It's Dan Deacon love day today at TIG. After reading heather b's review of his recent Vera Project show, how could I not be head over heals for the the veggie oil fueled phenomenon?

To celebrate, here's a photo from a 2008 show at Neumo's courtesy of the fabulous Jeanine Anderson. After reading heather's review, can you imagine anything less blissful and slightly religious?

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at The Vera Project

The opening loops drew high praise from the sold-out crowd, not realizing it was just more of the (very, very) long setup. A penitent Dan addressed the crowd through his vocoder: "Sorry that we take foreeeeveeeer...We take forever every shoooow...There's no excuse, we're just lazy stoner perveeeeeerts..."

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Tonight, Dan Deacon is playing at the Vera Project and if you bring him some vegetable oil, he'll totally get you in to the show.

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TIG photographer Kyle Johnson has been quite busy this year. Taking the impeccable press and editorial photos as well as covering shows and festivals for TIG, Kyle has amassed a great portfolio for 2008.

Here's a recap of his personal favs from the past year.

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at Neumo's

I may not always like the destination, but that doesn’t mean I’m not happy to go along for the ride.

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The strange thing about Deacon is not that his music can go from absurdly experimental to baroque in five seconds or less, but that his music is usually fully baroque and absurdly experimental all at once.

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Not terribly excited with this early offering, but you know I'll be all over the Brunettes; and, if they're not trumped by other bands I want to see more, will also probably try for Spoon, Xiu Xiu, Eisley, Dan Deacon, and Deerhunter (though of course they'll all be playing sets at exactly the same time in venues far far away from one another, because that's just the way it is).

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