ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Azealia Banks - Jumanji
Prepping for the release of her debut album 1991, Banks released another track this week, laying to rest any doubts of her abilities. With a killer beat by Hudson Mohawke and Nick Hook, the track is as fresh as it is familiar. Banks also lays it down, and with authority. The only thing that can make this track any better is the music video.
April 21st is right around the corner and the people working on Record Store Day just posted a complete (and massive) list of all of the releases!
You're going to need some time wade through all of the choices, but here are some highlights:
Animal Collective: Transverse Temporal Gyrus LP
Arcade Fire: Sprawl II LP
Beach House: Lazuli B/W Equal Mind 7”
Bruce Springsteen: Rocky Ground 7”
Gorillaz: Do Ya Thing 7”
Already feeling that summer buzz-kill from missing out on Coachella and Sasquatch this year? Don’t worry, there are still plenty of festivals fixing to satisfy that music-hungry appetite at a much lower price than Bonnaroo or Lollapalooza. Check out these upcoming music festivals that will tune your ears in to some audio bliss.
What: Pitchfork Music Festival
Where: Chicago, IL
When: June 15-17
Who: Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, Cut Copy, TV on the Radio, Neko Case, Thurston Moore, No Age, Gang Gang Dance, Deerhunter, Superchunk, Ariel Pink, Curren$y + more!
The 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is only a few months away. The fun starts on Friday, April 15th, and finishes up on Sunday, April 17th.
*UPDATE* - All 75,000 tickets have been sold out in just 5 days! Your best bet, if you want to purchase a ticket, is to head over to craigslist and start doing some research!
For more information, head over to the main site for more details--->Coachella
Animal Collective Campfire Songs
Basia Bulat Heart of My Own
7dayBinge 7dayBinge [digital release Dec. 8, 2009]
Beach House Teen Dream
Jason Castro Jason Castro
Citay Get Together
Evacuate Chicago Veracity
Joe Firstman El Porto
Fredrik Trilogi
Four Tet There Is Love In You
Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM
Gorevette Lustfully Yours [EP]
Lady Antebellum Need You Now
Locksley Be In Love
Jennifer Lopez Love?
Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring
The Magnetic Fields Realism
Never Shout Never What Is Love?
Patrick & Eugene Altogether Now (Birds Bees Flowers Trees)
Evacuate Chicago Verasity
The Silent League ...But You've Always been The Caretaker
Three 6 Mafia Laws Of Power
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind [EP]
Tim Cohen Laugh Tracks
Jamie Foxx Body
Alicia Keys The Element Of Freedom
Kylie Kylie: Live In New York
Shiny Toy Guns Girls Le Disko
Robin Thicke Sex Therapy
With a new album coming out on November 9, the experimental indie group Animal Collective has teamed up with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for a separate endeavor. Known as a group of animal loving musicians (as if the name wasn’t enough), the partnership has been organized as a protest to the upcoming Canadian seal-hunting season, which begins six days after their new album is released.
The campaign, which features an ad with the band wearing white shirts adorned with an adorable seal illustration and a short, online video, is a blatant comment on the overly cruel practice of using spiked clubs to bludgeon and remove seals from their natural habitat. The video, which lasts nearly a minute and a half, explains the reasoning for the groups involvement in the campaign and explores band member Geologist’s (a.k.a. Brian Weitz) collegiate experiences studying biology and environmental policy. “We really like animals and seals, especially,” he says.
Battles
Genre: Progressive Rock/Math Rock/Experimental
Website: bttls.com
I first encountered Battles while watching Mind Field, the latest skateboarding video from Alien Workshop. I was mesmerized by the quiet intensity of their song, “Atlas,” and how it complimented the raw talent and artful expression of professional skateboarder, Arto Saari. It also left a lasting impression as he fell some 20 feet down a set of stairs landing, literally, onto his face. Nevertheless, I had to learn more about this unique group.
The uniquely experimental collaboration, Animal Collective, will no longer be coasting on the renowned success of their Merriweather Post Pavilion album released earlier this year. Rumors surfaced around the time of the album’s release that the group will be have another album for fans by the end of the year. Those rumors have turned out to be true.
The Collective will be releasing a five song EP called Fall Be Kind, a play on words referring to the daylight savings phrase “fall behind.” The disc is said to be a revelation of the “darker” side of the band. Band leader Avey Tare, a.k.a. Dave Portner, says that this is yet another “seasonal” album after feeling that the Merriweather album felt “really springy or summery.” The new album’s title and December 8 release date reinforce this idea.
Fourteen years ago, when the site was little more than Ryan Schreiber’s upstart in the Twin Cities, few if any, imagined online publication Pitchfork to turn into the international music media colossus that it’s become today. So influential have they proven themselves that the site is said to be all but directly responsible for a band's rise to fame, or their fall into obscurity.
Contrary to popular belief, they work out of offices in Chicago, not a secret chamber in some secluded temple of The Vatican, simultaneously eager and dreadful for the moment Dan Brown puts pen to paper about them. As such, they’re not above doing best-of lists, so below are their top twenty albums of the 2000s…
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