Sometimes an album is designed to help the listener understand where its creators are coming from, or perhaps to allow him or her to think more deeply about complicated issues. And sometimes records ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Of all the Animal Collective side projects, Noah Lennox’s Panda Bear comes closest to capturing the magic of his original band. While fellow bandmate Avey ...

In the 2000s, Animal Collective was among the most innovative bands making music, pushing a new vision of psychedelia into the world. Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear, is one of the two frontmen in the ...

Ask anyone tuned into New York's weirder sounds to list the artists that defined the city in the last decade; you'll likely hear Animal Collective's name trotted out within the first couple syllables.

Earlier this morning, Adult Swim premiered a beautifully animated and wonderfully trippy video for ‘Boys Latin,’ the second single from Baltimore-bred avant-pop musician and Animal Collective member ...

With Panda Bear’s latest “Mr Noah" EP, the animal collective alum gives us a taste of his upcoming full-length “Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper” with a four-song set previewing Panda’s continued ...

During the past 15 years, no band has had a bigger impact on the sonic trajectory of independent music than Animal Collective. With an immersive touch for psychedelic detours — some scary, some cozy — ...

'We don’t really want to be one of those bands you have to be on drugs to get, because we’ve always liked to think we have more to offer.' (Left to right) Dave Portner (Avey Tare), Noah Lennox (Panda ...

For most of the '00s, Panda Bear helped define the sound of youthful, ramshackle indie rock. On Noah Lennox's eighth album, Sinister Grift, the... For most of the '00s, Panda Bear and Animal ...

The sun casts a blanket of stripes over the grass as Noah Lennox leads a small delegation through the botanical gardens in Lisbon's Príncipe Real neighborhood. The air, damp from last night's rain, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you bear with the animal-centric cacophony of the first few spins, Panda Bear’s surprise four-track EP, “Mr. Noah,” delights with repeat listens. Of all ...