Pitchfork — Though Animal Collective are famous for stuffing their live sets with new and unreleased material, the trio's current tour will find them taking a more traditional route. Namely: Playing a fair amount of tracks from their most recent album, Merriweat... more info

Columbus DispatchAnimal Collective Schedule World TourPitchforkmedia.com - 35 minutes agoThough Animal Collective are famous for stuffing their live sets with new and unreleased material, the trio's current tour will find them taking a more tradition... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Happy Obama Day! Looking for ways to celebrate tonight? Here are some musical options: Obama Inauguration Concert feat. Apollo Heights, 24-7 Spyz, and HR (of Bad Brains) at Le Poisson Rouge Animal Collective and Blues Control at Manhattan Center Gra... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Happy Obama Day! Looking for ways to celebrate tonight? Here are some musical options: Obama Inauguration Concert feat. Apollo Heights, 24-7 Spyz, and HR (of Bad Brains) at Le Poisson Rouge Animal Collective and Blues Control at Manhattan Center Gra... more info

Pitchfork — While we're all bowing at the altar of Animal Collective, we better not forget the first noise-rock band who made it cool to swap out Fort Thunder pummel for woodland creature bloopy-bloops and hazy chillout tent synth-washes. Well, Black Dice aren't... more info

KEXP Seattle — Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you s... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Though you would never guess it by the groaning foam of their music, Animal Collective are huge fans of simplicity. Over the course of nine years, they’ve built a career on small, gravelly desires: chores, summertime, domestic life. These are not... more info

Stereogum — Barack Obama was the eighth most frequently tagged "artist" on Stereogum in the past twelve months. That makes him even more popular than Animal Collective around here, and deservedly so: Animal Collective may have just released their finest album, ... more info

Stereogum — The BBC picked Empire Of The Sun to be a 2009 Breakout Act. The Australian duo were already hitting their marks when they released the "Walking On A Dream" video in '08 with "Sleepy Jackson's Luke Steele and PNAU's Nick Littlemore" affixed, but it's... more info

Paste Magazine — Band of the Week: Deastro Hometown: Detroit, Mich. Fun Fact: The name Deastro is a take on the infamous G.I. Joe villain, Destro, the “A” being added to avoid copyright infringement. Although Chabot had intentions of changing the name... more info