Animal Collective

Amazing Animated Video for Panda Bear’s “Alsatian Darn”

Panda Bear’s Tomboy is a grower. We loved it when it came out, and it’s still growing on us. (Tempted to say its “growing with us”.) One of the tracks…

Panda Bear – “Alsatian Darn”

When it comes to videos that come from any member of Animal Collective, particularly Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear, we have come to expect trippy, psychedelically induced clips that are…

ALBUM REVIEW: Panda Bear – Tomboy

Also: We’re giving away a Panda Bear “Tomboy” T-Shirt and “Tomboy” LP on Vinyl and CD.

MP3: 10 New Animal Collective Songs (Live)

Last night Animal Collective debuted 10 new tracks to an unsuspecting crowd at Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, CA. These ten tracks, fortunately all of decent quality, are essentially the first…

Panda Bear – “The Preakness”

As we all heard, Animal Collective are putting out their own line of sneakers through the conscious footwear company Keep, all benefits of which will go to Socorro Island Conservation…

MP3: Animal Collective – All Tomorrow’s Parties Mixtape

You absolutely must check out this 2+ hour long mixtape from the inimitable Animal Collective, in honor of this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, which they curated. The festival―taking place…

REC’D MP3: Panda Bear – “Last Night at the Jetty” (Tomboy Version)

Noah Lennox has been promoting his forthcoming Tomboy LP, the successor to 2007′s universally received Person Pitch, since last year when he released four separate 7-inch singles via four separate…

The Week In Review

As another week of Pretty Much Amazing wraps up, we’d like to recap some of our favorite posts that you might have missed: We reviewed the new single “Last Night…

REC’D: Panda Bear – Last Night at the Jetty b/w “Drone”

It’s been four years since Panda Bear‘s released a record (Bros 12″) on Fat Cat, one which paved the way for the stupendous, highly acclaimed Person Pitch. Adhering to his…

REC’D: Avey Tare – “Oliver Twist”

For his first solo record Down There, Animal Collective cofounder Dave Portner churned out a set of songs that, like his main project, meet at the collision of tuneful and…

ALBUM REVIEW: Avey Tare – Down There

STREET DATE: 10.26.10 | EMUSIC | AMAZON | INSOUND | ITUNES 80 — [Rating Scale] In a recent interview with Spin, Dave Portner (aka Avey Tare) was asked how Down…

GIVEAWAY: Local Natives, Titus Andronicus & Animal Collective (DJ Set) @ CMJ

Always wanted to watch Local Natives with special guests Titus Andronicus and a DJ set from Animal Collective‘s Geologist? SPIN Magazine and Ray-Bans are coming together to make your dreams…

THURSDAY/FRIDAY

WATCH: Rye Rye – “Sunshine” f/ M.I.A. Music Video Interestingly enough, this video is exactly what I saw in my head the first time I heard Rye Rye and M.I.A.‘s…

Avey Tare (of Animal Collective) – “Lucky 1″

With news of new Panda Bear singles and an album on the way, it’s was easy to put Avey Tare‘s crocodile-inspired solo album, Down There, out of mind. But with…

Animal Collective – “Bluish” Music Video

“Bluish” is perhaps one of the prettiest and underrated songs in last year’s mesmerizing Merriweather Post Pavilion, if not Animal Collective’s entire songbook, so it’s great that the band has…

THURSDAY

REC’D: Deerhunter – “Helicopter” The first single from Deerhunter’s upcoming fourth full-length record Halcyon Digest (to be released this coming Tuesday!) sounds like a Deerhunter song. “Helicopter” has that smooth…

Panda Bear – You Can Count On Me 7″

New Panda Bear single called You Can Count On Me out October 19. From Domino: A gentle duet between Panda Bear and himself, “You Can Count On Me” glimmers with…

ON DECK

NEW?: Andre 3000 – I Do Up for some never-before-heard Andre 3000 rhymes? Here we have “I Do”, a short two-minute half-song leak from Evil Empire’s forthcoming Limelight Exclusives mixtape…

Animal Collective – “Screens” and “Mr. Fingers”

Animal Collective’s much hyped film collaboration with director Danny Perez, ODDSAC has finally been released on DVD today. You can order the box set at the ODDSAC website. Below you…

Panda Bear – “Surfer’s Hymn” (Live at P4K)

At last weekend’s intense Pitchfork Music Festival, Panda Bear played a brand new song, awesomely called “Surfer’s Hymn”. I don’t know much about hymns, or surfer hymns for that matter,…

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