Artist, composer, prankster, madman, genius. Dan Deacon is an electronic music producer and performer with a rock and roll heart. He embodies the post-modern crisis in production: a multivalent artist ...

A musician like Dan Deacon -- with his thick-rimmed glasses, neon-green skull that hovers above his keyboards and the Technicolored mini-suites that his albums comprise -- seems inevitable in a ...

Boardroom sits down with the Task composer to unpack his path from Pitchfork’s Best New Music to shaping one of the year’s standout shows. Now, collaboration is a key part of his work. He's one of the ...

Don’t confuse this post with coverage of the 2008 Bang on a Can Marathon. In no way are we trying to say Dan Deacon is more important than anyone else that played during the twelve hour concert. It’s ...

Dan Deacon does not fear death—on the enigmatic songwriter’s first single off his forthcoming record, Mystic Familiar, Deacon greets it with wonder. “Sat by a Tree” looks at the inherent beauty of ...

On December 11th at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, Dan Deacon will unveil his new live set, which features a 15 piece live ensemble performing material from his forthcoming album, Bromst, which will be ...

If you’re going to see Dan Deacon at ArtsRiot in Burlington this Friday, April 18, don’t forget to turn your phone … on? In what is either a stroke of technological evil genius or fallout from the ...

Before Dan Deacon regaled a packed Brooklyn Bowl with his patented intense electronic experience Thursday night, he opted to lighten the mood. Walking out to the song “Under the Sea” from Disney’s ...

It's not unusual for film composers to make music out of organic sounds found in or related to the movie. Take Nathan Johnson's stunning Looper score which was built on a foundation of sampled clicks ...

Dan Deacon, the Baltimore whiz kid with the big glasses and even bigger soundtrack, managed to run his veggie-powered bus through Los Angeles last week, just in time to unload his monster ensemble on ...

Dan Deacon, the electroskronk dance-spaz wizard we wrote about way back in February (remember?), released his album "Spiderman of the Rings," this month. It's gnarly radical, or as one might say, ...