Animal Collective

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Animal Collective: A Missed Opportunity?

Animal Collective Leaks Merriweather Post Pavilion To Lucky Fans

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Live: Animal Collective at the Bowery Ballroom

Photo via Namestage Animal Collective The Bowery Ballroom January 21 If at this point you've been exposed to the ark of Animal Collective buzz, you've likely already chosen to side with them or against them; as in the case of black licorice and Brooklyn Vegan message boards, it's less about middl ... More >>

Studies in Criticism: Professional Basketball Player Paul Shirley on Merriwether Post Pavilion

Paul Shirley, professional basketball player, music critic: Try as I might, I can't tell much about an album during its first playback. With that in mind,I thought it would be fun to journal my efforts to grasp something new. First, though, I needed an album I thought would be worth my time. Anim ... More >>

Animal Collective Engage In Real World Activity, Auction Test Presses for Charity

Note to band--retain this designer In what an internet judge might charitably deem second- or third-degree community blogger service, we direct you to the Animal Crack Box 3LP Animal Collective TEST PRESSING!! auction currently underway over at eBay. Catsup Plate, the auctioneer here, patiently exp ... More >>

Animal Collective's Water Curses

Inkwells overflow for the triumphant/irksome psych-folksters

Animal Collective Tune In, Drop Out, Grow Up

On the radical serenity/serene radicalism of Merriweather Post Pavilion

Düül in the Sun

Chemically altered woodland creatures defy Brooklyn hip

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Chemically altered woodland creatures defy Brooklyn hip

The Hordes of Flatbush

A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust

Where the Wild Things Are

Out of the woods and out of their shell, semi-local foursome Animal Collective deliver an album for the unconverted

A Zoological Garden

All things Animal Collective, with highlights reviewed

Lost in the Bewilderness

Animal Collective's latest mixes dizzying highs with frustrating dog-paddles

PRIMAL SCREAM

They grow 'em weird in Maryland

Cymbals Eat Guitars

They grow 'em weird in Maryland

CALL OF THE WILD

Grizzly Bear keep getting better

Fluxblog Serves Up the Best of 2009 So Far (Note: Contains No Asher Roth)

Before you're officially dismissed for the weekend, please enjoy Matt "Fluxblog" Perpetua's best-of-2009-so-far mix, which nicely balances big-shots like Phoenix, Neko Case, Sonic Youth, and Animal Collective with less overexposed fare: Both the new Peaches song and the Fight Like Apes track entitle ... More >>

Rumor-Mill Control: Panda Bear Is Still in Animal Collective; Jeff Goldblum is Alive and Well.

Animal Collective Oh Internet. This morning, we got ATP's announcement that "due to circumstances beyond our control," Panda Bear's Saturday set at All Tomorrow's Parties New York would be moved to Friday night. That, in turn, quickly led to web speculation that Panda Bear would be leaving Animal C ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Download the Josh Dibb/Animal Collective Remix of "Boundary Waters" by NYC Dance Duo Palms

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Tina Tyrell​Half-NYC/half-Berlin anesthetized dance duo Palms are dropping a remix EP on Sept. 1 in a limited edition run of 500 vinyl slabs, via Brooklyn's own Rare Book Room Records. Gavin Russom, ... More >>

On The Animal Collective Remix Of "Love Like A Sunset," By Phoenix, A Band Of Whom We Here At SOTC Are Perhaps Excessively Protective

​Download here, friends. Listen, we really like this song around here -- no, seriously -- and we thus regard any attempts to alter/improve it, however respectful and benevolent their intent, with profound suspicion. Particularly when Animal Collective is involved. But this has a nice, unobtr ... More >>

The Amazon Page for Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind Has Not Been Taken Down, For What It's Worth

​Is this the dawning of another Animal Collective release or an Amazon blip gone highly publicized but somehow uncorrected? Our money is on the former. Brooklyn Vegan grabbed what looks to be an incriminating and since totally effaced confirmation from Domino; Andrew Kuo said 'fuck it' and jus ... More >>

News Roundup: Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP Details, Converge's Axe to Fall Leak, New Arcade Fire?

​--Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP turns out to be very real: AC's Avey Tare confirms and previews the record over at Pitchfork, where he specifies a tracklist and explains: "The vibe is a little bit darker, I'd say-- not in terms of the sound, maybe. Well, the melodies are definitely dark ... More >>

The New York City Record Store Year-End Roundup

​In 2009, we began the weekly Local Top 10, a series we hoped would prove that New Yorkers were far too stubborn to let the record store go. The series ran until last month, when we literally ran out of stores to cover--not the best sign for the future of music retailing in New York City. Befo ... More >>

Did Ghostface Killah Give Holy Ghost An Actual Drop On This New DFA Mixtape?

​Probably not, but damned if we can remember where the sample ("This is Ghostface, I got a twin ghost in the building--that's the Holy Ghost") that kicks off this DFA double-disc winter mixtape comes from. Anybody? Sadly, James "Jigga" Murphy's "Phone Tap" intro on disc two is decidedly not a ... More >>

New Video: Animal Collective's "Brothersport"

Equally as innocent, but infinitely more technicolor than Chris Bear canoodling with a Koala, Animal Collective's new video for "Brothersport" stages a barnyard rave. The video opens with two feral children (one dressed as a minotaur and the other a bird) and follows their adventure through their ... More >>

The Top 10

Arguing about mellow indie rock, Lady Gaga, and the real grizzly bears

This Week's Voice: Pazz & Jop 2009!

​In this week's Village Voice, we happily present the 37th (or, uh, 38th) annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, won handily--SPOILER, guys--by Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and, in singles, Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." The full album results are here; singles are here. Plus essa ... More >>

St. Vincent

​In this week's Village Voice, we happily present the 37th (or, uh, 38th) annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, won handily--SPOILER, guys--by Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and, in singles, Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." The full album results are here; singles are here. Plus essa ... More >>

Yeasayer+Light Asylum+Bobo

​In this week's Village Voice, we happily present the 37th (or, uh, 38th) annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, won handily--SPOILER, guys--by Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and, in singles, Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." The full album results are here; singles are here. Plus essa ... More >>

Tonight! Binary Marketing Show, Her Vanished Grace, and Boogie Boarder

​For those who set their alarms at the crack of dawn last Friday to buy Animal Collective/Guggenheim tickets but were still denied, quit moping and stop by Zebulon, where Binary Marketing Show (above), with their droning brass and radioactive vocals bathed in Brooklyn industrial waste, can ser ... More >>

TRIP OUT

Animal Collective's new film is as psychedelic as you'd expect

Tonight! Public Image Ltd., Keepaway, DOM, Janelle Monae, Phantogram, BRAHMS, BELL, And ARMS

Tonight, find Mr. Johnny Rotten aged to post-punk perfection with Public Image Ltd. at Terminal 5, where you'll catch the ex-Sex Pistols frontman wailing about "Death Disco," songs that aren't love songs, and the like. At Mercury Lounge, discover a couple of Christopher R. Weingarten-approved acts ... More >>

Taken by Trees DJ set

Tonight, find Mr. Johnny Rotten aged to post-punk perfection with Public Image Ltd. at Terminal 5, where you'll catch the ex-Sex Pistols frontman wailing about "Death Disco," songs that aren't love songs, and the like. At Mercury Lounge, discover a couple of Christopher R. Weingarten-approved acts ... More >>

Honda vs. Hipsters: Australian Ads Target 'Ironic' Young People in Skinny Pants

Honda Australia "asked the question: how much hipster can you pack into a Jazz?" A Jazz, apparently, is a new kind of car that is small, but spacious? I the commercial above, the hip youths try to put vinyl in the car's CD player, fill crevices with what must be the Australian equivalent of Pabst B ... More >>

BEACH PARTY

Chillax with Panda Bear and friends

Omar Souleyman+Deakin

Chillax with Panda Bear and friends

Die Antwoord Were Immortalized In The Guggenheim Last Weekend

​What a pleasant surprise to stagger into the Guggenheim Saturday and, in the midst of the museum's YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video exhibit -- an elaborate display of 25 clips guest-curated by a panel featuring everyone from Laurie Anderson to most of Animal Collective to Ryan McGin ... More >>

Avey Tare Goes Nightswimming

The Animal Collective screamer delivers a strife-ridden, deeply personal solo album

Was Animal Collective Really the Hipster?

​Making the rounds this week is a New York Magazine article entitled "What Was the Hipster?" Written by n 1's Mark Greif, the piece is meant as a critical history of an era pegged to have lasted just 10 years, from 1999 to 2009. The moment supposedly began with the move of Vice magazine from M ... More >>

The Goo Goo Dolls

​Making the rounds this week is a New York Magazine article entitled "What Was the Hipster?" Written by n 1's Mark Greif, the piece is meant as a critical history of an era pegged to have lasted just 10 years, from 1999 to 2009. The moment supposedly began with the move of Vice magazine from M ... More >>

'Works by Karlheinz Stockhausen'

​Making the rounds this week is a New York Magazine article entitled "What Was the Hipster?" Written by n 1's Mark Greif, the piece is meant as a critical history of an era pegged to have lasted just 10 years, from 1999 to 2009. The moment supposedly began with the move of Vice magazine from M ... More >>

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Deakin and Prince Rama get weird

The Constellations

Deakin and Prince Rama get weird

Big Boi and Terry Riley Added To the Animal Collective-Curated All Tomorrow's Parties

​Say what you want about Animal Collective's recent turn as wedding music for the shrillest people alive, they will probably always have a better record collection than you. To wit: The line-up for May's AnCo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England just added OutKast funka ... More >>

Spectrum+Crystal Stilts

​Say what you want about Animal Collective's recent turn as wedding music for the shrillest people alive, they will probably always have a better record collection than you. To wit: The line-up for May's AnCo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England just added OutKast funka ... More >>

ANIMAL CRACKERS

Catch a rare show with Panda Bear

Live: Animal Collective In Wonderland At Prospect Park Bandshell

​ Animal Collective w/Black Dice Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park Bandshell Tuesday, July 12 Better than: Sweating at home alone. Animal Collective has usually been categorized by its two primary creative forces: Avey Tare and Panda Bear. Sure, Deakin and Geologist are important (and per ... More >>