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09 Mar 2009 00:49

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Music, Politics: Our rating of the redesigned Pitchfork Web site

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03 Feb 2009 06:30

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Music: Bonnaroo’s lineup is out. Judge how big your favorite band is here.

  • The headliners beat Coachella. Bruce Springsteen brings the E Street Band with him to lead the festivities. A reunited Phish, The Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, Wilco and David Byrne also show up. Further down, the list includes such luminaries as TV on the Radio, Andrew Bird, Girl Talk, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Raphael Saadiq and Chairlift. But we’re just skimming. Check out the entire list! It beats Coachella this year! source
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28 Jan 2009 20:28

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Music: Indie rock invades the Billboard 200 charts in a big way

  • Forget that Taylor Swift’s at No. 1 again. The real story is Andrew Bird (with Noble Beast) at No. 12. And Animal Collective (with Merriweather Post Pavilion) at No. 13. And Bon Iver (with the Blood Bank EP) at No. 16. All three are career bests. And all three albums are pretty well-reviewed, too. Some music blog jerk somewhere is thinking that this is a sign of the commercialization of indie. We want to tell that guy to shut up and just enjoy the moment for what it is, OK? source
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10 Jan 2009 12:40

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Music: A cappella collective: Vocal group covers Animal Collective

Whoever said the kids were alright, watch this video and prepare to be proven wrong. source
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05 Jan 2009 05:15

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Music: Why Pitchfork gave Animal Collective a glowing review

  • Everything that’s defined the band to this point – all those strands winding through their hugely diverse catalog – is refined and amplified here.
  • Mark Richardson • Who could be conservatively referred to as “gushing” about Merriweather Post Pavilion. He refers to it as their “pop” album. • source
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05 Jan 2009 05:13

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Music: “Merriweather Post Pavilion” album of the year? Well, that was fast.

  • 9.6 Pitchfork’s rating of the new Animal Collective record source
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