INDIO, Calif. -- The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival started 12 years ago, a few generations by pop measurements. It's enough time for more than one broad set of tastes to harden and be pushed aside. And during that period, almost inevitably, it has become a festival about itself. The innovations of this year's edition, which started Friday...
PAUL SIMON ''So Beautiful or So What'' (Hear Music/Concord) Thoughts of love, death, faith and what they all mean in the end -- big questions -- run through the songs on Paul Simon's ''So Beautiful or So What.'' The marvel is that somehow those weighty topics have lightened Mr. Simon's songwriting touch. For most of his career, Mr. Simon has sought...
Let no one forget that Animal Collective is an arty, experimental band. Its 2009 album and EP, ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' and ''Fall Be Kind'' (both on Domino), brought the band within hailing distance of pop, using intelligible vocals and blissful electronic hooks. But so far this year Animal Collective has largely set aside songs in favor of...
Animal Collective er en anerkendt og anmelderrost musikgruppe der i øjeblikket er baseret i New York, men som oprindeligt har sit udspring i Baltimore, Maryland. Gruppen består af Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin, eller Deacon (Josh Dibb) samt Geologist (Brian Weitz). Udgivelser under navnet Animal Collective kan dække over en udgivelse fra nogle eller alle disse medlemmer, det vil sige at gruppen arbejder med et løst lineup. Genremæssigt er de svære at definere, da de eksperimenterer ekstraordinært meget med stilarter og koncepter fra album til album. Gruppen driver desuden pladeselskabet Paw Tracks, hvorpå de udgiver deres eget og andres materiale.