Pitchfork — Grizzly Bear photo by Ahmed Klink"Brothersport" was the first earful the downloading public got of Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's forthcoming follow-up to 2007's most excellent Strawberry Jam. But we weren't supposed t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Grizzly Bear @ Hammerstein Ballroom (more by Zach Dilgard) This is to inform you that, currently your relevant artist's web-site is acting as the global-leak-source of the track, "Brother Sport", by our aforementioned client,Animal Collective, which ... more info

Stereogum — The Merriweather Post Pavilion version of Animal Collective's already-the-jam-of-'09 "Brother Sport" recently made its way to the radio. Then it made its way to all the blogs. This included the Grizzly Bear blog, too, because Grizzly Bear also hav... more info

NME — Tickets for Animal Collective's UK tour are available now. more info

Pasta Primavera — The ever amazing Animal Collective have announce a string of tour dates for early 2009 (check them after the jump). Not only does this get me more excited for the new album prompting me to revisit their prior releases, it also gives me another excus... more info

Stereogum — Crayola's already discovered the childlike wonder of Animal Collective, so it's not surprising they chose the sounds of the hypercolorful, banana-iPod toting hipster cheerleader Dan Deacon for their latest campaign. (Also, the product is The Glow St... more info

Stereogum — When we gave you a live-in-France video clip of "Brother Sport" back in April we called the song "full-on springtime tropicalia," though it'd been recorded in October. The fact of the matter: The Merriweather Post Pavilion closer's full-on early win... more info

Stereogum — When we gave you a live-in-France video clip of "Brother Sport" back in April we called the song "full-on springtime tropicalia," though it'd been recorded in October. The fact of the matter: The Merriweather Post Pavilion closer's full-on early wint... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Okay, so those Merriweather Post Pavilion excerpts from earlier are long gone (that didn't take long), but this is even better: hit up Les Inrocks to hear the glorious full studio version of "Brothersport," aka my current favorite Animal Collective s... more info

Nialler9 — I’m going full-on fanboy in anticipation of the new Animal Collective album and these two 90 second clips are doing nothing to halt my expectation. Someone I know whose heard it hasn’t helped. Panda Bear’s stamp is all over it as expected. If ... more info