Showing All "Dan Deacon" Posts
May 28th Comment
Primavera Sound Festival took place over multiple days in Barcelona last week, hosting acts including Blur, My Bloody Valentine, the Knife, Phoenix, the Postal Service, the Breeders, and many more.… Read Story »
Apr 30th 4 Comments
After experimenting with three formats for the Monthly Mix -- MP3 zip, Spotify playlist, Soundcloud set, etc. -- in March we finally came upon a solution that pleased everyone: all of them. And so,… Read Story »
Apr 29th Comment
Baltimore electro-spaz's new video for his garbled, fast-moving Record Store Day single "Konono Ripoff No. 1" consists entirely of jittery gif-style portraits of people from Baltimore's arts… Read Story »
Apr 23rd Comment
It's a Baltimore family affair when Peals' "Blue Elvis" gets remixed by Dan Deacon. The duo, comprised of William Cashion of Future Islands and Bruce Willen of Double Dagger (if anyone has intel… Read Story »
Apr 5th 1 Comment
For a new Record Store Day 7" single, the euphoric Baltimore experimentalist Dan Deacon has recorded a new song that borrows its tones and its sense of melodics from the Congolese band Konono No. 1,… Read Story »
Mar 18th 5 Comments
The Flaming Lips debuted their new album The Terror in Austin over the weekend at SXSW. Two fan sites, The Future Heart and Slow Nerve Action, have unleashed a load of information about the release… Read Story »
Mar 7th 5 Comments
In making the video for "Crash Jam," a euphoric jitter-drone from Dan Deacon's album America, Ben O'Brien has edited together a bunch of footage from Tony Horton's P90X workout videos. In the… Read Story »
Feb 11th 3 Comments
Did you know the University Of Phoenix is the largest for-profit university in the country? I didn't know that. I don't know that I've ever met anyone who has taken a class there, actually, which is… Read Story »
Jan 18th 11 Comments
I can't imagine any of the artists on this week's list had huge budgets to play around. Even Santigold, the one who could've presumably commanded a small pile of money to make a video, ended up doing… Read Story »
Jan 17th 1 Comment
"Guildford Avenue Bridge," a pounding, buzzing instrumental from Dan Deacon's album America, is named for a Baltimore landmark. But its video, from director Alan Resnick, never stays put on one… Read Story »
