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5362 days ago
Guardian Music — Swans, James Blackshaw, On tourMichael Gira is a musician who has spent his career discovering a gentler side no one had any reason to suspect in him. His first major group, Swans, specialised in a live show of legendary volume, only to evolve into a... more info
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Avey Tare: Down There - review

5363 days ago
Guardian Music — (Paw Tracks)It's best to think of Baltimore's freak-folk quartet Animal Collective – of which Avey Tare, aka David Portner, is a member – as less a band and more an evolving musical project with changing line-ups and names. He may be the second m... more info
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Paul Morley on music

5368 days ago
Guardian Music — The 'new, improved' Simon Cowell is still light years away from understanding great musicIt's funny and awful watching how the sneaky Simon Cowell has tweaked himself this year, physically and conceptually. He's sliding through certain changes that a... more info
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The Phantom Band: The Wants | CD review

5370 days ago
Guardian Music — (Chemikal Underground)For this follow-up to the Glasgow sextet's debut album, Checkmate Savage, the band have decided not to tame their propensity to cherrypick from practically every genre available to them. Instead, they've celebrated it by juxtapo... more info
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This Week in Free Stuff!

5370 days ago
Allmusic Blog — Leave it to a member of Animal Collective (Avey Tare) to release an album (Down There) with a cover so hideous that you’ll want to run full speed to the nearest emergency eyewash station after even a brief glance. From what I heard this morning, th... more info
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Avey Tare Talks About Crocodiles, Cancer, Divorce, How Down There’s His Death Record

5370 days ago
Stereogum — Portner talks about how Down There’s like a ride down the River Styx, talks about the differences between recording with Animal Collective and going it alone, then opens up about his separation from Kría Brekkan, the death of his grandmother, his ... more info
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New music at Iceland Airwaves: Who Knew – We Do

5370 days ago
Guardian Music — Forget the 'chilling vastness' of their homeland ... this Icelandic septet make art-rock with added, er, slapsAs mission statements go, this one from Icelandic septet Who Knew is pretty clear: "Who Knew aren't trying to encapsulate the chilling vastn... more info
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Avey Tare – Down There Premature Evaluation

5372 days ago
Stereogum — If you’re interested in Animal Collective, you know Down There is the first solo album by David Portner, aka Avey Tare. You’re also more used to Panda Bear’s solo collections, but don’t expect Person Pitch (or what you expect to get from Tom ... more info
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Live Blogging The Leak Of: Avey Tare’s Down There

5374 days ago
We All Want Someone To Shout For — Avey Tare is one of the members of our much beloved Animal Collective. He finally joins the club with his first official solo release with Down There. The album doesn’t officially drop until October 26th (via Paw Tracks), but it leaked this weekend... more info
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Lord Huron – Into the Sun

5376 days ago
Song, by Toad — When I played Lord Huron to a friend of mine he said that it was so close to early Panda Bear or Animal Collective as to be a little uncomfortable.  I never really listened to that stuff, so I really have no idea, but I thought I’d mention it just... more info
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