Animal Collective
#1 band in the world
taking the brand 2 new heights
shitting on competition
branding art 4 art’s sake
More than just a picture of strawberry jam on an album cover
for 1 night
authentic fans
swimming in metaphorical strawberry jam
I could touch it
I was swimming in it
Animal Collective Presents Transverse Temporal Gyrus
With the help of their art bro Danny Perez
The Guggenheim: For One Night Only
The Guggenheim: This is Our House, Bitches
The Guggenheim: You’re Property of the Mother Fucking Bang Bus–AnCo Style
A downward spiral of altdom in the Googleheim
Photos by Hippies Are Dead
In the middle is authenticity
a portal to the centre of the Earth
Dave Portner aka Avey Tare aka Avatar getting ready for this show
sort of like Jay Z gets ready to play Madison Square Garden
sort of like Alex Rodriguez gets ready to play Yankee Stadium
This is his home. His Time 2 Shine
Photos by rezflicks
Getting an old bro, Deakin ‘back’
Really felt like an AnCo show, but better. Familiar technology. Lights. Button pressing.
Visuals ’stunning’ me. Taking me to a different place
Lights projecting, utilizing space, altering space.
This is art, architecture, and design. This is life.
Conceptual Icicles
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The Largest assembly of relevant alts in attendance
For one night, the Guggenheim was transformed into the most relevant space in the history of the world. Time + space created a portal of energy that looked like the Merriweather Post Pavvy cover.
I was there the night that indie rock changed.
The night we finally accepted that we wanted bands to be more than four white people playing music on a stage at a relevant club
We want them to take us on a journey
as artists and humans
Some bands will come along for the journey
Other bands will swirl down the metaphorical shitter
and be forgotten like yesterday’s turd
No photography allowed
This experience can only be experienced
if ur here
but my duty as a blogger
as an alt internet user
as a human with a dig cam
is to take these memories with me
and give them to you.
Artistic branding
differentiating your product
while helping people to connect with it
making every1 in suburbia yearn 2 be a part of it
AnCo
shattering pre-existing norms
of what we want a band 2 be
5 senses taken 2 the next level
$25 admission fee
bros in costumes standing around for 6 hours
While relevant alternative ppl ‘partied’ at cash bars
feeling relevant
lights, sounds, life
Was it worth it?
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Is the Animal Collective brand stronger than ever?
Did this show look ’sweet’ or like an entry level first year art student’s end-of-the-term project?
Was this show a ’success’?
Is ‘art’ bullshit?
Will Animal Collective’s strong links to drug culture prevent them from ‘crossing over’?
Is Danny Perez a ‘genius’ or does Animal Collective need to start collaborating with other art bros?
Will ODDSAC win an Oscar?
Will the Guggenheim performance win a Grammy?
Could Panda Bear win American Idol?
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40 Comments
oh man, this shit is blowing my mind
want nothing more than 2b there
basking in their altpresence
cant wait to go to an ODDSAC screening
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//////////Reply by GAYLORZ
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 1:19 am
@HRO EXEGESIS,
HEY EXEGESIS Bro,
What is there to be said about the connection between this post and the last, in that they are both about bands playing in unconventional situations? One band striving to be noticed but ultimately fulfilling the bohemian ideal, and the other extremely noticed, trying to maintain their bohemian identity?
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Is it the Woodstock of the 10s?
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Waste of time. Waste of money. Not performance art. Not a performance. Not music. Just a screen saver. Where’d all the $$$ go?
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//////////Reply by jon
//////////Posted March 6th, 2010 at 3:25 am
@cvaldaisnotbig, alll ODD SACK AND THIS BULLCRAP WUZ IZ WInDOWS 95 screensavers fuck animal collective
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the audience waited about an hour for the show to start before realizing that the show was already happening
think it was a joke
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//////////Reply by skybread
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
@whatevr,
on the mark completely
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//////////Reply by beach
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
huge disappointment and embarrassment. everything was executed poorly and the only entertainment was seeing how everyone handled the situation.
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
@whatevr, good job posting twice
also who told u this was gunna be a show?
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//////////Reply by whatevr
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
@chong, *performance
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the audience waited about an hour for the show to start before realizing that the show was already happening
also one projection was on a loop and the SONY logo appeared multiple times
think it was a joke
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//////////Reply by freshestwave
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 11:02 am
@whatevr, whatevr bro
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we should put those guys in space
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I was definitely underwhelmed, and I didn’t even stand in line or expect them to play a ’set’. I had a heads up that it was a performance piece however there was no performing occurring. Nothing happened. It was an anti-performance – as if people had asked too much of them and they were rebelling by not giving them ‘what they want’. ANCO underwhelmed me. If anyone has some insight into why Donny Darko meets abstract industrial horrorcore is in any way remotely relevant let me know. p.s. wtf.
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//////////Reply by Anco is boring
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 11:36 am
@Dang, That looked like a fun event but I guess I am not “cool” or “hip” enough to care about their music.
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//////////Reply by Dang
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 11:49 am
@Anco is boring, haha I personally had a good time – I don’t think that ‘cool’ or ‘hip’ had anything to do with anything at that exhibition. I think it boils down to whether or not you were on psychedelics. A friend of mine was and he said he had a great time – laughed the whole time. Its kind of funny that Frank Lloyd-Wright designed a museum that looks like a toilet bowl, and ANCO was ‘the shit’. hahaha
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//////////Reply by bob loblaw
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
@Dang, psychedelics can make anything good though, so i’d say it still wasn’t worth going to
1 day, i’ll be a performance piece
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//////////Reply by Dang
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 11:45 am
@strato, your face is a performance piece
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Anco/Bjork collabo expected 2011: Most masturbatory performance ever with lights
and no, u r not invited
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Complete waste of time and money, it was an obvious venture for the museum/band to overcharge and make profit from the public. In no way was the space utilized to its utmost potential. The band did not make any appearance and did not play any of their music. Rather they played their “composed” hour loop of bird chirping and sound effects which did not suffice for $30 entrance fee plus extra for drink tickets. Overall, i felt that the installation lacked the music component of the experience which the band should have represented. After all music is art and vice versa. It was lacking visually and misleading. I do not respect the museum or those who were in charge of curating this event. It’s hard to believe that this installation was up for an entire total of 6 hours in one day. Never again!
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//////////Reply by Tom
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
at smells, I think tickets were $25, buying drinks anywhere can always be expensive (acid usually goes for about $7 dollars a hit and would have probably been a better idea at an event like this,) and you can’t claim that the band never made an appearance on a blog that shows photographs of band members at the Guggenheim event. I saw this same exact post on another website, so it is obvious that you didn’t take the time to read over the site before copying and pasting your comments. I somehow doubt you attended the event.
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//////////Reply by mat
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
@smells, money grubbing fck’n museums!
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//////////Reply by beach
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
no. even taking acid to this event was a waste.
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’so long, frank lloyd wright’
–koenig&garfunkel
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For some reason I’m getting a “Rick Wakeman On Ice” vibe from this.
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
@jimmm, wow what an obscure reference. ima keep an eye on u good sir.
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//////////Reply by tragedy in toyland
//////////Posted March 10th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
@HJ, great reference.
friends with the marketing director at the guggenstein. heard it was underwhelming as shit. heard AnCo fans got what they deserved.
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Ha! I just read their artist statement and they had the balls to call themselves “New Yorkers”. What a bunch of pretentious phonies! They will be washed up/has beens in three years. Remember Fischerspooner? Interpol? Let’s face it yall, alts are just as shallow and fickle as mainstreamers.
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//////////Reply by mat
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
@Anco Blows, you tell ‘em colden haufield!
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AnCo cud b da next ‘grateful dead’
panda bear chocolate chip ice cream y’all
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wish ODDSAC was a live action Jetsons movie
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this is officially the biggest load of bullshit ever. ANCO have jumped the shark
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//////////Reply by Shark jump predictor
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
@bobo, Animal Collective: Live at Merriweather Post Pavilion
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avey tare told me they are taking this show on broadway
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anco bodly going where no alt has gone before.
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think avey tare/bucket hat bro is feeling naked without his usual bucket hat and having to wear alt conceptual paper mache helmet. Looks like he might have sharted a bit too b/c he looks “nervous”—possibly because he realized the event he was was “shit”
Wonder if he misses Kria via Divorce
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I don’t think Panda Bear would win American Idol. Depends on who else is competing of course, but that’s my opinion.
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//////////Reply by Brandon
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
@Guhh, really?
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//////////Reply by Guhh
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 12:51 am
@Brandon, Really.
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Shouldve taken acid with Avey
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//////////Reply by bob loblaw
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
@Whitekite, lulz
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I cannot wait until people stop following eachother in droves to see and hear boring ass music.
Hate these soft boys. Fuck animal collective, fuck vampire’s weekend, fuck grizzle bear.
ggggRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAhhhhh.
All the boys who listen to these bands are cute and safe… NO FUCKING GRIT. Srsly, can we just please be done with the bitch rock era.
FUCK YOU DASHBOARD YOU BROUGHT THIS ON US!
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted March 6th, 2010 at 2:57 am
@GAYLORD, i kno man, we gotta get these pussies to get the fuckin grit back. Shinedown and breaking benjamin fucking rule!!!
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//////////Reply by Anco Blows
//////////Posted March 6th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
@chong, Pimpin has a point. Those guys are really soft/wimpy. Vampire Weekend bros with their Ivy League status are straight out of “Leave it to Beaver”. I mean really, is there ANYTHING rebellious about those guys?
I blame Giuliani for making NY too safe and taking away the edge of the city. I am from New Jersey. I remember what NYC was like in the 80’s, I went there a lot when I was a kid. It was a dump/war zone. The NY punk music from that era reflected that edge. After about 1994 when it was “safe” again guess what happened. The “hipster” scene flourished and wimpyness started ruling the day when all the rich white kids moved in. The city has never been the same since Giuliani.
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//////////Reply by Elijah Stevens
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 1:05 am
@Anco Blows,
tru statement/fun fakt: giuliani invented hipsters
//////////Reply by anonymoose
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
@Anco Blows, yeah man pfr for life… get brutal.
As someone who actually went with the expectation that it wasn’t going to be a concert — which made up maybe 20% of the audience — at first I was a bit disappointed. I have such high personal standards for the band that I was thinking this was going to be like an adventure down the rabbit hole. However, it genuinely was. I basically walked around and got to experience it from every conceivable angle. It wasn’t until the end where I really, really got into it.
I sat indian style in the middle and found myself completely surrounded by the soundscape Animal Collective had made. It was the perfect angle, and while it was cool to see it from all sides, I could tell this was how it was meant to be experienced. I sat there for the next 45 minutes and the lady next to me was meditating. The others around me were feeling the same thing. The vibes were fucking incredible. It was the most psychedelic experience of my life, and like with most substance-based psychedelic experiences — whenever you remove your expectations is the moment you truly appreciate it. The minute I just started chilling out and listening to it like I would an album, I realized that this was about 10x better than any concert they could have put on. My only regret was that I was completely sober the whole time, and I feel like had I taken shrooms or acid while in that meditative state I would’ve transcended humanity while sitting indian style.
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//////////Reply by AltBrooklyBro
//////////Posted March 6th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
@Glowing Shirt Guy,
bro, do not know what you find psychadelic about shitty atmospheric sounds and cheap lights. But truth, there must have been 10, 40-something lesbians getting their meditation on
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I won’t be satisfied until someone covers ‘My Girls’ on American Idol.
Then I’ll know that AnCo has ‘made it.’
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only discernible lyrics:
“i’m so sorry” x3
it’s okay, anco. it’s okay.
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Smells like alt spirit.
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chemical brothers are better than daft punk
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//////////Reply by gottabeanony
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 7:49 am
@tonka, WRONG the order is the Daft, Jewstice, THEN the ‘Chems’.
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//////////Reply by WhiteBlipster
//////////Posted March 9th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
@gottabeanony, Agrd
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Wish I could have experieneced this mind altering, psychedelic show. Wish my life could be filled with the thumping beats and smooth voices of the anco boys while being in an architecturally gorgeous space, and being overtaken with complete ecstasy from the holistic concert.
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Wish I could’ve been there, eating Strawberry Jam with my girl(s).
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performance art is s0 2002. everyone knows internet art is where it’s at (via lolcats and other animal kitsch)
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//////////Reply by GAYLORZ
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 1:13 am
@a_nonnie_muss, Sorry that’s so 2007 and will probably take the same trajectory as all other new medium forms. It’ll be somewhat important, but mostly just used as an element within the larger artwork.
Sorry bro, don’t wet yourself too much over Trecartin or Arcangel.
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I’ll catch them at Coachella in 2025 when the 00s come back strong.
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my close friends and i looked at these pictures together and it was so fucking chill for us. summer ‘10 forever yall.
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AnCo should play at Fallingwater.
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saw it, shit was pathetic, these guys rlly need to just go and make some decent music. they are trying to overextend their brand, be the first to do a bunch of new hip things, but everything theyve done has been rlly halfbaked. Did y’all see oddsac? It was horrible. Their live shows? Underwhelming is the word. Panda Bear’s personality? Absolute fucking garbage. Avey tare is a legit talented musician who has recently gotten full of himself, bro needs to self-reflect and get bakc to music
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//////////Reply by overthehillaltbro
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
@AltBrooklyBro, thank you for your humble opinion, your skills as a psychotherapist, and, above all, your golden personality, so superior to Avey’s recent turn to narcissism and Panda’s ‘garbage.’ You tell ‘em!
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Whatever. Agnostic Front and Murphy’s Law already played the Guggenheim years ago, in that Matthew Barney bro movie.
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going thru the pix over at Brookly Veggies I noticed they were selling wine/beer/absinthe, thought the latter was a ‘cheap gimmick’ and wondered for a sec what beer they had in stock/assumed it was PBR, but lo-fi and behold:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/animalcollective/guggenheim/59.jpg
they had XX in stock [via successful viral marketing meme band the Dos Equis]
I’ve always considered XX a top-tier commercial beer and a frequent choice of mine as I usually drink with strmrs, but feared that the most interesting bro in the world meme would smear the brand for my usage.
Glad 2 see it ‘blow up’ in alt circles/feel relieved at being naturally attuned 2 these types of things despite being disenfranchised from a local/gobal alt scene.
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//////////Reply by kevbro
//////////Posted March 8th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
@justw2brelv,
it’s just a fucking beer, loser.
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//////////Reply by justw2brelv
//////////Posted March 9th, 2010 at 9:21 am
@kevbro, going to assume you’re american
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//////////Reply by yes
//////////Posted July 5th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
hes right, its a beer. You managed to waste 10 lines of sentence with complaints that “XX” might become popular in the indie scene. Who cares
whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
that is
really conceptual
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Max MSP programmer bro should ‘align his patch cords’ and ‘consolidate’ his patch windows (via organization).
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//////////Reply by noah lennon
//////////Posted March 14th, 2010 at 9:30 am
@smegma, here here
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i think the blog’s comments shows how many faux-alt mnstrmrs on this website and/or AnCo fanbase. I weep for you plebeians that cant understand conceptual-core in art form outside of music. As a conceptual-core artist(iPod, iPad, iPhone etc.) I would like to offer praise towards the AnCo Bros, hopefully one day all alt bands will be able to preform conceptual pieces of work in other museums. ***prediction in future**** Wavves preforms a conceptual-core art piece in a dumpster with distorted beaver growls.
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steve jobs get off of the internet
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//////////Reply by steve jobs
//////////Posted March 8th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
@bill gates, You don’t even know how to reply, mnstrmr. Don’t you realize you are unfashionable and yesterday’s news? Too bad you can’t stay hip and trendsetting with technological fashion.
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