Animal Collective have changed their website’s front page and have added their “My Girls” video. Here are a few screen shots from it, and of course the video will be uploaded to the Get’s section in due time.
My Girls Music Video
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Home Page And Four New Shows
I’ve added a home page to the site, so it no longer directs the site to the News section and also I’ve added four more shows to the Gets downloads section. The home page will display several images from the gallery, the latest shows that have been added, latest forum posts, and some quick previews of the two last news articles. Here’s a list of the newest shows:
- 2008-07-19 – Pitchfork Music Fiestival 2008
- 2008-06-23 – Arendal, Norway – Hove Festival
- 2008 Merriweather Post Pavilion Live Concept – Live Version
- 2007 Panda Bear People Party (MP4) – A film for Panda Bears 2007 Summer Tour
The last is a full video converted from the Panda Party DVD into MP4 which is about 1137MB’s, for anyone who needs more room in your HDD you’ll need to empty some space. It’s actually much smaller than any of the other direct releases from EatTapes. In the future I will upload the whole DVD for anyone who wants it, if you’d like to request that, please post in the forum.
First Single And Tour Dates For 2009
The band has updated their myspace with a list of this year’s planned tour dates, which are in total, 51 shows throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. According to Domino Records UK, they are also planning to release “My Girls” as the first single of the album in March as a digital download, and most likely a release of the music video. Talk about the tour, and anything else on the forum.
US Dates In January:
01.20 New York, NY – Grand Ballroom
01.21 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
01.22 Chicago, IL – Metro
01.23 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theatre
01.24 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
European Dates In March:
03.04 Oslo, Norway – Rockerfeller
03.05 Lund, Sweden – Mejeriet
03.06 Copenhagen, Denmark – Amager Bio
03.08 Cologne, Germany – Gloria
03.09 Heidelberg, Germany – Karistorbahnof
03.10 Fribourg, Switzerland – Fri-Son
03.11 Luzern, Switzerland – Konzerthaus Schurr
03.12 Florence, Italy – Viper Room
03.13 Rome, Italy – Teatro Studio
03.14 Milan, Italy – Rolling Stone
03.16 Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie
03.17 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
03.18 Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
03.19 Lille, France – Aeronef
03.20 Nantes, France – L’Olympic
03.22 Bristol, England – Trinity Centre
03.23 Nottingham, England – Rescue Rooms
03.24 London, England – The Forum
03.25 Leeds, England – TJ’s Woodhouse Club
03.26 Liverpool, England – Static Gallery
03.27 Dublin, Ireland – Tripod
03.28 Belfast, Ireland – Stiff Kitten
North American Dates May and June + September:
05.11 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
05.12 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
05.13 New York, NY – Terminal 5
05.14 Boston, MA – House of Blues
05.15 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis
05.16 Toronto, Ontario – Sound Academy
05.18 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Hall
05.19 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
05.20 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
05.24 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom
05.25 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
05.26 Oakland, CA – Fox Theatre
05.27 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Memorial Library
05.29 Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern
05.30 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
05.31 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theater
06.01 Albuquerque, MN – Sunshine Theater
06.02 Boulder, CO – Boulder Theatre
06.04 Dallas, TX – House of Blues
06.05 Austin, TX – Stubbs
06.06 Oxford, MS – The Library
06.08 St. Petersburg, FL – State Theatre
06.09 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room
06.10 Orlando, FL – Club Firestone
09.12 Monticello, NY – All Tomorrow’s Parties
All Songs Considered + Animal Collective
Today Panda Bear and Avey Tare are featured on All Songs Considered as part of the First Listen Series; listen in on their interview here, where they talk about Merriweather Post Pavillion and answer some questions on the album such as: what influences they had, what kind of music they would say it is, and more on its creation.
Merriweater Lyrics + A Few Site Changes
I’ve recenltly added lyrics for Merriweather Post Pavillion and Water Curses (just a bit late for this one) today, so check them out if you want to learn how to sing a song; also, if you spot an error, please post it in the forum or post a correction as a comment in the lyric’s page that needs fixing.
Although it may not seem noticeable to most everyone, I’ve updated the site’s code by removing the previous table code and placing a complete div set up in its place, also adding a vertical copyright, which was actually the original intent of the layout. The only tables that exist now are the the Gets section since it generates tables for the items on its own; all in all, everything should look and feel exaclty the same.
Finally an Update, Merriweather Post Pavilion
After getting comment spammed with over 4000 fake emails and the like, I have finally cleaned the crud from the world that is this WordPress powered news page.
It may be several weeks too late, but since I had not do it sooner, due to the previously stated, Animal Collective will be releasing an album early next year entitled (as you could see from the the title above) Merriweather Post Pavilion arriving this coming January 20th. The following is the track listing:
- In The Flowers
- My Girls
- Also Frightened
- Summertime Clothes
- Daily Routine
- Bluish
- Guys Eyes
- Taste
- Lion In A Coma
- No More Runnin
- Brothersport
Also, the guys updated their website with a new video and dark background ( myanimalhome.net ). Visit the community forum to discuss this further.
A Few More Shows
Today I’ve added the following shows to the Gets (download) section
- 2007-09-26 Variety Playhouse
- 2004-04-31 Emos, Austin TX
- 2005-02-25 Bowery Ballroom
- 2007-10-23 Melkweg Amsterdam
- 2007-09-28 Washington NPR (Rip)
- 2006-07-12 Manchester Academy
- 2008-05-28 LUX
- 2005-11-03 Rome
- GrndZero Video Clip
- 2007-10-25 Grrrn Zero
Pitchfork.tv Interview
About a week ago Pitchfork.tv added this video of the guys.
You can watch the video here.
Also, I’ll be updating the site by adding some more MP3 shows sooner than later, though I’ve been busy with other projects.
Updating Gets
The following lossy (MP3) shows have been added to the downloads section:
- 2005-04-23 Haverford College, PA
- 2004-05-06 Electricity Showroom Shore
- 2006-03-24 Recher Theatre, MD
- 2007-09-18 Fonda Theater, Los Angeles
- 2007-09-10 The Vic
- 2004-11-11 Lee’s Palace
- 2005-04-27 The Empty Bottle
- 2005-11-01 Grrnd Zero, Lyon
- 2004-08-15 Bowery Ballroom NYC
- 2004-11-06 Northsix Brooklyn
- 2004-04-08 La Fondation Cartier, Paris
- 2004-11-11 Lee’s Palace, Toronto
- 2005-10-27 Paradiso, Amsterdam
- 2004-04-30 Artsplace, Kentuky
- 2007-05-27 Antone’s – Austin, Texas
- 2004-11-15 Screamers, Orlando, FL
- 2008-04-23 Electric Factory
The Following FLAC shows have been added
- 2006-03-19
- 2007-05-30
The Following DVD has been added
- 2006-03-22
- Note that to play this or to burn it back to a DVD-R, you have to download all the files and place them inside a VIDEO_TS folder
Upcoming Shows in Europe and the US
If you haven’t visited the band’s Domino site in a while then you probably have forgotten (but how can anyone ever forget?) that Animal Collective will be touring all over Western Europe through May 2008 and then planning to be in the US in July for a few days from previously being in Japan in March; the dates are ordered in Day/Month format if you can’t make out what’s going on with that.
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18/05 – Explosions in the Sky ATP, Minehead, UK
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19/05 – Tripod, Dublin, Ireland
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20/05 – Oran Mor, Glasgow, UK
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21/05 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
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22/05 – KOKO, London, UK
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23/05 – Laiterie, Strasbourg,, Germany
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24/05 – Alhambra Theatre, Paris, France
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25/05 – Grand Mix, Lille, France
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26/05 – Krakatora, Bordeaux, France
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28/05 – Teatro Circo, Braga, Portugal
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29/05 – Lux Fragil, Lisbon, Portugal
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30/05 – AV Cevantes, Malaga, Spain
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31/05 – Primavera Festival, Barcelona, Spain
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19/07 – Pitchfork Festival, Chicago, USA
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20/07 – The Rogers Picnic, Toronto, USA
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09/08 – All Points West, New Jersey, USA
Domino Back
If you did visit the Domino, you will notice that animalcollective.org is actually mentioned in their Links section as a “Fan Site” which is very nice of them, so thanks Domino.