Music Weekly podcast: Animal Collective and the Virgins

Hallo everyone and welcome to our first show proper of 2009, and our 100th in total. Yes, 100. From Just Jack to here, it's been a long journey. So it seems appropriate that our main guests this week should be the most talked about band of the moment, Animal Collective. Rosie Swash meets Panda Bear, Avay Tare and Geologist to chat underwater music, field recordings and taking time off to build a house. Our second guests are NYC party band The Virgins (at least, that's how they'd like to be seen, we caught one of them reading Richard Yates's short stories). Paul MacInnes drags them into the pod for some exclusive live tracks and a discussion of the best hooks in rock'n'roll. That and penises wrapped in chains. And there's more! Sarah Boden is in from Observer Music Monthly (new mag on Sunday, fact fans) to review new music from Franz Ferdinand, Fever Ray (aka Karen Dreijer of The Knife) and Hudson Mohawke. We've got your faceback too (you could be our 703rd facebook friend!) and we want some more, ... (link)