Is Animal Collective the New Moby?
SPIN's Charles Aaron on music's latest originals whose transcendent album runs the risk of cultural oversaturation.
By Charles Aaron 01.19.09 8:43 AM
Since back in October when I first heard the new Animal Collective album, Merriweather Post Pavillion, and later enthusiastically trekked through a windswept rainstorm to a listening party at Manhattan's River Room -- an oddly swelegant bar/restaurant ("Harlem's Tavern on the Green") perched hard on the Hudson River at the end of an endless concrete walkway off Riverside Drive -- I've be
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Nine Bands to Watch in '09!
What do these nine stellar acts have in common? Not much on the surface, but this year expect them all to make a lot of noise.
By Spin Staff 01.14.09 3:22 PM
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Animal Collective: 2009's First Great Album?
As their SPIN-championed album hits stores today, click here for a sneak peek at an interview with the band from our February issue!
By Peter Gaston 01.06.09 8:34 AM
The New Year is just a few days old, but music fans already have access to one of 2009's most important records: Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion hits store shelves today (in vinyl, at least -- digital and CD versions arrive Jan.
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New Albums from Glasvegas, Animal Collective, and More
Get SPIN's take on the best and worst releases of the week!
By Spin Staff 01.06.09 7:32 AM
Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today:
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Animal Collective: The Scientists
BIG IN '09: Boundary-pushing, willfully abstract experimental noise pop for the rest of us.
By Andy Battaglia 01.05.09 7:19 PM
Dave Portner is freaking out. Better known by his cryptic sobriquet Avey Tare, he's lying flat on the floor, eyes open wide, startled by something invisible and evidently very strange in the air above. Bandmate Brian Weitz, or Geologist, is splayed out beside him, swaying his head from side to side extreeeemely sloooowly.
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Flaming Lips to Curate 2009 ATP New York
Click here to see which bands have been added to the lineup!
By Larry Fitzmaurice 12.11.08 8:25 AM
This past September's All Tomorrow's Parties event in Monticello, NY, was a noise-ridden good time loaded with great acts -- including reunited shoegazers and festival curators My Bloody Valentine.
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