Tonight: Dan Deacon at the Triple Rock

*MP3: Dan Deacon - "Build Voice"

Dan Deacon is in town tonight playing at the Triple Rock. I highly recommend this show if you are looking to get good and sweaty. Last I saw deacon was at a Pitchfork after-party in Chicago and was impressed by his ability to get up in everyone's face.

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(Ian Anderson)

Best New Releases for March 24, 2009

**The original post was deleted by the IFPI and Blogger. Here it is reposted without mp3s and just Hype Machine links (3/24/09 2:59 pm).

Dan Deacon - "Bromst" (Carpark)

*MP3: Dan Deacon - "Pink Batman"

Decemberists - "The Hazards of Love" (Capitol)

Full Album Stream

Dirty Projectors - "Byond Uquafina" (Domino)

*MP3: Dirty Projectors - "Knotty Pine"

Fever Ray - "Fever Ray" (Mute)

*MP3: Fever Ray - "When I Grow Up"

Royksopp - "Junior"

Full Album Stream

(Ian Anderson)

Tonight: Dan Deacon's Ultimate Reality At First Ave

Download: Dan Deacon - "Totally Boner Eat Shit"
Download: Vampire Hands - "Paradise Knife Fights"
Download: Gay Beast - "I.D. Politic"

Dan Deacon's "Ultimate Reality Tour" comes into Minneapolis tonight at First Avenue. Opening are Minneapolis' own Vampire Hands (who were recently featured on KEXP's Song Of The Day) and Gay Beast.

The 18+ show costs $10 dollars and doors open at 6.

Buy tickets here.

Gay Beast MySpace Page
Vampire Hands MySpace Page
Dan Deacon MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

Dan Deacon Ultimates Reality

The Ultimate Reality tour is coming. Combining Dan Deacon, Jimmy Joe Roche and a wonderfully psychedelic montage of Arnold Schwarzenegger films (Terminator 2 and Total Recall mostly, I think I saw Conan in there somewhere), the forty-minute Deac-fest will be a sad thing to miss.


DAN DEACON ULTIMATE REALITY TOUR 2008

Sun-Jan 6, 08 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506*
Mon-Jan 7, 08 Atlanta, GA Eyedrum*
Tues-Jan 8, 08 Pensacola, FL Sluggos*
Wed-Jan 9, 08 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks*
Fri- Jan 11, 08 Austin, TX Emos Jr*
Sat-Jan 12, 08 Denton, TX Hailey’s*
Mon-Jan 14, 08 Phoenix, AZ Modified Arts*
Tue-Jan 15, 08 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre*#%
Thu-Jan 17, 08 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall*#
Fri-Jan 18, 08 Portland, OR Backspace*
Sat-Jan 19, 08 Portland, OR Holocene*
Sun-Jan 20, 08 Seattle, WA Neumos*
Mon-Jan 21, 08 Vancouver, BC Richards On Richards*@
Thurs- Jan 24, 08 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue w/Vampire Hands and Gay Beast
Fri-Jan 25, 08 Chicago, IL Lakeshore Theater (Ultimate Reality only, no regular Dan Deacon set)
Sat-Jan 26, 08 Chicago, IL Metro + (early show 7:30)
Sat-Jan 26, 08 Chicago, IL Metro + (late show 11:00)
Sun-Jan 27, 08 Detroit, MI Scrummage University*
Mon-Jan 28, 08 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop*
Tue-Jan 29, 08 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace*
Wed-Jan 30, 08 Montreal, PQ La Sala Rossa*
Thu-Jan 31, 08 Boston, MA Pozen Center*
Sun- Feb 3, 08 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church*
Fri-Feb 08, 08 New York, NY Whitney Museum
Sat-Mar 08, 08 Everglades National Park, FL Langerado Festival

* = w/ screening of Ultimate Reality
# = w/ HEALTH
% = w/ Abe Vigoda
@ = w/ Montag
+ = w/ Girl Talk



(Ian Anderson)

Dan Deacon Announces January Show At First Ave.

Download: Dan Deacon - "The Crystal Cat"
Download: Dan Deacon - "Totally Boner Eat Shit"

If you missed Dan Deacon opening for Girl Talk this fall, you're about to get another chance to see him. The Deac just announced a Jan. 24 First Avenue stop on his Ultimate Reality Tour. This show includes not one, but two sets of Dan Deacon: One is Dan all on his lonesome and the other is with the Ultimate Reality Set which features Jimmy Roche, Kevin Omera and Jeremy Hymen.

If getting to see the craziness that is Dan Deacon live isn't enough of an incentive for you – which it should be – Gay Beast and Vampire Hands will be opening.

The show starts at 6 p.m. and is 18+. Tickets are 10 bucks, which is ridiculously cheap for the amount of fun you will have at this show.

Go to this.

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(April Wright)

White Williams - "The Shadow"

Download: White Williams - "The Shadow"

So, I already did a post on Dan Deacon, but I feel the need to do an entirely separate one on White Williams. They opened for the Deac Friday night, and will be returning to MPLS on Nov. 7 (one week after their new record drops) with Battles. I highly recommend swinging by that show if you have the chance.

Musically, White Williams is very New Wave, but not in a tiresome way. I think the biggest problem with most New-Wave inspired bands is their rush to pour a mountain of synth-sugar onto everything. They neglect the art of...oh, I don't know, writing a good song? But not White Williams. They do a ton of cool instrumentals, but it's all within the framework of strong, tight songwriting.

I'm actually incredibly impressed with this band. I even added them as a friend on Myspace.

MySpace Page

The new album Smoke will be available on Oct. 30th

(April Wright)

Live Review: Dan Deacon - Northfield, Minnesota (Carleton College)

Download: Dan Deacon - "Snake Mistakes"
Download: Dan Deacon - "Totally Boner Eat Shit"

"There's a wolf with your face on its tip. If it doesn't catch you, it will die. That's how fast you have to run."

The whole audience was standing in a circle, around which a few audience members at a time were supposed to be running, giving epic high-fives along the way. I made it about two feet before slipping in a puddle of what I hope was someone else's sweat and spilling my ass all over the floor. That wolf would have ripped my throat out.

You know it's a good show when humiliation in front of 90-110 really fucking pretentious hipsters doesn't even matter to you.

So, I totally went and saw Dan Deacon Friday night at Carleton College. Afterwards, he went up to MPLS and opened for Girl Talk, where those of you who have money might have seen him.

I suppose I need to describe this concert somehow. Imagine the most awesome dance party ever. Speakers pump beats, a strobe light gives people epileptic seizures and everyone is showing the fuck off.

Now, feed that party, like, 9 kinds of psychedelics. The song lyrics change from being about "luvin' u, gurl" to being about rattlesnake guns and they transport your mind to some freaked-out place called Wham City. And you're being watched by a green skull on a pole. Maybe Dan Deacon bought that skull at Walgreens, maybe he killed an opponent and used voodoo magic to turn his skull into green polyvinyl compound. You just don't know, so out of fear of upsetting the Deac, you dance for your life. By the end of the set, the entirety of the Cave, Carleton's Pub, was dripping with sweat and other kinds of condensation (almost electrocuting the Deac at one point). I was standing under a dripping beam dancing my ass off and screaming jibberish because it just kinda felt like the right thing to do.

I'd say that wraps up the atmosphere at a Dan Deacon show pretty well: Dancing just kinda feels like the right thing to do. But it fails to mention something else: a Dan Deacon show is a testament to the awesomeness that is the human spirit.

Oh, yes, that was cheesy, but hear me out. I first heard about the Deac on Liam Lynch's podcast. Lynchland is a total DIY thing. It's just one dude going out there and making something that he cares about. And that's true for Dan Deacon, too.

He's not the typical techno guy with all kinds of hyper-produced beats and, well, really any idea how to write a song. He's just some dude who rigged up some weird beat-making device out of light bulbs and toys and shit. Anyone could be the next Dan Deacon. You could be the next Dan Deacon.

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(April Wright)