Crayola's already discovered the childlike wonder of Animal Collective, so it's not surprising they chose the sounds of the hypercolorful, banana-iPod toting hipster cheerleader Dan Deacon for their latest campaign. (Also, the product is The Glow Station and Dan loves... CONTINUE READING DAN DEACON IS A CRAYOLA MAN»
Posted on November 18, 2008 in Commercial Appeal, Video (4 comments)
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Along with Apes & Androids and Wire, this weekend's barrage of live music in the city featured another year of the Bang On A Can marathon, stretching over twelve hours at the World Financial Center from 6PM Saturday to 6AM... CONTINUE READING DAN DEACON BANGED ON A CAN @ WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER, NYC 6/1/08»
Posted on June 2, 2008 in Concert, Video (6 comments)
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This image shuffling David Hughes-directed video for Dan Deacon's "Okie Dokie" does a good job shifting the energy of his live shows into a stream-of-conscious kaleidoscopic mindfuck. OK, instead of "mindfuck," let's say art-school project. We kid! If you try... CONTINUE READING NEW DAN DEACON VIDEO - "OKIE DOKIE"»
Posted on April 18, 2008 in Video (6 comments)
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Dan Deacon lugged his duct-taped Casio electronics and Sally Jessy specs to NY's Whitney Museum of American Art this past Friday as part of the Whitney Live series, getting the kids to do the famed "Ethan Hawke!" and "Gattaca!" countdown.... CONTINUE READING DAN DEACON GETS HIPSTERS TO DANCE AT THE WHITNEY»
Posted on February 11, 2008 in Video (19 comments)
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We saw a lot of concerts this year! You probably did too, if you're the sort to be checking music blogs on your downtime over holiday break, so let's all trade notes. Stereogum's Amrit Singh kicks things off with a... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S 30 FAVORITE LIVE SHOWS OF 2007»
Posted on December 28, 2007 in Concert (82 comments)
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CMJ 2007 will be remembered for ... not a lot, sadly. And not just 'cause everybody was boozed up. Folks will probably hold on to how it was every bit as exhausting as years past but not every bit as... CONTINUE READING YOUR FRIEND, ANDREW W.K. & OUR CMJ SUPERLATIVES»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Concert, Video (5 comments)
Tags: Andrew W.K. | CMJ | Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | Land Of Talk | No Age | White Williams
With the help of Andrew, we've already uncovered what partying at CMJ's like for the fest folks parading around the Lower East Side; for the second and final installment of the Stereogum + Andrew W.K. Study of Partying at CMJ,... CONTINUE READING CMJ PARTY SCHOOL! WITH STEREOGUM AND ANDREW W.K. (PART TWO: BACKSTAGE AT BOWERY)»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Video (14 comments)
Tags: Andrew W.K. | CMJ | Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | No Age | Ponytail | White Williams
At last night's Windish Showcase Dan Deacon got our sweaty selves hyped with group shouts of "Ethan Hawke!" and "Gattaca!" then screwed our minds with his signature strobes, green skull, and iPod-taped-to-a-banana (this has made Dan a person of interest... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: DAN DEACON PARTS THE PARTY AT BOWERY BALLROOM»
Posted on October 18, 2007 in Video (24 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Dan Deacon
Left to right: Andrew W.K., Bradford Cox. Right, so let us explain. When the CMJ scheds first came out, the Windish Agency showcase at Bowery immediately stood out as the night with most party potential. Band to watch No... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: PONYTAIL/WHITE WILLIAMS/NO AGE/DAN DEACON/DEERHUNTER @ BOWERY BALLROOM, NYC 10/17/07 (WINDISH AGENCY SHOWCASE)»
Posted on October 18, 2007 in Concert (8 comments)
Tags: Andrew W.K. | CMJ | Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | No Age | Ponytail | White Williams
Difficult to do anything aside from IM and email about here on what feels like Christmas morning, and it makes us feel dirty to post anything when all we're thinking is In Rainbows ... but we've gotta start the non-Radiohead... CONTINUE READING TAY ZONDAY/DAN DEACON/GIRL TALK @ FIRST AVE, MINNEAPOLIS 10/9/07»
Posted on October 10, 2007 in Concert, Video (12 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | Girl Talk | Tay Zonday
All it takes these days is telling a newscaster that you like turtles, and a few clicks later, your internet ubiquity has been cemented: Welcome to your 15 megabytes of fame! And just maybe, once you cross the 5 million... CONTINUE READING GIRL TALK TALKS TAY ZONDAY»
Posted on August 14, 2007 (8 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | Girl Talk | Tay Zonday
Still tired from our Chicago trip this weekend, and really it's all this 2AM show's fault. Word floated through the Pitchfork Festival on Sunday that a warehouse at Wolcott and Walnut (mnemonic device of the day: "Think 'Wall' ... then... CONTINUE READING DAN DEACON/DEERHUNTER @ A WAREHOUSE IN CHICAGO 7/16/07 (& PITCHFORK FESTIVAL PICS)»
Posted on July 18, 2007 in Concert (20 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | Pitchfork Music Festival
Wouldn't be a series of Pitchfork scores without at least one bearing little-to-no relation to the verbiage that followed, right? Well, day last of this year's P4K party in Union Park was another fine one, bringing two more mind-bending... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007 [SUNDAY; 7/15] RATING: 6.2»
Posted on July 16, 2007 in Concert (12 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | Girl Talk | Junior Boys | Menomena | of Montreal | Pavement | Pitchfork Music Festival | Stephen Malkmus | The Field
In one of the best interviews we've read in the past three hours, Ignore Magazine asks Baltimore's hottest future shocker a bunch of brilliantly dumb questions. You should read the whole thing here, but ... some highlights:You look like you... CONTINUE READING DAN DEACON TALKS VIDEOGAMES, RICE KRISPIE TREATS, GARNIER FRUCTUS»
Posted on July 16, 2007 in Video (46 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | Pitchfork Music Festival
The McCarren Pool continued its reign as the finest spot to be in NYC on a summer Sunday yesterday, JellyNYC bringing together Dan Deacon fans and slip 'n' slide riders of all shapes and sizes to the emptied, concrete construct... CONTINUE READING DAN DEACON/ERASE ERRATA/MARK RONSON/THE OCTOPUS PROJECT @ MCCARREN PARK POOL, BROOKLYN 7/8/07»
Posted on July 10, 2007 in Concert (8 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | Erase Errata | Mark Ronson | Peelander-Z | The Octopus Project
If you don't like Dan Deacon yet, or are mildly prone to epileptic fits, scroll on. Charm City polarizer Dan Deacon enlisted Jimmy Jo Roche to produce the first vid from Spiderman Of The Rings, pulling some footage (but no... CONTINUE READING NEW DAN DEACON VIDEO - "THE CRYSTAL CAT"»
Posted on May 15, 2007 in Video (13 comments)
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He may look like he'd be the most awkward kid in the room, but Baltimore's electro-animaniac Dan Deacon is a charmer. As per his custom, Deacon set his rig of pedals, keys, lightbulbs, and discman in front of the stage,... CONTINUE READING DAN DEACON @ MERCURY LOUNGE, NYC 5/12/07»
Posted on May 14, 2007 in Concert, Video (37 comments)
Tags: Dan Deacon | The Office
Take a look at the pic below; kids, this is what happens when your left brain is left unchecked and imbalanced. Maybe that shot will make it difficult to believe Dan Deacon's a classically trained composer, but his spastic electronic... CONTINUE READING NEW DAN DEACON - "SNAKE MISTAKES"»
Posted on April 20, 2007 in MP3, Tour Dates (9 comments)
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