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Thanks to Collected Animals for pointing out that the "Summertime Clothes" remixes from L.D. and Dâm-Funk have both surfaced online, and are available for your listening pleasure (assuming you're down with dubstep and boogie-funk AC remixes, respectively)...

Weird Tapes reworks Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Heads Will Roll," turning it into an extended ethereal dreamwave (best/worst new genre name) gem. Download Weird Tapes' version here. ************ unrelated: Apropos of nothing, some cover art for a few upcoming releases we like: white denim | fits (june 22) mp3: ************ neon indian | psychic chasms (soon) mp3: ************ animal collective |

Animal Collective kicked off their mostly sold-out U.S. spring tour with Grouper this week, and NPR was in the building for last night's show at the 9:30 Club in D.C. The enterprising kids at Collected Animals have already hooked up an mp3 of a new song (working title: "Bleed") that the group is playing on this tour: mp3: Check the full setlist and listen to the archived performance here

Animal Collective and their sheet-dancer trick-or-treater improv dance troupe played Letterman last night, once again confusing old people and closed-captionists everywhere: **********

Here's the full-length version of Animal Collective's bizarre dubbed-out remix of "Zero" that we mentioned briefly the other day, complete with pitch-shifted Karen O vocals: *************** related: ***************

...sort of. It's actually just a short preview, but we'll take what we can get at this point. Sounds kind of promising; just try to ignore the annoying hearing test beeping thing. *************** elsewhere: Phoenix's great new single gets a dose of '80s nostalgia on this, the 800th remix of this song (and probably the first one worth listening to): mp3:phoenix :: 1901 (mother/father nu wave remi

"I doubt that this group is not gonna get very far from Baltimore, Maryland."--old dude on the right (via collected animals) **************

...but not in TX. Weak. All Animal Collective + Grouper dates here. Anyone got extras for that Big Sur show? UPDATE: Looks like the second half of the tour (including both TX dates) gets Black Dice. mp3: ******************

Skateboard enthusiasts Animal Collective recently lent two of the best jams from MPP to the newest Alien Workshop skate video, MIND FIELD. The legendary Jason Dill gets down to "In the Flowers," and as seen below, Jake Johnson's scene is cut with some sweet vintage found footage to the sounds of "My Girls...