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Animal Collective

Live Amateur Orchestral Animal Collective Covers

February 17, 2010
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And now, something different…
Let’s say you’re a huge fan of Animal Collective, and you think they’re the bees knees. Then someone posts a link on Twitter that causes you to stumble upon a steel drum band doing a flawless interpretation of the song “Brother Sport,” and chills get sent down your spine.

Brother Sport– Cornell [...]

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Heady Links: Animal Collective, Pavement, Umphrey’s McGee and more

September 16, 2009
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Animal Collective just announced some tour dates in Australia.

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Animal Collective Sample The Grateful Dead on “Why Would I Want Sky”

July 20, 2009
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I’m home chilling and about to watch some evening news after running some errands — yes, I’m that cool — and I’ve got the new Atlas Sound/Panda Bear collaboration called “Walkabout” cranked about as loud as my upstairs neighbor would ever allow. I dig it.
And speaking of Panda Bear, I figured it was a [...]

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Video: Animal Collective Live in Oakland

June 19, 2009
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I only posted photos and didn’t write much about the Animal Collective show I saw last month here in Oakland, but it really was a magical event for me in many ways. The band has really been huge to me over the past year, and I just caught their set from Bonnaroo via the [...]

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Photos: Animal Collective @ Fox Theater, Oakland 5/26/09

May 27, 2009
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Last night’s Animal Collective show at the Fox Theater was a sight to behold. Here are the ones that came out:

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Flight of the Conchords > Google Layoff > LMB 4.0 > Animal Collective

May 26, 2009
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I know the title of this post probably makes absolutely no sense, so let me try to explain.
Today is kind of a crazy day for me in a few respects. It’s my last official day at Google as a full-time employee, which might seem like something that could put a damper on the rest [...]

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Animal Collective Brings Their “Summertime Clothes” to Letterman

May 8, 2009
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Readers of the blog might start getting sick of my obsession with Animal Collective, but I would immediately argue with those readers and ask them to open their ears a bit more. In fact, I think this band has actually dwarfed Phish for me in terms of pure musical excitement. This band just [...]

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I Heart NYC: Celebrate Brooklyn! 2009 Concerts at Prospect Park

May 5, 2009
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I recently finalized plans to make a big move up to New York City later on in 2009 and I couldn’t be more excited. I have a ton of reasons to be stoked, of course, but for music blogging purposes, this means I will suddenly have a huge set of options for great live music [...]

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Animal Collective: 2009 Tour Dates, Live In Concert from All Songs Considered

May 5, 2009
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Happy Cinco De Mayo, dudes! I’m just hanging out in my living room, writing some blog posts and jamming to an Animal Collective live show on my stereo system. Just as this exact version “Brother Sport” started, I get an email from NPR Music announcing that their next live webcast on Monday, May [...]

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