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This past weekend, Dan Deacon played a show at the Masquerade in Atlanta that ended…poorly. The club cut him off mid-set, and mild chaos ensued. Deacon fans were livid at the club, but the DJs who were scheduled afterward said that Deacon and Co. (and the opening band) went over their allotted time. Now you may think that cutting off Dan Deacon for a DJ is a bad idea, but there are schedule times for a reason, and I tend to think that everybody deserves their shot. (That’s why I don’t run a club.) I’d be willing to give anyone the benefit of the doubt over the Masquerade’s management, but his Athens show was also two hours late in getting set up as well. You can read a few sides to the story here and here.
Still, slow set-up times are one thing. Show cancellations are another thing altogether. MORE »
Latest by Lucas Jensen: @civvie That's actually not a bad idea, really. Bands doing nice things for fans, people, charities, etc. Why give the press to Crystal Castles if they are gonna be jerks?MORE »
Dan Deacon’s upcoming Baltimore-centric tour will hit seven cities on 14 dates, with each city getting an “eyes night” (music that is “spiritual, dreamy, etc.”) and a “feet night” (artists who cause people to “dance, thrash, or otherwise move around”). MORE »
Yesterday a member of the band WZT Hearts discovered that his group was featured in an XLR8R ad for Greyhound–the ad was in the form of four tear-out postcards (reprinted above) that had shots from concerts by WZT Hearts, Dan Deacon, Ruins, and Team Robespierre on the front, and little blurbs about the bands, as well as the bus company’s logo, on the back. Needless to say, the artists were not pleased to find out that their likenesses were being used in this ad campaign unbeknownst to them (especially since implied endorsements like this seem to be more and more common these days), and Deacon unleashed this anti-Greyhound salvo via MySpace’s handy bulletin feature: MORE »
Each day at CMJ we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the best (and worst) shows we happened upon. On day one, we gave into the power of Christian grunge and probably contracted some sort of skin disease from the couches at a Brooklyn house party in search of underground thrills. MORE »
Regardless of what the author of this critique thinks of the music .. picking on band members appearence is shallow and sad. Shannon Larkin is one of the best drummers living right now. Regardless if you are a fan of Godsmack or Another Animal 99% of the people out there can point this out. The guy is AMAZING end of story.
Any band out there are going to have both fans and people that just aren't into it. Regardless again to pick on people's appearence is just making the author look like a jackass and no better then a grade school bully, who basically is a insecure looser and makes ones self feel better by picking on others. Lame attempt to look cool if you ask me!
We all love internet memes. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t devote so much of our waking lives to cataloging lolcats or figuring out whether we’re currently saying “wau” or “waht.” But when one-note Web jokes escape from being trapped behind a laptop screen and into the pop cultural bloodstream, I start cringing. Case in point: atrocious crooner Tay Zonday, another sad case of an “Internet celebrity” who’s at best accepted that polite derision from America might be his only chance at stardom. Which was fine when he was being mocked/celebrated by cultural boils like Opie and Anthony and Jimmy Kimmel, far away from anywhere I’d be forced to pay attention. But now he’s decided to start intersecting with my day job, kicking off his music career by perfoming his first show in Minneapolis with internet faves Girl Talk and Dan Deacon: MORE »
G. Gillis tells St*reogum that booking Zonday was more Deacon's idea.
"I honestly don't know anything about this guy. I'm still kind of lost on the insanity over that song. My booking agent asked me if I would like to have him on the bill ... I wasn't sure of the whole thing, but I was told that Dan Deacon, who is also playing the show, was into it, so I figured why the hell not."
This weekend I said goodbye to Baltimore at Wham City’s second annual Whartscape festival–three days of peace, love, music, and the kind of shirt-soaking, pants-sticking-to-your-extremities heat known only by those on vision quests in Native American sweat lodges. MORE »
Today we have recieved multiple emails from watchful street teamers tipsters alerting us to a friggin’ link Stereogum posted on friggin’ Monday to a pretty embarrassing interview in Ignore Magazine with Baltimore electroni-cat Dan Deacon that features hiiiii-larious inquiries like “How do you… MORE »
This whole ...erm, thread... reminds me of a scene in the David Cross tour DVD "Let America Laugh." Some college kid interviews David more-or-less about a previous interview David had done. I think he winds up stealing some of the kid's notes at the end... it's an astoundingly painful interview.
There was a time when dance-music writers used the words “Woody Woodpecker beats” pretty frequently, to describe rhythms so fast and annoying there was no way you could dance (and sometimes, listen) to them. Leave it to Baltimore synth-punk Dan Deacon to take the analogy a step further. MORE »
Somewhere, a frustrated failed electronic musician took Philip Glass hostage, fed him a few pounds of meth, and held a gun to his head, demanded a "Woody Woodpecker" song. Frantically, Glass starts pressing buttons at random, inserting the shitty sample over and over again in a pathetic attempt to appease his captor.
"Naw, do it like this. Yeah, that's one phat beat," the sweaty kidnapper chuckles, "add more shitty feedback."
This past weekend, Dan Deacon played a show at the Masquerade in Atlanta that ended…poorly. The club cut him off mid-set, and mild chaos ensued. Deacon fans were livid at the club, but the DJs who were scheduled afterward said that Deacon and Co. (and the opening band) went over their allotted time. Now you may think that cutting off Dan Deacon for a DJ is a bad idea, but there are schedule times for a reason, and I tend to think that everybody deserves their shot. (That’s why I don’t run a club.) I’d be willing to give anyone the benefit of the doubt over the Masquerade’s management, but his Athens show was also two hours late in getting set up as well. You can read a few sides to the story here and here.
Yesterday a member of the band 
Each day at CMJ we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the best (and worst) shows we happened upon. On day one, we gave into the power of Christian grunge and probably contracted some sort of skin disease from the couches at a Brooklyn house party in search of underground thrills. 