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  Animal Collective Debut Art Installation in NYC

  March 5, 2010 – Animal Collective, the sound chemists whose pursuit of psychedelic dance ecstasy, Merriweather Post Pavilion, landed SPIN's 2009 Album of the Year Award, conducted their biggest experiment yet Thursday night at New York's Guggenheim Museum: the premiere of an installation artwork called Transverse Temporal Gyrus, created with their visual guru Danny Perez and featuring all-new music. Sometimes experiments birth more questions than answ …
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  WATCH: Trippy Animal Collective Video

  January 8, 2010 – The latest video from Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion, named SPIN's Album of the Year, is abundantly colorful, chock full of animation, and a smidge psychedelic -- just like the album itself. …
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  Animal Collective's Deacon Makes Solo Debut

  January 4, 2010 – Baltimore's Ottobar is a cozy space, its walls lacquered with black paint, yellowing punk posters, water stains, and rock history -- the last of which made it an especially fitting venue for the barely-hyped solo debut of Maryland lad-done-good Josh Dibb, better known as Deacon, a founding member of Animal Collective. Deacon -- who hasn't been an active member of the band since 2006 -- used the New Year's Day gig as a test run for song …
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  New Albums from Animal Collective & More!

  December 15, 2009 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Animal Collective, Fall Be KindAlbum-of-the-year makers issue hazy yet solid EP.Read Review >> Alicia Keys, The Element of FreedomThe Bono of R&B stuck in a moment she can't get out of.Read Review >> The Willowz, EveryoneGarage punks pour some sugar on their songs. Read Review >>  …
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• Animal Collective, 'Fall Be Kind' (Domino)

  December 9, 2009 – There's a certain type of Animal Collective song that excites only the band's devotees: an ambient spiritual so suffused with a reverb-heavy drone that it's like dry ice has flooded your speakers. Last year's Merriweather Post Pavilion, SPIN's 2009 Album of the Year, forwent such formlessness, but the haze returns on this five-track EP. Fortunately, Merriweather's hummable, techno-indebted delirium also returns. …
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  WATCH: Animal Collective's New Video

  November 13, 2009 – By now, "Animal Collective" and "tripped out" are basically synonymous, and that's how we like it. …
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  DOWNLOAD: Phoenix Remixed by Animal Collective, Devendra Banhart

  October 1, 2009 – While the dashing French first couple -- President Nicolas Sarkozy and his model/singer wife Carla Bruni -- were referred to as the hottest Gallic import in New York City last week, several thousand music fans in Central Park would beg to differ. …
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  All Tomorrow's Parties: The Best & Worst

  September 14, 2009 – Welcome to rock'n'roll camp. For its second year in the U.S., All Tomorrow's Parties -- a festival popularized in the U.K. -- returned this past weekend to Kutshers Country Club, a family vacation spot 90 minutes outside New York City in the Catskill mountains near Monticello, NY. …
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  'Twilight' Author Reveals Favorite New Music!

  August 20, 2009 – Good news for music fans and movie buffs alike: Stephenie Meyer, the author behind vampire blockbuster series Twilight and the curator for the 2008 film's metal-tinged, chart-topping soundtrack, has a newfound love for indie rock! …
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  Atlas Sound Taps Animal Collective, Stereolab Members for New Album

  July 9, 2009 – When an early version of Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox's second album under the Atlas Sound moniker leaked to the internet last summer, the Atlanta native was peeved."Fuck this shit," he wrote to his blog at the time. …
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