Guardian Music — Experimental indie crew describe new material as 'more immediate' than 2009's Merriweather Post PavilionAnimal Collective have begun work on their ninth studio album. The Technicolor indie tribe have written 15 new songs, which they plan to record in... more info

Impose Magazine — Helluva year for Dada Trash Collage that consists of vinyl 12" releases, DVD collaborations with Bear Ears, returning to Michigan after stints in Minneapolis and Seattle, tours and band members returning from health related hiatus. With the help of M... more info

Stereogum — Though the show happened last year, AnCo just released a short video of their collaborative multimedia performance with artist Danny Perez that took place at NYC’s Guggenheim Museum. Check out the clip, which features about six minutes of unrelease... more info

XLR8R — Sacramento's Raliegh Moncrief doesn't exactly have the typical XLR8R resume. He's collaborated with drumming virtuoso Zach Hill, performs in Marnie Stern's touring band, and worked as an engineer and co-producer on Dirty Projecto... more info

Stereogum — Iceland Airwaves is over, which means it must be time for CMJ. As promised, Stereogum’s parties this week featured two secret guests, and by the grace of concert-promotion law, today we are finally able to reveal those artist to be the spasmodic/hy... more info

Stereogum — Next week, NYC’s streets will be teeming with a mix of earnest collegiate indie rock aficionados and grizzled music biz veterans. There will be wonderful lineups at all sorts of venues, and if you pick the right show you may just see a band that wi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Avey Tare @ PS1 in 2010 (more by Andrew St. Clair) Animal Collective member Avey Tare released his debut solo effort Down Here last fall via the band's own Paw Tracks Records. At the end of this November, Avey will... more info

Altsounds — *Panda Bear, Heaven, London, Thursday 1st December 2011 *Animal Collective's Noah Lennox returns to London to present music from his acclaimed latest solo LP Tomboy as well as his previous classic Person Pitch this December. This is his first... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Young Man is a true American success story of the modern age. The solo project of Colin Caulfield (no relation to Holden), the upstart singer-songwriter began posting home videos of himself on YouTube, covering some of his favorite songs. These rang... more info

Guardian Music — As UK independent labels count the cost of the CD warehouse fire, buy digital to save physical, urges Chris SalmonIt's been an awful week for many of the UK's best independent labels, whose stock was destroyed in the Sony DADC warehouse fire in Enfie... more info