NME - Festivals — This weekend, Baltimore experimentalists Animal Collective join up with legendary festival promoters All Tomorrow’s Parties for what’s set to be ATP’s last May festival at Minehead’s gloriously shabby Butlins. It’s a crying shame – the Ma... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The National show in Prospect Park (more by Amanda Hatfield) We already knew that 'Celebrate Brooklyn' is hosting an impressive lineup of ticketed Prospect Park Bandshell shows this summer: The Decemberists, Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens, Bon Ive... more info

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Totally Fuzzy — Part of Oxford's Blessing Force scene, their Van Dyke Parkes-esque single Iron Deer Dream won over The Guardian's podcast team at the start of this year. The band's new EP, Here Comes 2001 So Let's All Head for the Sun, is full of giddy ideas. R... more info

Stereogum — Actor Oliver Platt is a big Animal Collective fan, so New York Magazine, (where his brother Adam Platt is a food critic), got Oliver to interview Noah Lennox about AC and his solo work as Panda Bear. In the introduction he says his daughter Lily intr... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - Animal Collective will curate the final Spring event... more info

DrownedInSound — With the May edition of All Tomorrow's Parties, curated by Animal Collective, fast approaching ATP have just announced that that particular festival will be the final one to take place in May. From now onwards there will be two holiday-site based fes... more info

NME — Organisers say May Minehead event will be the last for the 'forseeable future' more info

Impose Magazine — Animal Collective are like the Power Rangers. Sure the individuals in the group can lop of some minor villian head on their own, but they're gonna have to join forces to kill Lord Zedd. In other news, Explosions in the Sky will always be Explosio... more info

Guardian Music — Four sparkling new songs from Oxford's answer to Animal CollectiveWe've been intrigued by Fixers for some time. Part of Oxford's Blessing Force scene, their Van Dyke Parkes-esque single Iron Deer Dream won over our podcast team at the start of this y... more info