'Random Access Memories' guest reveals Paris recording studio secrets    

For this installment of the Creators Project series The Collaborators, Panda Bear is the latest Random Access Memories guest artist to discuss his involvement with the record. The Animal Collective member talks about his use of masks and vocal manipulation in his own work, seeing the video for “Around The World” for the first...

'Monkey Been To Burn Town' will be released on May 27    

Next month, Animal Collective will release the brand-new remix EP Monkey Been To Burn Town, on which a diverse cast of producers — Chicago footwork don Traxman, out-rap figureheads Shabazz Palaces, indie-dance duo Teengirl Fantasy — take on tracks from last year’s Centipede Hz. Shabazz Palaces rework “New ...

In making their video for the frantic Centipede Hz track “Applesauce,” Animal Collective enlisted Gaspar Noé, the filmmaker behind the fucked-up movies Irreversible and Enter The Void (as well as Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ recent “We No Who U R” video). The whole video is just a close-up on a ...