El GuinchoFriday, Nov. 21, 2008The Independent (
628 Divisadero St.)Review by Jennifer MaerzBetter than: Watching your friends play Guitar Hero to Animal Collective. I imagine that being a one-man band is pretty sweet in a lot of ways. You never have to argue with your bandmates about what a song should sound like. You can practice and record whenever you want. And when you play a show or sell a CD, you pocket all the money.But then what happens when you have a really well produced stu
I no longer have to fantasize about the perfect setting for an Animal Collective show: Britt Govea of (((folkYEAH!))) has created it. He booked the psychedelic popsters to perform at the Henry Miller Library on Wednesday, May 27, at 7 p.m. Only 300 tickets will go on sale for this incredible event, and the flood gates open for plunking down your cash Jan. 22. I'd advise you to jump on this shit early. That beach town is an intensely beautiful and trippy place for live shows as it is...but with A
In the same enchanted forest of reverb and rainbow synths that houses bands like Animal Collective and Deerhunter, Utah's Stag Hare is making a nest out of chimes, shaker percussion, and lots of fuck-with-your-head electronic echoes. The songs come on slow, like a high that's subtle as it drops from your brain down through your feet--but then all of a sudden you're really stoned. Stag treats your grey matter delicately, though, his mostly instrumental tracks meditative with rhythms that run in d
Windy and Carl(((folkYEAH!))) promotes the most interesting music events in Northern California, hosting numerous shows in Big Sur and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Next week, honcho Britt Govea has two big performances: Animal Collective on Wednesday, May 27, and an extra special all night gathering dedicated to ambient music on Thursday, May 28 called Tonalism. Tonalism goes from 4:20 p.m. to 5 a.m. at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur and offers two stages of electronic and acoustic music: Wind
The Present's sonic collages would sound so good through the pristine speakers at Audium, our very special San Francisco theater made for appreciating audio art. If you were sitting there in Audium's darkness, you could truly hear the individual blurts of repetitive machine hums and sound effects that bring to the imagination everything from icicles breaking to helicopters landing. As it is, you'll have to make due with homemade sensory deprivation tanks--or just really big headphones--to get th
Le Loup and French MiamiTuesday, Oct. 27, 2009Bottom of the HillBetter than: Staying home and working on your sexy wood sprite Halloween costume.French MiamiThere are far worse bands to take influence from than Animal Collective. At their best moments, those zany pop freaks sound ecstatic, primal, deeply rhythmic, and electronically charged. But at its worst, Animal Collective's amorphous songs refuse to gel, giving the live show the possibility of being a drag of shapeless jams and strange t
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