Animal Collective share a trailer for their upcoming audio-visual album Tangerine Reef.
It feels like a long time since we last saw Animal Collective, not because three and a half years is an egregiously long time to wait for a new album, but because so much has happened since then, both within the Collective and out of it. Centipede Hz came out in September of 2012, an album which, i…
Animal Collective added their voices to Shabazz Places' "#CAKE." They're calling this intensely chaotic remix the "Animal Collective Premature Deflirt Mix." Special shout-out to I Want You magazine's Christian Peterson for some exotic and trippy artwork. Shabazz Places perform this Saturday at Th…
Avery Tare of Animal Collective has started his own side project, a new band called Slasher Flicks. The band also features former Ponytail drummer, Jeremy Hyman, and ex-Dirty Projectors member Angel Deradoorian. Thanks to some fantastic fans, we have video of their debut performance at Baltimore'…
The title says it all: Animal Collective have released a new single titled "Kinda Bonkers." Listen below, via a lyric video by animator/director Jack Kubizne. The track will be included on their upcoming EP, The Painters, a companion to last year's full-length Painting With. It'll feature three ne…
Happy 75th birthday, Bob Dylan! In honor of this momentous occasion, Animal Collective have decided to pay tribute to the legendary singer-songwriter. The experimental pop outfit shared their remix of Dylan's 1963 song "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright." On paper, this combination doesn't make any …
New music from Animal Collective and The Love Language, Father John Misty and Bully share new videos, and Snail Mail and Waxahatchee team up to cover Sheryl Crow.
Cat Power announces first album in six years, Frankie Cosmos shares a new video, and new music from Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, Animal Collective, and D.R.A.M.
Beach House perform new material on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Deerhunter and Animal Collective team up for an impromptu live jam session, plus new music from Nine Inch Nails and Anderson .Paak
Father John Misty donates entire week-long sales proceeds to RAICES, Avey Tare releases new remix EP featuring his Animal Collective bandmates, and JAY-Z unveils trailer for his Trayvon Martin documentary series.
News of a forthcoming Animal Collective double LP has leaked, Ty Segall and White Fence share new music, Soccer Mommy shares a new video, and Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Gordi, and more teamed up over the weekend at the 2018 Eaux Claires Festival.
Feels has been remastered and reissued on two-disc vinyl along with a previously unreleased bootleg of a Seattle live show at Neumos from 2004
The deeper we get into Animal Collective's Painting With chapter, the more it feels like a real renaissance for the band. As the band themselves described it, the process for the new record felt natural and fun - a far cry for the laborious process it took to put forth Centipede Hz. Spending time i…
New music videos from Queens of the Stone Age and Alex Lahey, tours from Animal Collective and Bloc Party, plus WAVVES covers Electric Prunes.
2015 is off to a great start for new releases! Highlights include the latest from Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective. KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes that the fifth release from this experimental artist "is a typically adventurous, brightly colored set of warped psych-pop with swi…
It's somewhat shocking that I haven't covered this collection in the first ten years of this series. Not only is it perhaps the most Review Revue-friendly album ever (if you count Ministry, whose Al Jourgensen produced the album and its interstitial material, Animal Liberation features five differe…
Midday show host Cheryl Waters presents a sampling of brand new and yet-to-be-released tunes to get you excited. 1. Kevin Morby - Moonshiner 2. Quilt - Eliot St. 3. Lemolo - Hold Light 4. Holy Esque - Hexx 5. Battleme - Shake Shake 6. Maserati - Rehumanizer II 7. Heaters - Kamikaze 8. Beach Slan…
The sun is finally out in Seattle, and so are lots of great new albums for your springtime soundtrack. Avey Tare of Animal Collective has teamed up with former Dirty Projectors bassist Angel Deradoorian and former Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman for the project, Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks. KEXP Music…
DJ Larry Rose takes you on a musical adventure that includes infectious electropop, punky angular guitar rock, harmonious guitar pop, fresh electronic grooves, and songs about waves and liquids. 1. Animal Collective - Floridada 2. Small Black - No One Wants It To Happen To You 3. Hibou - Dissolv…
Seattle’s DJ Explorateur (vinyl enthusiast Valerie Calano) has been a key figure in Seattle’s thriving underground music scene as a DJ, promoter, and curator. Her deep knowledge of psychedelia, electronic, ambient music, funk, jazz, and other genres has led to gigs with Animal Collective, Faust, an…