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Watch Animal Collective make ‘Strawberry Jam’ (Video)

January 12th, 2012

Animal Collective have unveiled a five-year-old video of them making their most excellent seventh album, Strawberry Jam. Thankfully, they’ve sped it up and it comes in at a manageable nine minutes and 38 seconds. Here’s what they have to say about it: Scott Colburn had a great idea when we were recording Strawberry Jam. He [...]

Tags: Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam, The Wedge, Video
Posted in Blog, The Wedge, Videos | Posted by Cam

Panda Bear “You Can Count On Me” (A Capella) (MP3)

November 3rd, 2011

Noah Lennox is one of the founding members of Animal Collective and also the man behind Panda Bear, his solo side project. He released the highly acclaimed Tomboy earlier this year and this week the massive deluxe reissue came out. It consists of four LP’s, which include all of Tomboy, single mixes, and unreleased and [...]

Tags: Animal Collective, Noah Lennox, Panda Bear, Tomboy
Posted in Blog, MP3, The Wedge | Posted by Simone

Download an Animal Collective mixtape

March 22nd, 2011

From May 13th to 15th, modern psychedelicists Animal Collective will curate the next ATP Festival, taking place in Butlins in Minehead, England. Set to play that weekend is Big Boi, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Beach House, Atlas Sound, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Grouper, Meat Puppets and of course, Animal Collective. To get people ready [...]

Tags: Animal Collective, ATP
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, TV on the Radio to play Pitchfork Music Festival

March 4th, 2011

Pitchfork has cornered the market on indie music journalism for quite some time now, but soon they’ll be known as curators to one of the leading music festivals in the world. Over the past six years, the music-based website has thrown some seriously impressive line-ups for their three-day festival that falls in mid-July. In 2011, [...]

Tags: Animal Collective, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Curren$y, Cut Copy, Das Racist, Deerhunter, Destroyer, Fleet Foxes, James Blake, Kylesa, Odd Future, pitchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival, Sun Airway, the Dismemberment Plan, TV On The Radio, Woods, Yuck
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

Panda Bear confirms album release date

January 14th, 2011

More than four years after he dropped his awe-inspiring third solo album, Person Pitch, Animal Collective member Panda Bear will finally return with his long-awaited follow-up via Paw Tracks on April 19, 2011. Originally expected last year, Tomboy will collect the previously released 7″ singles “Tomboy,” “You Can Count On Me” and “Last Night At [...]

Tags: Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Tomboy
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The Goods on Local Natives

April 23rd, 2010

The Goods: Indie rock quintet based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, that is about to blow up. Their debut album, Gorilla Manor, released in February 2010 on Frenchkiss Records (a label founded by members of Les Savys Favs) is a huge success. Sounds Like: A hybrid of the serene harmonies of Fleet Foxes, the hazy [...]

Tags: Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, Frenchkiss Records, grizzly bear, Local Natives, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend
Posted in Music & Videos, Reviews | Posted by Arianne - Correspondent

Diplo talks new M.I.A. album

April 21st, 2010

M.I.A.’s new album is the hottest thing on the planet right now, even though all we know about it is that it’s out June 29th. That is until now. One of her producers and former BF Diplo has broken the silence and given us an idea of what to expect from her yet-to-be-titled, third LP. [...]

Tags: Animal Collective, Diplo, m.i.a.
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Cam

Lights Reveals Her Top 5

December 31st, 2009

Lights recently revealed her top 5 favourite albums of 2009 to Chartattack.com and gave reasons for each choice. The singer’s indie-centric list is as follows: 1. YEAH YEAH YEAHS – It’s Blitz 2. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Merriweather Post Pavilion 3. PHOENIX -Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 4. FRIENDLY FIRES – Friendly Fires 5. ARCHITECTS – Hollow Crown

Tags: Animal Collective, lights, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Animal Collective: Fall Be Kind EP, Please.

November 30th, 2009

Animal Collective released their new five track EP on November 23rd, 2009. The EP titled Fall Be Kind has a different sound from that of previous Animal Collective music, yet obviously of Animal Collective descent. The song “What Would I Want? Sky” is one of my favourites off the new EP. The track “WWIW?S” has [...]

Tags: Animal Collective, music, new albums
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Megan C

Best Album Covers of the Past 10 years?

October 23rd, 2009

Gigwise recently posted what they think are “The 50 Best Album Covers of the 2000s”! You can check out all of their top 50 picks, but here are my fave four (with their ranking included)! 18. Santogold: ‘Santogold’ Maybe it’s just because I love glitter, but I think it really makes this album cover. The [...]

Tags: album covers, Animal Collective, best, Death From Above 1979, Karen O, lists, Santogold, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Posted in Blog, Music & Videos | Posted by Kate M.