This morning, an e-mail purporting to be from one of the members of the avant-garde outfit/insane fanboy breeders Animal Collective went out, and the e-mail was a plea for the rest of their forthcoming album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, to leak because, hey, two songs had made their way to the Internet already. “[The] album is intended to be heard as a whole, and nothing bothers us more than individual tracks leaking and ruining the the overall album experience,” the e-mail said. And it was in all lower-case, so it had to be the real thing! Right?
Yesterday, while I was listening to a stack of singles that I’ve been ignoring for awhile, I came across a track from Boston act The Dear Hunter. While the song wasn’t bad, the entire time it was playing all I could think about was how at some point, there’s going to be a conversation when I’m forced to distinguish between The Dear Hunter and Atlanta act Deerhunter. The similarity in names is too much for my brain–and, I suspect, the brains of other people out there–to handle, so one of the acts is going to have to change its name. Below the cut, my attempt to determine which act is going to be forced to rebrand their musical identity.
Deerhunter, King Khan, and the Black Lips on the Video Music Awards? You have to admit, whatever they’d bring to the ceremony would be a hell of a lot more cutting edge than any pseudo-sexy dance routine dreamed up by the Pussycat Dolls. More »
This week in free Nine Inch Nails shit: Trent is offering a free EP of tracks from bands on his upcoming “Lights In The Sky” summer tour: A Place To Bury Strangers, Crystal Castles, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, and Deerhunter, as well as the Ninnies themselves. More »
Opening for this summer’s Nine Inch Nails tour, which kicks off at the Pemberton Festival before fanning out across the country: Crystal Castles, Deerhunter, A Place To Bury Strangers, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, and White Williams. Average Pitchfork score of the five openers’ albums: 7.14–but it goes up to 8.3 if you toss out Tom Ewing’s pan of the Does It Offend You, Yeah? album. Tour dates and openers after the jump.
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox has, for some reason, posted a series of YouTube clips that make up the entire movie D.A.R.Y.L on his blog. Hey, you’re probably not working today anyway, right? More »
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox has, for some reason, posted a series of YouTube clips that make up the entire movie D.A.R.Y.L on his blog. Hey, you’re probably not working today anyway, right? More »
LA Weekly writer disses Deerhunter in print, Deerhunter main man Bradford Cox sends along defensive e-mail, fighting and LOLing and cut-and-pasting and a sorta-funny joke utilizing Linus from Peanuts ensue. More »
