When most bands premiere a video, they want optimal publish time and PR company press releases to secure eyeballs. Most bands don't have a fanbase as rabidly internettable as Animal Collective's, though, where their best PR agents are the same people coming to their shows. Like with "In The Flowers," the band stealthily posted a new video to mya...

He will play Heaven on March 11

You got more than enough Animal Collective in 2009, but Deacon, formerly known as Deakin, and known to his family/friends as Josh Dibb, was absent from Merriweather Post Pavilion and its ensuing full-court press. He offered up remixes, but that was that. While you were nursing a hangover, though, Dibb performed a set of solo material at Baltimor...

Animal Collective have topped an annual round-up of critics' polls organised by HMV.

Seems like Animal Collective couldn't keep themselves from topping most every list that came out this Listmas, even that of the Norwegian singer-songwriting Brooklyn transplant Sondre Lerche. Instead of conforming to the consensus pick of "My Girls," though, Lerche told us his "favorite song of the year" was the swirling Merriweather gem "Bluish...