When Newsweek spoke to Trent Reznor this week about putting Nine Inch Nails [ tickets ] on hiatus, the magazine also asked him what music he's currently listening to. He named the psych-folk group Grizzly Bear [ tickets ]. "There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands," Reznor was quoted as saying. "The aesthetic I was tuned into was a more dumbed-down kind of thing."

The members of Grizzly Bear are no strangers to such praise. In 2008, a mere four years after forming and releasing their debut album, "Horn of Plenty," Grizzly Bear scored an opening slot for Radiohead [ tickets ] on their North American tour. Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood gushed over the group, reportedly telling the audience that Grizzly Bear was his favorite band.