album announcement: Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

Animal Collective have announced their follow-up to 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion, called Centipede Hz. It's out September 4th. Tracklist is below. Listen to two new songs which aren't going to be on the album, "Honeycomb" and "Gotham," here.

Centipede Hz:
1. Moonjock
2. Today's Supernatural
3. Rosie Oh
4. Applesauce
5. Wide Eyed
6. Father Time
7. New Town Burnout
8. Monkey Riches
9. Mercury Man
10. Pulleys
11. Amanita

tracks: Animal Collective - Honeycomb + Gotham

Animal Collective are back with 2 new songs from a forthcoming 7" single, out June 26th on Domino. Listen to the songs on the above player, and pre-order here to get downloads of the tracks instantly.

video: Avey Tare - Oliver Twist

concert video: Animal Collective - Pitchfork Music Festival 2011

Here's video from Animal Collective's set at Pitchfork last night. They played 4 or 5 new songs, with "Did You See the Words," "Brothersport," "We Tigers," and "Taste" sprinkled in. Deakin was back, Panda Bear was behind a full drum kit, and Avey was yelping. They were generally a lot more fun to watch than the MPP-era 'bunch of guys standing behind samplers' stuff. New live Animal Collective songs are always kind of difficult to pin down, but they sounded closest to the Strawberry Jam sound to me. Needless to say, it was very trippy.



I'd be willing to bet that Animal Collective will have an album out before the end of the year. They headlined Pitchfork in 2008 as well, and played 4 (then) new songs which ended up being on Merriweather Post Pavilion, which leaked at the end of that year. I don't think Pitchfork would have had them headline this year without some inside knowledge about a soon-to-be-released album. Anyway, enough of my Animal Collective fanboy nerdery.

(ANIMAL COLLECTIVE AOTY 2011 [or 2012]!!!)

concert stream: Pitchfork Music Festival

Stream it here. Set times (EST) are after the jump.

videos: R. Stevie Moore - I Like to Stay Home + I Need Your Love

I recently learned of R. Stevie Moore (or finally took notice of his name being tossed around) from a review of John Maus's new album, We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves. R. Stevie Moore is a weird cat. He's the best kind of weird -- the kind who records freaky drug-damaged pop music in his basement for decades and self-releases it on hundreds of cassette tapes and CD-Rs. If you've ever heard Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, you'll realize as soon as you watch these videos that Ariel basically owes his career to this guy. (BTW, John Maus apparently played keyboard for both Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti AND Animal Collective in the past. If you dig Ariel Pink, check out John Maus as well -- you won't be disappointed.)

R. Stevie Moore has been self-releasing music since 1968, and he's just now going on his first tour in 2011. Sadly, it looks like I got into his music about 20 days too late, as he came through my area last month. Let's hope this first tour isn't his last.

album stream: Panda Bear - Tomboy

Panda Bear's new album, Tomboy, is streaming on NPR now.

album stream: Animal Collective - Keep

Animal Collective recently teamed up with eco-friendly shoe company Keep to both design their own shoes and record a mixtape. Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist, and Deakin all turned in one shoe and one track. Listen to those below (the tracks not the shoes).

Geologist – “Jailhouse”

Avey Tare – “Call Home (Buy Grapes)”

Deakin – “Country Report”

Panda Bear – “The Preakness”