If you're anything like me, then your obsessions tend to get the best of you. Making sure that all the items you buy start with a consonant, locking your car door exactly 9 times before walking away, or planning your concert schedule 7 months in advance can get pretty hectic to keep up with. Although I'm not quite the expert to give advice on the first two issues, I've got your back on the latter, so let's talk about that distant musical itinerary. Exactly 178 days from now, rising pop goliaths [...]
Wilco came out at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Sunday with a jarring thud, in the form of "Art of Almost," the first track on their new album, Whole Love . "Art of Almost" begins with electronic beeps over an ominous bass rumble. It's weirdly funky, but funk isn't Wilco's strong suit. The band debuted several new songs: "Black Moon" is a quiet, love-lorn storm of finger picking and slide guitar, "Dawned On Me" is a cute chugger buoyed by its head-over-heels sentimentality. The title track of [...]
My Morning Jacket will be gracing Merriweather Post Pavilion with their glorious rock presence on Saturday, August 13th as part of Ford's Summer Fordcast Tour, a series of music, sports and other fun events Ford is hosting this summer in celebration of the new 2012 Ford Focus. The band is still hot off the release of their sixth studio album, Circuital , earlier this summer, so this show is set to be nothing short of stellar. Tickets are available HERE . ATG will be hitting up the [...]
The line-up for the annual Virgin Mobile FreeFest has been revealed. Festival organizer and founder, Sir Richard Branson took to YouTube to make the line-up announcement, with the help of some music fans. Watch below. Among the acts taking part in the festival are TV on the Radio , The Black Keys , and James Murphy (solo). The festival is set to take place this September 10th at the Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, MD. As always, the festival will [...]
It was only a matter of time until Animal Collective played a show at the namesake venue of their seminal album, Merriweather Post Pavillion . Immediately heralded by many as the best work of 2009 despite its early January release, the full-length has since been followed up by the Fall Be Kind EP , a collection of tracks that didn't make the album cut, as well as a soundtrack for the experimental psychedelic film, ODDSAC . Things have recently been quiet on the AnCo front, making this return to the DC-Baltimore [...]
TVD is offering a little free therapy. Our recommendation? Experimental hypnosis; allowing yourself to fall under the spell of Animal Collective . They will be performing at Merriweather Post Pavillion , along with Black Dice and Deradoorian , next weekend, Saturday, July 9th. It is the perfect remedy to remind everyone that summer is all about fun, and we are giving away a pair of lawn tickets to the show. You have to respect four best friends [...]
Photo by Adriano Fagundes Our beloved Animal Collective is hitting the road again with all four of its charming members and a promise of a brand new set. If you're lucky enough to be located within a 300 mile radius of any of these stops, you have my envy. **** Jul 07 Orlando FL – The Beacham Theatre Jul 08 Alpharetta GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Jul 09 Columbia MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion Jul 12 Brooklyn NY – Prospect Park Jul 13 Millvale PA – Mr [...]
I honestly am at a loss for what to post today. So why not post remixes of everybody's favorite indie-rock darlings - Animal Collective ? There was the ever popular remix that was done by Dave Wrangler of "My Girls" , which admittedly gets played quite often by myself, still. We also had the flip of that, where Animal Collective were on the remix tip. They did justice to French band Phoenix's "Love Like a Sunset" . Well, now I feel like bringing you a little more of the awesomeness. These aren't necessarily [...]
Animal Collective have premiered the music video for " Bluish ". The track is off the band's latest album, ' Merriweather Post Pavillion '. Watch the video now over at the band's website, myanimalhome.net . ' Merriweather Post Pavilion ' is out now.
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As far as I'm concerned "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" was a better album than "Merriweather Post Pavillion", but I think most would disagree with me. However, in the midst of Phoenix's insane amount of media attention, #1 album, late night TV appearances and Grammy awards, they also toured the globe and yesterday they released eight songs that they recorded live in Sydney, Australia at the start of this month. You can hear (and download) them all below, and the tracklist runs: Lisztomania – Live in Sydney (4:15) Lasso – Live in Sydney (3:18) [...]
#10 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009) Abstract In spite of much 'blog chat' about the psychotropic effects of listening to the music of Animal Collective, there is a paucity of scientific evidence in the literature to support these claims. The present study aimed to assess whether there is a link between controlled exposure to Animal Collective's 'Merriweather Post Pavillion' album and subjects' performance on a variety of standardised measures of mind-expansion - which included popular children's toy etch-a-sketch, [...]
In a bit of a twist, this compilation encompasses both December and January. The "Best Albums of 20093 featured last month was a lot of fun, as was the three-week break I took after it was published. I am always exhausted after that feature every year, but I still used the vacation time to discover [...]
Animal Collective sure don't invest much money in their videos, but you probably wouldn't like them as much if the did. They prefer to focus their video energy on making sure if you are on drugs, when you watch their vids, you have a complete and total freakout. Their third official video release from their incredible 2009 release Merriweather Post Pavilion is for Brothersport . ------------------------------ -------------------------- Official Site | MySpace [...]
Here's the latest from Animal Collective : A trippy video for Brother Sport off Merriweather Post Pavilli0n . Brother Sport - Animal Collective
This year at Hidden Track, we concocted a little experiment for our year-end Best Albums of 2009 list. Instead of picking the old fashioned way - subjectively - we opted for something a little different: a collaborative, collective list that incorporates the opinions of everybody here at HT. To begin, we devised an all-encompassing list of around 100 nominees and populated it in a Google spreadsheet - essentially anything that anybody who writes for Hidden Track liked at all, made the list. Then we invited our crew of writers to independently vote on the [...]
Maybe/Maybe not; but the new video for "Brother Sport" off of the Merriweather Post Pavillion album is a trip in itself. The video features crazy psychedelic visuals that seem to complement most of the band's work. The video, which appeared this morning on the My Animal Home Website , features strange children, eggs, hypnotizing Pink Floyd-esque artwork, and one of the weirdest finger-painting sessions ever. "Brother Sport" is the 3rd single off the band's latest album following "My Girls" and "Summertime Clothes." Check it out. -Keaton
Here are the results from the poll I made on the 2009 page. They goes as this for who you picked as the one of the best albums of 2009 : You voted for what was the best albums of 2009. Metric - Fantasies (7 Votes) Help! I'm Alive Lily Allen - Its Not [...]
To call OK Computer a great album is an understatement on par with " Jesus is a pretty popular guy ." Especially around Christmas. The album, ranked by many as the best of the distant, now seemingly archaic decade of the 1990's, was the culmination of a band putzing around its own creative potential for a few albums, then, each member at once, pouncing on that potential, ripping it to shreds like hyenas and emerging from the fight with scratches and cuts and one of the most gorgeous, haunting and classic rock albums [...]
It's gonna be weird writing 2010 in the top left hand corner of my lab book but I'll get over it. 2009 was a great year for music and is partly why I started this blog. Here (as promised) are my top albums of 2009. 11. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster It took a while but Lady Gaga has a knack for a CHOON and she's a very talented lady. Fair enough she cribs from the best pop songwriters (ABBA, Ace Of Base WTF haha) but I really can't wait to [...]
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