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But in a year of over-rated, undercooked indie follow-ups , I played this one over and over again.

Psychedelic dance act Animal Collective's record Merriweather Post Pavilion has been hailed album of the year in a prestigious poll of music critics.

After getting completely into Merriweather, I went back into their catalog and also got deeply into Strawberry Jam , Feels , and Sung Tongs .

Lady Gaga, performing above in Singapore, later kicked off her Monster Ball tour in Montreal.

December 21, 2009 from KEXP - As 2009 winds down and the year-end best-of lists come flooding in, a lot of the same bands pop up again and again.

As 2009 curls up into a tiny ball and disappears into infinity, the "best-of" lists are rolling in.

Yep, we've finally reached 2009 and I don't know if you feel the same way, but I've had a lot of fun going back and looking at some great music from the last ten years.

A work of staggering precocity, this set primal rhythms to the much debated operatic vocal range of Hayden Thorpe and the Nutella-rich voice of Tom Fleming, and told tales of sexual misadventure and bothersome boot boys.

We're near the end of the year and new releases have slowed to a crawl just in time for that favorite activity of all critics: list-making. So in this special edition of the Riff Report, we present our top 10 albums of 2009, selected and written up by PopMatters staff and highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a ...

Each year when Pitchfork posts their annual Top 100 Songs Of XXXX you can be sure to find a number of hip-hop and popular radio tracks filtered into the electronic and indie stuff.

I read this New York Times piece about how we're frantically trying to find a pithy, reductive nickname for this decade that's closing.

If the year 2009 has taught us one thing, it's that bigger is always better. From record-breaking films like "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" to stellar personalities like Lady Gaga, 2009 did it up in style.

Saturday, 12 December 2009, 12:00am Source: TV3 A childhood friendship and a shared love of fellow American band Pavement and horror movies grew into New York-based band Animal Collective Link: Animal Collective founding member Brian Weitz speaks to Nightline In association with Scoop introducing MotoringScoop.com AVIS : Hot deals for hot summer ...

As a medium, the rock album is so under siege that even Radiohead made noise in 2009 about giving it up for downloadable singles and EPs.

The jungle boys from Animal Collective are enigmatic live. And in New Zealand for one show last night, they turned crowd of tight-panted indie kids into a liberated agrarian tribe.

'Tis the season for top 10 lists! Ours include St. Vincent, Animal Collective and plenty of surprise picks.

It is a supremely consistent mixing of genres, all combining to create this year's best pop record.

Animal Collective Fall Be Kind Domino Available digitally now, physically on December 14th, 2009 by Michael Thomas Fall Be Kind falls short of Merriweather Post Pavilion, leaving the listener in a state of confusion.

Repetition and pretentiousness are sometimes aligned in music, especially when something not even worth hearing once is repeated continuously.

Entry tags: concert / tour dates Joshua Dibb , better known as part-time Animal Collective member Deakin , wants to go to Africa.