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Dan Deacon And Beck In Conversation: Is The Future Of Music Behind Us?

Posted 12.07.2012 | Entertainment
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The future of music fascinates me — mainly how technology is causing it to drift away from the 20th-century model of music as a physical com...

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The Ultimate Game Of Telephone

Posted 07.18.2012 | Home
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Dan Deacon loves games. Back in May, he got the Occupy May Day crowd to perform an interpretive dance for him. For his latest trick, Deacon has turne...

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North Coast Announces New Headliners: Umphrey's, EOTO & More

Posted 05.30.2012 | Chicago
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Chicago's North Coast Music Festival announced the second wave of its lineup Thursday, which includes hometown heroes Umphrey's McGee and a host of ot...

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Dan Deacon At Occupy May Day In Union Square (VIDEO)

Posted 05.01.2012 | Home
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Dan Deacon performed at the Occupy May Day rally in New York Tuesday alongside Tom Morello, Immortal Technique and Das Racist. Deacon took a creative ...

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Morello, Das Racist, Dan Deacon To Perform At Occupy May Day Rally

Posted 04.23.2012 | New York
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The music lineup has been released for Occupy Wall Street's big May Day protest and General Strike on May 1st in New York City. True, there's no Radio...

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Happy 7th Birthday, YouTube

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.23.2012 | Technology
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Today marks the seventh anniversary of the first-ever video uploaded to YouTube, the auspicious, investigative piece, "Me At The Zoo," seen above. ...

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PHOTOS: North Coast Music Festival Lineup Unveiled

Posted 04.17.2012 | Chicago
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Chicago's North Coast Music Festival on Tuesday unveiled the initial lineup of acts playing its third-annual edition this Labor Day weekend in Union P...

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Dan Deacon Learns To Write For Humans

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 03.16.2012 | Home
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This is the first in a brief series exploring the Ecstatic Music Festival, a two-month-long musical event pairing musicians from the contemporary clas...

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PHOTOS: Our Top Picks for FYF Fest 2011

Posted 08.15.2011 | Los Angeles
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FYF Fest released today its 2011 lineup of musicians set to play in downtown LA this Labor Day weekend. The festival organizers have rounded up an im...

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BKLYN Yard Parties Return From The Dead

Posted 06.18.2011 | New York
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It was a sad day indeed when Sunday Best at BKLYN Yards shut down after the landlord said he'd no longer honor the lease of the space for the popular ...

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Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #4: Owen Pallett

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Daniel J. Kushner

On March 9 at 7:30 p.m. in New York City's Merkin Hall, Ecstatic Music Festival all-star Nadia Sirota joins two indie songwriters -- pianist Thomas Ba...

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Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #3: Gabriel Kahane

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Daniel J. Kushner

The Ecstatic Music Festival is now entering the home stretch. And while the festival hinges on the creation and performance of new works conceived wi...

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Ecstatic Music Festival: The First Week in Review

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Note: Because the Ecstatic Music Festival is in large part meant to highlight brand new works that are born from collaboration between artists, for th...

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Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #2: Alarm Will Sound's Alan Pierson and Matt Marks

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Two members of the contemporary music band Alarm Will Sound discuss the group's upcoming concert and the importance of composer Steve Reich.

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Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #1: Jefferson Friedman

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Daniel J. Kushner

In a recent phone conversation, Jefferson Friedman and I discussed "record" versus "song cycle," composing on roofs, and New York's "Winter of Love."

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WATCH: Best Under-The-Radar Music To See At The Ecstatic Music Festival

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Daniel J. Kushner

With a staggering number of composers, singer-songwriters, and performers contributing their talents to the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York City-...

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