Deerhoof??

FWIW he was the newest member of the band, he replaced on/off again member Rob Fisk.

--call me crazy, but i would recommend starting w/ The Runners Four.
--as for Curtains, i really only like the first lp, Fast Talks

& I like the Natural Dreamers CD too, though live was better

Deerhoof are one of the very few bands that have never done a shit record ever - so yeah there's no 'best album' really, depends what butters your muffin - if it's noisy randomness try 'The Man The King The Girl', avant-pop songs try 'The Runners Four' or 'Holdypaws', growly guitars try 'Reveille' or 'Halfbird', spazzy prog try 'Milkman'... they're all fucking great records anyway.

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Anyways, saw them last night at a pretty big venue (600 people) and they were as good as I've ever seen them (as 4-some, 3-some, then 4-some now back to 3-some) in the past 10 years.

I'm in the camp that is slightly mild on Runners Four but think the new songs are as good as anything they've done when they play them live

Also on Reveille, the song "All Rise" is much more enjoyable if you imagine it played by a really drunk organ player at, say, the Major League Baseball All-Star game.

Part of it has to do with the "this is the one album you really need to own by this band" mentality that permeates our culture. Get this album, and you've got this band covered. Next. The same thing's happening with Frog Eyes. It's as if being prolific were a bad thing. It's probably Old Man Pollard's fault.

Ed Rodriguez from Flying Luttenbachers/Colossamite/Ice Burn/Gorge Trio/Sicbay just joined Deerhoof! : )

talk about double trouble on guitar! hot combo now

So that makes it Deerhoof mk. 7?

new album BREAKUP SONG fucking rules. short and sweet, barely 30 minutes, total party record with a sick low-end crunch and some really great, concise hooks. the heaviest deerhoof record yet. reminds me a little bit of dope body. they're on tour now, has anyone seen them lately?

like it a lot. Good comeback from vs. evil, which I thought was kind of tossable.

Yeah, this was the first one I've been able to get into since...half of runners four.

jeez how many different songs called 'flower' have they got

this is a p good record

lol i know

http://youtu.be/SkGB8r012q8

new record came out Tuesday, this track is fun as FUCK

album is called La Isla Bonita. dunno if it can beat breakup song, tho

Oh, that's so awesome, I had no idea. I really should pay more attention to what they're up to. One of the most consistently great bands of the past decade.

Deerhoof vs. CERN

http://cds.cern.ch/record/2053121

they needed a live album and the new one is v fun

there is a NEW new one!!!!

After all the accolades from press and peers, what’s a legendary band to do? Forget the recording studio, rent out an abandoned office space in the middle of the New Mexico desert, set up, plug in and play REALLY LOUD. Starting with hardly a notion of the outcome, by seven days later Deerhoof had found (you guessed it) The Magic: a raw and refreshing 15-song wallop of an album about what happens when you leave your comfort zone.

The version of Deerhoof you hear on The Magic is a most punch-drunk proposition. Everyone showed up in the mood to sing. Satomi, Greg, John and Ed dream up alchemies of punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, attitude and spandex. Poetry into noise. Volume knob into gratification. Friendship into rock band.

According to drummer Greg, the music on The Magic was lurking in the shadows of "what we liked when we were kids - when music was magic - before you knew about the industry and before there were rules. Sometimes hair metal is the right choice."

For singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki The Magic is but the latest episode of an ongoing gamble: "I joined Deerhoof a week after I arrived in San Francisco from Japan. I hopped on a MUNI bus to have a first meeting but got off at a wrong stop. I was lost and confused. They found me on a dark street corner after I called for help from a pay phone. Since then my adventure expanded. Deerhoof is a vehicle with four powered wheels that takes me through forest, desert and buildings. My life is adventure!"

The Magic is a mixtape imbued with Deerhoof's sorcery -- boldness, wonder, technical know-how, risk. It is a mixtape by the kid with the biggest music collection you've ever seen, who will take you camping and show you how to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Awesome. Sounds great. So glad they are still around and making good work.

I wouldn't even say they're one of my very favorite bands (but maybe they are?) but they are a band that, as a band and what they have done and continue to do, I have SO MUCH respect and admiration and love for

I would absolutely say they're one of my favorite working bands. And there hasn't even been like a slow decline in quality or anything, like that thing where you continue to indulge a musical act's newer and more mediocre work because they did stuff back in the day that you really loved. Some of their more recent stuff is among the best they've done, imo.

dammit, i want my adventure to expand

i probably told the story somewhere on ilx in the past but i'll always have infinite respect and <3 for deerhoof, esp Greg, because he went out of his way to help me get into an over-21 show when i was underage. i didn't even ask - he offered. he's a great guy.

also he is one of the greatest drummers of all time

"Avant-rockers Deerhoof team with the elite contemporary classical outfit Ensemble Dal Niente for a weird and wonderful musical exchange. "

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21806-balter-saunier/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Spl-lHcAao

The track they put out, "Cherubim", is fantastic. I pre-ordered this straight away. Super excited!

They continue to tour and record constantly, but, as ever, the media circus quickly moves on to new, fresh acts - and it’s as though ye olde band/project vanished.

they are amazing, but they were never even close to one of the biggest indie bands on Earth!

yeah no way. they weren't even as big as like, tortoise, or will oldham.

they were certainly one of the best live acts of that era. i think people kept expecting they would break bigger but they never quite did

Starting listening to this podcast about the making of Runners Four. I always liked them but also never connected super hard or listened to one of their records over and over. Totally love hearing about them as a group of ex-music school weirdos totally committed to going insane recording in a shitty practice space for a year though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8q2rYnx7tE

IIRC their episode of Rig Rundown on YouTube is pretty great too. They are unconventionally economical in their approach to equipment. A good strategy for the long haul.

God they've released an insane amount of music. Listening to Greg's new solo album now, which sounds great (and surprisingly/not surprisingly close to Deerhoof).

New one, Noble and Godlike in Ruin, is wonderful! I'll admit that I kind of fell off around 2019-2020 and only heard that Love-Lore record. On the basis of this, I need to go back and pick up the ones I missed since Mountain Movers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/indie-veterans-deerhoof-remove-catalog-141624051.html

kudos to them

i love them so much

also im going to see them in austin in october, so stoked

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Saw my first Deerhoof show in nyc the other night and goddamn did they blow me away. Whole band is insanely talented but Greg in particular was out of control good. Almost certainly the most impressive drummer I've seen perform live. That said, I've mostly been to rock shows, so I'm sure there are jazz drummers who are more talented, but I can't imagine it's by much.

Hope you have fun, m bison!

Also, big props to them for pulling from spotify. Always been a shit company and I've kind of justified my continued use of it by telling myself that it's okay because I go to shows and buy records and merch, but...$700 mil to some wannabe Palantir startup. Might have to be the final straw for me as well.

Deerhoof is rad, long may they live!

Can't believe it took me until 2025 to see them. One of the greatest live bands I've ever seen

Greg is a cartoon rat hair monster magician demon, hadn't quite appreciated how his and Satomi's dynamic of contrasts drives the whole thing

been over a decade since i last saw them! glad to hear they're still so good

Never seen a band before where the guitarists are toiling away humbly at the back of the stage lol