I Guess I'm Floating — Baltimore is crazy. There are some seriously strange and seriously awesome noises coming out of what was once called "The Greatest City in America". Since then the slogan has been changed to the curious "Get In On It, and while I doubt the city's g... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Casey Spooner - Faye Dunaway (MP3) Fischerspooner on NYE (78guy) Fischerspooner will be the "surprise guest" DJ at the American Museum of Natural History's One Step Beyond on Friday, January 8th with DJ sets from Animal Collective and ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Anna Ternheim - You Mean Nothing To Me Anymore (live)(MP3) DOWNLOAD: El Perro Del Mar - Change of Heart (Rakamonie Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Taken By Trees - Watch The Waves (MP3) Anna Ternheim @ Bowery Ballroom in October 2009... more info

Addict Music — Panda Bear of Animal Collective has just confirmed he will perform a long awaited London headline show this March at Heaven. more info

Stereogum — You got more than enough Animal Collective in 2009, but Deacon, formerly known as Deakin, and known to his family/friends as Josh Dibb, was absent from Merriweather Post Pavilion and its ensuing full-court press. He offered up remixes, but that wa... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Deacon @ Ottobar - Jan 1, 2010 (chrissy abbott / bmoremusic) Deacon, or Joshua "Deakin" Dibb of Animal Collective, played his first ever solo show on the first night of the new decade here in Baltimore, Maryland. This show was... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — I’m not going to qualify anything here—it’s tempting to get into a semantic argument about the differences between “best” and “favorite” records to explain why I think that twelve old-time rock ‘nâ... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Sondre Lerche is a Norwegian singer songwriter who has released a solid amount of records this decade. Recently he declared his love of Animal Collective by covering Bluish, which may just be the hidden gem on MPP (It may just be my favorite from the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "In case you missed out on the well-deserved media blitz that was Merriweather Post Pavillion this year, Animal Collective was a trio for their latest releases. Deakin (now spelled Deacon), the original fourth member who helped shape the majority of.... more info

Stereogum — The purest year-end music list would be a playcount of the tunes you listened to most, and not the carefully sculpted, self-consciously eclectic 1-10s we end up reading. We know you're as sick as we are of parsing critics' picks, so here's at leas... more info