Subject: Animal Collective

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 26, 2004

• Tonight: Danielson at Walter's on Washington

  The career of Daniel Smith, leader and mastermind of Danielson, has a strange irony: his music promotes spiritual healing, oneness and love, but by and large, his audience has been attracted by its joyous perversity. Smith sings exclusively in a high, squeaky voice, and his twee, disorientingly ad-hoc compositions have the feel of a soundtrack to a puppet show or grade-school musical play - perhaps not entirely inappropriate, given Smith's famous on-stage appearances in a ten-foot homemade tre

  November 19, 2008

• Dave Wrangler Mauls Animal Collective, Stands Up Ludacris

  Houston mash-up master Dave Wrangler recently remixed Animal Collective's "My Girls," from the Brooklyn buzzmongers' brand-new Merriweather Post Pavilion, for German Web site Byte.fm. It's something of a hit - "Since I put it out, I've had numerous inquiries for DJ bookings all over the country," he reports. Check it out below, plus his inspired pairing of Hercules & Love Affair and Ludacris' "Stand Up!"; both tracks appear on Wrangler's forthcoming Heads Up Houston mix CD; He

  January 28, 2009

• Aftermath: Annuals at Walter's On Washington

  Photos by Liz Countryman If you could squeeze music from the udders of a cow, pour it a cup, mix in equal parts chocolate sauce and broken up pieces of stained glass stolen from the Vatican, drink it while on the down-slope of a roller-coaster, go home and sit on the back-porch and listen to your great-grandfather talk about snow while eating corn on the cob until you think to yourself "Goddamn, I need some ecstasy," you'd have an idea of what it's like to see Annuals. They are original because

  February 13, 2009

• Don't Ever Count Britney Out — Just Like These Others.

  March 26, 2009

• Bam, It's Kam!

  March 12, 2009

• R&B Queen Erykah Badu's Egyptian Mystique

  Ankh-ology

  March 5, 2009

• Young Mammals Chow Down on First LP Carrots

  Dynamically Yours

  February 26, 2009

• Moments the Grammy Awards Would Rather Forget

  February 5, 2009

• Recent Super Bowl Halftime Highlights and Lowlights

  January 29, 2009

• Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

  January 22, 2009

• Think Buckcherry Has Mellowed? Crazy Bitch...

  December 4, 2008

• In Need: Signal to Noise

  Houston experimental-music journal needs a hand

  September 18, 2008

• No Age: Nouns

  May 15, 2008

• MGMT, Yeasayer

  January 17, 2008

• The Art of Noise

  Signal to Noise founder Pete Gershon turns his private collection into art

  January 17, 2008

• Local Motion

  October 18, 2007

• Caribou Times Two

  Comparing the synth-popper with his mammalian namesake

  October 18, 2007

• Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam

  CD Review

  October 18, 2007

• Local Motion

  September 27, 2007

• How Classic Is Classic Rock?

  June 4, 2009

• Dodos

  concert preview

  August 16, 2007

• The Shins

  Wincing the Night Away

  February 8, 2007

• Ariel Pink, Belong, Slovak Republic

  7 p.m. Thursday, March 2, The Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

  March 2, 2006

• Playbill

  August 26, 2004

• Got Live If You Want It

  Our Spring/Summer concert preview, part deux

  April 30, 2009

• Aftermath: Yanni at Toyota Center

  Craig Hlavaty Words like pageantry, wonderment, and spectacle aren't used very much in the Aftermath lexicon. It's hard to divvy out those special labels when we are covering bleeding dudes in bondage gear half-raping each other on stage, the weekly parade of washed-up alt-rock groups making another run at the brass ring, grizzled Americana crooners, or the indie flavor of the past five minutes. Which brings us to why Aftermath found themselves sitting mere feet away from the singularly-monike

  June 15, 2009

• Friday Night Noise: Indian Jewelry and Prurient

  Indian Jewelry, "Seasonal Economy" At its gnarliest, Houston's Indian Jewelry reminds Friday Night Noise of that brief period a few years back where James Toth was transitioning away from being part of being the "Wooden Wand" part of the "Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice" equation, towards the "serious, for-real singer-songwriter" dimension he now occupies. We're thinking of Harem of the Sundrum (Soft Abuse) specifically - a clutch of distorted noise-folk dispatches from an exodus in the dese

  July 3, 2009

• John Mayer Is Full of Crap

  ​Something about John Mayer just gets under Rocks Off's skin. We'll admit there was a time he made us believe our body was a wonderland, and yes, we've even wanted to "run through the halls of our high school and scream at the top of our lungs." But no more. The quiet little guitar player we once thought Mayer was is no more, and in his place is a narcissistic lothario. The latest incident of immense ridicule came - big surprise - via Twitter. "Listening to the hits channel on Sirius. I will

  July 30, 2009

• Digital Domain

  August 13, 2009

• Defending the Jonas Brothers: You Got a Problem With That?

  ​We have spent days wrestling throw pillows and chain-smoking cigarettes in the sun, sweatily contemplating why it is that we can't hate the Jonas Brothers. We can honestly say this isn't some crass devil's advocate playing rock journalist devilry. We can't find a reasonable flaw in the wares they are hawking. We can also submit medical documents that we are in fact what is medically referred to as a "man," if you're curious. To reflexively hate the Jonas Brothers is a waste of time and intell

  August 14, 2009

• "Just Us Ninjas Getting Shitfaced": ICP and Juggalo Nation Invade Warehouse Live

  [Ed. Note: We are happy to report that Craig Hlavaty is safe and sound, if a little under the weather. Here is his report from Wednesday's ICP show.] Photos by Marc Brubaker/ Click here for a slideshow​ "Hey man, you look lonely. How's it going?" asks a big jolly Juggalo, face painted in a distorted clown pattern with long wet brown hair hanging down into the white and black smear. ​We had been sitting against the wall next to the soundboard at Warehouse Live, silently typing c

  October 8, 2009