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New band of the day – No 895: ANR

5191 days ago
Guardian MusicLike some weird hybrid of Red Hot Chili Peppers and MGMT, these brothers of invention mix melodic majesty with cosmic funkHometown: Miami.The lineup: Michael John Hancock (vocals) and Brian Robertson (keyboards, drum machines).The background: ANR pro... more info

Animal Collective helped pick YouTube videos for the Guggenheim ++ Avey Tare release party tonight

5192 days ago
Brooklyn VeganAvey Tare @ Governors Island this summer (more by Erez Avissar) The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel, tonight announced the top 25 videos, selected from 23,358 online video submissions and 91 countries, for... more info

This week's new live music

5195 days ago
Guardian MusicSwans, James Blackshaw, On tourMichael Gira is a musician who has spent his career discovering a gentler side no one had any reason to suspect in him. His first major group, Swans, specialised in a live show of legendary volume, only to evolve into a... more info

Avey Tare: Down There - review

5196 days ago
Guardian Music(Paw Tracks)It's best to think of Baltimore's freak-folk quartet Animal Collective – of which Avey Tare, aka David Portner, is a member – as less a band and more an evolving musical project with changing line-ups and names. He may be the second m... more info

Paul Morley on music

5201 days ago
Guardian MusicThe 'new, improved' Simon Cowell is still light years away from understanding great musicIt's funny and awful watching how the sneaky Simon Cowell has tweaked himself this year, physically and conceptually. He's sliding through certain changes that a... more info

The Phantom Band: The Wants | CD review

5203 days ago
Guardian Music(Chemikal Underground)For this follow-up to the Glasgow sextet's debut album, Checkmate Savage, the band have decided not to tame their propensity to cherrypick from practically every genre available to them. Instead, they've celebrated it by juxtapo... more info

This Week in Free Stuff!

5203 days ago
Allmusic BlogLeave it to a member of Animal Collective (Avey Tare) to release an album (Down There) with a cover so hideous that you’ll want to run full speed to the nearest emergency eyewash station after even a brief glance. From what I heard this morning, th... more info

Avey Tare Talks About Crocodiles, Cancer, Divorce, How Down There’s His Death Record

5203 days ago
StereogumPortner talks about how Down There’s like a ride down the River Styx, talks about the differences between recording with Animal Collective and going it alone, then opens up about his separation from Kría Brekkan, the death of his grandmother, his ... more info

New music at Iceland Airwaves: Who Knew – We Do

5203 days ago
Guardian MusicForget the 'chilling vastness' of their homeland ... this Icelandic septet make art-rock with added, er, slapsAs mission statements go, this one from Icelandic septet Who Knew is pretty clear: "Who Knew aren't trying to encapsulate the chilling vastn... more info

Avey Tare – Down There Premature Evaluation

5205 days ago
StereogumIf you’re interested in Animal Collective, you know Down There is the first solo album by David Portner, aka Avey Tare. You’re also more used to Panda Bear’s solo collections, but don’t expect Person Pitch (or what you expect to get from Tom ... more info

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