Animal Collective’s Avey Tare (who most definitely has a thing for crocodiles, and should most definitely go by the name ‘Crocodile’) is set to release his new solo debut LP, Down There, on October 20. The album will be streaming in its entirety until then, below, via NPR.

It seemed for most of 2010 that Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) was going to be the Animal Collective member with the next solo album. All of a sudden, Lennox revealed in an interview with BV that it was basically a rumor (H8 U Panda), and Avey Tare (David Portner) confirmed his unexpected LP, Down There [...]

Speaking of AnCo…I’m about ready for that found footage music video moratorium I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. Also, really incredible record, yes, but another clip for Merriweather Post Pavilion? Mostly unnecessary. Where’s the new Panda Bear? (GvsB)

Rattytat (as he has been named by Carles of Hipster Runoff) first appeared in Ratatat’s recent “Party With Children” video. He has since decided to go solo via Carles’ magnum opus, above, a remix video of Ratatat, Animal Collective’s “My Girls” and M.I.A.’s “Born Free” (appropriately titled, “Born at a Free Party with My Girls”). [...]

180° South, a documentary about retracing a 1968 journey to Patagonia, recently released the tracklisting for the soundtrack, which will include contributions from Isaac Brock and James Mercer. Isaac (Modest Mouse) wrote the majority of the music for the soundtrack (due June 22) as Ugly Casanova. The trailer features Animal Collective’s “Derek” from their 2007 [...]

The newest clip from Animal Collective for Merriweather Post Pavillion closer, “Brother Sport,” certainly goes to a lot of places, doesn’t it? A tripped out weird a$$ AnCo video – who’s surprised? I’m actually surprised, though, that they wouldn’t make a video for one of the newer Fall Be Kind tracks. After all, “What Would [...]

As I skimmed through my iTunes and posts from the year, I realized very quickly that putting together a 40 track playlist to represent the best songs of 2009 was going to be impossible. And, according to Jay-Z, impossible takes a week. I don’t have that kind of time! So here’s My Poproks 49 Best [...]

Hey, 2009. I’d like to thank you for wrapping up what has been the best decade for music, and I’ll argue this til the day I’m convinced that the next decade is the best. What I’m trying to say is, it keeps getting better. And, technically, doesn’t the decade end after 2010? Uber confusing. But [...]

The first draft of this post, titled, “My Poproks 20 Best Songs Since 2000,” is from this past March. 8 months, 1,000 edits, and 3,000 miles later, it officially exits the abyss of blogFAIL that is My Poproks “drafts” section. Making lists is hard! I will never complain about another ‘Blank Songs of Blank’ list [...]

I moved to the beach and I learned that love is like a sunset. However, Phoenix had already taught me that.
While there have been too many Phoenix remixes to keep track of in 2k9, Animal Collective’s new one of the instrumental Amadeus track, “Love Like a Sunset,” has been the first in a while to [...]