Concert Announcement: Deerhoof @ First Avenue. October 14th, the day after Broken Social Scene & Land of Talk @ First Ave... 08-31 Vancouver, British Columbia - Stanley Park Singing Exhibition 10-03 Los Angeles - Avalon * 10-04 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall * 10-06 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom ^! 10-07 Seattle, WA - Neumo's ^! 10-09 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge ^! 10-11 Denver, CO - Bluebird ^! 10-13 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown ^% [...]
This is probably the best free-music weekend all summer. In fact, I can't recall a better weekend freebie line up in the three years I've lived here. Saturday is, of course, Siren. I'll be showing up early for Parts & Labor , the Dodos , Times New Viking , and Beach House . Though I'd love to see Broken Social Scene , I know better than to think that I'll actually be able to see anything by the time the headliners take the stage. Sunday brings Liars and Team Robespierre at [...]
Deerhoof have just released an album full of little goodies for free on their website. Go Get It NOW ! Here's some of the cool stuff you'll find on it: Kidz are so small Look away part two Milkman If you haven't checked out their fantastic official album from this year, Friend Opportunity , you are missing out. Video:
I've had such a Deerhoof week. My last.fm tallied 96 plays for them on weekly chart. With that I feel like Deerhoof deserves two entries in a row. This will have a theme however, the 10 year + music involvement. The first Deerhoof track comes from 1997 and their first album The Man, the King, the Girl . Though the rest of this album is generally overlooked in the scope of Deerhoof's discography, one track "Gore in Rut" remains a live staple for the band and a crowd favorite. This could be due to the absurd yet [...]
Kid Vinyl went offline for about a week, which was mostly caused by me going out to California and failing to pay the hosting fee for the site. Normal service has been resumed, and the real Ads P Show episode 3 will be online later today (apologies to any subscribers who got that weird test thing). So apologies all round then. To aid our rehabilation into your hearts, here's the video for 'Perfect Me' by Deerhoof from this year's 'Friend Opportunity': [...]