Animal Collective are set to curate next year's All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP) festival, it's been announced. The event will take place at Butlins Holiday Centre in Minehead from May 13-15.  Read more 

A host of critically acclaimed indie acts have been announced as appearing on the Official Sound Track to Spike Jonze latest film 'I'm Here'. The film, Jonze first since he directed last years 'Where The Wild Things Are', is billed as a 'short robot love story'.  Read more 

Animal Collective are the to take part in the Guggenheim museum's 50th anniversary celebrations in New York. The band have collaborated with artist Danny Perez on a performance piece that will transform the museum’s rotunda into a kinetic, psychedelic environment.  Read more 

The first bands have been announced for this year's Liverpool Soundcity which will take place for the second time in 2009. Chart toppers White Lies will be joined by two other recently hyped acts Animal Collective and Little Boots on the bill.  Read more 

Gigwise went down to Plastic People in London for a very special invite-only preview of Animal Collective’s eighth album last night (3rd December). ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’, as the record is titled, will already sound familiar to those who have witnessed Animal Collective live in 2008, with much of it made up from retitled set material performed this year.  Read more