Animal Collective @ Prospect Park, Brooklyn 8/14/09 (Videos & Setlist)

Animal Collective - "Brothersport"

Friday night Animal Collective played the first of 2 shows this weekend at the Prospect Park Bandshell.

More videos from Friday and Setlist below.

Animal Collective - "Daily Routine"


Animal Collective - "Guys Eyes"


Animal Collective @ Prospect Park Bandshell 8/14/09
Setlist:

What Would I Want Sky
My Girls
You Could Win a Rabbit
Summertime Clothes
Slippi
Daily Routine
Chores
Bleed
Fireworks(medley)
Brothersport

encore:
Lion in a Coma
Guys Eyes
Leaf House

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Lollapalooza 2009 Day 2: Saturday Pictures (Delta Spirit, Frederico Aubele, Santigold, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more...)

After rain on Friday it was a hot one Saturday at Lollapalooza in Grant Park. Braving the elements for the viewing pleasure of the rest of us was KZ and Co. w/ camera in hand.

Read her note and have a look at her pictures from Saturday's festivities BELOW.

From superblogger, KZ:

I can't tell if I'm miserably hungover or ridiculously sun burnt.... Probably both.
Lolla Day 2 was a HOT one. (literally one extreme to the other...crazy Chicago weather). Made it to Grant Park in time to catch Delta Spirit. They were great, probably one of my favorite performances of the day. They were humble and appreciative to be playing. Their lead singer (Matt Vasquez) actually said at one point, "Wow this is a lot of people. We are used to playing in front of 200 and this is, well, MORE." And they jammed!
(BTW....the old guy with the white beard who always introduces bands at Double Door introduced the band and stood next to us and rocked out)

Next, we headed over to Federico Aubele who I didn't know much about but he was cool. His music is a mix of electronica, reggae and Latin American music. So fun. We even did a little dancing with Ronnie Woo-Woo.

Next, we hit up Animal Collective DJ set. Basically the boys from Animal Collective spinning a few records from their own personal collection. Again, did a little dancing with the group.

By this point, it was time to get out of the sun. Everyone set up camp at the shady BMI stage where we would wait for Blind Pilot to begin. Mz, Tracy and I decided to be aggressive and venture back out. On our way to see Gomez, we hit up the tattoo parlor and got some wicked sparkly tats. (you can get one at the state farm tent near the lolla store) Gomez was ok. We were kind of far back but we found K. Flynn and group so we hung with them for awhile.
We met back up with the group and watched Blind Pilot. They were good. And everyone fell in love with them even more after I told them they are biking their way across the country to perform.

Santigold was next. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was my second favorite of the day. RHOTW perhaps. We danced. That's all I have to say about that.

TV on the Radio brought high energy and fierce soulful rock to the Bud stage. (ps that is my favorite stage bc its on the north side of grant park and the skyline makes for a ridicu backdrop) After their solid performance, the group kind of split up to check out a few bands.

Some went to see Diplo and others Ben Harper and others headed down south to catch Tool (which they reported was really cool). I've seen Ben Harper so I manned the camp spot in anticipation for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. We moved in pretty close. We were far stage left (technically stage right) and has plenty of dance room. YYYs were unbelievable. I'm not a huge Beastie Boy fan but I can tell that those fans were not disappointed. Karen O showed up stage with a full neon Indian headpiece. They rocked for a solid hour and a half. K.O. was like an explosion all over the stage. That chick has mad high energy....and I LOVE HER! Overall a great second day.

Alright back to hydrating for today.

And the pictures...

Delta Spirit








Thax Douglas


Ronnie Woo-Woo


Frederico Aubele



Animal Collective DJ Set


Gomez


Blind Pilot



Santigold




TV On The Radio



Yeah Yeah Yeahs




and the crew behind these antics.


Once again, thanks for the contributions KZ & Co.

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Monday Reading (Animal Collective, Steve Earle, Grizzly Bear, White Stripes, and more!)

It was a busy weekend. Settle in with some reading material to get you caught up on what you've missed and what's happening on the interwebs and beyond.

Animal Collective (who we'll see in Aug.) have a show tonight, May 11th, in D.C. at the 9:30 Club. The show will be shown via webcast at NPR. Check out the details at NPR Music.

Steve Earle talks about the emotional difficulty in putting together his tribute album to his idol, Townes Van Zandt, Townes, which will be released Tuesday May 12th. Read the full article from the NY Times.

The New Yorker must know that I'm going to see Grizzly Bear on my birthday in a few weeks because they featured the band in their recent issue. Have a read of the article yourself and keep an eye out for the band's upcoming release of Vecktimest.

Jack White assured White Stripes fans everywhere in his recent interview with Music Radar that despite his many side projects and Meg White's anxiety problems the White Stripes would be putting out new material, "It won’t be too far off, maybe a year.” The full interview can be found at Music Radar.

I stumbled on this article last week about an ex-banker that has turned the current economic downturn into an opportunity to leave behind his past work and focus on what was formerly just a hobby, building aluminum guitars. It's a cool story and aside from these geeetars looking pretty rad some of our favorite rockers seem to have taken a liking to them as well (yim yames???). Have a read at the Oregonian.

Cat Power cooks? I guess she does. I'm not sure it makes for the most compelling viewing, but I thought I'd let you guys decide. Check out past RHOTW Cat Power making some sweet potato somethings.

This is a pretty cool project that Logan Walters has undertaken. He has set out to redesign Wu-Tang Clan album covers as if they had been put out on Blue Note Records. Some interesting work. Have a look at the Wu-Tang Design Remix.

Happy reading and have a good week. -JL




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