DUO John Dieterich of Deerhoof and Thollem McDonas of Tsigoti have joined forces as Bad News From Houston, an experimental collaboration whose debut album In The Valley Of The Cloud Builder is out now. A spokesman said: "This is an album of complete immediacy, wherein every sound is presented with such vividness and detail that each minute sound event becomes foregrounded. "When an acoustic guitar is played, you don't just hear the strings, you hear the wood, too. When the strings of the piano explode, you are inside the sound chamber, feeling the coiled metal shatter against your [...]
Today the Deerhoof member videos continues with one from guitarist John Dieterich! This one's a visual wonderland; John plays guitar for a small audience overlooking a fireworks display over a brightly lit city at night. "Untitled Echoes" Starring John Dieterich of Deerhoof. Directed by Vice Cooler. Camera - Dalton Blanco. Prop - Stephen Touchstone. Edit [...]
Date 8/26/10 Location Baby Blue Studios Doors 8pm Tickets $5 @ door Austin's very own Weird Weeds have a show planned at Bill Baird's Baby Blue Studios (1522 East 12th st.) on Thursday evening. Support for the night is provided by a new project between Tim Barnes, John dieterich, and Thollem McDonas along with Austin's own Plutonium Farmers . The space [...]
Date 8/26/10 Location Baby Blue Studios Doors 8pm Tickets $5 @ door Austin's very own Weird Weeds have a show planned at Bill Baird's Baby Blue Studios (1522 East 12th st.) on Thursday evening. Support for the night is provided by a new project between Tim Barnes, John dieterich, and Thollem McDonas along with Austin's own Plutonium Farmers . The space [...]
Nervous Cop - "Setting the Bushes on Fire" MP3 Whirlwind Heat - "No Gums" MP3/download This is a Nervous Cop review originally created for my magazine-that-never-was, The Gumshoe Revue (notice that John Dieterich and a pre-fame Joanna Newsom boasted membership in N. Cop; who would of thought after an abstract project like this she would [...]
I immediately jumped at the chance to review Deerhoof's new album, Offend Maggie , because I thought the experience would be a fun and challenging opportunity for me to get to know a band better. I'd been a lazy listener of 2005's Runners Four and 2006's Friend Opportunity , either enjoying and/or finding myself perplexed by a song once a month or so, then switching my iPod to something more palatable and familiar. It's not that I didn't like the band; rather, I always had a sense that I wasn't trying hard enough to [...]
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