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well, i suppose everyone has long since heard of, obsessively researched, and subsequently moved on to other bands of the moment, but - gasp - i just heard deerfoot for the first time a few weeks ago! they were one of those bands - you know the ones - whose name i'd heard bandied about, i had heard raves about, i simply presumed i'd like their music, but never actually sought them out. and then BAM...i hear this track, and now i not only believe e.s.p., i'm walking aroun... MORE
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ouvintes of Djambatan
You take the cool, innocent look and voice of a tiny japanese girl and mix it with psychopath beats & grooves from a genius-drummer and merry melodies vs. blazing distortion guitars and you have something like Deerhoof. Little Satomi & Co made a great record with "Friend Opportunity". They make pop music most people wouldn't consider as such. It is too weird for my girl (we can only share so many tastes...) and too pop for my highly intellectualized avant-garde-loving frie... MORE
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I have this strange problem of confusing bands that have similar words in their names when I read about them in print. A great example is that I was listening to LastFM and Deerhoof came on, and while they sound nothing like Deerhunter (that I remember - I only saw them live in their early days), I still constantly come across reviews and write ups about one or the other, so they inexplicably become one and the same in my mind. I had this problem in the mid 90's with the... MORE
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So, I had an interesting week. I went up to north-western Arkansas, got attacked by a horrible abomination referred to as a "turkin" (half turkey, half chicken), and watched as my newfound friends Noah and Josh caught a huge snake and proceeded to run it over with a car (which I didn't partake in, mind you). It was quite different... though, I learned that I'm truly a city-slicker; I missed civilization terribly.
Thank God for summer.
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It was terribly silly how anxious everyone was to see Deerhoof last night. Packed into the Hall of North American Mammals, a tiny sea of hipsters (not quite overkill) waited around for about 45 minutes past the scheduled show time amidst stuffed grizzly bears, cougars and of course... deers. Autolux played a less than stellar short set, but they looked rushed, it was good, i think people just had their hopes up. OK it was less than wonderful, but i still liked it. ... MORE
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No sunny spring is complete without a trip to Paris. The bustling metropolis filled with busy terraces, ice cold Pastis and the brou-ha-ha of the emphatic french language is always welcoming. We trained in early afternoon and got ourselves settled near the Bastille, eager for our three night line-up and the afternoons to come wandering the Parisian side-streets. It felt so good to be back... The concerts and venues proved to be a perfect agenda, but I think I will mix ... MORE
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Okay this album is, like, really weird...I LOVE IT! The instrumentals are fantasic and the singers good too, very unique. It took me a while to realize that Deerhoof have something like 8 albums before this. Thanks for keeping me in the dark. Anyway the best song is "The Perfect Me". Iwould really check this out if your into artsy stuff, or perhaps electronic music.
overall 4/5
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deerhoof definitely holds the coveted spot of best album of 2007 "so far". the drumming on the album is very infectious. the bees come in a close second...very hard decision to make.
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Quite a show, and I'm still fighting a bit of deafness and extreme tiredness, as I'm running on four hours of sleep. This will not be a full-fledged review, as I don't feel knowledgeable enough about any of the bands involved, Deerhoof included. Soundtrack to the trip to OKC:The Cinematics - A Strange EducationDeerhoof - Friend OpportunityEcho & The Bunnymen - More Songs To Learn And Sing(thank you, Gigabeat!) Pre-concert meal (eaten in the car):Sliced hamWhite seedles... MORE
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Anybody else going? Just look for the 6' tall black guy (sans goatee) standing near the bar.
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DEERHOOF – FRIEND OPPORTUNITY (2007) To the uninitiated, San Francisco’s Deerhoof have been generating left field Art Pop since 1994, pushing through several albums that have been generally well received by Indie Rock critics in the States. There’s been a fluid movement of personnel during the period, and 2007 finds the band settled as a 3 piece, with frontwoman Satomi Matsuzaki handling vocals and bass, guitarist John Dietrich and drummer Greg Saunier. Their sound consi... MORE
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The big debate over Deerhoof seems to be about whether they're a) wacky beyond the point of accessibilty b) challenging, but less so than they've been in the past c) crap d) genius creators of face melting music... Whatever they are - there's no doubt they leave people with an opinion - and in a world when the Yeah Yeah Yeah's are about as alternative or far afield from mainstream music that people are willing to venture out, that's a reassuring thing. The California t... MORE
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If you're not too cool for iTunes, I recommend iConcertCal. I tag with Deerhoof because that's the first show I'm going to that I found with iCC. What a superb little gem for easing the muscles strained hunting for live shows we didn't even know were coming. I know these guys spent months working to build this, and for all that effort it's just a small program for music playing software that not everyone uses. But it's so amazingly handy, and neatly sidesteps the bigges... MORE
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Check out my deerhoof review for the mac weekly at http://www.themacweekly.com/articles/20070202/11008
I dunno, its more bullshit.
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I had high hopes of taking Melissa to our first concert together in ages, to Snow Patrol on March 8, in Tulsa, but last night our hopes were dashed when I discovered that the tickets were sold out. I checked eBay, and found that pairs of tickets were going for at least $100, so forget that! I even suggested we go to Denver, but then she decided she really didn't want to go anyway. Bummer. However, I quickly bounced back, and before you can say "Bob's yer uncle", I had se... MORE