Animal Collective to Make National TV Debut October 5
Animal Collective are kind of a big deal in this little world of ours, but it's easy to forget that, to the general populace, the music they make is a little, uh, weird. Still, 1:30 in the morning is as fine a time as any for weirdness/bong hits, both of which seem to suit Animal Collective rather well.
So, when you're flipping to and fro betwixt "Tuna Wranglers" and "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson" on Friday night, October 5, you may come across Animal Collective, making their national television debut on the "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" television program.
Clearly the home of both a spastic, yelping host and a masturbating bear is a fitting choice for the Animal Collective's broadcast entree, but one wonders just who'll be sitting on the couch, glancing cock-eyed across the stage, while the Collective racket is going down. There's just something about this sentence-- "Comedian Dane Cook, star running back LaDainian Tomlinson, and musical guest Animal Collective!"-- that seems a little askew (other guests purely hypothetical). Then again, so does "Mary-Kate Olsen, Wayne Brady, Lyle Lovett, and Quackers the S*?#" Eating Duck," and that's on tonight. However it goes, we're gonna Forkcast the shit out of it. Quackers, keep your distance.
Beyond their time at Rockefeller Center, Animal Collective have that tour thing happening, and that new record we liked a lot.
Animal Collective:
09-14 Seattle, WA - Neumos *#
09-15 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom *#
09-16 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater *#
09-17 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore *#
09-18 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theater *#
09-20 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theater #$
09-21 El Paso, TX - Club 101 $
09-22 Austin, TX - Emo's $
09-23 Norman, OK - Bricktown Ballroom $
09-24 St. Louis, MO - Gargoyle Club $
09-25 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom $
09-26 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse $
09-27 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle $
09-28 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club $
09-29 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom $
09-30 New York, NY - Webster Hall $
10-01 New York, NY - Webster Hall %
10-15 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Medis
10-16 Oslo, Norway - Jon Dee
10-17 Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen
10-18 Berlin, Germany - Festaal Kreutzurgh
10-19 Cologne, Germany - TBA
10-20 St. Gallen, Switzerland - Theatre Place
10-22 Hamburg, Germany - Uebel und Gefaehrlich
10-24 Paris, France - Cabaret Sauvage
10-26 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique-Orangerie
10-28 Bracknell, England - Wilde Theatre
10-29 Brighton, England - St George's Church
10-30 Bristol, England - Trinity
11-01 London, England - Astoria
11-03 Manchester, England - New Century Hall
11-04 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod
11-05 Leeds, England - Irish Centre
11-06 Glasgow, Scotland - Ora Mor
* with Eric Copeland
# with Wizard Prison
$ with Tickley Feather
% with Vampire Weekend
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