“I want to be the Patti Smith of now, with something like ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger’ blaring out of kids’ speakers. I fantasize about that, but I’m not going to be that. I’m just not that dangerous,” Bradford Cox told me in an interview for The Big Takeover back in 2008. While it’s defeatist to [...]

There’s something about this time of year that just makes some loud, boozy garage rock sound perfect. I guess other people think that too, considering some of the releases of late. Deerhunter’s wonderfully chaotic new album is out very soon, Thee Oh Sees recently dropped one of their best records yet, and now Adult Swim [...]

Plus; new album releases from Iggy & The Stooges, Neon Neon and Deerhunter    

Since the release of their triumphant sophomore album, 2007′s Cryptograms, Atlanta’s Deerhunter have produced a pretty vast catalog that’s been both unpredictable and consistently great to an almost shocking degree. Expand the scope of that catalog to include the three LPs from Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox&#...

We’ve heard the title track and seen the eye-popping Fallon performance, and now we get to hear all of Monomania, the fifth album from Atlanta fuzz-rock iconoclasts Deerhunter. The album isn’t set to arrive for another couple of weeks, but now we can stream the entire messy, hooky 43-minute affair below. (via NPR) Monomania i...