Bradford Cox Hates Us
- story THE FADER
We love Bradford Cox. As the FADER staff looks back at the music of their collective early 20s to mid 30s, the music he’s made with Deerhunter and solo, as Atlas Sound, will inevitably stick out as a glaring touchstone. He is Bo Jackson if Bo Jackson also was Carl Lewis and Michael Jordan, plus Rahm Emanuel and Quincy Jones. He is a diversely eloquent prolific wizard from Georgia, writing soft pop of infinite angles all day and night. So we were happy to be able to sit with Cox for a bit during CMJ, bring him to Room 501 at the Ace Hotel. Unfortunately, we did not vibe. We are not bros, he does not like us. You had a nice shirt and a good handshake and, god, how many times we’ve listened to Microcastle! Forgive us, Bradford!
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posted on Nov 5, 2009 in EVENTS LEVI'S/FADER FORT SHOW, FADER TV, FADER TV MUSIC CHANNEL SPOTLIGHT, FADER TV Spotlight, MUSIC CHANNEL, MUSIC INTERVIEWS SHOW tags Atlas Sound, Bradford Cox, Deerhunter, FADER TV
Listen to an Entire Lotus Plaza Set
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Stacie Jaye Meyer
No offense to Lotus Plaza, who are awesome, but listening to this show from the comfort of a warm office and somewhat comfortable chair seems like the ideal way to take in all the music. Not that this wasn’t a mind-melting set in real life, but the first ten minutes consist primarily of an extended guitar drone and every time we try to lay down in the club things get a little weird. The rest of the set is significantly poppier, like if The Cure went a little new age, but nevertheless, we’re still going with the concept that this is for listening to at home alone when it is way too cold to do anything else except fiddle with the volume knob on the stereo until you can catch all the details. Lotus Plaza are linking up with Nudge for a brief tour in November, dates after the jump.
Download: Lotus Plaza Live in Atlanta (via The Deerhunter Blog)
ATP New York 2009: Babies and Drums
- story Peter Macia
- photo Abbey Braden
Boredoms’ drummer Yojiro (YO2RO) Tatekawa was carried into the main performance space on a platform carried by eight dudes, ten minutes into the already heart-exploding Boadrum 9 reprise at ATP New York last Sunday. He bashed on his drums so hard, it was unclear whether they would be able to hold him up. They did, and an hour later, Tatekawa and his bandmate Yoshimi were walking around with a bunch of awesome little Boredoms babies, on their way to participate in Oneida’s marathon 13-hour performance and then check out Boris’ volcanic replay of their album Feedbacker. Jim Jarmusch looked pretty psyched on Boris too. This was basically the vibe at Kutsher’s Country Club, a tarnished gem of the Catskills social set, where VIP is nonexistent and there was always something happening that was going to destroy your eardrums for, as of post time, at least two or three days.
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posted on Sep 15, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS tags Animal Collective, Antipop Consortium, Atlas Sound, ATP New York 2009, black dice, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Boredoms, Boris, Boss Hog, Crystal Castles, David Cross, Deerhoof, Deerhunter, Dirty Three, Grouper, Melvins, Menomena, No Age with Bob Mould, Oneida, Panda Bear, Shellac, Sufjan Stevens, Suicide, Super Furry Animals, The Drones, The Feelies, the Flaming Lips, The Jesus Lizard
Atlas Sound w. Noah Lennox, “Walkabout” MP3
- story Peter Macia
In FADER #49, Bradford Cox aka Atlas Sound told Black Lips’ Cole Alexander:
“It’s not good to be trapped in that same state of mind for your whole life. It’s a sad and difficult thing, actually. It’s like never getting over something and trying to work it out over and over and over again. The sounds may be a little more advanced, but I’m essentially making the same kind of art with the same kind of ideas that I was when I was a kid.”
On “Walkabout,” the first song from his upcoming album Logos (Oct 20, Kranky), Cox sings along with Noah Lennox, What did you want to see/ What did you want to be/ When you grew up, and generally seems to be focused on moving on, becoming an adult, or at least acknowledging that he can’t be a child anymore. The song samples the bubbling keys of “What Am I Going to Do” by the Dovers, as inspired by some tour bus song games between Cox and Animal Collective, and reflects that song’s simple and beautiful pop, with Cox and Lennox’s signature soft layers. If Logos is in any way as good as this song, we will not need much else in the fall.
Download: Atlas Sound w. Noah Lennox, “Walkabout”
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posted on Jul 17, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC tags Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, Bradford Cox, Deerhunter, Noah Lennox, Panda Bear, rock
Freeload: Lotus Plaza, “Whiteout”
- story THE FADER
Hey Deerhunter, do you know what it’s called when you release multiple albums under different names every year? Market saturation. But considering how poor the market is, we’re going to let it slide. It also helps that the band has a track record for churning out quality music — from Cryptograms to Microcastle to Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel and everything else in between, the members of Deerhunter have been killing us with different iterations of ghostlike vocals and feather-soft guitar for a few years now. That’s probably a good thing for Deerhunterer Lockett Pundt, whose Lotus Plaza album is another trip down sunny naptime lane. The Lotus Plaza album will be out March 23rd on Kranky, and just because we forgot to post it a couple weeks ago, there is spacey new video for Deerhunter’s “White Lie” after the jump.
Download: Lotus Plaza, “Whiteout”
Freeload: Deerhunter, “Octet (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)”
- story THE FADER
This came to us as “SMD vs Deerhunter,” and it took us a minute to figure out exactly what Deerhunter song Simian Mobile Disco had edited, especially since we assumed it was something from the recently, officially released Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.. Turns out it is actually an edit of “Octet” from Cryptograms, which Tim Sweeney played on Beats In Space way back in April, but it’s still totally unclear the impetus behind its arrival. Coincidentally, both Bradford Cox and SMD were feature stories in FADER Number 49, so we used our magic wand to make them appear at the same picnic in the photo above. Looks Fun.
Download: Deerhunter, “Octet (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)”
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posted on Nov 24, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Deerhunter, electronic/dance, freeload, rock, Simian Mobile Disco
We Dressed Up the Deerhunter Leak as a Spooky Phallus for Halloween
- story THE FADER
When a version of the Deerhunter album Microcastle—which celebrates its legitimate release tonight with a party at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta— was leaked by an anonymous source going by the self-referencing handle “microasshole” on the band’s unofficial message board in June of this year, Bradford Cox sent a statement to the forum’s administrators requesting that the link be removed, saying the band “really wanted the record to be a surprise and would be terribly disappointed if it leaked this early.” Although this statement was posted and the link was removed from the forum just three hours after originally posted, it had already been posted on last.fm blogs and BitTorrent clients; after three days the record received fifteen hundred downloads from one site alone. Months after the leak, Cox described it to us as another symptom of “this modern climate of high tech piratetry,” but also said “I can make records faster than people can leak them.” Just for fun, we traced Microcastle’s leak, step by step, in the oddly-shaped illustration above. See it enlarged here.
RCRD LBL: Deerhunter, “Little Kids”
- story THE FADER
In our next issue we discuss the heartbreaking leakage of Deerhunter’s Microcastle because we felt guilty about our frothy-mouthed downloading of it the minute it hit the internet. We are not immune. The album is still not officially due for a couple months (pre-order it now), and ironically, having had the mp3s for a couple months already, we are starting to get excited about it again. One of the reasons is “Little Kids,” up now on RCRD LBL. So, starting now, you can begin to substitute each illegally downloaded track on the album with legally downloaded tracks and then fill in the blanks when you rip your purchased album. It’s the future. Deerhunter, the human beings, will be at New York’s La Poisson Rouge tonight.
Download: Deerhunter, “Little Kids”
Sorta Live from Portland’s Musicfest Northwest
- story THE FADER
FADER executive editor Julianne Escobedo Shepherd reports from Musicfest Northwest, Portland’s answer to the Olympics. This installment: Fuck Buttons, No Age, Starfucker, Deerhunter, The Fix, Paintallica.
Live: Deerhunter Plays Outside, We Go Outside And Watch It
- story THE FADER
Deerhunter played for free outside and we went because Deerhunter outside is like a life vacation (Fun City, they’re the mayor). Whitney wore a cheerleader’s outfit and did a cartwheel and Bradford said “We don’t need a delay pedal, this city is our delay pedal,” which didn’t make sense and then he said “I don’t know what that means, I can’t explain my poetry.” He sonned our minds! Deerhunter played three songs from their new album which totally leaked and we totally listen to all the time (it’s satisfying to have such a joy oasis in a desert of dookie). Cole from Black Lips came out and sang his part in “Saved By Old Times.” They played a new song, the bass player smoked a cigarette and looked haggard as fuck. How are the drums so good? Deerhunter are like the Germs, Whitney is now Lorna Doom.
