Tag Archives: Avey Tare

Is Avey Tare’s wife ‘trying 2 hard’ 2 be conceptual/meme-worthy?

Yall might know Kria Brekkan as the wife of popular 2k9 buzzband ‘the Animal Collective’, more specifically, the band member Avey ‘David Portner’ Tare. She has apparently already created tons of music on her own, as well as with the popular Icelandic runoff band “múm.” [via the post-Bjork+SigurRos era]. (not sure if Iceland [...]

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Animal Collective ‘remembers’ MJ…

Meme hijack via gorillavsbear

I think that the marketing team behind Animal Collective are ‘pure geniuses.’ Not only did they ‘perfectly brand’ MerriPostWeather Pavillions, and totally ‘overhauled’ the band’s general brand–they also know how to ‘inject the band into relevant discussions.’ I think this was filmed ‘before MJ died’, but I feel like they [...]

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Should I have gone 2 Sasquatch Music Festival? Seems more authentic than Coachella.

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Animal Collective is a Band Created By/For/On the Internet

This is a post about Animal Collective

I listen to the Animal Collectives on a weekly basis. I think I ‘like’ them because they are differentiated from ‘traditional music’ and ‘modern indie music.’ When I listen to them, I exist on a higher plane of musical appreciation and consume products for ‘all the right [...]

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