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January 24, 2016

Animal Collective release video for newest single FloriDada, sexualize geography and dole out seizures


Sound collage-creators Animal Collective have released a music video for their latest single, FloriDada. The song is the first off of their upcoming album, Painting With, due out February 19th. Anyone that dropped to the ground in convulsions when they tried to learn more about Porygon as a child might want to also avoid this video. Trippy is a word synonymous with this band, but the rapidly flashing colors in this video might just take you on the worst trip of your life. Oh, and then there's the big, flopping, geographical view of Florida, that...uh, implies...well, you can just draw your own conclusions.

Hit the jump to give it a watch and confuse your sexuality all at the same time! Just don't say I didn't warn you if you wake up on the ground with a ruler between your teeth.

January 21, 2016

At the Drive-In to return in 2016 with new music, world tour



Seminal post-punk band At the Drive-In are making an as-yet-to-be-determined triumphant return to music this year, according to an official announcement on their website. The band called it quits way back in 2000, and members went on to form The Mars Volta and Sparta, both of which have since severed ties as well. Now, after a smattering of one-off musical projects, they're getting the old band back together it seems.

Successful follow-ups from other long-dead bands like Refused and Desaparecidos has me crossing my fingers that At the Drive-In can deliver once more. Though, I remain skeptical that it'll just sound like Antemasque, the side project of singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, produced by guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. At the Drive-In came at a very different point in the band members' lives, and trying to recapture that might not work as well.

If we all collectively wish upon a star, though, it'll be good. I promise. Hit the jump for a list of the announced North American tour dates and a briefest of brief teaser of new music.