The Short List of Things to Do

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Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective performs onstage.

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Like the Grateful Dead, Animal Collective creates plenty of weirdness for weirdness' sake. But just often enough, the Baltimore trio's noodling resolves into something ecstatic ("Summertime Clothes," "Brother Sport") or at least punny ("Lion in a Coma").

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