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  Dan Deacon GIFs Baltimore Artists in Interactive 'Konono Ripoff No. 1' Video

  April 29, 2013 – Dan Deacon's Record Store Day single "Konono Ripoff Nº1," named for Congolese junkyard percussion maestros Konono Nº1, offers two versions of the same song, each with different drummers. Likewise, Deacon's "Konono Ripoff Nº1" video is actually two videos in one. Above, you can watch the basic clip, which consists of twitchy animated-GIF portraits of Baltimore arts community members. …
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  Hear Dan Deacon's 'Konono Ripoff No. 1,' a Record Store Day Tribute to the DRC

  April 4, 2013 – Dan Deacon joins the impressive spate of awesome artists doing Record Store Day exclusives — Pussy Galore, Jack White, MGMT, and Black Lips to name a precious few — with typically culture-jamming aplomb. They guy who recently mashed up Grimes with Gangnam Style and used warped workout footage for a music video will release a 7-inch single for the song, "Konono Ripoff No. …
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  Watch Dan Deacon's P90X-Sampling 'Crash Jam' Video

  March 7, 2013 – Dan Deacon and his posse of Baltimore art goons have a history of culture-jamming, so it shouldn't come as a great surprise that instead of shooting a music video for the frenetic America song "Crash Jam," the left-field popist had a pal edit some P90X workout footage to fit. …
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  Dan Deacon Goes Time-Lapse in Blissed-Out 'Guilford Avenue Bridge' Video

  January 17, 2013 – Time-lapse videos have become a common choice for indie-leaning artists recently. Yo La Tengo and Beach House have each used the technique for music videos in the past month or so, and a year ago Animal Collective documented their studio time that way. As Pitchfork points out, Dan Deacon now has a time-lapse video for "Guilford Avenue Bridge," an artfully spazzy electronic track from his 2012 album America. …
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  Animal Collective, Youth Lagoon, Dan Deacon, and More Climb Onto Treefort Fest Lineup

  January 14, 2013 – Boise, Idaho's second annual Treefort Music Fest is set for March 21-24 and Animal Collective, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Youth Lagoon, Dan Deacon, THEESatisfaction, and more have been added to the four-day event's lineup."Conceived as an extension of the current momentum in the Boise music scene and art scene at large," reads the festival's website, "Our vision is that Treefort will provide the opportunity for Boise to play h …
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  Dan Deacon Makes Joyous National TV Debut with Fan-Assisted 'Thrush' on 'Kimmel'

  December 14, 2012 – Anyone who knows Dan Deacon ought to know he's no stranger to television. A required rite of passage to Deacon-mania should be sitting down and watching his wonderful, hilarious, insane 2005 appearance on a local Savannah, Georgia, NBC affiliate. Still, last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live! marked the spazzed-out electronic virtuoso's first appearance on national TV, and he made the most of it, in classic Deacon style. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Scott Walker, Bruno Mars, Green Day, Wiz Khalifa

  December 6, 2012 – Another week brings another round of album streams. …
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  Dan Deacon Gives Grimes the 'Gangnam Style' Treatment on Mashup Mixtape

  December 4, 2012 – On his new Wish Book Volume 1 mixtape, Baltimore pop usurper Dan Deacon proves that you don't have to be a biomedical engineer to do what Girl Talk does. In his own frenetic, maximalist way, the always ambitious artist manages to mash up nearly 50 artists across five tracks and 37 minutes (exactly). …
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  Dan Deacon on Making Sure Your Vote Counts

  October 22, 2012 – It's hard to believe that someone on the fence or determined not to vote is going to be swayed by some musician or band while reading SPIN. …
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  How Dan Deacon Hijacks Your Phone for the Ultimate Party

  September 4, 2012 – Baltimore art-pop provocateur Dan Deacon is famous for getting his fans in on the show. He's decidedly anti-stage, preferring not only to orchestrate his maximalist electro-classical punk opuses from within the audience, but to lead said audience in all kinds of group activities ranging from synchronized gestures to feel-good gauntlets. …
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