Atlas Sound’s Bradford Cox at the opening of photographer Ryan McGinley’s new exhibition at TEAM Gallery in New York City. Photo by Erez Avissar.
"The saddest thing is that nothing can happen for an audience of 400 people anymore. Now it has to be on the internet and it has to be broadcast so widely. That intimidates people. Maybe that’s the issue that makes people want to be more inhibited onstage. It makes people more self-censoring. That’s the reason people think I’m a nutjob, because I don’t give a fuck who reposts or how I sound. I don’t Twitter, I just randomly urinate out of my mouth. And then people sift through the feces looking for seeds."
— Bradford Cox talks to us about his unique performance in Minneapolis last week, which saw him covering “My Sharona” for an hour and asking the crowd to take their clothes off.
"But then, per request of an obnoxious audience member to hear ‘My Sharona’, things got strange. Cox obliged to play the song, which at first was generally entertaining. But it morphed into something bizarre, a unending cover that rivaled the length of a Phish concert."
— Bradford Cox did some seriously wacky stuff at an Atlas Sound concert in Minneapolis last Friday, according to a City Pages report.
"I hate indie culture. I am not an indie rock musician— I don’t even know what the fuck that means. I’m not independent. I’m co-dependent. ‘Codie rock’— co-dependent rock. For the fuck-ups, I’ll always be there."
— Deerhunter/Atlas Sound mastermind (and “codie rock” pioneer) Bradford Cox.
Bradford Cox as Joey Ramone, gearing up to perform Pink Floyd’s “Lucifer Sam” with MGMT on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”
Parallax is the name of a new album from Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox’s Atlas Sound project. The record is out November 8 on 4AD; listen to a track from it here.
Atlas Sound @ St. Cecilia’s Church 6.16.2011 (via Jessica Amaya)
I’m really feeling Bradford’s new haircut. And the new song, too.
