Bradford Cox opens Virtual 7" no. 8 with a rousing cover of the vintage 'late 50s/early '60s pre-Now Sound Brooklyn doo-wop group the Five Discs' "Doctor." The B-Side's a somber harmonica-lined campfire-side track called "The Screens" that'd work well with... CONTINUE READING NEW ATLAS SOUND - "DOCTOR" & "THE SCREENS"»
Posted on November 11, 2009 in MP3 (5 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | Fanfarlo | The Five Discs
The new Atlas Sound's out next week (10/20). If you act fast and nab it through Rough Trade you'll receive a limited-edition six-song bonus disc with alternate Logos takes and three previously unreleased tunes. The tracklist, etc., is at 4AD.... CONTINUE READING ROUGH TRADE ANNOUNCES LOGOS BONUS CD»
Posted on October 14, 2009 (1 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter
ATP was the year's finest festival. We've already covered that. But the band performances are only half the (All Tomorrow's) party. For a weekend, the mountain resort that inspired Dirty Dancing is a surreal estate, overrun by music-heads and artists;... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM SPENDS THE WEEKEND AT ATP NY»
Posted on October 9, 2009 in Video (9 comments)
Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties | Animal Collective | Avey Tare | Axl Rose | Boredoms | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | Hisham Bharoocha | No Age | Panda Bear | Ponytail | Soft Circle | Steve Albini | Ulrich Schnauss | Volcano The Bear | Zach Hill
Not one to hold his tongue, a new video finds Wayne Coyne backstage calling Bradford Cox (aka "Brad Fox," aka "Benny The Cocks") a dick. Cox returns the favor by explaining how "a magician guy" and "a guy in a... CONTINUE READING FLAMING LIPS & DEERHUNTER LOCK HORNS BACKSTAGE (PLUS PICTURES FROM THE LIPS' NAKED BICYCLIST VIDEO SET)»
Posted on September 24, 2009 in Video (20 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | The Colbert Report | The Flaming Lips | Them Crooked Vultures
Our second year at Kutsher's was rainier than the first, but that didn't matter so much to us or, seemingly, the other attendees: If anything, this year felt more celebratory (and debauched) than 2008. You wouldn't be faulted for noting... CONTINUE READING ATP NY 2009: WAYNE'S WORLD»
Posted on September 14, 2009 in Concert, Photo (34 comments)
Tags: Akron Family | All Tomorrow's Parties | Animal Collective | Antipop Consortium | Atlas Sound | Autolux | Black Dice | Bon Iver | Boredoms | Bradford Cox | Bridezilla | Circulatory System | Crystal Castles | David Cross | Dead Meadow | Deerhunter | El-P | Eugene Mirman | Grouper | Hüsker Dü | Iron And Wine | Jon Benjamin | Jon Glaser | Melvins | Nick Cave | No Age | Oneida | Panda Bear | Shellac | Sleepy Sun | Steve Albini | Sufjan Stevens | Suicide | Super Furry Animals | The Dirty Three | The Drones | The Feelies | The Flaming Lips | The Jesus Lizard | Zach Hill
Athens' "Appalachian Wave" crew Supercluster is a bone-fide Georgian super-group that ebbs and flows in size like any community and features members of Pylon, the Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System, Instruments, Casper & The Cookies, Deerhunter, etc. Their new album... CONTINUE READING NEW SUPERCLUSTER - "BRAVE TREE"»
Posted on September 9, 2009 in MP3, Tour Dates (1 comments)
Tags: Bob Hay And The Jolly Beggars | Casper And The Cookies | Circulatory System | Deerhunter | Olivia Tremor Control | Phoenix | Pylon | Supercluster
At this point Bradford Cox releases so much free Atlas Sound material on his blog there has to be a good reason for piecing a bunch of new songs together and expecting you to pay for it. Who knows how... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: ATLAS SOUND - LOGOS»
Posted on September 2, 2009 in Premature Evaluation (29 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | Small Black
Some 30,000 people over two days crammed into the six-block area in San Diego's East Village that hosted the 25th annual Street Scene this past weekend. That's a strong number, albeit down from last year when people weren't scrambling for... CONTINUE READING STREET SCENE 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on September 2, 2009 in Concert, Photo (4 comments)
Tags: Alison Mosshart | Anya Marina | Band Of Horses | Black Eyed Peas | Black Joe Lewis | Busta Rhymes | Cake | Calexico | Conor Oberst | Crocodiles | Deerhunter | Devendra Banhart | Dungen | Extra Golden | Fergie | Girl Talk | Holy Fuck | Jack White | Los Campesinos! | M.I.A. | Mastodon | No Age | of Montreal | Public Enemy | Ra Ra Riot | Silversun Pickups | Street Scene | Ted Leo | The Dead Weather | Thievery Corporation | Wavves | will.i.am | Zach Hill | Zee Avi
Deerhunter played the La Route Du Rock a little over a week ago. While there -- there being St. Malo on Brittany's Emerald Cost, France -- La Blogotheque recorded the Atlanta group smoking-up the festival stage. Making the most of... CONTINUE READING NEW ATLAS SOUND - "KID CLIMAX" (ACOUSTIC AT ROUTE DU ROCK)»
Posted on August 24, 2009 in Video (4 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | Lightning Dust
"Walkabout" isn't the best track on Atlas Sound's second proper full-length Logos, but it is the song that features a member of Animal Collective, which is likely why it got out there first. Truth is, it's kind of album's curve... CONTINUE READING NEW ATLAS SOUND - "ATTIC LIGHTS"»
Posted on August 20, 2009 (25 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | Sian Alice Group
Lindsey Buckingham's (great) "Walk A Thin Line" from the (great) Tusk LP is such a pretty and pleading track, relying on LB's falsetto and guitar triads, flat-smacked drum sounds, and backing vocals that "oh-wa-oh-wa" upfront and get increasingly gauzy/complex as... CONTINUE READING ATLAS SOUND COVERS FLEETWOOD MAC»
Posted on August 12, 2009 in MP3 (6 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Deerhunter | Fleetwood Mac | Lindsey Buckingham | The Like
We've been spending plenty of quality time with Atlas Sound's Logos and it looks like the longstanding electro-lined UK duo will be getting its share of Bradford Cox's bedroom dream-pop, too. Atlas Sound and Broadcast begin a month-long North American... CONTINUE READING ATLAS SOUND & BROADCAST HIT THE ROAD, GENTLY»
Posted on July 29, 2009 (17 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Broadcast | Deerhunter
This past weekend, Seattle roped off a couple of blocks on Pike Street to host the Capitol Hill Block Party, inviting everyone from Sonic Youth to Micachu to the Jesus Lizard to help fill out a strong roster of artists.... CONTINUE READING CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 27, 2009 in Concert, Photo (4 comments)
Tags: Black Lips | Built To Spill | Capitol Hill Block Party | Deerhunter | Girls | Hey Marseilles | Japandroids | Maldives | Micachu And The Shapes | Mika Miko | Moondoggies | Sonic Youth | Spinnerette | The Dutchess And The Duke | The Flaming Lips | The Gossip | The Jesus Lizard | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | The Thermals | Truckasaurus | Wild Orchid Children
Outside of all those free downloads and EPs, Atlas Sound is following Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel with the second proper full-length Logos. According to a note from Cox written on July 4th, the... CONTINUE READING BRADFORD COX'S THOUGHTS ON ATLAS SOUND'S LOGOS»
Posted on July 9, 2009 (13 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | Stereolab
Bradford Cox has never been shy about his love of the Breeders and the Deal sisters in general, so this live collaboration on the Amps' "Bragging Party" must have felt like some sort of dream come true (or, correct, a... CONTINUE READING THE BREEDERS & DEERHUNTER HOST A "BRAGGING PARTY"»
Posted on May 19, 2009 in Video (4 comments)
Tags: Cymbals Eat Guitars | Deerhunter | Reggie Watts | The Amps | The Breeders
Between Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca and Deerhunter's new EP, it might be time to invest in a Case Logic. The Atlanta band's Platts Eyott Session cassette was available only at last year's Halloween gig, but the Rainwater Cassette Exchange tape... CONTINUE READING A CASSETTE REVIVAL?»
Posted on May 18, 2009 (6 comments)
Tags: Deerhunter | DEVO
The Flaming Lips-curated ATP NY line-up gets some additions today, including sexy old timers Boss Hog, along with Boredoms performing Boredrum 2009, two different "Deer" bands, and No Age doing a complete Hüsker Dü LP with a guest vocalist (wonder... CONTINUE READING IRON & WINE, BOSS HOG, BOREDOMS ADDED TO ATP NY»
Posted on May 1, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties | Boredoms | Boss Hog | Deerhoof | Deerhunter | Iron And Wine | No Age
On the heels of the Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP, Bradford Cox's Atlas Sound is offering up free Virtual 7" No. 7, this time an upbeat "Springtime Instrumental" gives way to the seasonal-affective "Time Warp." Add to your collection at Blogspot.... CONTINUE READING NEW ATLAS SOUND - "SPRINGTIME INSTRUMENTAL" & "TIME WARP"»
Posted on April 22, 2009 in MP3 (0 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deastro | Deerhunter | Depeche Mode
Generous to a fault Bradford Cox has a new EP and this time it's out on Kranky instead of Blogspot. Rainwater Cassette Exchange was recorded with Microcastle engineer Nicolas Vernhes in Brooklyn this past February and starting today they're giving... CONTINUE READING NEW DEERHUNTER - "RAINWATER CASSETTE EXCHANGE"»
Posted on April 17, 2009 in Album Art, MP3 (14 comments)
Tags: Bradford Cox | Deerhunter
The sixth installment of Bradford Cox's virtual 7" series dropped early this morning. The hypnotic plinky keyboard part on "Solo, Or 'The Square'" recalls a Caribbean steel band, and Bradford's heavily reverbed vocals have an appropriately laid back vibe. There... CONTINUE READING NEW ATLAS SOUND - "SOLO, OR 'THE SQUARE'"»
Posted on March 19, 2009 in MP3 (3 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bradford Cox | Deerhunter | Phoenix
When writing about Deerhunter debuting songs at NoisePop last week, I mentioned "Famous Last Words" was maybe the closest we'd come to hearing the band do a Strokes song. This was before "Disappearing Ink." Bradford Cox & Co. put the... CONTINUE READING NEW DEERHUNTER - "DISAPPEARING INK" (LIVE IN ATLANTA)»
Posted on March 10, 2009 in Video (18 comments)
Tags: Deerhunter | Phoenix
Earlier we posted a couple new songs St. Vincent debuted at NoisePop last week. The folks at Wolfgang's Vault captured Deerhunter's set in its entirety from "Born To Run" to a bits from Cryptograms and Microcastle through to the extended... CONTINUE READING DEERHUNTER DEBUT NEW SONGS AT NOISEPOP»
Posted on March 2, 2009 in Video (16 comments)
Tags: Deerhunter | Pearl Jam | Scarlett Johansson
Over the summer of '07, the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart landed themselves a BTW stamp on the back of just a 15-minute debut EP; forward a year-and-a-half and the band's being tapped by the likes of MySpace to... CONTINUE READING DEERHUNTER/THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART @ RICKSHAW STOP, SAN FRANCISCO 2/25/09»
Posted on February 26, 2009 in Concert, Photo (7 comments)
Tags: Black Lips | Deerhunter | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | Weezer
Lotus Plaza is the solo project of Deerhunter multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Lockett Pundt. His excellent first collection of songs The Floodlight Collective features ten great examples of layered melodic dream pop. You'll hear echoes of his other project, for sure,... CONTINUE READING NEW LOTUS PLAZA (LOCKETT PUNDT OF DEERHUNTER) - "RED OAK WAY" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on January 30, 2009 in MP3 (17 comments)
Tags: Deerhunter | Lightning Bolt | Lockett Pundt | Lotus Plaza
Between the Web Sheriff fiasco and back-and-forth apologies, the hubbub surrounding Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion feels more like a nerdy soap opera than the release of an indie rock album. The drama was ratcheted up a few notches after... CONTINUE READING ANIMAL COLLECTIVE'S E-MAIL HACKED, SAYS DEERHUNTER»
Posted on December 18, 2008 (35 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Deerhunter | The Dead Weather
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