From Stereolab remixes to Halloween treats, there's been much afoot in camp Deerhunter this week. The band plays their Microcastle record release party tonight at Variety Playhouse with Pylon, Jay Reatard, and Times New Viking. If you go, you might be able to get yourself a cassette copy of the so-called Platts Eyott Session. The story: Cox reco...

Night off work? Check. Totally adorable/ridiculous costume? Check. Ticket to the Deerhunter Microcastle record release bash at Variety Playhouse in Atlanta this evening? Check plus. Copy of Deerhunter's just-issued, ultra-limited edition On Platts Eyott Island cassette-only release? Uh...Better start lining up now, Hotlantans, because Bradford C...

Deerhunter lead singer Bradford Cox once posted an "unused vocal take" from the recording sessions for Microcastle at Rare Book Room. The clip, presumably created for the "sound collage" on the album's Cole Alexander (Black Lips)-featuring "Saved by Old Times" (here is how that came together), found Cox quoting the movie Annie. Not Annie Hall, A...

I'm not a close follower of the Deerhunter blog, but the piece Bradford Cox wrote about Stereolab's "Blue Milk" about a year ago has stayed with me, because I felt like he and I hear the same things in that amazing song (he gets a Pitchfork dig in there, too, but whatev). Atlas Sound, Cox's side project, recently spent a few weeks opening for St...

The second part of Pitchfork.tv's look at the making of Microcastle is up today. Yesterday we talked creative process with the band as they worked with Nicolas Vernhes in Rare Book Room Studio, and today we get the inside scoop on the creation of "Saved by Old Times". Cole Alexander of the Black Lips contributes vocals to the track via instant m...