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  UR1 Festival Postponed: Strong Winds Bluster Kanye West-Led Miami Lineup

  November 21, 2012 – Miami's UR1 Festival has been postponed due to strong winds forecast during the music showcase's inaugural weekend, December 8 and 9. …
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  Animal Collective's 'Crimson' Is a Goopy Tropical Hallucination

  November 5, 2012 – Singles mean something different to Animal Collective. As Nick Murray explained in his review of the band's Essential-stamped new album, Centipede Hz, forthcoming single "Applesauce," due out on 10-inch vinyl November 13, "traces a piece of fruit's journey from farmer to child to chef to mayor, thankfully abandoning the trail upon its digestion. …
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  Animal Collective, Jane's Addiction Join UR1 Festival Lineup

  October 18, 2012 – Animal Collective, Jane's Addiction, Flying Lotus, and more have been added to the UR1 Festival's lineup, which already boasted headliners Kanye West, Lou Reed, Slash, and the Offspring. Scheduled for December 8 and December 9 to coincide with the 11th annual Art Basel, UR1 will feature multiple stages throughout the 32-acre space at Bayfront Park in Miami Beach.Tickets range from $99 to $149. You can buy them here. …
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  Animal Collective Do 'Rosie Oh' in Giant Mouth on 'Fallon'

  October 5, 2012 – Last night, Animal Collective brought "Rosie Oh" to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. On the SPIN Essential album Centipede Hz, the Panda Bear-sung standout makes like a bizarrely enticing mashup of Magical Mystery Tour live band jauntiness and Oneohtrix Point Never-style digital scree. If that seems like a strange choice for a television performance, well, it is, but this is Animal Collective and they do want they want. …
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  Animal Collective's Deakin Explains Sticky Kickstarter Situation (Sort Of)

  September 28, 2012 – You know what they say: There's no such thing as a free trip to Mali. The recent back-and-forth between Amanda Palmer and Steve Albini over crowd-sourcing ended with Palmer announcing she would pay her musicians. …
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  R.I.P., Brooklyn: How Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, and Dirty Projectors Changed Pop

  September 20, 2012 – The most important Brooklyn show on TV isn't Girls — it's 2 Broke Girls. Starring Norah's infinite playlist of cupcake jokes and thrift-store field trips, the CBS sitcom offers up intentionally imprecise references that combine to form the tipping point where Brooklyn hipster culture turns into prime-time background noise. …
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  Hear Allez-Allez' DJ Mixes from Animal Collective, Hot Chip, Lindstrom & More

  September 19, 2012 – We're up to our ears in podcasts. The internet has grown positively lousy with 'em. Like the Hold Steady (sort of) said, everyone's a curator and most people are DJs.Not all podcasts are created equal, however. When London's Sam Willis and Steve Nolan launched their Allez-Allez series, in 2006, it was intended merely as a means of promoting their fortnightly party of the same name. …
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  Animal Collective, 'Centipede Hz' (Domino)

  September 5, 2012 – From the beginning, Animal Collective intended to create not just sounds, but worlds. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Cat Power, Animal Collective, Crypts, More!

  August 30, 2012 – Teh Internetz are rife with previewable music this week. For your ease of unpaid listening, we've rounded up the 10 records you've gotta hear now, even though they aren't out yet. You don't want to be caught at the proverbial water cooler trying to talk about 2 Chainz or Swans, do you? Those albums are so (literally) yesterday. Have fun clicking through the 103 songs we've amassed below. 1) Cat Power, Sun, out September 4 on Matador. …
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  Why Animal Collective Broadcast 'Centipede Hz' Early

  August 20, 2012 – Last night, Animal Collective aired ninth album Centipede Hz in its entirety in the fourth and final episode of the psych-popsters' weekly Animal Collective Radio broadcast. The whole album, which isn't out until September 4 via Domino, is now streaming on demand over at the group's website, with each song accompanied by a custom video by previous visual collaborator Abby Portner (who also happens to be AC member Avey Tare's sister). …
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