News
Animal Collective: New Songs, New Visuals!
Robin Bacior :: Thursday, June 17th, 2010 11:00 am
The highly innovative, resonantly rambunctious Animal Collective is going multi-media, releasing their new visual album, ODDSAC, with the aide of director Danny Perez. The 55-minute film is soundtracked by a completely new score of Animal Collective songs, offered in surround-sound audio. Also, along with the DVD-package is a 40-page (!) art book.
The album will be available on July 27, and if you’re raring to get a copy of it, you can go ahead and pre-order, which will knock a Lincoln off the retail price, $24. 98. Sights and sounds compliments of Animal Collective for under $20?! Beyond bargain.
Pre-order the Animal Collective experience here.
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Panda Bear is Back With Singles Info and a Tour
Colin Jones :: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 4:00 pm
Get excited kiddies, everyones favorite multiinstrumentalist is back in action. That’s right, Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear is planning on releasing the much hyped two-song 7″ Tomboy off of his new album of the same name. Tomboy is set for release on July 12.
Well it turns out that won’t be the only thing he will be releasing. Stereogum has discovered via Amazon that the Tomboy 7″ will only be one in a series of limited edition singles. Each single will be released on a different label including Fat Cat and Domino among others and will be available digitally when then album is released next month.
In addition to the singles announcement, Panda Bear also announced a short seven-date tour with stops at Pitchfork Music Festival and a free show on Governor’s Island in New York.
Now can you stop hypervenataliting over the AC breakup rumor, please?
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Bands, Break Ups, News
Is Animal Collective Finished?
Nick Nicoludis :: Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 3:55 pm
Ok, don’t break out your tissues and bottles of sleeping pills just yet. Let me make this clear: Animal Collective is NOT officially breaking up so there is no need get all boozy and sadly reminisce about seeing them in Prospect Park this past summer. According to a BBC 6 interview with Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear and Animal Collective member, the band is not breaking up, just taking a well deserved break. The famed experimentalists and hipster forefathers, whose eighth full-length album Merriweather Post Pavilion made it to the US top 20 chart, are “exhausted” after touring for most of 2009, and plan to “lay low” for a while. MORE »
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ODDSAC: Animal Collective Film Screenings
Colm McAuliffe :: Monday, March 8th, 2010 5:15 pm
ODDSAC is a feature film collaboration between the band Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez. The film features an original score with new songs from the band and complex digital manipulation by Perez, a debut filmmaker and visual artist known for his concert projections with musicians such as Black Dice and Panda Bear.
“It was meant to be an open-ended operation of audio-video synthesis, the passing back and forth of visuals and sound so that each would inform the other and create an organic structure,” said Perez.
Click through for screening dates and venues. MORE »
Today In Music
Today In Music
Amy Laviero :: Friday, March 5th, 2010 3:00 pm
The National announce High Violet album information.
Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon prints art book, Performing/Guzzling.
Belle and Sebastian enter the studio and announce festival dates… in Scandinavia and Japan.
Dakota Fanning pretends to be musically inclined.
Despite the show’s cancellation, Flight of the Concords live on.
Animal Collective stood totally still during their art installation last night at the Guggenheim.
Stream Ted Leo + Pharmacists’ upcoming album, The Brutalist Bricks.
Bands, Food
Wilco Sandwich Shop Begs The Question: What Band Would You Eat?
Amy Rose Spiegel :: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 4:30 pm
After perusing the menu of Sky Blue Sky Sandwich Co., a new Wilco-themed sandwich shop in Toronto, and reading about Led Zeppole, a Village-based restaurant that celebrates both powdered confections and classic rock, I began thinking of how five of my favorite bands might be interpreted through food. Below, a list of the music I want to sink my teeth into.
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Animal Collective Tickets for the Guggenheim: Going, Going Gone
Shannon Hassett :: Friday, February 19th, 2010 1:50 pm
Well I hate to break it to you, but your hopes and dreams of assimilating into the collective will have to be put on hold for one more day. The $25/$35 tickets were gone within twenty five minutes of their 10am sale date this morning, and the outrageous Craigslist inflation has already begun. The sellout was officially confirmed by the Guggenheim’s twitter feed, so you can now rule out that possible website malfunction you were banking on or whatever. Damn that Panda!
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Animal Collective Set to Take Over Guggenheim and “The Inside of Your Brain”
Amy Laviero :: Friday, February 19th, 2010 12:30 pm
Animal Collective and Danny Perez, who directed their videos for “Who Could Win a Rabbit” and “Summertime Clothes,” as well as their art-film, ODDSAC, will unveil their latest collaboration, Transverse Temporal Gyrus, a one night exhibit that will transform the Gugg into a “kinetic, psychedelic” installation using a culmination of original video and music, props, and a costumed Animal Collective, in an attempt to invoke all the wonder and mystery of the jungle. Right on. MORE »
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Animal Collective’s Panda Bear: New Release
Colm McAuliffe :: Friday, January 29th, 2010 1:00 pm
One of my absolute favorite releases of the late noughties was Panda Bear’s Person Pitch, Noah Lennox’s Beach Boys-in-a-cavern sounding offshoot from his day job with Animal Collective. Lennox has just released details of the follow-up, titled TOMBOY which will be released on the Paw Tracks imprint this September. He has just completed a solo tour of Europe where he premiered tracks from the new cut. Details are rather sketchy at present but I, for one, cannot wait for this release. Fuck the summer, bring on September.
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Animal Collective Unleashes Movie Magnum Opus
Shannon Hassett :: Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 1:00 pm
So I can’t tell whether we’re supposed to pronounce this thing as ‘odd sack’ or not, but I’m deriving the same sort of pleasure out of the possibility as I once did at singing ’sodomy’ in a Blink 182 chorus in front of my parents. Oh yes, the witching hour is finally upon us folks: THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE MOVIE HAS ARRIVED. You’re excited, I’m not that excited, we’re all going to end up watching the trailer, so let’s just put in writing the things you’ll be too ashamed to say when your friends are drooling all over this shit. MORE »
Bands
New Music From Panda Bear
Amy Rose Spiegel :: Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 12:15 pm
On January 15, ambient artist Panda Bear debuted a slew of all-new songs at a show at Hebbel Am Ufer in Germany. Many were guitar-based, which is a new direction for the artist, who has largely used electronic means to create his catalog of music in the past. Many of the tracks, however, continue in his tradition of creating songs that sound equally melody- and machination-based. Much of the new music is reminiscent of accidental arpeggios played by a ton of beeping machines in a factory warehouse, layered under full, drawn-out vocal lines, which are often repeated for emphasis.
Lists, Staff Playlist
Wintry Mix: A Playlist To Keep You Feeling Warm & Powerful
Amy Rose Spiegel :: Thursday, January 14th, 2010 3:25 pm
New York in January and February is suicide-inducingly cold. Sometimes it seems that the only thing it’s got going for it is the wintry camaraderie that it elicits in its people. We love to commiserate about the weather, be it in the office, among friends, or with strangers, especially the smokers among us. That’s a pretty weak high point, but, in truth, it’s not the only one out there. Winter is best when you spend it holing up by yourself or with a few choice loved ones and reading, playing board games, drinking whiskey, and, of course, snuggling under the sheets. The following playlist is intended to be a soundtrack to all of those activities.
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Animal Collective To Release New EP in 2009
Stephen Blackwell :: Monday, November 9th, 2009 10:30 am
You figure maybe they’d rest on their laurels after the rapturous reception of Merriweather Post Pavilion earlier this year. Nay.
Animal Collective have just announced an end-of-the-year treat for fans — an EP called Fall Be Kind featuring five unreleased tracks and the first ever licensed Grateful Dead sample. Maybe they’re just surging with creative energy, or maybe they’re trying to simmer the “Most Important Record Ever Released, Musically and Anthropologically” accolades that are attached to Merriweather now that the year-end / decade-end lists are being compiled.
Fall Be Kind will be available on 11/23 digitally and 12/15 digitally. Tack list is after the jump. MORE »
