Animal Collective News

This decade, the Baltimore-born, New York-raised, globally-based freak-folk outfit Animal Collective have earned a reputation as one of the most forward-thinking, consistently impressive, utterly unique voices ...

Not nearly as scary without the animal masks and musical pyrotechnics, the band is making its Prague debut.

I was very curious to where the group would head next. There are more and more vocal tracks on the once instrumental group.

It's not so much the "high" which suits them--they've got it in spades. It's the second half of their name that forms the crux of High Places' advanced yet primitivist sonics.

As a producer, 29-year-old Rusty Santos has lent his hand to some of the best experimental pop recordings of the past few years--like Panda Bear's "Person Pitch" and Animal Collective's "Sung Tongs." In this ...

Over the past 25 years, the Seattle-based Sun City Girls and their myriad side projects have evolved into America's most influential underground enterprise.

The American indie band Animal Collective, a big name in avant-garde 'freak folk,'will make its first trip to Israel next month as part of a world tour.

"Straightforward experimental" is an oxymoron, but uber-experimentalist Luke Fischbeck describes some of his previous musical projects this way.

Indie kids are finally tuning in the Grateful Dead. At least, that's what the media claims.

In a recent interview with the Independent , the Annuals/ Sunfold songwriting team of Adam Baker and Kenny Florence outlined the bands that helped shape their sound.

Maybe you're thinking of checking out All Points West this weekend, the inaugural East Coast version of the Coachella Music Festival that starts today and runs through Sunday in a giant, grassy park on the ...

No, not that Abe Vigoda. Published on August 06, 2008 Abe Vigoda Skeleton Abe Vigoda wants to be Animal Collective, and Skeleton makes this plainly obvious.

Hmm. How should I approach this? A review of an album more than a year old. Well, I can make this time sensitive, but I won't be able to localize it.

Chapel Hill Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Clang Quartet Nightlight - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti excavates the kitschiest pop sounds of Brian Wilson and repackages them as nauseatingly multicolored, lo-fi ...

Sometimes it pays to sleep in. Despite two hours of sporadic rain bursts, Pitchfork's second day ended up bright and dry less than five bands in, leaving only mud-caked shoes and lazy puddles in the wake of an ...

Attendance: About 45,500 for three days The setup: Three music stages around the park: The Aluminum and Connector stages flanked one another in the main section, while the smaller Balance stage sat at the ...

Sometimes it pays to sleep in. Despite two hours of sporadic rain bursts, Pitchfork's second day ended up bright and dry less than five bands in, leaving only mud-caked shoes and lazy puddles in the wake of an ...

After a night of "classic" recreations, it was nice to dive into the current state of the indie landscape.

If there's an absolute wildcard at Sunday's Rogers Picnic, it's indie rockers Animal Collective , who are slotted to play between Brooklyn, N.Y. buzz band Vampire Weekend and Montreal electro-sleazoids Chromeo.

The Dodos have earned the loyalty of indie critics everywhere for their vigorous, high-energy folk songs and vocals that alternate between bedroom whispers and yelping yodels.