but will contribute songs, instead.  But others insist that they actually did “music” for the film, which indicates that they are largely responsible for the music aspect of the movie.

Either way, it’s cool that Grizzly Bear is getting this much exposure. Lord knows, the world needs more good music.