Prince Rama are no more. The duo, made up of sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson, announced today that they were breaking up. The project's first album came out in 2008, and in 2010 a co-sign from Animal Collective's Avey Tare launched them into notability, helping land them on our Best New Bands list from that…

Stereolab and Animal Collective were the first two acts announced for Desert Daze's 2019 lineup. Today, the festival announces the addition of Flying Lotus' immersive 3D show and the Flaming Lips' 20th anniversary The Soft Bulletin performance. The full lineup is still to come.

Paul Maroon of the Walkmen and Jonathan Fire*Eater released a new split 7" last week. I Don't Need a Crowd/The One That Got Away features Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear of Animal Collective, and Maroon's Walkmen bandmate Hamilton Leithauser. Today, we hear Lennox and Maroon's soft and mellow "I Don't Need A Crowd."

Animal Collective's landmark album Merriweather Post Pavilion turns 10 today. To celebrate, the band teased bonus material on their Instagram. "Happy 10th Birthday MPP. We’re overwhelmed about how many of you have tapped into our world through this music," they wrote. "Every record is special to us but this one seems to have flown the…

Earlier this year, Animal Collective released a new audiovisual album called Tangerine Reef that was inspired by coral, which shows that they have a great respect for the ocean and all of the things in it. The project was launched in time for the third International Year Of The Reef, which is meant to raise…