avey tare

The GvsB Sunday morning mix is back with an eclectic and very deep selection of tracks from an artist who needs no introduction around here: the great Dave Portner, aka Avey Tare of Animal Collective...

A friend of mine sent me some rips of these records some years back. I've never grabbed copies of my own actually. I've often wondered why you don't hear more about these songs and Gloria Ann Taylor's crazy amazing voice with all its trills and bends and pure emotion...

Sometimes a band's reputation precedes them. Seems like such is the case with Animal Collective these days. When I was in high school it felt like pavement had a reputation as slacker jokesters who were only half serious as far as rock bands go and despite their indisputable talent were really making most of their career out of poking fun at the music industry and "slacking off"... Read

Animal Collective's giddily vibrant and colorful new pop record Painting With (the band's 10th LP!) dropped last week, and to celebrate, we've asked the guys to take over the site for the day. So stick around to hang with Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist all day, and stay up on their posts throughout the day right here...

Animal Collective unveil the opening track and lead single from their forthcoming album, the ecstatic and kaleidoscopic Avey Tare + Panda Bear duet "Floridada". The new LP Painting With, which features contributions from John Cale and Colin Stetson (and a dope Bea Arthur sample, RIP), is out February 19, 2016, on Domino...

Animal Collective, who recently finished recording their forthcoming record at LA's EastWest Studios, have re-launched a new + improved myanimalhome.net to announce a limited (2000 copies) new 3xLP live boxset, from their show at 9:30 in Washington, DC, in June 2013. Listen to the live version of Feels classic "Did You See The Words" from the record below, check the tracklist after the

The Austin Psych Fest just announced the incredible first group of bands playing next year's fest, featuring the likes of Primal Scream, the Zombies, Black Lips, Oneohtrix Point Never, Liars, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan + many more, all at Austin's scenic Carson Creek Ranch on the Colorado River in May 2014...

"New Town Burnout" on repeat. Stream the whole thing, complete with visuals, here.

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