Can you feel the music video renaissance?! We can. In this episode of video roundup, St. Vincent plays a feminist book store, Broken Bells (Shins/Danger Mouse collab) wander around a dark highway, Beach House shows us a world dominated by silver people, and Taken by Trees retreats to nature for a cover of Animal Collective’s [...]

Ok… not all the details. But we do have a title: Tomboy. It has also been confirmed that Panda Bear will release his follow up to Person Pitch sometime in September on Paw Tracks.
The Animal Collective frontman has also been playing new tunes on his European Tour, so enjoy a video of two new songs [...]

Yep, it’s time again for the quintessential “so far” list — no music site is complete without one! 2009 is shaping up to be an interesting year, with old favorites and newcomers alike issuing strong releases. In an attempt to make some sense out of everything, our staff got together to vote on our favorites.
We’d [...]

Well, it’s two weeks after the fact and I’m finally able to wrap my head around the musical smorgasbord that was Bonnaroo 2009. 75,000 people descended on Manchester, TN, (population: roughly 9,500 for 361 days of the year), for the festival’s eighth year.
The musical equivalent of Willy Wonka’s world of pure imagination, Bonnaroo once again [...]

Welcome to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
This week, we’ve got some excellent visual stimulation from Animal Collective, Cursive, White Denim, Blur, Doves, the Gaslight Anthem, St. Vincent, Frightened Rabbit, the Gossip, Sonic Youth, Fever Ray, Girls, the Dead Weather, Phoenix, [...]

Yes, that’s Jesus flipping the bird at Ticketmaster. Do you know why? Because Ticketmaster made him sad. Why did Ticketmaster do that to Jesus? Because the management at that company constantly stomps all over the 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not be a total dick.
It took every ounce of my restraint (which I have in short [...]

Photo courtesy of NYCTaper
Yes, Animal Collective is a casualty of music blog echo chamber – including us – and it’s getting really annoying, so I, Uncle Corey, hereby do swear to not write about Animal Collective again until they come to town in May. … After this cool little tidbit.
The band recently played a pair [...]

Ticketmaster is doing a three-day pre-sale for the Animal Collective show at the Fox Theater in Oakland on May 26. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today – use the code: FEELS.

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Yes, I know that’s a mime, not a mine …

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs tip the name of their new album: It’s Blitz. Exciting news [...]

The good folks at NPR are hosting a live chat with Animal Collective today at 11AM PST. You can also stream their entire new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion [buy it here].
For our take, check out our Merriweather Post Pavilion review here.
(UPDATE: Animal Collective announced a world tour today, and it looks like they’ll be hitting [...]