Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - American band Animal Collective have scored a music coup - they're the first band ever allowed to sample rock legends Grateful Dead. more info

Starpulse — Animal Collective have scored a music coup - they're the first band ever allowed to sample rock legends Grateful Dead.[...] Read more! more info

Rolling Stone — Animal Collective, who earlier this year released the magnificent Merriweather Post Pavilion, have become the first artists to ever receive approval from the Grateful Dead to sample the jam band’s catalog, Gorilla Vs. Bear reports. Animal Collectiv... more info

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JamBase — Animal Collective Get Rights To First Legal Grateful Dead Sample Ever Animal Collective We've long known that Animal Collective's roots run deep into the jam world, and now we have serious proof! JamBase just got word of a Tweet from the band's... more info

Stereogum — Recent live staple "What Would I Want Sky" is approved to use bits of "Unbroken Chain" if Animal Collective wanna put it on record, according to a Tweet by the band's management (via GvsB.) Songwriter Phil Lesh apparently loved the track, and Avey... more info

Live Daily — With his second solo album now in stores, Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas [ tickets ] is gearing up for huge fall outing in support of the set. Titled "Cradlesong," the album sold 122,000 copies its first week in stores and debuted at No. 3 on Th... more info

All About Jazz — A new album, a new label, a Broadway play and a cameo in a Robin Williams film are keeping multi-Grammy winning artist Bruce Hornsby busy for 2009. “Levitate," Hornsby's 12-song set, is slated for a September 15 release via Verve and finds the... more info

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