Brooklyn Vegan — Best of 2009: Top 10 Amazon Picks1) Neko Case 2) Yeah Yeah Yeahs 3) Phoenix 4) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 5) The Avett Brothers 6) Girls 7) Animal Collective 8) K'Naan 9) Jay-Z 10) Camera ObscuraTwo... more info

Chorus.fm — *M.I.A. (http://www.myspace.com/mia)* has about four songs done on her new album. Producer *Diplo (http://www.myspace.com/diplo)* describes it as "Gucci Mane meets Animal Collective (http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/view/3490/new-m.i.a.-record-like-guc... more info

Altsounds — On the heels of its first and second issues featuring Depeche Mode and Sonic Youth, **FILTER UNBOUND** is back again with its third installment—a comprehensive, in-depth exploration into the sounds and recordings of one of today’s m... more info

Stereogum — The decade recounting started with Pitchfork handing top honors to Kid A and Uncut lusting after Jack White. Now it's Paste's turn to list their favorite albums of the '00s and, as you might expect, they add some different names to the mix. For a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Dam-Funk Remix) MP3 DOWNLOAD: Dam-Funk - Toeachizown (MP3) Stones Throw's Dam-Funk will be headlining a free show tonight (10/27) at Brooklyn Bowl presented by Fader to celebrate h... more info

NME — Wilco, Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear also make final eight more info

Stereogum — Or put another way: They hate Canada's annual seal slaughter, and have joined other critical darlings like Perez Hilton and Brody Jenner for a series of PETA spots to call an end to this horrid, fashion-industry practice, in time for the Olympics. Wa... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — When Modest Mouse wanted to try their hand at increasing animal cruelty awareness, via a posthumously directed Heath Ledger music video, they utilized "King Rat" as a twisted take on whale hunting. Although they creatively (and violently) got their ... more info

Culture Bully — Music video for Taken By Trees' rendition of Animal Collective's "My Girls," entitled "My Boys," from the album "East of Eden." more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Animal Collective: 2009-05-18, Royal Oak [mp3,ogg,flac] "My Girls" [mp3] other Animal Collective posts at Largehearted Boy Backyard Tire Fire: 2009-10-03, Bloomington [mp3,ogg,flac] "F. the C.C. (Steve Earle... more info