Spinner.com — Matt & Kim If you are fond of Matt and Kim, vinyl records and winning free things, you're in luck. AOL Music and Spinner are giving away a 'Sidewalks' vinyl to one click-happy fan, personally and affectionately signed by Kim Schifino and Matt ... more info

Impose Magazine — The latest band to canonize Animal Collective, Montreal’s Braids focus more on soundscaping than popcraft, but pull off startling moments of both. Their gossamer suites consistently threaten to arpeggiate away into thin air, but are kept just this ... more info

Impose Magazine — Go over to this Dutch site to splendor in the lush new Akron/Family album, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, an outing that isn't quite their Merriweather Post Pavilion moment, but certainly reaches previously untrod terrain. Where ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Terry Riley @ Big Ears Fest 2010 (more) Composer Terry Riley is perhaps an unlikely addition to the Animal Collective-curated ATP happening in the UK in May. Maybe not, considering the minimalist influences in Animal Collective's ... more info

Altsounds — ATP Concerts have invited one of the most exciting indie success stories of the last decade to curate the only ATP festival weekend of May 2011. Animal Collective are climbing into the hot seat at Butlins where they will headline and curate, choos... more info

I Like Music — The band are curating the only ATP this May 2011, and have now announced a series of European dates to coincide with their trip more info

melophobe — California: I hate you. You get all of Animal Collective to yourself. Portland: Starfucker loves you. Need proof? Scroll down through these tour dates and see that they have scheduled THREE shows for you this year. In a ROW! As far as these other l... more info

DrownedInSound — Back last year Animal Collective were announced to curate next May's ATP. There's only one that year, so if you want to go it'll have to be to that one, unfortunately. Or fortunately. Anyway, as they're in the country and indeed continent at the time... more info

Culture Bully — A discussion with Braids' keyboardist Katie Lee surrounding the group's debut album, Native Speaker, their growth since moving to Montreal, and how tiresome the endless comparisons to Animal Collective have become. more info

Chorus.fm — **Animal Collective* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/animalcollective)* are heading to Europe this May. Check the dates in the replies. more info