Deerhunter

I realize I am putting this out really late. I always put this off until winter break, thinking I’ll have tons of time to listen to the albums, but always underestimate how much I actually need to listen to. But honestly, that isn’t a bad thing. I think we are living in a time where [...]

After it took Portishead ten years to make their third album, their output is picking up at a rapidly. Geoff Barrow hooked up with Billy Fuller and Matt Williams to form the band Beak>, and their debut album is pretty awesome. It’s got some Deerhunter aesthetic to it in the drums and bass (“I Know” [...]

If you’re curious about the man behind the music (Deerhunter/Atlas Sound), Pitchfork just did a really comprehensive interview. He said he wasn’t planning on doing that many interviews so that he would just go ahead and open himself up to a lot of questions.

One of my friends spoke to Bradford Cox (aka Atlas Sound) during that Kia Soul Collective weekend (pics here), and the hiatus Cox spoke of at ATP shouldn’t be too frustrating if you’re a Deerhunter fan. Yes, they are taking a break right now, but he said you could compare it to a “winter vacation”. [...]

So I’m going to start promoting a lot more lesser known bands. Major labels are just pissing me off. I was ready to post the first musicleech playlist like two weeks ago (tracklist below), but a bunch of the songs on there were from major label bands and I’m not trying to get sued so [...]

So, Logos, the 2nd LP from Deerhunter lead singer Bradford Cox, is coming out on October 20th. There was a big deal last year when an unfinished version of Logos was accidentally leaked at the Deerhunter blog. Here we have the download for what seems to be the first leaked song that is in actual [...]

The peeps over at WFMU are streaming a bunch of the sets from the 2009 Primavera Sound Festival that occured at the about a month ago in Barcelona. The list includes Deerhunter, Dan Deacon, Fucked Up, Saint Etienne, Crystal Stilts, Ponytail, Vivian Girls, Jesus Lizard, and Vaselines. You can even download the live sets at [...]

The San Francisco-based Noise Pop festival concluded yesterday, and among the many recordings from Wolfgang’s Vault is the Deerhunter show, packed with four brand new songs. Whitney Penny was a no show this weekend, but the normal four (Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Moses Archuleta, Josh Fauver) hold it down, playing and jamming to all post-Cryptograms [...]

“Red Oak Way” gave us a taste of Lockett Pundt’s new solo album The Floodlight Collective about a week ago, and now another new song has popped up: “Whiteout”. Well, a new version of it. An early demo of “Whiteout” was posted on the Deerhunter blog way back in August 2007. It’s really spaced out [...]

The moment Deerhunter fans have been waiting for: the first track off Lotus Plaza’s debut album The Floodlight Collective. “Red Oak Way” has a very “River Card”-y drum beat, layered with a simple but beautiful guitar melody, flowing  tambourine, and some ambient precussion effects. Lockett’s voice echoes plenty throughout the song to give it the [...]