By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorImagine you are Daft Punk, perhaps the only musical act in history whose cultural profile actually rose in the wake of their weakest and least-popular studio album, 2005's Human After All. You wrote and directed… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorNoisey's seemingly endless Daft Punk series — an exclusive look at their new Random Access Memories record — took an indie-rock turn today, as Panda Bear explained how he ended up lending his vocals to… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAnimal Collective have rescheduled their spring North American tour for the late summer, early fall, with many dates still including their labelmate/longtime friend Dan Deacon. The cancellations were caused by Avey Tare's voice-straining case of… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorTalk about entering the void; featuring nothing but epileptic lighting and someone tearing the flesh off a piece of fruit, Animal Collective's new "Applesauce" video is yet another glaring example of why Gaspar Noé is… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorIn a tour that seems like a no-brainer given their shared label ties (Carpark/Paw Tracks, Domino) and hometown (Baltimore), Animal Collective and Dan Deacon have lined up a spring tour that starts on March 7th… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorEvery year, when eMusic's editorial staff compiles our annual best-of list, the goal is never to come to some kind of academic determination of the year's best records via a series of complicated formulas and… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorBankruptcy proceedings and liquidation can't seem to keep All Tomorrow's Parties down. As announced in a press release this morning, the roaming festival will resume its usual spring/summer proceedings next year, with Deerhunter and TV… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorThanks a lot Pitchfork. No really; it's bad enough that Paris already makes better croissants than us. But then you had to go and book a better version of your annual music festival for our… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorNot to pull an I-was-there or anything, but the first time I saw an Animal Collective show – eight years ago at a decrepit art space in Philadelphia – I thought the whole thing was… more »
By Matthew Perpetua, eMusic ContributorThe four members of Animal Collective have spent the past decade building a sprawling body of work comprised of solo releases, experimental works and collaborative albums. Centipede Hz, their ninth proper record as a band,… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorThe word on the street is that Animal Collective's ninth studio album – yes, ninth – is a red-blooded response to the sunshine and puppy dogs of Merriweather Post Pavilion. Which is true in regards… more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorBecause they've gone ahead and put the entire record out there for you, and they've got custom-designed visuals  for each song. I am watching them now, and they are awesome. If you've ever seen them… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorSay whatever you'd like about Animal Collective's music (actually, please don't), but if you try and say that the members of the group don't have fantastic taste in the music that they choose to listen… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorYou have to imagine that tickets to any given Animal Collective show on their upcoming tour will sell out in no time flat simply based on the amount of folks who are still holding out… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorIt's probably best to approach this limited Record Store Day LP as a parting gift for anyone who witnessed Animal Collective's Guggenheim Museum "performance" on March 4, 2010. A co-production with longtime A/V partner Danny… more »
By Anna Bond, eMusic ContributorStarted fifteen years ago in Brighton, UK, as a spinoff of the West Sussex record shop run by the label's founders, the innovative FatCat Records label is responsible for launching the careers of a wide… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAside from having a similar fashion sense – lots of paisley prints and loose fits – one of the only uniting forces in the freak-folk hype machine was a shared love of Vashti Bunyan's long-lost… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorWhen FatCat Records reissued Danse Manatee alongside Animal Collective's debut album (2000's Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished), the group's early fans were left scratching their heads. Unlike its predecessor's glimpses of locked grooves and… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorWhile it's now filed alongside all of Animal Collective's other albums, Campfire Songs was actually credited to that very name in its original Catsup Plate pressing. A truth-in-advertising title, considering all five songs were tracked… more »
By Corey duBrowa, eMusic ContributorWith all apologies to the Stooges and "1969," it's now "2009 okay/ Across the USA/ Another year for me and you/ Another year with nothin 'to do." But with the dawning of this new year… more »
By Andy Battaglia, eMusic ContributorRecorded at live shows before it was clear whether Animal Collective played merely songs or improvised parts of desiccated symphonies, Hollinndagain sounds deeply ritualistic and ripe for haunted ceremonies in dark rooms. It was released… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorAnimal Collective — four couch-surfing, scraggly dudes from the Northeast — write rounds disguised as songs, time-delayed melodies that swallow themselves whole before completion and search for a finite end that never arrives. Sometimes the… more »
By Andy Beta, eMusic ContributorThe album that started it all. Originally credited to its two songwriting principles, Avey Tare and Panda Bear (though Tare wrote all the songs and Bear is relegated to the drums), Spirit They've Gone, Spirit… more »
