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Between the Web Sheriff fiasco and back-and-forth apologies, the hubbub surrounding Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion feels more like a nerdy soap opera than the release of an indie rock album. The drama was ratcheted up a few notches after the Quietus posted what they claim to be a letter from Brian Weitz aka Geologist asking for folks to please leak the album to maintain its start-to-finish integrity. The letter:it has come to my attention that 2 full length tracks off of our upcoming album, merriweather post pavilion have surfaced online. david, noah, and I please ask that someone assist us and leak all of the remaining tracks on the album.the album is intended to be heard as a whole, and nothing bothers us more than individual tracks leaking and ruining the the overall album experience-brian GeologistBradford Cox calls e-bullshit:
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Animal Collective threw a livestream party on Halloween night to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their visual album ODDSAC. There was a screening of the movie, interviews with the cast and crew, a Q&A with director Danny Perez, and something special from each of the four members of AnCo. Panda Bear, Avey Tare, and Deakin…
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Animal Collective: Change Old Album Title And EP Artwork Citing Racial Insensitivity
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Animal Collective are putting their entire discography on Bandcamp tonight to coincide with the site's latest revenue share waiving day. They sent out a newsletter shortly before that happens addressing some imminent changes to their discography, as Pitchfork points out. Their 2003 album, which was previously called Here Comes The Indian, will...
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Rihanna: Animal Collective, & Hundreds More Musicians Call For New York Police Reform In Open Letter
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An wide array of music industry heavyweights have signed an open letter addressed to the New York State House and governor Andrew Cuomo to repeal 50-A, the section of the NY Civil Rights Law that makes police misconduct records inaccessible to the public.
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