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Animal Collective preps Water Curses EP, tours
Fresh off the success of last year's delicious Strawberry Jam, everyone's favorite creature collaboration has readied an EP for all of our listening and brain-bending pleasure. Water Curses is set to drop May 6 on CD and 12-inch vinyl, and will include four brand new Animal Collective tracks. They are as follows: 1. Water Curses 2. Street Flash 3. Cobwebs 4. Seal Eyeing The relevant press release informs us that these tracks have "a more stripped down feel than their recent work," but also has something more particularly tantalizing to say about the EP's final track; "'Seal Eyeing' is the... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPanda Bear - "Comfy in Nautica"
Click above to watch "Comfy in Nautica" from Panda Bear's newest album Person Pitch out now on Paw Tracks. Related Links: News: Animal Collective EP, box set in the works Andy Whitman on Music: Indie Roundup Review: Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam... read more
Found in: Video of the DayUniversity of Maryland to launch rock poster exhibit in Feb.
The union between the museum world and the music world just keeps getting stronger. On top of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Sympathy for the Devil” exhibit (covered in our December/January issue) and the Smithsonian’s “Recognize” exhibit (covered in our forthcoming February issue), The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland is about to put up an exhibit celebrating the rock poster. Spearheading the project are printmaking professor Justin Strom and exhibition designer John Shipman, who tells Paste that his exhibit—while certainly not the first—is the largest rock poster show yet. The exhibition will include about 10 pieces each... read more
Found in: Music, NewsAnimal Collective EP, box set in the works
The Animal Collective experience does not stop. For starters, the hypnotic and compulsively mind-blowing group is set to place two entries into most critics' year-end top twenty lists: Strawberry Jam and Panda Bear's Person Pitch effort (which did quite well for itself on Stylus' final dispatch). As for 2008? Well, let's put it this way: it looks like the band wants to haunt your dreams for another year, dear indie fan. In a message board post, vocalist Avey Tare gave fans a stream-of-consciousness rundown on what the group has planned. Of note: a four-song EP, including b-side "Street Flash" and... read more
Found in: Music, NewsAnimal Collective: Strawberry Jam
Besides the great music, the fascinating thing about Animal Collective is how malleable a concept it is... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsAnimal Collective tours, likes berries
Do you want to see some mild-mannered, somber musicians playing restrained, elegant songs with just the right amount of disconnectedness? In that case, you may want to skip this news item. Now that the others have scrolled and clicked away, we can tell you about a new traveling circus organized by the mind-blowing musical group known as Animal Collective. The fully human group named after non-humans will release its latest album, Strawberry Jam, on September 11, via Domino Records. Animal Collective will release the album’s first single “Peacebone” on August 21, and the tour will see craziness descend upon North... read more
Found in: Music, NewsGeologist Laces Up Shoes For Parkinson's
While most musician/activists out there are busy trying to save the world, headlamp-sporting mix-master Brian Weitz (a.k.a. Geologist) is focusing on a cause far closer to home. Weitz’s grandfather, a late-stage Parkinson’s patient, has spent the past two months hanging on for dear life in a Philadelphia hospital, unable to fully wake up or recover. To support future research endeavors, Weitz and his mom will take to the streets of Philly on April 21 for the Parkinson Council’s 2007 Walk for Parkinson’s. Though the two plan on walking all ten miles of the race, their fundraising efforts by no means... read more
Found in: Music, NewsAnimal Collective Reissues Rare Live Album
A reissue of Animal Collective’s live album Hollinndagain will be released Oct. 31 on Paw Tracks. This compilation of seven live songs (captured from performances during the first half of 2001) was originally released on 300 limited edition LPs in 2002 on St. Ives Records, and included hand painted cover art. This marks the first time Hollinndagain (whose original copies are being sold on eBay for gobs of money) will be available to the general public to purchase. It is also the first time it will be released on CD. Come fall, the band will begin a select run of... read more
Found in: Music, NewsAnimal Collective – Feels
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