Long before electronic wizard Dan Deacon released his commercial debut, 2007’s Spiderman Of The Rings, he’d gigged with a high-school ska band, earned a computer-music-composition degree from SUNY at Purchase, blew tuba for Langhorne Slim, shredded improv grindcore guitar with Rated R, started a chamber ensemble, co-founded Baltimore’s Wham City arts/music collective and released a series of experimental computer-music/sine-wave recordings. Deacon continues to pursue an eclectic musical course—his Carnegie Hall debut in March was part of a John Cage tribute—but his greatest successes have been in the electronic/dance scene. America (Domino), Deacon’s new album and the follow-up to 2009’s highly regarded Bromst, could cement his status as one of the country’s most adventurous and inspired electronic architects. Deacon will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on him.
Deacon: Horse Lords is a newish Baltimore band that is made up of some of my favorite musicians that city has: Andrew Bernstein, Owen Gardner, Max Eilbacher and Sam Haberman. Their individual projects are different from each other and from the sound of Horse Lords. It’s rare that I like a rock band, but the way they reinvent what a band can do makes them awesome. It’s familiar and new at the same time. The first time I heard them I felt like I was playing an old favorite record of mine. It’s a rock band. It rules. Listen to their music.
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