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All Proceeds From Dan Deacon's NYC Shows Next Week Will Be Donated To Sandy Relief

Baltimore electro-spaz Dan Deacon has just announced on his website that all proceeds from his two upcoming NYC shows next week will go to Sandy relief. Here's Dan:

SCHOOL'S OUT

John Maus returns for 
this year's River Rocks festival

Man Forever+Nymph

The Music of May Day

Over at Sound of the City, a look at the soundtrack to today's protests. JD Samson of MEN talks to Nick Pinto about the band's concert for the protestors later tonight. Dan Deacon also talks about his afternoon performance and AWKward muses about the Occupy Wall Street movement in general. There's ... More >>

Q&A: Dan Deacon Talks Politics, Patriotism, And Occupy Wall Street

Dan Deacon is one of several big name musicians playing a free concert in Union Square tomorrow at 4 p.m. We spoke to him recently about why Occupy Wall Street resonates with him and why he considers himself a political artist. Village Voice: You're playing a free show in Union Square for May Day, ... More >>

SEEK ELECTRICITY

Dan Deacon returns to 
the Ecstatic Music Festival

Q&A: Double Dagger Drummer Denny Bowen Talks New York Memories And Breaking Up Over Rock, Paper, Scissors

courtesy Thrill Jockey Double Dagger is a Baltimore trio who've been antagonizing audiences with their fourth-wall-dropping post-hardcore squalls for more than nine years. Last month, they announced they were calling it quits--rather than fade away with a whimper, the Wham City vets decided to tour ... More >>

Live: The 4Knots Party Continues With Dan Deacon And Yeasayer (And The Spice Girls, Too)

Willie Davis​4Knots Music Festival: Dan Deacon, Yeasayer (DJ sets) Saturday, June 16 4Knots Indoor Lounge Better than: Going home and passing out. In my coverage of the 4Knots main stage, my "critical bias," as named at the bottom of these write-ups, has been fairly obvious—almost so o ... More >>

Announcing The Set Times For Today's 4Knots Music Festival

​Doors for the Village Voice-sponsored 4Knots Music Festival—happening at Pier 17 on the South Street Seaport—open in about an hour, and if you want to plan your afternoon, we have set times for all the bands on the bill, as well as the DJs spinning in the 4Knots Indoor Lounge (loc ... More >>

Hot Music for Long Nights

Celebrating the summer with live, sweaty shows

Mr. Dream Added To 4Knots Lineup; Yeasayer, Dan Deacon To DJ The Indoor Lounge

​The first annual 4Knots Music Festival—free, at South Street Seaport—takes place on July 16; Mr. Dream will perform at the all-day show at Pier 17. In addition to the day's roster of bands—which also includes The Black Angels, Titus Andronicus, Davila 666, Oberhofer, and Ele ... More >>

Live: Dan Deacon Gets Motivational, Sweaty At 285 Kent

Debbie Allen for SOTC​ Dan Deacon 285 Kent Ave. Saturday, May 21 Better than: The sauna at the Greenpoint YMCA. It's no longer cold as shit out in New York. But for all the disgruntled tweeting about winter weather that ensued these past few months, one thing people will probably miss is the ... More >>

Q&A: Ted Leo, Dan Deacon And Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner On Our Band Could Be Your Life, Bus Tours And Cherished Cassettes

Ted Leo; Dan Deacon; Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak.​Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life is one of the definite accounts of the 1980's independent rock scene and the rise of alternative culture. But unlike many cultural historians, Azerrad has little use for nostalgia. When the Voice talked ... More >>

Indie's New Guard Celebrates Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life

His book mapped their lives

Adventure

Rich Aucoin

Live: Dan Deacon and So Percussion Shake Things Up at the Kaufman Center's Ecstatic Music Festival

Dan Deacon, wearing a shirt with a collar on it. All photos by Puja Patel; more below.​ Dan Deacon and So Percussion Ecstatic Music Festival Kaufman Center Thursday, January 20 Better Than: Choir practice. Audience participation is something that Dan Deacon has mastered, though we're not us ... More >>

Week In Review: Confirming Kanye's Inevitable Victory

​So we put out Pazz & Jop this week. We're pretty happy with it. As are Kanye West and Cee Lo Green, hopefully. Lots of essays and lists and numbers to absorb there, so spend some time if you haven't yet, and if you have, please enjoy our bonus post-mortem analysis: some context for Kanye's re ... More >>

Last Night: The Dan Deacon Ensemble Brings Peace and Love to Red Hook Park

See? Tranquility at last. All photos by Georgia Kral​​Dan Deacon Ensemble Red Hook Park Wednesday, June 16 While the Drake and Hanson show (seriously, what were they thinking??) was causing a riot just across the river, the Dan Deacon Ensemble led another huge crowd at Red Hook Park in ... More >>

Tonight! Dan Deacon, Jimmy Fallon, Das Racist, Simian Mobile Disco, Reverend Horton Heat, And Dylan Fest

Tonight, Dan Deacon, the life-affirming ("Who wants to live forever!?") king of spazzcore, plays the Cake Shop alongside Ponytail's Dustin Wong, a comparably minimalistic acoustic doodler. Over at Party Expo, the ubiquitous Das Racist celebrate Street Boners' hipster fashion joke book, while Briti ... More >>

Todd P’s MtyMx Mexican Standoff

The chaotic, contentious, possibly dangerous, proudly defiant scene at the promoter's Monterrey festival

LIQUID SWORDPLAY

GZA/Genius hits the Gramercy Theater

The 1000TimesYes Top 100: The Top 100 2009 Records Of A Guy Who Listened To More Records Than You

You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>

Haha: Impose Picks The "Best New Music of 2009"

On Monday, our home slices over at Impose unveiled their year-end 50 favorite acts of 2009. It's a uniquely varied list of familiar blog-sprayed faces (Animal Collective, Fever Ray, Black Lips, Dan Deacon, Black Dice), mixtape rappers (Gucci Mane, Freddie Gibbs, Drake), relative unknowns (Nisennen ... More >>

CMJ on the Street: FIT Student Maayan

photo by Sam Horine Maayan, FIT student Best show: Real Estate (playing everyday, somewhere) Fashion Aesthetic: Vintage, thrift, color, anything not new. Years at CMJ: Three Best memory: Dan Deacon, No Age and Deerhunter at the Bowery Ballroom in 2007.

Live: No Age, Dan Deacon, Deerhunter Round Robin Totally Worth the Wait

Sam Horine, tons more photos from the show over here No Age/Dan Deacon/Deerhunter Brooklyn Bowl Sunday, August 2, early show The story of this past weekend's outdoor festivities was, regrettably, the grumbling skies. No different with Sunday's installment of Jelly NYC's Pool Parties, which for the ... More >>

Free All Points West Alternatives Galore

​ Big gigantic music festivals featuring people with names that even those living deep in the Amazon forests or on the wild, wild plains of New Zealand have heard of tend to suck up most of the cultural airspace when they come to town--All Points West being no exception here. But this is an ex ... More >>

PARTY ON THE WATERFRONT

No lifeguard needed—well, then again . . .

Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

No Age, Deerhunter, Dan Deacon Playing Jelly Space 2009

Deerhunter at McCarren Pool last summer, photo by Rebecca Smeyne No Age, Deerhunter, Dan Deacon--the CMJ 2007 All-Star trifecta--just announced a summer tour, and the schedule includes an August 2 date at the Jelly Space 2009. Excellent news, since this officially confirms that Jelly NYC are throw ... More >>

Live: Dan Deacon Welcomes Summer With Open Arms at Bowery Ballroom

via robopoppy's photostream Dan Deacon Bowery Ballroom Saturday, May 16 Dan Deacon is pacing back and forth across the stage of the Bowery Ballroom, hefty and nervous, his arm in a sling. ("Dislocated my shoulder, but everything's cool," he says later.) He's wearing the same cyan-orange T-shirt I ... More >>

Ponytail+Think About Life

New York Mag Needs an Actual Rock Critic

Rock-criticism enthusiasts (pfft) will note that this weeks' New York magazine reprises their most aggravating feature, "Jukebox," wherein three "citizen critics" representing theoretically wildly different demographics -- Jenny the (Mostly Ex-) Party Girl, Fred the Deep-Thinking Dog Walker, and (pr ... More >>

Photos: Dan Deacon and These Are Powers at Brooklyn Vs Baltimore Blowout

photos by Rebecca Smeyne Dan Deacon, These Are Powers The 1896 Friday, January 30 Dan Deacon and These Are Powers headlined an eight-band lineup that pitted Baltimore bands against their brethren in Brooklyn. Hundreds jammed into an empty warehouse in an industrial sector of Bushwick (just blocks ... More >>

New This Week in the Voice

Dan Deacon Builds an Army

A joyful, pulverizing one-man band makes 15 new friends

Live: Dan Deacon, 25-Or-So Bands From Baltimore at (le) poisson rouge

Dirty Blonde: Book Eaters, CMJ, and Studio B's Demise

That infamous festival is back, though chicks may happily dominate this year

The Truth About De-Evolution

Devo interrupt your dodgeball game

Tonight: Dan Deacon Ed Schrader Michael Showalter

Photos: Dan Deacon, Health, Black Pus at the Market Hotel

PLUG Awards: The Nominees You Didn't See

LOLBrooklynBands: Impose Edition with Les Savy Fav, Dan Deacon, Parts & Labor

CMJ Day Two: Escaping the Basement

Everyone's Gone to the Dentist

Downtown kids chill out, kick back, discover yacht rock, soak in the good life

Times Discovers Todd P: Now We're All Fucked

Stuff You Need To Know This Week To Avoid Cultural Ostracism

Week in Shows: Grizzly Bear, The Blow, and Dan Deacon