Yes, this finger-puppeteered clip for "Paddling Ghost" features a cutely expressive puppet paddling ghost, but it also has a few moments of a scaled-down and fingered Dan Deacon, and that is really…   Read Story »

If you weren't talking about the weather in Grant Park this weekend, you weren't in Grant Park this weekend. And really that would've been a shame. It was oppressive at times, but despite -- or as…   Read Story »

But hopefully he really is in love with seahorses. Whatever the case, after Sarah Silverman Tweeted about he and Liam Lynch's 2006 video "Drinking Out of Cups" with the note that "Dan Deacon trips on…   Read Story »

On a whim I checked in with Breakfast At Sulimay's, the amusing Web video series in which three elderly music fans review indie and hip-hop singles over coffee at a Philadelphia diner. Turns out…   Read Story »

Maybe you already knew about Dan Deacon's old Long Island ska crew Channel 57, but we've never seen so many Channel 59 or childhood Dan photos in one place (Thanks, Gena). Skank to…   Read Story »

Despite an expanded instrumental palette and album-art allusions to the contrary, the first single from Bromst wouldn't have sounded out of place on Spiderman Of The Rings. Hear how the rest of it…   Read Story »

Over a career that's seen him evolve from outsider musician to outlandishly infectious personality, Andrew W.K. has covered his pop cultural bases: writing and producing his way through a master list…   Read Story »

Yesterday we took a look at Dan's shady forest/bright tent album art for his forthcoming Bromst, compared in turns by you guys to past covers from Gossip Girl-fave Department Of Eagles and…   Read Story »

Mr. Deacon's forthcoming Bromst LP landed in our list of 20 albums we're most excited for in 2009, a placement based on Spiderman Of The Rings' screwball electro-adrenaline rush as much as the…   Read Story »

There a few more days of pretending to look busy at work ahead, but as far as our iTunes are concerned 2009 can't get here soon enough. We're done with the lists. It's time for the new. We pored over…   Read Story »