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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  June 19, 2009 – We've showered up, washed the mud out of our shoes, and properly detoxed -- yep, this year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival is a wrap. We saw great sets from MGMT, Bruce Springsteen, Phish, NIN, Phoenix, and many others. …
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  Watch: Animal Collective's New Video

  June 13, 2009 – For those who have been wondering about the practical translation of the dress code mentioned in Animal Collective's "Summertime Clothes" ever since the Merriweather Post Pavilion tune first surfaced last winter, your answer is finally here: plastic bubble suits. …
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  Web Weirdness: John Mayer vs. Kanye West, and More

  March 13, 2009 – John Mayer has challenged Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak by singing over a hip-hop beat on his new track, which features the lyric: "I like sex / And I'm good at it." What's next? Mayer's ex, Jennifer Aniston, finds a personality? [YouTube] Grandma and Grandpa know best -- especially when it comes to critiquing Animal Collective. …
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  Springsteen, Beastie Boys, and Phish Headline Bonnaroo

  February 3, 2009 – The lineup for the eighth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has been announced -- and it's quite a doozy: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish (playing two sets), the Beastie Boys, Wilco, and Nine Inch Nails are just a few of the big-name artists scheduled to appear. The festival, set to return to the same plot of farmland outside Manchester, TN, June 11-14, will also feature performances from David Byrne, Elvis Costell …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week: January 19-25

  January 24, 2009 – This week the music world caught a powerful case of Obamamania. Arcade Fire rocked a party for the President's staff, Daft Punk and Will.i.Am tipped their musical hats (or, in Daft Punk's case, robot helmets) to the Commander in Chief. …
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  Animal Collective Don't Suck Live!

  January 21, 2009 – For a band whose recorded output is consistently stellar, Animal Collective have never been a reliable live act; their sets have ranged from great to incomprehensible. But last night at New York City's Grand Ballroom, the art rockers kicked off their U.S. …
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  Animal Collective Add 24 Shows to Tour

  January 20, 2009 – Buzzed-about art rockers Animal Collective -- featured in SPIN's January issue -- have extended their world tour in support of their SPIN-praised new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion. The outing, which begins tonight in New York City and travels to Chicago and L.A. …
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  Is Animal Collective the New Moby?

  January 19, 2009 – Since back in October when I first heard the new Animal Collective album, Merriweather Post Pavillion, and later enthusiastically trekked through a windswept rainstorm to a listening party at Manhattan's River Room -- an oddly swelegant bar/restaurant ("Harlem's Tavern on the Green") perched hard on the Hudson River at the end of an endless concrete walkway off Riverside Drive -- I've been babbling about how wonderful and original and t …
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  Nine Bands to Watch in '09!

  January 14, 2009 –  …
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  Animal Collective: 2009's First Great Album?

  January 6, 2009 – The New Year is just a few days old, but music fans already have access to one of 2009's most important records: Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion hits store shelves today (in vinyl, at least -- digital and CD versions arrive Jan. 20), and we've already chimed in with a four-star review, noting how the band manages to "elude all experimental-noise, freak-folk, and indie-rock tags." And we're not alone in our praise. …
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