Impose Magazine — I always thought a band called Gauntlet Hair was supposed to sound busted -- nasty noise shoved into the red made by greasy dudes and the knobs they love to twiddle. Turns out they make crazy-compressed positive pop with all those shimmery post-psych... more info

Music For Ants — I’ve heard very mixed reviews about Animal Collective’s live show and the band is notorious for performing new material almost exclusively so my expectations were not very high going into their Day 1 headlining set. Despite all that, I ended up b... more info

Stereogum — With tribal tunes built upon yelps, nature sounds, and clattering rhythms, Chicago’s psych quartet YAWN have garnered almost unanimous comparisons to Animal Collective and Yeasayer. Their debut LP Open Season, out later this summer, is certainly on... more info

Impose Magazine — Pitchfork's annual music festival took place this past weekend in Chicago. Here are pics from Friday, July 15 with the usual suspects like Animal Collective, Guided By Voices, and James Blake. See more images from this post. more info

Totally Fuzzy — Live Broadcasts of many of the performances from this weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, below... Scheduled programmings include headlining sets from Animal Collective and Fleet Foxes, Guided By Voice’s fifth to last gig ever, OFWG... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Vincent Cornelli, words by BV Collective "Animal Collective killing it in Prospect Park right now! Check out that stage set, we helped make it!" - Prince Rama "Animal collective at prospect park = slighty "edgy" version of a... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe record that spawned this gig involved a cast of 19 musicians hailing from five continents. Released last year, Tradi-Mods vs Rockers pitted groups including Konono No 1 from the Democratic Republic of Congo against post-rock and i... more info

Bridging The Atlantic — Has anyone else picked up on the impatience of the music press right now? Over the last couple of week's journos have been falling over themselves to proclaim the best albums of the year so far, even though it's only June. Here's a selection that's c... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Animal Collective @ Celebrate Brooklyn 2009 (more by Ryan Muir) today in NYC * Monogold @ Pianos * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Gregory Attonito @ Watermark (NJ) * Tell All Your Friends @ Lolita Bar * Peter Frampton... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Panda Bear @ MHOW (more by Amanda Hatfield) Panda Bear brought Tomboy's opening track, "You Can Count On Me," to Fallon last night (7/11) with Tomboy-producer Sonic Boom (Peter Kember of Spacemen 3) and ODDSAC-director Danny Perez on visuals. Video..... more info