Animal Collective

Dog Ears Music: Decoration Day Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Marvin Etzioni & Steve Earle, Pretenders, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Neil Diamond, The B-52?S, The Raconteurs, Animal Collective, Whatever Hippie Bitch, Holopaw, Danielle Evin, Blue ÖYster Cult, Music, Bee Gees, Spike Jones, Snow Patrol, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Bibi Tanga & Le Professeur Inlassable, mp3s, John Lee Hooker, Bill Evans, Frank Stokes, Carly Simon, Joe Henry, Phil Ramone, Elton John, Bernard Herrmann, Burning Spear, Dog Ears, Pyyramids, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week our playlist includes music by John Lee Hooker, Bee Gees, Pretenders, Bernard Herrmann, Pyyramids and more.

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Animal Collective Goes Binary

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 05.07.2012

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You're hot and you're cold. You're yes and you're no. You're not, however, Katy Perry's fiance. You're two new tracks from Animal Collective, the band...

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Animal Collective's Guggenheim Music Now Available

Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Video, Record Store Day, Animal Collective, Record Store Day Animal Collective, Transverse Temporal Gyrus Record Store Day, Record Store Day 2012, Animal Collective Transverse Temporal Gyrus Record Store Day, Transverse Temporal Gyrus, Animal Collective Transverse Temporal Gyrus, Culture News

On Record Store Day this year, massive amounts of incredible music were released on vinyl exclusively for the occasion. Among the hundreds of limited ...

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"We Are Young" and Odd Souls: Chatting With Mutemath's Darren King and fun.'s Andrew Dost

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Timothy Bloom, Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas, Reba Rambo, Andrew Dost, Steve Miller, Steve McDonald, Paul Meany, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don?T Rise, Animal Collective, Jellyfish, Jeff Bhasker, Darren King, Rivers Cuomo, Paramore, Claire Vogel, Dony McGuire, Gene Krupa, Mutemath, John Lennon, Anchorman, Buddy Rich, Jack's Mannequin, ZZ Top, The Meters, The Partidge Family, Roger Manning, Janelle Monae, Fun., Ben Folds, American Idol, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

"The most fun things would be international travel, getting to hang out with your best buds, playing a live show, and making music videos. Not fun things are setting up and tearing down, file management while recording, picking out a name for your band."

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PHOTOS: Winners And Losers At Day One Of Pitchfork

The Huffington Post | Joe Erbentraut | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Neko Case, Das Racist, Chicago Concerts, Best of Chicago, Tune-Yards, Live Music, Chicago Live Music, Pitchfork Festival Review, James Blake, Guided by Voices, Chicago Events, Animal Collective, Pitchfork 2011 Schedule, Pitchfork Guide, Pitchfork Coverage, Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago Around Town, Thurston Moore, Chicago News

Well, Chicago music aficionados, the seventh annual Pitchfork Music Festival has, as of Friday, officially kicked off at Union Park. We began our c...

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WATCH: Our Guide To Pitchfork '11

Huffington Post | Joe Erbentraut | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Panda Bear, Ema, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Chicago Concerts, Best of Chicago, Tune-Yards, Kylesa, Live Music, Chicago Live Music, Ofwgkta, Chicago Events, Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, Odd Future, Pitchfork 2011 Schedule, Pitchfork Guide, The Tallest Man on Earth, Chicago Around Town, Pitchfork Music Festival, Tv on the Radio, Chicago News

Well, Chicago music obsessors, that time of year has come again as the seventh annual Pitchfork Music Festival kicks off Friday afternoon at Union Pa...

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Animal Collective Celebrates Brooklyn

Danielle Wiener-Bronner | Posted 09.12.2011

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Danielle Wiener-Bronner

The bands that put on the best shows are those that experiment onstage -- that riff on recorded versions of their songs to let the audience in on a deeper level of sound. Animal Collective, apparently, is not that type of band.

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Dog Ears Music: Boulevard of Independence Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Toumani Diabaté's Symmetric Orchestra, Elliott Smith, Moby, Dave Alvin, Aimee Mann, Johnny Cash, Animal Collective, Neil Young, Danielle Evin, Bob Dylan, Music, mp3s, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Björk, Phil Ramone, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, Ani DiFranco, Dog Ears, James Taylor, Love, British Sea Power, Bruce Springsteen, Azure Ray, Kinch, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week, we feature music by Moby, Ani DiFranco, Bruce Springsteen, Bjork and more.

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'Quaint Little Demons' By Medusawolf

Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Illustration, John Williams, Etsy, Grendel, Wham, Munsters, Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavillion, John Gardner, Drawing, The Good the Bad the Ugly, Ennio Morricone, Gladys Knight, Medusawolf, Beautiful/Decay, Arts News

(Via Beautiful/Decay) By day Alan E. Brown is a mild mannered bookstore employee in Bear, Delaware. At night he transforms himself into Medusawolf ...

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An Interview With Noah Lennox

Theo Spielberg | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: Coachella, Primavera Sound, Panda Bear, Noah Lennox, Animal Collective, Person Pitch, Tomboy, Entertainment News
Theo Spielberg

Gone though the Person Pitch soup is, Lennox serves up an album of small plates with the same sonic acumen as its predecessor.

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Coachella 2011's Perfect Saturday: Noon to Midnight (VIDEOS)

| Katie Bain | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Gogol Bordello, Mumford & Sons, Animal Collective, Erykah Badu, Coachella Lineup, Coachella 2011, Coachella, Freelance Whales, Francis and the Lights, Los Angeles News

Story comes courtesy of City's Best By Katie Bain It's two days before the festival, and the Coachella set times have finally been released. In ...

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PHOTOS: Insider's Look: Coachella 2011

The Huffington Post | Jessica Menda | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Arcade Fire, Indio, Stage, Art, California, United Visual Artists, Animal Collective, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, The Creators Project, Music, Technology, Culture, Vice, Intel, Arts News

This weekend more than 50,000 people will head on over to Indio, California to drench themselves in sweat, music and art for this year’s Coachella V...

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Artlog's Top Art and Culture Picks

Artlog | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Artlog.com, LOL Cats, Long March: Restart, Wage, Artlog, Nyc Art, Moma, Allegra LaViola Gallery, Independent Curators International, Tobi Kahn, Art, Nyc, NY Culture, Takashi Murakami, Animal Collective, Sex, Video Game Art, Slidepollajax, Video Game, Food, New Museum, Feng Mengbo, MoMA PS1, Miami, Peter and the Wolf, The Talent Show, New York News
Artlog

The NYC art scene is back in full swing: you can eat dinner amidst biblical and art historical allusions or play a larger-than-life video game.

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Animal Collective Spins Impressive Set to Oblivious Crowd At PS1's Warm Up

Alex Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nycbeat, Nyc, Summer Concerts, Long Island City, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective, Moma-Ps1, Queens, P.S. 1 Warm Up Series, Hall and Oates, New York News
Alex Jacobs

In the 5th installment of PS1's Warm Up concert series, Animal Collective's Deakin and Avey Tare played a ninety-minute DJ set to more than a thousa...

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Flavorpill NYC's Weekend To-Do List

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Get Low, Animal Collective, Slidepollajax, Nyc Events, Nyc Culture, Sandra Bernhard, Bomb Summer Bash, Remediate/Re-Vision, New York News

Flavorpill NYC has picked the best of the weekend's calendar so you don't have to. For the rest of Flavorpill's picks of arts and culture this weeke...

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Animal Collective Rocks the Guggenheim With Collective Inaction

Michelle Castillo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Performance Art, Visual Art, Guggenheim Museum, Danny Perez, Animal Collective, New York News
Michelle Castillo

As soon as I entered the Guggenheim for Animal Collective/Danny Perez's "Transverse Temporal Gyrus," my eyes felt like exploding from the sheer sensory overload.

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New Reissues Prove Kraftwerk Is the Most Important Band Ever

Tim Mohr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yaz, Egyptian Lover, Dr. Dre, Kraftwerk, Techno, Space Disco, Frankie Knuckles, Lil Jon, Chemical Brothers, Astralwerks, Chicago House, Cybotron, Detroit Techno, Music, Electro, Reissue, Acid House, Germany, Planet Rock, Crystal Castles, Autobahn, Tim Mohr, Robots, Trans Europe Express, Berlin, Afrika Bambaataa, Donna Summers, Italo Disco, Modernism, Glass Candy, Krautrock, Italians Do It Better, Supernature, Dirty Disco, Heartsrevolution, I Feel Love, Daft Punk, Dusseldorf, Fatboy Slim, Silver Apples, Crunk, House, Yazoo, Peaches, Punk, Moog, Machine Music, Nwa, Neon Workout, Cerrone, Heartbreak, Ramones, Synth, Perrey-Kingsley, Lfo, Lmfao, Lo-Fi, Animal Collective, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electroclash, Entertainment News
Tim Mohr

The birthplace of all that's cool and modern in music wasn't Memphis, Liverpool or the South Bronx. It was Dusseldorf, Germany, where Kraftwerk invented the future we are now living.

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Animal Collective's Deacon To Make A Difference In Mali With Music

HuffPost | Tam Vo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joshua Dibb, Festival in the Desert, Mali, Slavery, Animal Collective, Temedt, Deacon, Impact News

Joshua Dibb, better known as Deacon of the band Animal Collective, has been invited to perform at 2010's Festival in the Desert, which takes place in ...

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'Animal Collective' Protests Seal Clubbing (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seals, Animal Activism, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Peta, Animal Collective, Seal Clubbing, Video, Green News

The members of the band Animal Collective recently joined forces with PETA to take a stand against Canada's seal slaughter. In the video below the tri...

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Everyone's a Critic: The Top 10 Albums of 2009

Dan Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neko Case, The Avett Brothers, The Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, Monsters of Folk, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Animal Collective, Solillaquists of Sound, Top 10 Albums, Top 10 List, Brad Paisley, Entertainment News
Dan Sweeney

Psst! The hip-hop album of the year comes from a little-known, free-love-loving quartet of two women and two men out of Orlando. Believe it!

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