Just starting every set with Tantrum Barb

the song he attached was selfish gene, so i assume their version of that will be on the album!! super pumped for this!

”The A.V. Club asked Portner to program a 24-hour marathon of cinematic favorites. The resulting selections betray a refined, adventurous taste in the medium: Those expecting a daylong dose of Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger should take that new band title a bit less literally.” — A.A. Dowd, A.V. Club | April 11, 2014.

repost tag cuz its on obv yt (not reddit.. idk what is considered a repost)

From another post, I commented about it and it made me really excited about AC and then nothing...kind of a bummer. Please downvote if you want, I just think this is such cool lore that should be remembered and brought up.

"There were a bunch of recordings of countless hours of jamming in the early new york days that are kind of fabled. They said that in those recordings/in those sessions playing together, in the practice space they shared with Black Dice, they explored so much of what they would go on to do in the next 5-10 years (I don't know when they first talked about this) in the 2000's. The recordings were all in one place and were in one of their cars one day in New York I believe, and someone stole them and those recordings were lost to time.

Edit: one of the very coolest and most legendary pieces of lore of the early days of the band, and every time it's brought up crickets. I just want to talk to someone about how epic and interesting that story is! We're talking about all four of them for some of it, literally phrasing it as "countless hours" of early recordings before they made Danse, that they said explored all kinds of stuff that would lead to everything they made up to like SJ. Like that's about as big lore as it gets???"

Go to 25:00 and wait. Its a legit banger and great to see My Girls on a larger stage. This whole set is great but skip to 25:00 for the animal collective bit.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/23CLfqF2nPY9JpjGwB3b0y?si=kEniN6WlQrqCvXOhHeNd5w

https://youtu.be/G9Pz_IJ_yes?si=oyi1G15Xv1MS93BD

Presumably a repost, but worth another listen.

Hello all! Reposting this for newer AC fans who might enjoy this story :)

What if I were to tell you that there was “another” Animal collective? A band that came about at the same time as Animal Collective? Shared the same city, stages and even at times lived and played together? Look no further, because I am here to introduce you to the “other” Animal Collective, an amazing project called Twi The Humble Feather.

If you were to mention the names Animal collective to a fan in NYC in the early 2000s, Twi The Humble Feather would usually come to mind too - maybe thats from the news outlets such as NPR and Stereogum making those comparisons. Don’t get it wrong though - the members of Twi were not imitating. These groups grew up at the same time, collectively being inspired in the same zeitgeist of early 2000s NYC.

Twi Consisted of Anthony Lebron, Hektor Fontanez & Bryan Doring. In the beginning, Twi was much more experimental - playing noise based shows at venues like North 6 in Williamsburg, Other Music in Manhattan, and many, many other spots. In the summer of 2005, Twi members Hektor and Anthony teamed up with Adam Kriney (of Owl Sounds, The Golden Grass & La Otracina) to create a tour de force of a music project called Blizzards. You could say that there is also an Animal Collective with their one album, titles “We Walk Slower Than You Walk Fast”. Blizzards Toured the east coast in the summer of 2005 and continued to play around NYC for a while longer.

Around 2006 is the break-off point for comparison to Animal Collective. While Animal Collective started working on the Opus that would be Strawberry Jam - Twi was trading in the noise machines for classical guitars - becoming extremely disciplined in their playing, to the point of obsession. The members tightened to a point of perfection. The Story of Twi (pronounced Why) was shaping up (Twi was a space traveler and the songs reflected his travels). This time was spent playing various twi shows in and around NYC, and releasing the very rare CD-r of their first album, which you can download a digital copy HERE.

In 2007, members Bryan Doring, Hektor Fontanez and Hiko Konami (with cameos from Anthony lebron, Juiana Barwick and others) Created a circuit bent synthpop group called Alias Pail. You can here their music HERE.

2008/09 were the big years of Twi. Their incredible EP called Music for Spaceships And Forests was released, and Twi was quite literally everywhere. News outlets constantly covered their album, they played relentlessly(great WMFU performance and interview), and went on two tours with Jose Gonzales, opening for him in America, as well as a European tour (along side the amazing David Thomas Broughton). Their song "Higher to the end" was even featured in a Heineken SUPER BOWL Commercial! The biggest venues in NYC were fighting over booking them, as they all thought that in a Years time, they would never get the chance to book them again, as they would be too big. It truly seemed like Twi was on the path to surpass Animal Collective’s growth and become a household name. So what happened?

Simply put - life happened. Bryan Left the group for personal reasons in 2009, and Hektor and Anthony continued with the name - playing shows, but had to eventually take a hiatus when Anthony had to leave NYC for a time to take care of family issues. A followup to Music For Spaceships and Forests was in the works through it all called “Red Palace”. Maybe Red Palace took too long to come out, but eventually the remaining members moved on to other projects (Hektor had a rock group called Imaginary Weapons) and Anthony doing another project when he came back to NYC called Los Arcos (with Hektor as well)

Twi The Humble Feather continued into 2014, playing shows in and around NYC, but slowly other interests and life itself took the place of playing as the group.

It's sad we live in a Twi-less world, as in a short time, they gave us so, so much incredible music. It was fun back in the day watching them branch out from the Animal Collective comparisons, and truly become their own. Maybe someday Twi can re-unite, or release more music, or maybe we just enjoy the sounds and memories. I hope you all go forth and enjoy their music - its truly something incredible.

We had a white and blackish sheltie-had a name when we first got him. I wish I had taken better care of him but he had it ok. Im sorry when I get unruly-when you carry on so much I get a little tired. I hope you get over your teething, it's not easy when you feel sick. He had a sprightly walk you'd like him when he'd keep up along your side. Wrap your peckers what he told us me and mike looked at each other- Like whoa what was that then.

Derek never woke up at night, And in the morning he's ready to go- And he never had a voice like you- To scream with when he wanted something. I should have been so much more willing.. To help out with all the things, That a dog like you needed.

What do you

See when you

See inside of me

You can count

When you count

Count on me

What do you

See when you

See inside of me

https://youtu.be/fVxn9gr8TgE

Honestly this song and Jimmy Mack really makes me curious on what an AC covers album would be like. Neither is an obvious choice, but I think they both turned out so well.