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The Deaf

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About Me

The Deaf CD Release Turf Club Thank the lord that the music industry's long winter of discontent (aka Thanksgiving through New Year's, a time during which almost no CDs come out) is at an end, and we can once again welcome with open arms new releases, both local and national. I've been having a hard time getting my head out of 2006: The introspection and evaluation that come along with making year-end lists led me back into listening to old favorites like Hendrix and T. Rex, but This Bunny Bites, the new album by The Deaf, might be just the thing to put an end to my thus far breach-born experience of 2007. Leadoff track, "Into the Fire," rumbles out of the gates on Jack Kalyuzhny's single-stroke tom rolls and the storm of bass and guitar whipped up by Steph and David Safar, but the magic happens when it all congeals around the yawning gap that makes room for Safar's exclamatory (and Blur-esque) "Whoo!" It's all the chorus the tune needs. "Chim Cham" is either a reference to a dance step or a "Mr. Show" sketch, and either way, it sets the pattern for songs that were probably named before they had lyrics, sounding more like good, hair-trigger concepts than the result of careful consideration—"Let's Go," "Fuck That Shit," "Shiv" and "Get 'Er Done" being prime examples. In all fairness, this isn't music about subtlety and nuance; it's about rawness and blunt objects. End to end, it's the kind of slightly sludgy post-punk that slots itself in tightly behind locals like The Soviettes and that band's offshoot, Awesome Snakes, and national acts like Queens of the Stone Age. Plus, they got a mention in the 2006 edition of the Best American Non-Required Reading as having one of the Best New American Band Names. Take that, America. With The Blind Shake, Maps of Norway and His Mischief. 9 p.m. $5. 21+. Corner of University and Snelling Aves., St. Paul. 651-647-0486. STEVE McPHERSON

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/2/2005
Band Website: learningcurverecords.com/news
Band Members: David - guitar
Jack - drums
Conor - vocals

Influences:
Sounds Like: LastFM
Record Label: Learning Curve Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Razorcake Review of 'This Bunny Bites'

DEAF, THE:This Bunny Bites: CDSometimes I crave the sound of bands like Helmet, Unsane, or Refused, so I was thrilled with The Deaf. Like the aforementioned bands, The Deaf delivers the hard and heavy...
Posted by The Deaf on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:39:00 PST

Intergalactic Groove Orgy and Nocturnal Elf Emissions

City Pages Shaking it with zombies and nuclear submarines Intergalactic Groove Orgy and Nocturnal Elf Emissions Here there be Dragons Power Up! Image by Daniel Corrigan by Sarah AskariMarch 7, 2007...
Posted by The Deaf on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:35:00 PST

Smother Review

http://www.smother.net/reviews/items/modernrock/2049/The_Dea f-This_Bunny_Bites.php ...
Posted by The Deaf on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:52:00 PST

'This Bunny Bites' in metalreview.com

http://www.metalreview.com/3369/The-Deaf-This-Bunny-Bites.as px
Posted by The Deaf on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:52:00 PST

The Pulse Review

The Deaf CD Release Turf ClubThank the lord that the music industry's long winter of discontent (aka Thanksgiving through New Year's, a time during which almost no CDs come out) is at an end, and we c...
Posted by The Deaf on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:18:00 PST

MN Daily Interview

January 25, 2007   So-So Deaf All-Stars   Local band The Deaf unleash raw rock power onto the world, or at least St. Paul By Haily Gostas udging by the droning grindcore sludge of St. Pau...
Posted by The Deaf on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:13:00 PST

'This Bunny Bites' City Pages Review

The Deaf: This Bunny Bites by Cecile CloutierJanuary 24, 2007 The DeafThis Bunny BitesLearning Curve Records Blasting the volume and cutting the lyrics to a handful of words seems retrograde in thes...
Posted by The Deaf on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:58:00 PST

The new album is done

Dave Gardner has mastered it. There are a few sequencing bits left to be worked out, but otherwise it is complete. Listen to one of the songs off of it! TBB
Posted by The Deaf on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:41:00 PST

Bio

Formed in the confines of Roll Music Studios (no longer exists) in THE fall, The Deaf (comprised of David and Jack at the time) set out to be a guitar/drums power duo to exploit unknown to them territ...
Posted by The Deaf on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:33:00 PST

The new album is in the works

We have just finished recording our first album at Seedy Underbelly. We will be mastering it very soon. After that all bets are off...
Posted by The Deaf on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:59:00 PST