Atlanta's Deerhunter. Photo via MySpace.
Scheduled to perform at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, buried among big-ticket names — including Echo and the Bunnymen, The Dead Weather and Thom Yorke – are younger bands that breathe softly under the surface, who created new music scenes and communities, and whose contracts survived recession budget cuts.
ATL art-rock darling Deerhunter is one such band, who, with other local acts such as Snowden, The Black Lips and The Selmanaires, helped put Atlanta back on the indie-rock map in the 21st century. This will be the first year the band performs at the music festival, following in the footsteps Atlanta noisemakers Mastodon and Gnarls Barkeley, and are scheduled to perform on the last day of the festival, Sunday April 18.
The critically-acclaimed band, who released an EP (Rain Water Cassette Exchange) in 2009, has not released a full length albums since “Microcastle” in 2008. With spring 2010 officially here, we cannot help but wonder how much longer before a new album or until someone leaks their music once again. (Sorry, guys!) Perhaps a compromise can be had with some new material at Coachella? *waits for response* And… silence. Oh well, no harm asking.
Reminisce and shoegaze with some star-quality Deerhunter tracks below.
Deerhunter blog: deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com
MySpace page: www.myspace.com/deerhunter
Coachella official site: coachella.com
“Never Stops” off of “Microcastle” (2008) live in Belgium 2008
“Hazel Street” off of “Cryptograms” (2007) performed live at 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival
