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Live music booking now

4302 days ago

Guardian Music — Pitchfork are putting on their annual European festival (1-3 Nov, Paris), and those who make the trip over the channel will be rewarded with a suitably cool lineup featuring Death Grips, Animal Collective, M83 and the Walkmen …Staying on the festiv... more info

Live Review: Animal Collective with Micachu & The Shapes @ Paramount 9/18

4302 days ago

KEXP Seattle — Animal Collective have long been known to dazzle and confuse audiences during their live performances, but nothing really could have prepared the crowd at Paramount for their Centipede Hz tour opener last Tuesday night. The stage was set in dazzling ... more info

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How to invent shoegaze without trying

4304 days ago

Guardian Music — A week after joking at a party that he was in a band, Rudy Tambala found himself at the start of a journey that produced some of the 80s' most extraordinary musicThe way Rudy Tambala tells it, his band AR Kane should never really have existed. Surely... more info

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Grizzly Bear: Shields

4308 days ago

Guardian Music — (Warp)In pop, the year 2009 will be mostly remembered for the death of Michael Jackson. But in recherché rock circles, 2009 will long be recalled as a hell of a year for the Brooklyn art-house band. Three groups released landmark records marking hig... more info

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Listen Now: Animal Collective live and acoustic on KEXP

4312 days ago

KEXP Seattle — Yesterday, we played a special live session with Animal Collective, recorded exclusively for KEXP at the Cutting Room Studios NYC. Today, you can hear it again… and again if you want! Featured in this session are the first and so far only recorded ... more info

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Album Review: Animal Collective – Centipede Hz

4312 days ago

KEXP Seattle — Animal Collective don’t really like the spotlight. With 2009′s excellent Merriweather Post Pavilion, the group’s guitarist and writer Deakin took a hiatus and the band pursued a more sampler heavy work. The resulting album was surprisingly more... more info

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