The 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival lineup is looking pretty damn good:

SATURDAY, JULY 19
Animal Collective
Jarvis Cocker
The Hold Steady
!!!
Vampire Weekend
No Age
Atlas Sound
Dizzee Rascal
Extra Golden
Fleet Foxes
Elf Power
Caribou
Ruby Suns
Fuck Buttons
Jay Reatard
Icy Demons
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Boban Markovic Orkestar
Titus Andronicus

(more…)

Help Darfur without really doing anything that monumental. If buying a CD is all it takes to help some starving/dying folks out, that’s not too much to ask, is it? Besides, it will make a good Xmas/Hanukkah present.

Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, The Cure, Animal Collective, Spoon, Bright Eyes, more!
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I’ve always been a fairweather fan when it came to Animal Collective, and folk-experimentalists in general. While I thought Sung Tongs was a fun piece of music, Feels made me want to shit razor blades into my own ears. If the first single/video “Peacebone” from their forthcoming album Strawberry Jam is any indication, I will be dusting off my old 8-bit NES, and rocking Animal Collective while trying to beat the time record for beating Super Mario Bros 3.

This is almost as rad.

Remember a year ago when people were all about freak folk? Yeah.

Animal Collective’s Strawbery Jam is out on September 11 on Domino Records.

“In terms of its scale and vision Strawberry Jam feels like space dust and radar falling on the desert and making it bloom.”

quite.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE TOUR DATES

WED 9/5 - The Roxy - Boston, MA
THUR 9/6 - Le National - Montreal, QC
FRI 9/7 - Bronson Centre Theatre - Ottawa, ON
SAT 9/8 - Phoenix - Toronto, ON
SUN 9/9 - Dionysus Club, Oberlin College - Oberlin, OH (tkts sold to students first)
MON 9/10 - Vic Theatre - Chicago, IL
TUE 9/11 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
FRI 9/14 - Neumos - Seattle, WA
SAT 9/15 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
SUN 9/16 - Roseland Theater - Portland, OR
MON 9/17 - The Fillmore Auditorium - San Francisco, CA
TUE 9/18 - Henry Fonda Theater - Los Angeles, CA
THUR 9/20 - Rialto Theater - Tucson, AZ
FRI - 9/21 - Club 101 - El Paso, TX
SAT 9/22 - Emos - Austin, TX
SUN - 9/23 - Bricktown Ballroom - Norman, OK
MON 9/24 - Gargoyle Club - St. Louis, MO
TUE 9/25 - Cannery Ballroom - Nashville, TN
WED 9/26 - Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA
THUR 9/27 - Cats Cradle - Carrboro, NC
FRI 9/28 - 9:30 Club - Washington, D.C.
SAT 9/29 - Starlight Ballroom - Philadelphia, PA
SUN 9/30 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
MON 10/1 - Webster Hall - New York, NY