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TweetShareClick on the image to listen to Animal Collective – “Campfire Songs” for free.

TweetShare It fully sank in how phenomenal the “Mr. Plastic” album is when it took twenty minutes of shuffling through each track before coming to a decision on which one was more deserving to be put on Listen Before You Buy, “Funeral Song“  made the final cut solely from its higher rating in my itunes [...]

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TweetShare It’s a rainy Saturday where I am, so what could be better than some ethereal psych-folk to pass the time? Luckily, Silver Wren is on hand to provide just that. The solo project of Gainsville, Florida-based Ross Campbell, Silver Wren started in March this year, and has already yielded two mini EPs. Ross has now [...]

TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD There’s something in my genes that loves percussion at a deep and primal level. I can’t explain it much further than this: I remember my dad drumming along on the steering wheel to anything he was listening to. He never sang or hummed [...]

TweetShare This pleases me greatly. Greatly,  I tell thee! Last year the two dudes from Lafayette, Colorado that compromise Gauntlet Hair burst onto the “scene” with the pitch-perfect noise-concoction of debut single “I Was Thinking” and a couple of other jams equally as raucous.  The pair then released the single on vinyl via the newly-minted Forest [...]

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TweetShare Connect with Panda Bear – Facebook | MySpace | Last.fm

TweetShare Connect with Panda Bear – Facebook | MySpace | Last.fm

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TweetShare This song came out in 2007 and is only just getting an official release. Well, when I say it came out 2007, what I mean is that’s when Jai Paul (Jay Paul) recorded the demo and presumably passed it around for some peeps to hear, but nothing really happened until the tail end of [...]

TweetShare Remember when Animal Collective was shiny and new? Remember how you felt… confused, intrigued, but ultimately starving for more? This is the kind of tingly feeling I got when I listened to Old Arc. Old Arc is Austin Lee and Stefan Lazer of Santa Cruz, California. These guys are a duo of another world; [...]

TweetShare If you handed me a map and told me to point to Finland I could do that with relative ease (thanks to a pricey liberal arts education), it’s that little country that looks sort of like a demonic claw that borders Sweden and Russia. Okay, first off what the hell does this have to [...]

TweetShare It’s almost a week until Panda Bear‘s Paw Tracks release “TOMBOY”, the follow-up to the 2007 masterpiece “Person Pitch”, drops and in usual fashion, NPR have an exclusive stream of the entire album for the whole week. In their words “it’s great” and after a making my way through a couple of songs it’s definitely [...]

TweetShare Way back when I had the red and black lumberjack, with the hat to match, I posted about Jai Paul and the sublime music he had posted on his MySpace page. Well now that’s all gone and has been replaced with a short message from him and two flashing images that follow it; Air [...]

TweetShare When it comes to Animal Collective and their various members’ solo/side projects, people expect some great things from both. It doesn’t always happen (Avey Tare‘s debut was piss-poor) and then sometimes it does (Panda Bear‘s “Person Pitch” was one of the best album of the last decade), and from what I’ve heard of Panda [...]