Deerhunter announce tons of tourdates to support some new punk album I read about on NPR

Deerhunter announce tons of tourdates to support some new punk album I read about on NPR

You’re never going to believe this, readers, but the Atlanta-based “dirty-southern” punk band Deerhunter just had the best idea that anyone’s ever had! (I’m pretty sure Bradford Cox either thought of it himself or cleverly appropriated it from an idea jointly hatched at some historically significant moment in rock’s past by Iggy Pop and John Cage). See, they had a new album come out yesterday, and on the SAME DAY, they announced a gigantic tour of Europe, North America, and beyond for the next thousand months that starts pretty much next week!

Don’t you see the genius here? Now they can play music from the new record AT these live shows, thereby simultaneously increasing the likelihood that a) fans who don’t own the record will be won over by what they hear and see from the stage and proceed to purchase it based on the positive concert experience they’ve just had; and b) fans who arrive at the show having previously purchased the album will have their affinity for certain tracks reinforced by experiencing the presumably more visceral and immediate “live versions” of those tracks, thereby sorta “sealing the deal,” as it were, on those fans’ general, you know, geeked-out love of Deerhunter. In other words, they’ve found a way to LITERALLY turn commerce on its METAPHORICAL EAR and impregnate that ear with John Lennon’s frozen semen to create a true post-historical Gesamtkunstwerk of Art-commerce metafusion! Well, the whole idea is actually all a little more “Berlin” than that, but you get the idea.

Deerhunter dates (I know a lot of these sound suspiciously like venues, but trust me, they are all garages):

05.18.13 - Utrecht, Netherlands - Ekko Le Guess Who Festival
05.20.13 - Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
05.21.13 - Brussels, Belgium - AB Club
05.22.13 - Paris, France - La Trianon
05.23.13 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera
05.30.13 - Porto, Portugal - Optimus Primavera Sound
06.07-09.13 - New York, NY - Governor’s Ball
06.21-23.13 - Camber Sands, UK - ATP Festival
08.23.13 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
08.27.13 - Sacramento, CA - Hawlow’s
08.30.13 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw
08.31.13 - Victoria, BC - Sugar
08.31-09-02.13 - Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot
09.03-08.13 - Portland, OR - Music Fest Northwest
09.06.13 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban
09.07.13 - Denver, CO - Bluebird
09.09.13 - Minneapolis, MN - Fineline
09.10.13 - Chicago, IL - The Metro
09.11.13 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland
09.12.13 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
09.13.13 - Columbus, OH - Skully’s
09.16.13 - Boston, MA - Royale
09.20.13 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
09.21.13 - Washington DC - 9:30 Club
09.22.13 - Chapel Hill, NC - Cat’s Cradle
12.01.13 - Tokyo, Japan - Hostess Club Weekender

• Deerhunter: http://4ad.com/artists/deerhunter
• 4AD: http://4ad.com

[Photo: Harley Brown]

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