August 2011
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Animal Collective interview at the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival.
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Panda Bear to Play Manhattan →
Panda Bear will be playing Webster Hall in New York on October 1. Tickets go on sale at noon on August 26th.
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Panda Bear to Play Brooklyn →
Panda Bear will be performing in Brooklyn on October 2 at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Tickets go on sale August 26th at noon.
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Panda Bear to Play Chicago →
Panda Bear will be playing in Chicago on September 29 at the Vic Theater.
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Animal Collective performing the tentatively-titled “Knock You Down” and “Brother Sport” at the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival.
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Panda Bear to Play Dallas →
Panda Bear will be playing a show in Dallas on September 27. From Gorilla vs. Bear:
Surprise: we are beyond psyched and honored to present an extremely rare + intimate Dallas performance from the man responsible for our favorite album of the last decade and one of the best records of 2011: Noah Lennox of Animal Collective, better known to most as PANDA BEAR.
This one goes down at the Granada...
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Ross Green: There’s often a critical consensus about your work — for example, every critic mentions the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds when describing Person Pitch. Are the thoughts or influences you have when making an album similar to what you read about it once it’s released?
Noah Lennox: Without question, I didn’t have the same reference points as a lot of people did, at least as far as Person Pitch was concerned. It kinda makes me feel stupid, reading things about the album and thinking, “Why didn’t I think of that?” For Person Pitch, the influences were really about production — Donuts by J. Dilla, even something like Beck’s Odelay, which was a Dust Brothers production — in terms of sampling, that’s where my train of thought was coming from. For me, Pet Sounds wouldn’t be the first thing I would compare my album with…first, because it would be kind of arrogant.
Ross Green: Saying, “My album stands up with one of the most highly regarded pop albums of all time.”
Noah Lennox: Yeah. 'It’s like the White album' seems a little bit lofty. When you hear something, you compare it to your own personal library of sounds. Everyone has their own musical history, and everyone connects their own dots.
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Tomboy Now Available Digitally on Amazon for $3.99 →
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American Songwriter: Recording Special: Panda Bear →
Process: “Hodgepodge”
For Tomboy, Lennox tossed out his Roland SP-303 samplers – what he affectionately calls his “songwriting buddies” – in favor of guitars. “I’d written so many songs [using] samplers and I was feeling like I was starting to write the same kind of song over and over,” he says. On Person Pitch, he’d “find nuggets of sound” and repeat them until melodies would form in his...
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