Brooklyn Vegan — interview by Billy Jones, FYF photos by Chris Juarez Panda Bear @ FYF Fest - Sept 4, 2010 "Noah Lennox (born July 17, 1978) in Baltimore, Maryland known as Panda Bear, is an experimental musician and a founding member of... more info

KEXP Seattle — From Montreal, Plants and Animals play deliberate, carefully constructed indie rock that is sometimes subdued and desolate, and sometimes mellow but high-spirited indie rock that shows flashes of bands like MGMT and Animal Collective. On their second... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — In the strange ecosystem of Animal Collective, Panda Bear is the difficult one. That’s saying something for a guy in a band with barely a phonetically discernible lyric in its long catalog of tongue-wagging acid jams. But while co-frontman Avey... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Rising Brooklyn-based psych trio Prince Rama have a full-length, Shadow Temple, that's coming out September 14 via Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label. You've already heard the frantic "Lightening Fossil", and now you can stream Shadow Temple's drum... more info

BBC 6 Music — Band work with Danny Perez to produce Oddsac more info

All About Jazz — By Pico Before there was Sonic Youth, before there was Radiohead, Material, The Flaming Lips or the Animal Collective, there was Curlew. Founded by saxophonist/composer George Cartwright in 1979, Curlew soon became an incubator for just about every ... more info

KEXP Seattle — Finally, today you can pick up the brand new Live at KEXP Volume Six! With 16 exclusive live recording from a variety of bands and artists near and dear to KEXP listeners’ hearts — how can you go wrong? Yeasayer, Built to Spill, Animal Collective... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Joao Kartoshka said... Music from Kartoshka, The Movie: Asteroid- Pete Moore, Penthouse Suite- Syd Dale, The Town I Live In- Jackie Lee, Music To Watch Girls By- Andy Williams, Maria Ninguem- Joao Gilberto, Baby Love Child- Pizzicato Five, Tempta... more info

Guardian Music — (Plexi)Fans of 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion, on which Animal Collective reined in their more outré tendencies in favour of gleaming hooks, are in for a shock. Among the more conventional moments of this "visual album" – filmed by artist Perez... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Animal Collective’s very own Avery Tare dropped a guest post on Pitchfork’s Altered Zones and shared an obscure song called “My Time” from Ann Steel. You can get more on the tracks background by reading the post, but I really wanted you guys ... more info