Viva Indie Rock Podcast #64

Track List:

Dan Deacon - USA Suite Video!

Dan Deacon teams up with Director/Editor Dave Hughes (Off The Air/Adult Swim) to create a 22 minute music video odyssey that takes viewers on a skewed trip through the American landscape and beyond. The music is the four-part "USA Suite," off Deacon's latest album America, and the visuals were culled from artists all over the world.

Dan Deacon - Why Am I On This Cloud - Free Download

Another great free download from Adult Swim Singles Collection! Click HERE!

Watch a great interview with Dan Deacon!

Dan Deacon Releases Interactive Video for "Konono Ripoff Nº1"

Ok, this one is a bit hard to describe...so I am just gonna give you the whole description given me:
 
 Dan Deacon's new music video for his RSD single 'Konono Ripoff Nº1' is a snap shot, time capsule and video yearbook of the Baltimore scene rolled into one. Like many of Deacon's art project-as-music-videos (see 'True Thrush' music video from Deacon's 2012 full-length America) the cast is made up of the Baltimore arts community. 

The video is a series of animated GIF portraits of each cast member with objects they felt represented them or were special to them. 

The interactive music video directed by Meredith Moore and produced by Alan Resnick lets you take part through the use of the free Dan Deacon smartphone app powered by Wham City Lights. Initially conceived of to be used at his live shows as featured in the music video for America's "Guilford Ave Bridge", the app was subsequently used on his network television debut performance on Jimmy Kimmel last year to bring the home viewing audience into the performance. 

The smartphone app syncs the phone to the music video and results in two simultaneous playing videos. The video on the smartphone displays the rotating objects of the cast member in the music video. The speed of the object's rotation is determined by the user holding the smartphone. 

The song was Deacon's record store day release on Domino Records!

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO AND INFO ON DOWNLOADING APP

Dan Deacon - Konono Ripoff No. 1

The title track taken from a limited edition 500 hand-numbered 7" out on Record Store Day (April 20, 2013).

Dan Deacon - Guilford Avenue Bridge Video!

Dan Deacon is getting ready to tour North America and Europe in support of his most recent album America, out now on Domino.



Tour Dates:
02-08 Bristol, UK - The Fleece
02-09 Dublin, IE - Whelans
02-10 Belfast, IE - The Black Box
02-11 Glasgow, UK - Stereo
02-12 Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
02-13 London, UK - Village Underground
02-15 Paris, FR - La Maroquinerie
02-16 Nantes, FR - Stereolux
02-18 Metz, FR - Les Trinitaires
02-19 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Rotown
02-20 Kortrijk, Belgium - De Kreun
02-21 Utrecht, Netherlands - Ekko
02-22 Hamburg, Germany - Molotow
02-23 Malmo, Sweden - Debaser
02-24 Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall Atlas
02-26 Oslo, Norway - Revolver
02-27 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Slussen
02-28 Cophenhagen, Denmark - Copenhagen Jazzhouse
03-07 Boston, MA - House of Blues*
03-08 Montreal, QC - Metropolis*
03-09 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall*
03-11 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues*
03-12 Covington, KY - The Madison Theater*
03-13 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works*
03-15 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall*
03-16 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre*
03-17 Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre*
03-18 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue*
03-20 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant*
03-21 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theater*
03-22 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre*
03-23 Salt Lake City, UT - Depot*
03-24 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest
04-20 North Adams, MA - Mass MoCA
04-27 New York, NY - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

* = w/ Animal Collective

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #33

Podcast version of the live VIR radio program Thursdays 9pm on www.pmcradio.org.



Track List:
1) Punks on Mars  Showers of Pain
2) PAWS  Cokefloat  Catherine 1956
3) Tom Tom Club  Downtown Rockers  Love Tape
4) Boyfrndz  All Day Pass  Surfs Up
5) Hannah Georgas  Hannah Georgas  Somebody
6) The Raveonettes  Observator  Sinking With The Sun
7) Dan Deacon  America   Prettyboy
8) Parenthetical Girls  Privilege Pt. V: Portrait of a Reputation  Portrait of a Reputation
9) Cult of Youth  Love Will Prevail  New Old Ways
10) Fierce Creatures  Catacomb Party  Lover's Vice
11) Cymbals Eat Guitars  Hawk Highway
12) Parlours  All Is Here  Dreamers
13) Deerhoof   Breakup Song   Bad Kids to the Front
14) Sparkling Wide Pressure   Grandfather Harmonic  Looking to Remember

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #32

Holy crap! Amazing week for new music! See below for complete track list. Catch a live broadcast sometime. Thursdays, 9PM EST. Stream live: www.pmcradio.org!



Track List:
1) Deerhoof  Breakup Song  We Do Parties
2) Dan Deacon   America  USA II: The Great American Desert
3) Baio    The Silent/New You EP  The Silent
4) Jens Lekman   I Know What Love Isn't   The World Moves On
5) Animal Collective  Centipede Hz  Monkey Riches
6) Hannah Georgas  Hannah Georgas   Millions
7) Fierce Creatures   Catacomb Party   For the World Is Hollow
8) Malka Spigel  Every Day Is Like The First Day  Every Day Is....
9) TOPS  Tender Opposites   Easy Friends
10) Dinosaur Jr.  I Bet On Sky  Don't Pretend You Didn't Know
11) Fidlar   Cheap Beer
12) The Music Tapes   Mary's Voice   The Big Beautiful Shops..

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #31

Podcast version of the live Viva Indie Rock Radio show. Feel free to stream or download VIR #31 at your leisure.



Track List:
1) TEEN  In Limbo  Better
2) Departures  Still and Moving Lines  Pillars
3) The Hermit Crabs  Time Relentless EP  Stop This Now
4) Making Marks  Hard to Be Good
5) Trin Tran  Dark Radar  Dark Radar
6) Dan Deacon  America  True Thrush
7) Dots Will Echo  Drunk Is the New Sober...  I Like It
8) Fierce Creatures  Catacomb Party  Babbity Abbot
9) Hannah Georgas  Hannah Georgas  Elephant
10)  Dinosaur Jr.  I Bet On Sky  Pierce the Morning Rain
11) Lightning Love  Blonde Album  Together 
12) Yeasayer  Fragrant World  Demon Road
13) Dark Dark Dark  Who Needs Who   How It Went Down
14) The Music Tapes  Mary's Voice  Saw and Calliope Organ on Wire
15) The Music Tapes  Mary's Voice  Takeshi and Elijah

Stream Dan Deacon's America in It's Entirety Courtesy of NPR!

Thanks to NPR, you can hear Dan Deacon's upcoming release America in it's entirety! America is due out August 28th! Don't miss this record.

 LISTEN HERE!

Dan Deacon - True Thrush Video - MUST WATCH!!!

The video co-directed by Ben O'Brien and Dan Deacon (making his directorial debut) is based on a drawing game popular in the Baltimore art collective Wham City, which is in turn based on the game "telephone."

Deacon's concept for the video is loosely related to the lyrics, and mirrors his use of asymmetrical repetition and evolving patterns. For the video, Dan and Ben filmed a simple 13-second scene. That scene was then shown to the next team. After seeing the video that team had 1 hour to recreate it -- characters, props, set, costumes, and actions -- as close to exactly as possible from only their memory.

With each new team the scene evolves. The energy begins to amplify and the chaos increases due to the distorting tendency of memory. The beauty of the video is in the completed arc, an arc that only exists because each team was blind to it. More details on the video are listed below.

Deacon has also announced additional shows as part of the America tour in Baltimore, New York City, Athens, and Florida. See full list below.

The cast is made up of members of  Wham City, Dan Deacon Ensemble, Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Future Islands, Red Room Collective, Copycat Theater, Effervescent Dance Collective, Showbeast, Annex Theater, Nuclear Power Pants, FlucT, BXDC, Bloody Panda, Foot Talk, Important Comics, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and various icons of the legendary Baltimore Arts Community.

TEAM 1: Dan Deacon and Ben O'Brien
TEAM 2: Mason Ross and Emma Alves
TEAM 3: Stefani Levin and Rachel London
TEAM 4: Ed Schrader and Devlin Rice
TEAM 5: Doreen Bolger and Gary Kachadourian
TEAM 6: Jimmy Joe Roche and Robby Rackleff
TEAM 7: Jordan Kasey and Martin Kasey
TEAM 8: Greg St. Pierre and Lily Susskind
TEAM 9: Sam Herring and Kim Tabara
TEAM 10:Stew Mostofsky and Seth Mostofksy
TEAM 11: R.M. O'Brien and Chester Gwazda
TEAM 12: Pilar Diaz and Hosey Corona
TEAM 13: Evan Moritz and Kaitlin Murphy
TEAM 14: William Cashion and Elena Johnston
TEAM 15: Person Ablach and Sam Shea
TEAM 16: Katie Truhn and Jesse Unterhalter
TEAM 17: Gerry Mak and Sophia Mak
TEAM 18: Monica Mirabile and Sigrid Lauren
TEAM 19: Dina Kelberman and Keith Lea 

Dan Deacon - True Thrush!

True Thrush is the second track to be made available from Dan Deacon's forthcoming album America out August 28th (North America) / August 27th (Rest of the world) on Domino. Take a listen! It's fantastic!

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #20

Podcast #20 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org.



Track List:
1) Young Galaxy  Shoreless Kid  Youth Is Wasted On the Young
2) Dan Deacon  America  Lots
3) Wax Idols  Schadenfreude 7"  Schadenfreude
4) Langhorne Slim and the Law  The Way We Move  Bad Luck
5) Los Campesinos  Tiptoe Through the True Bits 
6) Seapony  Falling  What You Wanted
7) Merchandise  Children of Desire  In Nightmare Room
8) Ian McGlynn  Now We're Golden  Gold Morning Mend
9) Blonds  The Bad Ones  Run
10) Tomas Barford  Salton Sea  November Skies feat. Nina Kinert
11) The Intelligence  Everybodys Got It Easy But Me  Techno Tuesday
12) Laetitia Sadier  Silencio  Find Me the Pulse of the Universe
13) These United States  These United States  The Angel's Share
14) Matthew Dear  Her Fantasy  Her Fantasy
15) DNTEL  Aimlessness  Jitters

Dan Deacon Announces New Album, Tour Dates, & Free MP3!!

Dan Deacon's new album America is out August 28th on Domino Records! Here's a great preview MP3 Lots! See below for Summer tour dates!




Tour Dates!
* solo performance
# Dan Deacon Ensemble
^ w/ 2 drummers

07-07 Des Moines, IA - 80/35 Festival
07-12 New York, NY - Pier 84
07-14 Cincinatti, OH - Bunbury Music Festival
07-21 Antigonish, NS - Evolve Festival *
09-01 Chicago, IL - North Coast Music Festival #
09-07 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival #
09-19 Prague, CZ - Meet Factory ^
09-20 Berlin, DE - Festsall Kreuzberg ^
09-21 Hamburg, DE - Reepers ^
09-22 Eindehoven, NL - Area 51 ^
09-23 Amsterdam, NL - Bitterzoet ^
09-24 Brussels, BE - Botanique ^
09-25 Paris, FR - Le Trebando ^
09-26 London, UK - Scala ^
09-28 Manchester, UK - Islington Mill ^
09-29 Brighton, UK - The Haunt ^