Two Septembers ago, in what became my last music festival experience before the pandemic, the Stereogum staff descended upon Raleigh to cover the 10th edition of Hopscotch, the city’s aptly named multi-venue music showcase. (We made a mini-documentary about it too.) It was a great experience, one I recommend checking out for yourself n...

Animal Collective threw a livestream party on Halloween night to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their visual album ODDSAC. There was a screening of the movie, interviews with the cast and crew, a Q&A with director Danny Perez, and something special from each of the four members of AnCo. Panda Bear, Avey Tare, and Deakin…

Animal Collective are putting their entire discography on Bandcamp tonight to coincide with the site's latest revenue share waiving day. They sent out a newsletter shortly before that happens addressing some imminent changes to their discography, as Pitchfork points out. Their 2003 album, which was previously called Here Comes The Indian, will...

An wide array of music industry heavyweights have signed an open letter addressed to the New York State House and governor Andrew Cuomo to repeal 50-A, the section of the NY Civil Rights Law that makes police misconduct records inaccessible to the public.

Since Silver Jews and Purple Mountains leader David Berman passed away a couple months ago, a lot of artists have paid tribute to the late musician by covering his songs. Those artists have included his one-time Silver Jews bandmate Stephen Malkmus, Bill Callahan, Animal Collective, Kevin Morby and Woods, First Aid Kit, and many more.