No time to blog - we are leaving for china tomorrow morning.We just got back from Russia yesterday and our trip went really well. Our first show was at Williams College in Massachusetts. We played ok, a bit sloppy and everything was too fast. That is typical of the first show of a tour.A student named John drove us from the Albany airport to campus. He had recently spent six months in Ghana. A...
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Posts by Deerhoof
Russian Tour
This Is Priceless
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We've been practicing a lot of cover songs lately. Also switching around instruments. I feel like we're discovering a bunch of new bands that have been hiding inside our band.Alas I was unsuccessful in convincing Satomi Ed and John to let me sing "Good Times Roll" by The Cars. But I guess it's just as well, as someone has beaten us to the punch: It is indeed amazing to see this bec...
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"The Health of the Music Industry"
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Artist:Deerhoof, Wilco
WILCO KEEPS COMING UP LATELY...LAST WEEK DURING "NOISEPOP" SATOMI AND I SAW THE WEST COAST PREMIER OF THEIR NEW CONCERT MOVIE "ASHES OF AMERICAN FLAGS". BRENDAN CANTY AND CHRISTOPH GREEN MADE IT - WE KNOW THEM BECAUSE THEY ALSO MADE SOME DEERHOOF CONCERT FOOTAGE WHEN WE WERE IN D.C. LAST TIME.ANYWAY I THOUGHT THE WILCO MOVIE TURNED OUT REALLY WELL - I LOVE HOW THEY USE CLOSEUPS SO MUCH, AND A S...
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2008 Wow!
These are the records that made me go "WOW!" this year... Some got plenty of attention, others unfortunately not... Alarm Will Sound & Steve Reich, Steve Reich: Tehillim & The Desert MusicCryptacize, Dig That TreasureExperimental Dental School, Jane Doe Loves MeFlying, Faces of the NightJanelle Monae, Metropolis: The Chase SuiteMavis Staples, Live: Hope At The HideoutParenthetical Girls, Entang...
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"Fresh Born" update
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The staff of Paper Thin Walls has done a funny thing and recorded their version of one of our new songs from our sheet music, not having heard our version. They wrote an article about it and had me write a review of their version. The whole sheet music project continues to amaze me, people are sending such incredible takes on our song. Every one is different, I wouldnt know where to start as fa...
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New Deerhoof song
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Hi everyone, we're releasing one of the songs from our record "Offend Maggie" that comes out in October. But we're not releasing an mp3 of it yet, we're only releasing the sheet music. The song is called "Fresh Born" and you can see/download the sheet music here. You can record your own version of the song and we will post it for everyone to hear! You can get to know the song without even heari...
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mavis staples "we'll never turn back"
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We (Deerhoof) took Delta to the east coast a couple weeks ago, and on Delta a movie is $6, so forget that. But they had a bunch of albums to listen to for free, and I found some doozies. Probably everyone else on mog has heard them already, but it takes a few plane flights for me to catch up.Caetano Veloso "Ce" was such an inspiration, sophisticated deep down but so simple on the surface, it ma...
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Dr. L. Subramaniam
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Artist:Dr. L. Subramaniam, Busdriver
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Album:Three Ragas for Solo Violin
Hey y'all, thanks to everyone who came to the shows on our US tour! In every city we received so much kindness and moral support and it really means the world to us. I don't normally think of myself as boastful, but all of these shows made me feel a pride in our audience. If you look at them they seem so different from each other, but they're all amazing listeners and so open minded. (My pride ...
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Goodies
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Artist:Deerhoof, P Prado, K Richards, Staple Singers, Fat Worm of Error, M Bolton
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David Fricke asked us to come up with five things we've been listening to lately, and I'm sure all you Mawggers will agree that it's hard to boil one's musical tastes down to five records, especially when it's going to be for Rolling Stone. Anyway I thought I'd share this nonsense with you just for fun.Perez Prado "Grandes Exitos" Uh, I think this was supposed to make me dance and smile, so why...
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The Story of my Deerhoof Tour, Part One.
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Artist:Deerhoof, The Fiery Furnaces, Igor Stravinsky, The Beatles, Peter Venuto
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Album:Bitter Tea, Rehearsing My Choir, Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, Pancake Mountain DVD
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Track:Mouse House
Once again my apologies for a dormant itunes, resulting in a frustrated Mog-O-Matic that thinks I haven't been listening to anything. Mog-O-Matic peeks into my desktop imac g3 and finds nothing except the fact that Deerhoof has been out of town for a month!But, dear readers, what need have I anyway for DIGITAL MUSIC, or for that matter ANALOG MUSIC (LPs?). Nay, I want to share with you my exper...
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