Deer Tick struggles but makes good, authentic music on Black Dirt Sessions

It’s inevitable that within every generation of musicians that strives to break new ground with cutting edge genres and recording techniques, there is a handful that instead go back to the roots of rock and roll and draw inspiration from what is seen as a more “authentic” source. Most recently, Jack White tore […]

Nightly News and what the “cool kids” are listening to these days.

In order to do this, you need a tv anchor that wants to be hip. I am not just talking about “we don’t fucking torture!” hip, I am talking about the type of hip that allows you to talk to Deer Tick.

Brian Williams is launching an online series of interviews with musicians. I […]

Deer Tick announces HUGE summer tour

Seriously, so many tour dates. Unlike those lame stupid bands that organize like five-city tours, Deer Tick announced an epic 47 shows for their Born on Flag Day tour in support of their upcoming sophomore release Born on Flag Day. They’re pretty much covering the whole U.S./Canada spread like […]

Deer Tick share “Easy” MP3 from new album!

I’ll be short on words here since you probably know mucho about Deer Tick. They are coming out with a new album, Born On Flag Day, June 23 on Partisan Records. With a voice that’s impossible to forget, John J. McCauley III is ready to take his songwriting to a new […]

This week in concerts: We Are Scientists, Friendly Fires, Say Hi, etc.

It’s a firestorm of concerts in the D.C./Baltimore area this week and by firestorm I mean there will be a lot of solid acts coming. Lets go through the highlights, shall we?

Tuesday: Friendly Fires w/ White Lies

Both acts are pretty much big deals and will be on The […]