Dan Deacon

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First step for the freak fest

Rave On
The three key components to any successful underground music concert are good bands, cheap booze, and a sketchy venue whose identity is a semi-well-kept secret.
By DANIEL MCGOWAN | June 29, 2011

Keep moving!

Off the Couch
Sharp sounds all over the state
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | November 03, 2009

Screaming from the gallery

Dan Deacon, live at the ICA, June 12, 2009
Last Friday night, Dan Deacon dug frantically through tangles of cables for one that might get a live signal out of the duct-taped pile of equipment in front of him. A fire truck and an ambulance, pulling up outside the windows behind him, filled the room with dueling strobes.
By MATT PARISH | June 15, 2009

Photos: Dan Deacon at the ICA

Dan Deacon, live at the Institute for Contemporary Art on June 12, 2009
Super Secret Summer Surprise with Dan Deacon at the ICA
By DAVID F. NICHOLSON AND ALEX SLATER | June 16, 2009

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99. Dan Deacon

TWISTED HIPSTER
Rotundness, oversize glasses, and hair in the wrong places may get you cred in some circles. But anyone who’s met this amusing musical experimentalist will tell you that Dan needs to experiment with some deodorant.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 25, 2009

Y'all come back now . . .

Diminishing returns in 2009
I've always liked the idea of there being some weight to the "nines," meaning: if you're a year, and you're going to perch yourself at the very edge of a decade, you'd better be ready to represent.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 31, 2008

No small feet

Night two of the Baltimore Round Robin
As a mob of scruffy Wham City fans and I mill around MassArt’s Pozen Center last Friday, the air is thick with excitement, as well as some pungent BO.
By SHAULA CLARK | October 08, 2008

Here comes the Whambulance

Mass Art hosts the Baltimore Round Robin Tour
The Baltimore loft once known as Wham City is long dead, its inhabitants evicted in 2007, but the twisted DIY art movement it housed has flourished nonetheless.
By SHAULA CLARK | October 01, 2008

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Show and tell

A whole new year of live music
After a brief late-December break from the usual boatload of good shows, the flood picks up right where it left off in early January.
By WILL SPITZ | January 04, 2008

Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche: Ultimate Reality

Carpark
Kind of like one long Rorschach test, Ultimate Reality is a collaboration between experimental music producer Dan Deacon and visual artist Jimmy Joe Roche.
By BEN WESTHOFF | December 31, 2007

White Williams

Smoke | Tigerbeat6
New York–based White Williams isn’t interested in proving that laptop jocks can be as in-your-face as dudes doing rock.
By MIKAEL WOOD | November 06, 2007

Simian Mobile Disco

Attack Decay Sustain Release | Interscope
After spinning and remixing everyone else’s tracks, Simian Mobile Disco are finally debuting their own.
By ROQUE STREW | September 12, 2007

Bootleg beats

Gregg Gillis’s Girl Talk mash-ups
The music that Gregg Gillis creates under the name Girl Talk almost necessitates a new classification. Girl Talk, "Hold Up" (mp3)
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | January 09, 2007

Guest lists

What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 02, 2007