Tag Archives: Animal Collective

“We Call it THCno!”

January 28, 2009 – 10:30 am
With all the pomp and circumstance surrounding Barack Obama’s historic win in November’s election and subsequent inauguration last week I forgot to mention that Question 2—a ballot initiative to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana that came up for vote in November here in Massachusetts—was overwhelmingly approved by voters and went into effect this […]
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Countrymusicdiscosouldubalbum (No, It’s Not a Parliament or Isaac Hayes Song Title)

January 26, 2009 – 10:30 am
The first month of the year may be close to finished, but I’m only just now feeling like 2009 has really started. The new releases are really beginning to pile up fueling my anticipation of what’s to come in the next eleven months. In Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion I’ve found my first […]
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A Self-Imposed Exile to the Radio Dial

January 19, 2009 – 10:30 am
If you took anything away from my post on The Notorious B.I.G. last Friday I hope it was about his legacy. The way he died was heartbreaking, and instrumental in cementing the association between rappers and violent deaths in the popular consciousness. And his admittedly small catalog, comprised of one-and-a-half classic LPs (I […]
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Jon & Brion & Robert & Wyatt (and Hot Chip and of Montreal)

January 15, 2009 – 10:30 am
So tell me, is January too early in the year to start playing favorites with and making predictions about which albums are going to end up being the year’s best? I sure as hell thought so when I posted about Animal Collective’s newest opus last Wednesday, otherwise I would’ve come right out and admitted […]
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“…for the Benefit of Humans and Animals.” - The Edicts of Ashoka, 3rd c. BCE

January 7, 2009 – 10:30 am
With a full week of the brand new year firmly behind us I think it’s safe to say that 2009 hasn’t begun on the most humane of notes. Iraq continues to be plagued by suicide bombers. Tensions between nuclear superpowers India and Pakistan are heightened after the revelation that the men responsible for the Mumbai […]
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