I played this cover the other night while DJing the Real Estate show here in LA. As the crowd was (mostly) early-mid twenties I was not surprised when a number of folks inquired as to the song’s origin (Bradford Cox’s voice and vocal tics are immediately recognizable to the converted). What did surprise me were the [...]

2010 can be summed up as the year of extreme musical escapism. For example, an influential and meaningful genre like “ambient” has been watered down into sub-categories like “witch-house”, “chill-wave”, “wave-gaze” and dozens more. Sigh. All of these terms represent the same basic feeling and trend that has dominated this year’s music releases, the powerful [...]

It wasn’t so long ago Deerhunter was weighed down by inconsistent, nonsensical, live performances coupled with mountains of bad press that did nothing but urge critics to inspect and second guess their every move. Things have changed. Since the release of 2008’s Microcastle I have to search the farthest recesses of my brain, with the [...]

Lockett Pundt (Lotus Plaza/Deerhunter) will be my guest next week on the radio show. Earlier this month Deerhunter paid a visit to the BBC studios while in London. Amongst the tracks cut during the live radio session was a cover of The Fall’s “Who Makes The Nazis.” Audio rip courtesy of JPs Blog. MP3: Deerhunter [...]

Not convinced by the tough beauty of Deerhunter’s stellar Microcastle/Weird Era Cont?  Atlanta’s finest keep getting better with the Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP.  Like its predecessor, Rainwater sinks into the ends of pop music and pulls, stretching the textures of surf, punk, and dream-pop into a hazy, hard-to-recognize fever dream.  But where Microcastle allowed Bradford [...]

Something stays in the room after the final digi-delayed gurgles of “Calvary Scars II / Aux Out” have faded to hums, a certain sense of having just gone through something soft and buzzy and not altogether unpleasant, something like stepping into the wake behind a cloud of bees but missing the bees themselves. Deerhunter’s Microcastle [...]