Brooklyn Vegan — Austin's Levitation Festival already announced a few of its 2016 performers, including Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds, plus Animal Collective, Flying Lotus, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sleep, Lee Scratch Perry, Ty Segall, Black Mountain, and Un... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the BrooklynVegan-presented Animal Collective and Ratking show at Irving Plaza go on BV presale today (12/9) at 10 AM. PASSWORD = BVCOLLECTIVE. If you miss out on the presale, you can try to get tickets again in... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Animal Collective at Terminal 5 in 2012 (more by Greg Cristman) Animal Collective will release their new album Painting With on February 19 via Domino, and they'll support it on an international tour that kicks off in Philly on... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Last week, Animal Collective streamed their new album in Baltimore's BWI Airport, and when we Shazammed it, artwork with today's (11/30) date and the text "Tired of the waa waa? Visit the everywhere place! Dip yourself in Floridada" popped... more info

Stereogum — Last week, Animal Collective debuted their new album at Baltimore-Washington International Airport of all places, and now they’ve officially announced it and shared some music with people other than stressed travelers making their way home for Than... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Animal Collective had been saying their new album is on the way, and though they've yet to announce it officially they're actually streaming it on loop on the radio in Baltimore's BWI Airport RIGHT NOW (seriously). BV writer Tatiana... more info

Stereogum — Over the past week, Animal Collective have been teasing their new album, which they finished recording back in July, on their Instagram account. Their latest dispatch featured the cryptic hint “ItsintheAirifyoucanFindit” and today, through a seri... more info

Stereogum — Brian Weitz, better known as Geologist of Animal Collective, is a huge NHL fan. Although he moved to Baltimore as a teen, he grew up in Philadelphia, and he’s a die-hard Flyers supporter. Now, he’s written an essay for Sports Illustrated remember... more info

Stereogum — Animal Collective’s next album is finished, and on a recent AnCo message board thread, Spacemen 3’s Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember noted that it’s a “super sweet one” featuring a “lotta vocal trade-offs” and “seems to these eers like yo... more info

Stereogum — Panda Bear’s latest record, Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, already got an outtakes collection of sorts with the Crosswords EP, but it turns out the Animal Collective member has even more where that came from: Today, he’s shared a mix called Sw... more info