At SF Weekly, John Vanderslice shares memorable moments from his analog recording studio Tiny Telephone's 10 year history.

1999: Granfaloon Bus records Good Funeral Weather
“This was one of the first records I heard out of the studio where I was shocked at the fidelity,” Vanderslice says. He’d previously thought of Tiny Telephone as a “super-lo-fi place,” but hearing the album’s majestic mix of twangy country-rock with unusual instruments like French horn and vibraphone changed his mind: “It was really one of the proudest moments I’ve had.”

Each Note Secure lists musicians you should follow on Twitter (and those you shouldn't). Of course, you could also follow me on Twitter.

Drowned in Sound interviews Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes.

Nashville Cream reports that David Berman has disbanded the Silver Jews.

A public service to bring you up-to-date on all the latest happenings in Animalcollectivosphere. What follows below is a recap of this week and this week alone (1/19 – 1/23).

1/23 Pitchforkmedia: AC L.A. Show Cancelled
1/23 Pitchforkmedia: Bowery Ballroom show review, photos
1/23 Stereogum: Review, photos of the Bowery Ballroom show
1/23 Brooklyn Vegan: Animal Collective Terminal 5 TIX, Bowery pics & recordings
1/23 NME: Good news: Merriweather loses none of its charms in the live setting
1/23 Nyctaper: Recordings of the 1/21 Bowery show
1/23 The American Scene: Dissecting/finding meaning in the “My Girls” lyrics
1/23 Chicago Sun-Times: Jim DeRogatis review of Merriweather Post Pavilion
1/23 Gorilla Vs Bear: Link to the Nyctaper recording of the Bowery show 1/21
1/23 Tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn’s Tear: AC AND QUANTUM PHYSICS

1/22 Pitchforkmedia: New Animal Collective Mix
1/22 Stereogum: Animal Collective Bowery Ballroom Review
1/22 Idolator: Animal Collective Fans- Don’t Eff With Them
1/22 Village Voice: Bowery Ballroom show review
1/22 Black Book: Bowery Ballroom show review
1/22 Jambase: Animal Collective’s Moment in Time
1/22 Prefixmag: Bowery Ballroom show review

1/21 Pitchforkmedia: “My Girls” video, Grand Ballroom live recording
1/21 Stereogum: Animal Collective’s “My Girls” video
1/21 Brooklynvegan: 1/20 Grand Ballroom show, ticket scalping scam
1/21 MBV: Animal Collective’s “My Girls” video
1/21 Idolator: Animal Collective’s “My Girls” video
1/21 Nyctaper: Recordings of the 1/20 Grand Ballroom show
1/21 NME: Animal Collective Plan World Tour
1/21 CMJ: Animal Collective Post Tour Dates
1/21 Prefixmag: Download Animal Collective’s Grand Ballroom Set
1/21 Gorilla Vs. Bear: Link to Nyctaper’s show, video
1/21 Exclaim: On Alan McGee: Animal Collective Are the New Hall & Oates

1/20 Pitchforkmedia: Animal Collective schedule world tour
1/20 Stereogum: Animal Collective announce world tour
1/20 Brooklynvegan: CD release, didn’t make vinyl history, tour
1/20 NPR: A chat with Animal Collective
1/20 The Guardian: Alan McGee: Animal Collective Are the New Hall & Oates
1/20 LA Times: Merriweather Post Pavilion review
1/20 IGN: Merriweather Post Pavilion review
1/20 Coolhunting: Merriweather Post Pavilion review
1/20 The Globe and Mail: Merriweather Post Pavilion Review

1/19 Pitchforkmedia: Animal Collective interview
1/19 NPR: Will Hermes reviews Merriweather Post Pavilion, full album stream
1/19 Boston Globe: Review of Merriweather Post Pavilion
1/19 The Catbirdseat: “Animal Collective – ‘My Girls’ (Special Obama Inaug Remix Edition) (dedicated to Sully the Airline Pilot)”

Although we won’t get into last week, don’t let that allow you miss to Animal Collective debuting a new song in London (1/16), the Baltimore City Paper interviews Ben Allen, the producer of Merriweather Post Pavilion (1/15), Geologist talks to the National Post (1/13), or looking at the songs that inspired Merriweather Post Pavilion (1/12). Don’t fall behind!

The Acorn – “Crooked Legs”

Celeste Danger, Elisabeth YoungHaving spent most of 2008 on the road and working their self-titled debut to death, Brookyln’s Jealous Girlfriends are quite understandably taking the first part of this year off to recover and recharge. And, in the case of singer/guitarist Holly Miranda, work on a solo record. Well, judging from her MySpace blog, work on the solo record has been ongoing for some time - since late 2007 at least - but presumably the time available now will allow it to wrapped up and hopefully see the light of day.

Details are scarce, but production duties appear to have been handled by TV On The Radio’s David Sitek and it will feature appearances from Celebration’s Katrina Ford and TVOTR’s Kyp Malone. The project may or may not be named Raven Mayhem and the album may or may not be called The Magician’s Private Library. Whatever it’s called, there’s a good number of tracks - demo or completed is unclear - at her MySpace and they sound quite compelling. Some distance away from the Jealous Girlfriends’ rock attack, they’re more atmospheric and sonically adventurous while remaining firmly rooted by her marvelous, sleepy yet soaring rasp of a voice. Who/what/whenever this stuff comes out, I’m definitely interested to hear more.

MySpace: Holly Miranda

Peter Bjorn & John are set to release their new record Living Thing on March 31 and will tour it across North America starting in April. Support for the tour will be Chairlift, who were featured in a Daytrotter session last week. PB&J have already released a video from the new album and Pitchfork premiered a remix MP3 of the first single earlier this week.

MP3: Peter Bjorn & John - “Lay It Down (Golden Filter remix)
Video: Peter Bjorn & John - “Lay It Down”

Video: Loney Dear - “Airport Surroundings”

David Berman has dissolved the Silver Jews. Maybe I should have gone to see them at Lee’s in September after all… Pronouncement from the man himself at the Drag City forums.

Clash interviews Of Montreal, who have released a track from their digital-only Jon Brion remix EP.

MP3: Of Montreal - “First Time High” (Of Chicago acoustic version)

Franz Ferdinand’s Tonight is currently streaming at the band’s MySpace. It’s available this Tuesday. Conversations with the band are up at Clash, Metro and dose.ca.

Stream: Franz Ferdinand / Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Aquarium Drunkard gets a Robyn Hitchcock guide to New York City. Goodnight Oslo, his new album with the Venus 3, is out February 17.

JAM reports that the threatened new Neil Young concept album Fork In The Road (which concerns bailouts of banks and automotive manufacturers as well as electric cars) will indeed be released on March 31 and the promised Archives have indeed been pushed back. It’s probably safe to say this will be the least-welcome Neil Young album in the history of ever.

Diane Cluck
Gwenola Carrere, 2008

The A.V. Club interviews Andrew Bird, whose Noble Beast album was released Tuesday.

AVC: Do you ever get tired of always being tagged as "the guy who whistles," "the guy who plays the violin," "the guy who does loops," and so forth?

AB: It's pretty harmless. There's lots of worse things that could be attached to your name. Since I started doing the New York Times thing, sometimes they say on the ad at the theater, "Multi-instrumentalist, cultural commentator." I'm like, "No, that's a bad expectation to start to develop." I guess it's better than "blogger," which is such an ugly word. It's always been such a pain to describe to anyone what I'm doing, so it might as well be a matter-of-fact thing like "violinist," "whistler," "multi-instrumentalist." It's all pretty harmless. If they said, like, "swing impresario" or something like that, then I would have an issue. Or "indie rock" is another one that gets me. I just never felt like I had anything to do with indie rock. When you think indie rock, you think more about haircuts and fashion than about music.

The Ventura County Star interviews Kaki King.

Who goes to a Kaki show? Guitar players taking notes?

Guitar players taking notes, underage lesbians that snuck in and hipsters that have halfway decent taste in music.

The Yorkshire Evening Post interviews Richard Thompson.

A.C. Newman talks to Metro Vancouver about his new solo album, Get Guilty.

“I think Get Guilty is a louder record than Challengers is,” says Newman, comparing his latest solo effort to his last New Pornographers record in the same breath. “I think I’m always trying to change it up, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a Pornographers album or not.”

In the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim DeRogatis delivers a glowing review of Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion.

On "Merriweather Post Pavilion," the group's ninth studio album, released Tuesday, the newly pared-down trio of the trippily named Avey Tare (a k a Dave Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) and Geologist (Brian Weitz) sobered up long enough to polish and perfect their songcraft, yielding a psychedeli-pop masterpiece winning praise from every corner as an irresistibly sunny idyll in ever darkening times.

Amazon is selling the mp3 version of the Sex Pistols' Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols for $1.99 today.

Mick Harvey has left Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Paul's SXSW Artist Catalog allows sorting of 2009 participating acts by popularity, alphabetical order, and other metrics.