Cover art Well, the economy is still in the shitter, Congress appears to be out of fucks to give, and there’s all of the police-state insanity surrounding the Occupy movement, but, hey, we’ve all got something to be thankful for. Here in Baltimore, we can give thanks for good local music, and we can...
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By Leah Nash Former Pavement lead singer and ‘90s slacker avatar Stephen Malkmus sees a double standard in his inability to name his new album with his band the Jicks L.A. Guns and the pervasive use of sampling. Malkmus had been advised by his record company’s lawyers that L.A. Guns, the glam band, might...
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Hilvarenbeek: Totally, Totally Broke and Beautiful Just in case you thought hanging out with Francis Ford Coppola had turned Dan Deacon irreparably fancy, IFC.com premiered Hilvarenbeek, an absolutely insane short film directed by Deacon’s pal Jimmy Joe Roche and scored by Deacon. Hilvarenbeek starts out in a church with a hipster chorus humming, led...
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Dan Deacon + Matmos This happened at last fall’s MoogFest in North Carolina: two improv jams between Dan Deacon and Matmos’ Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt, released yesterday via the indie live-recording vault Daytrotter. Warned by a comment from Schmidt on the Daytrotter posting that the second track “*really* isn’t very good,” I went...
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By Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez It wasn’t long ago that Dan Deacon was touring via Greyhound bus and living the unglamorous, underground art-collective lifestyle. Well, he still does. Mostly. But last week, it was announced that he’ll be scoring the new Francis Ford Coppola movie, Twixt Now and Sunrise, starring Val Kilmer. Late last week,...
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By Jonathan Purvis Well, here is a thing that makes total and complete sense but, at the same time, none whatsoever. Dan Deacon is set to score a new Francis Ford Coppola film called Twixt Now and Sunrise. Which is a league away from Ultimate Reality head-tripping but, anyone who’s paid deep attention to...
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| Image by Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez: According to a Pitchfork post, Baltimore’s pop magician has been hospitalized for the painful back condition acute sciatica. All dates on his current tour, including several in New York and next Wednesday’s Baltimore show, have been canceled. We wish him the best.
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Look at this poor ghost, all falling from heaven to Earth and then digging himself down to Hades and getting ferried across the River Styx by a pirate Charon. It ends up OK in the end, though, when the paddling ghost ejects a felt Dan Deacon from his submarine-spaceship and escapes altogether in this...
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So, Deacon’s new album, Bromst, is a composition written for 15 or so people, and the plan is to distribute sheet music online along his tour route ahead of time so interested players can participate in shows. Cool, right? For this, he needs help from people with a certain specific skill set. And he...
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Dan Deacon’s follow-up his 2006 grand splash Spiderman Of The Rings now has a release date and an eerie, very cool cover. (Disclosure: said cover was shot by City Paper production staffer Frank Hamilton as a freelance project not affiliated with CP.) The record, Bromst, comes out March 24 on Carpark Records, the label...
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Given how many times “crayola” has been used as a adjective to describe the music of Dan Deacon, this really couldn’t be more apt: the producer/performance artist/ringleader has licensed his song “Pink Batman” (from Spiderman of the Rings) to said crayon company for a commercial for some very awesome looking glowing/drawing thing that looks...
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Baltimore is taking over the world this fall, or at least a smattering of Midwestern and Eastern cities. With what’s being billed as the Baltimore Round Robin tour, Dan Deacon has pretty much bested himself and really anyone who’s ever rented a tour bus or three. Basically, Deacon is renting said three buses–veggie fuel-powered,...
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Granted, this is a rather late entry into the Magazines With a Hard-On for Baltimore category, but we still thought you should know. (Given there’s probably plenty more of these to come, maybe it’s actually not that late.) Paper, a mag we last recall seeing in Whole Foods, gave a fairly similar Baltimore shout-out...
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Lambs Eat Ivy A March 4 Sun piece titled “Baltimore: A Muse for Many” offered what felt like a keyword search-generated list of songs with “Baltimore” in the title. What, if anything, these songs have anything to do with the city is beyond our ken. You know what we’re talking about here: Music–a song,...
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Noise caught up with the ever-touring Dan Deacon, currently warping young minds in Australia, and psychotronic DJ/video artist Mark Brown for the scoop on Wham City’s latest venture. The collective’s brand-new, more-than-just-music label debuted earlier this month with Wham City Box #1, a multimedia compilation featuring a CD and DVD, along with hawt-couture goodies...
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