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Earlier this month, Zohran Mamdani went on Hot 97, New York’s preeminent hip-hop radio station, to tell the story of how he first entered politics. It’s a tale he’s told many times: In 2015, Mamdani started knocking on doors for an aspiring Queens city councilman, Ali Najmi. But when he told it this time, Mamdani highlighted the real reason he wanted to get involved.

That reason was Himanshu Suri, the Queens-raised rapper and co-founder of the groups Das Racist and Swet Shop Boys. Suri, better known as Heems, grew...

Animal Collective have released “Love On the Big Screen,” their first new single as a four-piece since 2023. Watch the trippy Danny Perez-directed visualizer below.

Avey Tare and Adam McDaniel produced the song. McDaniel also engineered and mixed the track in his Asheville studio Drop of Sun Studio. Along with the digital release, a limited edition 7” vinyl featuring “Love On the Big Screen” and its B-side “Buddies On the Blackboard” will be released on August 1st. Preorders are ongoing.

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While “Love On the Big Screen” is AnCo’s first song as quartet in two years, the group splintered off over their career for one-off singles and records. Deakin collaborated with Panda Bear’s on his Sinister Grift B-side “Virginia Tech” earlier this month, and back in 2024, Avey Tare and Panda Bear dropped “Vampire Tongues.”

Panda Bear is on break from his European and North American tour,...

Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, and Luke Combs are among the headliners for the 2025 Austin City Limits Music Festival.

The aforementioned trio will share top billing with Hozier, the Strokes, John Summit, and Doechii, all of whom are set to play both weekends of Acl Fest. The annual event will take place across nine stages and over two weekends at Zilker Park in Austin this fall. Weekend one is slated for Oct. 3 through 5, while weekend two is Oct. 10 through 12. 

Other notable acts set to play both weekends include Feid, Cage the Elephant,...

It’s New Music Friday, and there are plenty of great releases dropping today.

Blackpink’s Lisa arrives with her new album Alter Ego, while Animal Collective’s Panda Bear is back with his intriguing new LP, Sinister Grift. Plus, exciting returns from The Men, Mdou Moctar, Serpentwithfeet, and Darkside.

Here are eight new albums to stream today.

Editor’s Note: Enjoy these albums and more on Amazon Music Unlimited, which is currently offering a four month subscription at 50% off its normal price. Learn more here.

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Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington are back with their first Darkside album in four years, and this time, they’ve brought a new member into the fold: Tlacael Esparza has joined the group as their drummer and percussionist, adding a rhythmic flair to Darkside’s already-complex electronica.

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Noah Lennox’s 2019 album Buoys was supposed to mark a new era for the musician. At the time of its release, Lennox, a.k.a. Panda Bear, said that he was intent on making music that would “feel familiar to a young person’s ears,” only for the Animal Collective member to immediately change course with his nostalgic 2022 team-up with Sonic Boom, Reset.

That album harkened back to midcentury traditional pop and, more than any of Lennox’s solo efforts, the Beach Boys. And if Reset was his Beach Boys album, then Lennox’s latest, Sinister Grift, is his attempt at crafting something in the key of Jimmy Buffet. But while it represents the furthest that he’s ventured into rock terrain, and the fun that he has experimenting is undeniable, there’s also a sense that he’s not entirely comfortable with this sound.

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The 2025 Sundance Film Festival has begun, and it's slated to have some prestigious premieres, especially for the production company and distributor A24. Along with the premieres of movies like Opus and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, the fantasy adventure film The Legend of Ochi is set to have its world premiere at the festival. However, according to a new report from Deadline, the movie's wide release date has shifted. Initially slated for release on February 28, The Legend of Ochi will now be released on April 25, 2025.

The decision to move the film comes after director Isaiah Saxon's personal tragedy, the loss of his home in the devastating 2025 Southern California wildfires. The official synopsis for The Legend of Ochi reads as follows:

"A young girl (Helena Zengel) learns never to go outside after dark because of reclusive forest creatures known as the Ochi. However, when a baby Ochi is left behind by its pack,...

Remember the time when you were just a toddler making sense of the world? The world was a different place back then; going to movies with your family was one of your favorite outings. However, family-friendly releases have been steadily on the decline over the years, and finding a good watch is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But quite surprisingly, A24 is venturing into the genre, with the fantasy feature The Legend of Ochi.

Known mostly for its adult-oriented projects, The Legend of Ochi is A24’s attempt to bring back the same comfort and familiarity when watching a film like Steven Spielberg’s E.T. or Joe Dante’s Gremlins. The poster for the film and the first trailer which has been out for a few weeks, will definitely give you that feeling, especially with the adorable monster or Ochi, who might just become the next Grogu.

Panda Bear is back with “Ferry Lady,” the latest new song off his upcoming album Sinister Grift.

Built on a buoyant groove, “Ferry Lady” boasts some warm acoustic guitar, psychedelic synth hits, and spacious vocals from Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear). His ascending melodies in the chorus are doubled with a sweet high harmony, eventually building to a choir-like high sung in his falsetto; meanwhile, the track’s synth-based backdrop becomes more engrossing and frenetic.

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“Ferry Lady” also arrives with a particularly uncanny music video directed by Danny Perez. The visual features a variety of faces constantly rotating, with some more jarring than the others — certain faces have slugs, claws, snails, gaping mouths, or otherwise striking makeup looks, and they cycle at such a fast rate that it all blends into a bizarre collage. It’s unknown if Perez used AI to craft the video’s subjects,...

Panda Bear has announced his new album, Sinister Drift, the Animal Collective member’s first solo album in six years.

The singer born Noah Lennox has also shared the LP’s first single and closing track, “Defense,” featuring the guitar work of guest Cindy Lee, a.k.a. Patrick Flegel, whose stellar Diamond Jubilee arrived earlier this year.

Sinister Grift, out February 28, 2025, via Domino, marks Panda Bear’s first solo album since 2019’s Buoys and follows his 2022 collaborative LP Reset with Sonic Boom. While a solo album, Sinister Grift features a bevy of guests,...

Panda Bear is back to announce Sinister Grift, his seventh solo album, out February 28th, 2025. He’s also shared the album’s lead single, “Defense (featuring Cindy Lee),” as well as a batch of 2025 North American tour dates with Toro y Moi.

Panda Bear, the solo project of Animal Collective member Noah Lennox, crafted Sinister Grift at his Estudio Campo in Lisbon, Portugal with fellow Animal Collective member Josh Dibb (A.K.A. Deakin). Sinister Grift follows his 2022 collaborative album with Sonic Boom, Reset, and will be the first solo Panda Bear album since 2019’s Buoys. In addition to Josh Dibb and the rest of his Animal Collective bandmates appearing on the album, Sinister Grift also features contributions from Cindy Lee and Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Ravede.

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“Working on this record felt like a sacred and warm return,” Dibb said in a press release. “Noah...

Jamie xx has orchestrated a mini-reunion of the xx, tapping bandmates Romy and Oliver Sim for his latest single, “Waited All Night.”

The track marks the first time all three musicians have appeared on the same record since the xx’s 2017 album, See You. The single’s official release comes after the trio performed the track live during Jamie’s set at Glastonbury earlier this summer.

In a statement, Jamie thanked his “two best friends and musical siblings” for joining him on the giddy two-step gem. “It’s wonderful to have the gang back together,...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Victoria Monét serves up a sultry R&b number with help from Usher, Doechii levels up her swamp princess status, and A$AP Rocky rides the Swifty wave . Plus, new music from Big Sean, Jamie xx, and A$AP Rocky.

Victoria Monét feat. Usher “Sos (Sex on Sight)” (YouTube)

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Zedd feat. Bava, “No Gravity” (YouTube)

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Jamie xx and The Avalanches have teamed up for “All You Children,” a new single from the former’s upcoming album, In Waves. Stream it below.

A pulsating club anthem with a bouncy bassline and building synths, “All You Children” provides a sense of catharsis as it instructs listeners to “stop your crying, dance with me” and bop along to the “happy beat.”

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In a statement about the collaboration, Jamie xx raved about working with The Avalanches. “Their sample technique and how they piece together different sounds is incredible and collaborating on a track with them has showed me new ways of making music,” he said.

This isn’t Jamie xx’s first time collaborating with The Avalanches. He previously contributed to “Wherever You Go” from their 2020 album, We Will Always Love You.

In Waves will be out September 20th via Young and features the...

Jamie xx has recruited Robyn for “Life,” the latest single off the upcoming album In Waves, the long-awaited follow-up to his 2015 LP In Colour. The electropop song, out Monday, is made to bring you to the dancefloor and is inspired by the club energy of Ibiza.

“I just want to see how ‘Life’ gets people dancing this summer. I can’t wait for that,” Robyn said in a statement. “Jamie is such a brilliant creator, I’m excited to be part of his album.”

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Avey Tare has brought Animal Collective bandmate Noah Lennox (A.K.A. Panda Bear) along for a new single, “Vampire Tongues.”

Atop a skittering, rippling beat, the Tare-Bear combo offset busy synths, strange dissonance, and drum machines with moments of melodic clarity. It’s definitely reminiscent of their Animal Collective work together, while also remaining as experimental as ever — the song’s halting bridge is eerie, tense, and atmosphere-altering, and they reprise that same feeling each time they shift keys into the creeping chorus. Stream “Vampire Tongues” below.

“Right now the basic process of making music is more important to me than any outcome,” Dave Portner (Avey Tare) said in a press release. “It’s a process of learning. Collaboration is as much about learning from someone as it is creating something with someone. There’s a nice surprise element. I wonder, what is this person going to do with this idea?...

Jamie xx has announced his new album, In Waves, out September 20th via Young. In anticipation, he’s released the latest single, “Treat Each Other Right,” and its accompanying music video.

Recorded over four years, Jamie xx’s sophomore album features appearances from Robyn, The Avalanches, Panda Bear, Kelsey Lu, John Glacier, Oona Doherty, and fellow The xx members Romy and Oliver Sim. In addition, DJ/producer Honey Dijon contributed to the previously released single “Baddy on the Floor.”

In Waves will be available as a deluxe LP featuring a bonus 12-inch that includes previously released singles “It’s So Good,” “Let’S Do It Again” and “Kill Dem” alongside the new Erykah Badu collab “F U” and “Do Something.” Pre-orders for all formats are ongoing.

“It’s been a while… and a lot has happened in that time,” Jamie xx shared in a statement. “Ups and downs, growing up, figuring...

Animal Collective will release a new live album as part of a special 20th anniversary reissue of their 2004 LP, Sung Tongs, out Oct. 4 via Domino.

Sung Tongs Live at the Theatre at Ace Hotel captures a 2018 concert in Los Angeles, during which Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and Panda Bear performed Sung Tongs in its entirety (while also adding a rendition of the Sung Tongs-era deep cut, “Covered in Frogs”). Accompanying the reissue announcement is the pair’s live rendition of “Kids on Holiday,” which retains the original’s jittery folk surrealism,...

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of their lauded 2009 effort Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective are releasing a deluxe vinyl repress of the album.

Arriving on June 28th, the album will be pressed to color vinyl and feature the same translucent green and blue as Merriweather Post Pavilion’s original, optical illusion-esque artwork. The deluxe vinyl repress will also arrive in a reflective foil mirrorhead gatefold jacket.

Domino Records, the band’s longtime label, is also offering an exclusive 10-inch variant with the album’s fan-favorite single “My Girls” as the A-side and a live recording of the unreleased track “From A Beach (BBC Session)” from a 2007 BBC Radio 1 session as the B-side. Pre-orders for Animal Collective’s 15th anniversary vinyl repress of Merriweather Post Pavilion are ongoing and available here.

Though Merriweather Post Pavilion is getting the anniversary treatment, Animal Collective are not merely strolling down memory lane. The...

A new crowd pleaser has made it to the Paramore set list. The band live debuted their single “Thick Skull” at the Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday night. The audience waved their hands in the air as frontwoman Hayley Williams prompted, “Come on out with your hands up.”

The song is the emotional closer of their latest LP, This Is Why. Paramore performed the song halfway through their Nov. 19 set.

This Is Why is Paramore’s sixth studio album, and their first since 2017’s transformative After Laughter.

Daft Punk have released Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) via Columbia Records. The re-release, which has removed all drums and percussive elements from their final studio album, arrives at the 10-year anniversary of the 2013 Grammy-winning Album of the Year. Stream the album below.

According to the album’s press release, the drumless edition of hit album Random Access Memories aims to give listeners “the ability to dive deeper into the layers of each track.”

The record arrives shortly after the release of Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition), which included nine unreleased tracks for a total of 35 minutes of all-new music. The release saw Random Access Memories return to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

Daft Punk have also commemorated this anniversary with an ongoing content series called Memory Tapes, which pulls back the curtain on the French house duo’s creation of Random Access Memories.

Paramore have returned with Re: This Is Why, an all-star reimagining of their sixth studio album, This Is Why, by artists like Foals, Julien Baker, Wet Leg, Remi Wolf, and more. Stream the album below.

Paramore first announced Re: This Is Why earlier this week, sharing on Twitter that they’ve “long wanted to recognize the connection we have with some of the artists who’ve influenced us as a band and/or who have cited our band as an influence.” Thus, the new version of the album features an exciting plethora of voices bringing new perspectives to the songs, whether that be through remixing them, or through making new arrangements altogether.

Along with the aforementioned artists, Re: This Is Why also features Panda Bear, Bartees Strange, The Linda Lindas, Zane Lowe, Romy, Claud, and DOMi & Jd Beck. Additionally, the album includes a previously-unreleased demo, “Sanity.” Check out the full...

Paramore is celebrating the first anniversary of their album This Is Why with a revisit.

On Monday, the Hayley Williams-fronted group announced that Paramore will release LP Re: This Is Why, which they described as an “almost a remix album” version of the album they dropped last year, on Oct. 6.

“We’ve long wanted to recognize the connection we have with some of the artists who’ve influenced us as a band and/or who have cited our band as an influence,” the band posted on social media. “Re:...

If last year’s Time Skiffs left you wanting more from Animal Collective, you’re in luck: the band have shared another new album called Isn’t It Now?, out today via Domino.

Like many artists, Animal Collective’s plans were changed when the pandemic hit. The experimental band wrote about 20 songs before the world went into lockdown, and Time Skiffs comprised nine compositions Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin, and Geologist were able to record separately to a click track. They saved nine more, however, for Isn’t It Now?, longing to work together in the same room.

The band teamed with Russell Elevado for the project, recording its songs in late 2021 before road-testing them on tour in 2022. Featuring the 22-minute long single “Defeat,” Isn’t It Now? marks Animal Collective’s longest record to date. Pre-orders for physical formats are ongoing, and you can stream the album via Apple Music or Spotify below.

Daft Punk will continue their 10th anniversary celebration of Random Access Memories this November with a “drumless edition” of their Grammy-winning 2013 album.

Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition), due out November 17, features all 13 songs from the original LP, but as the title suggests, the drums and percussion have been stripped from the defunct dance duo’s tracks.

Ahead of the reworked LP’s release, Daft Punk has shared the “drumless” version of the ballad “Within”; although already one of Random Access Memories’ less percussive tracks, the “drumless edition” take spotlights Chilly Gonzales’s piano work.

Less than two years removed from their Time Skiffs, Animal Collective have announced they’ll return this September with a new album Isn’t It Now?

Ahead of the LP’s Sept. 29 release, the band has shared the new video for opening track “Soul Capturer,” the second “single” off Isn’t It Now?; the album announcement was preceded earlier this month by the epic, 22-minute centerpiece “Defeat.”

During the six-year wait that followed 2016’s absurdist Painting With, Animal Collective — Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist, and Deakin — rented a cabin in...

Animal Collective have unveiled a psychedelic, 23-year-old cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” Listen to it below.

The cover arrives as part of the reissue of Animal Collective’s debut album, 2000’s Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished. Along with remastered versions of the record’s original 10 tracks, the seminal psych-pop band also included a bonus EP (entitled A Night At Mr. Raindrop’s Holistic Supermarket), which consists of five previously-unreleased songs from the time they were working on Spirit They’re Gone.

One of those songs is the imaginative arrangement of “Dreams,” which switches out the original’s steady groove for a looping soundscape of synths and booming kick drum hits. Dave Portner (aka Avey Tare) took on lead vocal duties, and, though the original release was credited simply to “Avey Tare and Panda Bear,” future Animal Collective member Josh Dibb (aka Deakin) mixed the track.

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The Smile, Big Thief, and Kelela are among the indie darlings headed to Chicago this summer for the 2023 Pitchfork Music Festival, taking place July 21 through 23 at Union Park.

The Smile — the Radiohead offshoot with Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner — will headline day one of the festival, which will also feature Alvvays and Perfume Genius. Additional acts include Roc Marciano and the Alchemist, Youth Lagoon, Ric Wilson,...

Proving they were two decades ahead of 2020’s TikTok trends, a new reissue of Animal Collective’s first full-length album, 2000’s Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished, will feature a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” which they recorded at the time.

The reissue, out May 12, comes with an EP, A Night at Mr. Raindrop’s Holistic Supermarket, which contains the cover and four other previously-unreleased tracks. The expanded version with the EP will be available digitally and on triple-lp and double-cd formats, while Spirit They’re Gone...

Daft Punk, the defunct, dome-headed dance duo, are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their final album, Random Access Memories, by reissuing the album with 35 minutes of previously unreleased music across nine tracks. The expanded edition of the album will be available on double-cd and triple-lp, and it will be available to stream and download on May 12. The album will also be available for the first time in an Atmos mix.

Some of the bonus material includes an “early take” of “Get Lucky,” the track they wrote with Nile Rodgers that also featured Pharrell Williams,...

22 years after the release of their debut album, the Baltimore-bred quartet Animal Collective is as prolific as ever. Members Avey Tare (Dave Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz) released their 11th studio album this year—the delectably jammy Time Skiffs—to a wave of acclaim the band arguably hasn’t received since their indie-tronica staple Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009. On the heels of Time Skiffs’ success, the band has already hit the studio to record their forthcoming release, rumored to hit shelves and streamers from the band’s longtime label Domino Records in 2023. This year has […]

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22 years after the release of their debut album, the Baltimore-bred quartet Animal Collective is as prolific as ever. Members Avey Tare (Dave Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz) released their 11th studio album this year—the delectably jammy Time Skiffs—to a wave of acclaim the band arguably hasn’t received since their indie-tronica staple Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009. On the heels of Time Skiffs’ success, the band has already hit the studio to record their forthcoming release, rumored to hit shelves and streamers from the band’s longtime label Domino Records in 2023. This year has […]

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Panda Bear and Sonic Boom take listeners to the “Edge of the Edge” on the latest track off their collaborative LP Reset.

Like their first single, “Go On,” and the bulk of Reset, the track makes heavy use of a sample from Fifties and Sixties-era singles; in the case of the “Edge of the Edge,” the opening chords of Randy and the Rainbows’ doo-wop classic “Denise” are looped throughout.

The Animal Collective singer and former Spacemen 3 member paired the single with a video that pokes fun at nonsensical TikTok-like videos,...

Animal Collective’s Panda Bear has reteamed with longtime producer Peter “Sonic Boom” Kember for the collaborative album Reset, due out next month.

Ahead of the LP’s release, the duo shared the album’s first single, “Go On,” built on a sample of the riff from the Troggs’ 1967 song “Give It to Me” and accompanied by an animated visual by James Siewert.

Sonic Boom, a former member of the space rock outfit Spacemen 3, previously worked on Panda Bear’s 2011 album Tomboy and 2015’s Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper.

Pioneering electronic duo Daft Punk have decided to call it a day. The French group's publicist has confirmed that they have decided to retire. To announce their retirement, the group released a video titled "Epilogue," which is an excerpt from their 2006 film Electroma. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo started Daft Punk in 1993, and went to great lengths to keep their personal lives out of the way. They adopted ornate helmets and gloves to assume robot personas, later creating a rabid following and influencing the worlds of electronic and dance music.

In the "Epilogue" video, the Daft Punk members are out in the desert, wearing their iconic helmets, when one of them removes their jacket to reveal an energy pack. The first robot presses a button on the pack and walks away as the other one explodes. The camera cuts to a sunset, while Daft Punk's "Touch" is played in the background.

Animal Collective will release a live album to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Merriweather Post Pavilion, the band’s psychedelic, critically acclaimed LP. Titled Ballet Slippers, the live album will drop on November 22nd via Domino Records.

Mixed by band member Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), songs for the live album were culled from the band’s 2009 tour. The tracklist includes Merriweather songs as well as songs from older albums, like 2007’s Strawberry Jam and 2004’s Sung Tongs.

“At first we started delving into the idea that maybe there could be...

Panda Bear has shared his bass-heavy new song “Playing the Long Game,” a one-off single that follows the Animal Collective member’s 2019 solo LP Buoys.

Like that album, “Playing the Long Game” boasts production by Rusty Santos, who worked with Panda Bear to create Buoys’ “hyper-modern,” sub-bass-reliant sound. “We would listen to Migos, Bad Bunny and Ozuna every morning. Rusty hoped that [this album] would sonically fit alongside what’s happening in trap and reggaeton,” Panda Bear previously told Rolling Stone of Buoys.

“Playing the Long Game” is accompanied by a Fernanda Pereira...

Caroline Polachek, formerly of synthpop group Chairlift, has announced a forthcoming solo album and shared two of its tracks, “Ocean of Tears” and “Parachute.” The album, Pang, will be out in autumn.

Pang marks Polachek’s second solo release since Chairlift announced their split in 2016, and the first under her own name. (She previously released Drawing the Target Around the Arrow, under her initials Cep, in 2017, and before that released solo records under her stage name Ramona Lisa.) According to a press release, “Parachute” and “Ocean of Tears” were the...

Solange carries her history like a talisman. It’s there to remind her — and us — how to remain grounded while moving forward. With When I Get Home, she pays tribute to her roots in Houston by presenting a therapeutic and transfixing scrapbook that seamlessly brings together the past and the future of her home.

With 19 songs the clock in at under 40 minutes total, Solange’s tribute takes an unusual form. She offers brief but potent statements; over half the tracks are under three minutes and each one bleeds into the...

Panda Bear will release his new album Buoys, the Animal Collective member’s first solo album in four years, in February 2019. Ahead of Buoys‘ arrival, the artist born Noah Lennox also unveiled the album’s breezy first single “Dolphin.”

Buoys also reunites Panda Bear with co-producer Rusty Santos; the pair last worked together on Panda Bear’s breakthrough 2007 solo album Person Pitch. Panda Bear’s previous two albums, 2011’s Tomboy and 2015’s Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, were co-produced by Spacemen 3’s Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember.

For Buoys, recorded...

One of the most talked about films at this year's Sundance Film Festival will be hitting theaters over Labor Day weekend, which is quite the fitting release date for Antibirth. The film centers on one of the most horrific pregnancies ever committed to film, and you can see all the gruesome details for yourself in the first trailer that just arrived, alongside the new poster. While the Labor Day weekend marks the end of the summer movie season, Antibirth will kick off the fall season just right for horror fans.

IFC Films picked up the rights to Antibirth in June, following rave reviews at Sundance. Written and Directed by experimental video artist Danny Perez, Director of Oddsac, a video collaboration with Animal Collective, and the man behind the live visuals for Black Dice and Panda Bear. The film features an all-star cast of Emmy Award Nominee Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is The New Black...

Anyone who has traversed the aisles of a Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart knows there are genuine steals to be found — often pressed up against items you wouldn’t buy with somebody else’s money.

Superstore, NBC’s new America Ferrera-Ben Feldman comedy (sneak-previewing Monday at 10/9c) contains a similar mix of treasures and junk — and its success or failure will probably depend on how much and how quickly you get invested in the potential romance between her wry, put-upon floor manager Amy and his romantic but slightly cocky new hire Jonah.

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The KissMuch of my problem with so-called experimental cinema is a matter of language, and my marriage to it as both a viewer and a critic, despite language’s inevitable failure in the face of other forms of meaning. Some of my difficulty is based on background and affinities, some of it exposure and/or familiarity; most is plain obduracy. For whatever reason we may chose to fixate on, I have a hard time letting non-narrative films tell me how to read them beyond the sense I can put into words. After all, I am inarticulate without them.One friend says the trick is to bring the films “down” to the most fundamental ways in which they work, how the pieces may “add up”—but again this is a metaphor, which is of course the premise of language—an arbitrary equation of different things—and awfully teleological in a realm...

Welcome to another edition of Rolling Stone's "Everything Index," our midweek rankings of pop-culture's power players.

In this installment, we disprove the adage that you can't teach an old dog new tricks – after all, Billy Joel is playing Bonnaroo, and there's an actual old dog in Seattle that learned how to ride the bus – while, at the same time, discover that perhaps there's a reason the saying has stood the test of time (take Miley Cyrus' new magazine shoot, for example). Either way, it's been another wild week, and it's only Wednesday.

No matter how invincible one may think they are, death is inevitable. Thinking about it makes many of us feel this wave of unease. We don’t know when the grim reaper will come pay his uninvited visit. Leaving many of us living in this constant cocoon of fear. People find different ways of coping with it. Some believe in reincarnation, while others have just accepted that they will rot in the ground for eternity.I don’t think the men of Animal Collective or in this case Noah Lennox otherwise known as Panda Bear know how to make a song that sounds […]...

Panda Bear's global radio campaign to unspool Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper's nine songs in sequence has begun. To promote the album, which drops January 13, the artist is spreading out the premieres, with each new song debuting on a different radio station. According to Domino's interactive map and schedule, the U.S. has four: "Lonely Wanderer," on January 5 at 6 p.m. Et, via NPR's "All Songs 24/7"; "Acid Wash," on January 6 at noon Et, via NPR's "All Songs Considered"; "Selfish Gene," on January 6 at 1:05 p.m. Et, via Kcrw's "Morning Becomes Eclectic"; and "Acid Wash," on January 6 at 2 p.m. Et, via Wtmd. Streaming links and times for all songs are available here, and "Sequential Circuits," the first song, will be available after broadcast here. This is basically like getting a mini, belated Advent calendar, but with (potentially) tasty tunes instead of chocolate.

Noah Lennox, the 36-year-old musician known as Panda Bear, is gazing in silence at an elephant turd. We are at the New Museum, taking in the British artist Chris Ofili’s provocative retrospective “Night and Day,” and although we’ve stood before Ofili’s huge, glittering, Giuliani-­inflaming depiction of the Virgin Mary as well as the imposing bronze Annunciation, no piece has fascinated Lennox quite so much as this small sculpture titled Shithead, which is made of tiny human teeth, pieces of Ofili’s dreadlocks, and his signature material, elephant dung. Lennox has a lot of questions about the dung. Does Ofili sculpt it with his own hands, he wonders aloud, or does he employ an assistant to do the dirty work? What does it smell like under that glass? The placard next to the piece is no help. Before moving on, Lennox takes one last look at the...

Animal Collective's Panda Bear premiered the music video for one of his newer songs on Adult Swim late Sunday night. Titled "Boys Latin," the song will be featured on the artist's next album, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, which is due out mid-January. Encyclopedia Pictura's Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch directed the accompanying video, a wonderful phantasmagoria drenched with brilliant colors, stunning animation, peculiar surroundings, and pulsating musical production.

Panda Bear, the chillest dude in Animal Collective (impressive feat!) and the non-cyborg voice heard on Daft Punk’s “Doin’ It Right,” released a new Ep today. The four-song Mr Noah is available to stream on Spotify right now, and it comes in advance of forthcoming full-length album Panda Bear vs. The Grim Reaper, which will be out on January 13. I will go ahead and declare the album’s initial prognosis “very promising”; when I saw him play a set of almost entirely new material last month, it was the least angry I have seen an audience get in a long time about someone not Playing the Hits. (Though, to be fair, I don’t think the two Venn diagram circles representing “Panda Bear fans” and “people who get visibly angry about things” actually touch.) With its big, God’s-pocket-change beat, the first single “Mr Noah” is definitely more percussive...

A mysterious black horse and a cloaked death-like figure travel through the dreams and nightmares of a young boy in “Evil Things,” the new video from dark psychedelic rockers The Black Angels. Directed by artist/photographer/filmmaker Kevin Castanheira, the film's haunting imagery compliments the droning, pulsing cosmic tones and heavy, Sabbath-style rhythms that permeate the band's critically-acclaimed new album Indigo Meadow. The Black Angels hail from Austin, Texas, and recently played South By Southwest on the heels of a Winter tour with the legendary Roky Erickson (one of the giants of postmodern rock). They will be curating their own seventh annual Austin Psych Fest on May 2nd through 4th, featuring bands like The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Loop, The Dandy Warhols and Panda Bear. Be sure to also check out the Psycho-inspired video for Melinda Ortner's “One More Day,” which debuted on Fearnet to coincide with the Season 2 premiere of Bates Motel.

2013 is dead; long live 2013. To memorialize a year that wasn’t short on contentious debate in the film world, Josh Spiegel, Simon Howell and Edgar Chaput take a moment to identify what they believed to be the tall trees in that forest, selecting their respective Top 5s (with next to no overlap!), honourable mentions, and whatever other discussions happen to crop up as a result of each other’s picks and placements. Ricky D had to sit this one out, so he’ll be sharing his picks on the next ‘cast.

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Doin’ It Right” – Daft Punk featuring Panda Bear

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