Deerhoof Releases Free Live Album

Deerhoof, who released their excellent album Deerhoof vs. Evil early this year, released a free downloadable live album today on the website. All of the songs are from their recent tour, named after their newest album and still continuing. As a band known for their energetic live presence, this is what fans have been anticipating for quite some time now. Did we mention it was free?  read more

Deerhoof: Deerhoof vs. Evil

Deerhoof never ceases to amaze. The band strikes a near-perfect balance between oddball accessibility and brazenly challenging their listeners to accept new and jarring sounds. The key word here is balance, between opposing forces: the past and the future, the human and the mechanical, the male and the female, the composed and the improvised, the crystalline and the obscured, the assonant and the dissonant. So it’s funny, and a bit ironic, that the band named its new album Deerhoof vs. Evil, as if its sound was merely a stand-in for the powers of “good,” when really it’s a much more all-encompassing blend of Yang and Yin.  read more