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Time was, to make your way onto a Dan Deacon record, you'd either have to be some sort of Ecto Cooler-induced day-glo hallucinatory animalia or Dan Deacon himself. But a lucky few non-Deacon human-types who can make their way to the Big Apple on February 8 will find themselves pulled into the freaky, friendly fold of crystal cats and hateable bees, as Deacon immortalizes them in song. Really, truly weird song.

According to a MySpace post, Deacon will record his February 8 performance at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art for use on his next record. He will also tape the audience singing live favorite "Silence Like the Wind", which will show up as his next single. That 7" will serve as the very first release from Wham City Records, a new label from the Baltimore collective.

Deacon is in the process of relaunching his website right now, and when it's ready, he promises to post "the scores for pieces I'll be doing at the Whitney show." He's also going to offer all of his pre-Spiderman of the Rings releases as free downloads. They're all worth the trouble just for the titles alone. Look for Acorn Master, Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat, Meetle Mice, Goose on the Loose, Twacky Cats, and Porky Pig, among others, to grace your ears at no cost to you shortly, as well as "some unreleased stuff like the score to Ultimate Reality."

Speaking of Ultimate Reality-- the collaborative audiovisual mind-boink Deacon and his Wham City associate Jimmy Joe Roche crafted up and are currently parading around the country-- check in on the action at Jimmy Joe's YouTube blog of the proceedings with a single click right here.

Ultimate Reality tour:

01-09 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
01-11 Austin, TX - Emo's Jr.
01-12 Denton, TX - Hailey's
01-14 Phoenix, AZ - Modified
01-15 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre *!
01-16 Irvine, CA - UC Irvine !
01-17 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
01-18 Portland, OR - Backspace
01-19 Portland, OR - Holocene
01-20 Seattle, WA - Neumos
01-21 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards $
01-24 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
01-25 Chicago, IL - Lakeshore Theater
01-27 Detroit, MI - Scrummage University
01-28 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
01-29 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
01-30 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
01-31 Boston, MA - Pozen Center
02-03 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church

* with Health
! with Abe Vigoda
$ with Montag

Dan Deacon:

01-26 Chicago, IL - Metro (two shows) *
02-08 New York, NY - Whitney Museum
02-22 Sydney, Australia - Oxford Art Factory
02-23 Adelaide, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival
02-24 Melbourne, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival
02-27 Perth, Australia - Perth International Arts Festival
02-28 Adelaide, Australia - Rocket Bar
02-29 Brisbane, Australia - Troubadour
03-01 Brisbane, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival
03-02 Sydney, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival
03-08 South Florida Everglades, FL - Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation (Langerado)
04-12 St. Louis, MO - Billiken Club

* with Girl Talk