Panda Bear said he's spent a few weeks 'furiously trying to crank out stuff'

Early next year, Glaswegian indie pop deities Belle And Sebastian will return with Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance, their first proper studio album since 2010′s Write About Love. The band recorded this one in Georgia with producer Ben H. Allen III, the guy who famously made Animal Collective sound something like pop music on [...]

Death Cab For Cutie and the Dismemberment Plan had a mutual respect for each other, so much so that they embarked on a joint Death And Dismemberment Tour in early 2002. This weekend sees the two bands reuniting on the same lineup for Chicago’s A.V. Fest, though they’ll be playing consecutive nights. In anticipation of [...]

This fall, Animal Collective are embarking on a DJ tour across America (sans Panda Bear, who will be touring solo and possibly working on an album or something). For an idea of what an AnCo DJ set might sound like, you can listen to a set recorded a couple of months ago in Los Angeles [...]

Next week Slasher Flicks — the cosmic power trio comprised of Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, Angel Deradoorian (formerly of Dirty Projectors), and Jeremy Hyman (formerly of Ponytail) — will release their first proper full-length album, Enter The Slasher House. The band makes music that could almost serve as a trippe...