Crib Notes

Band blogs are a dime a dozen. I’m sick of reading about your top five favorite twee pop songs at the moment or what you had for breakfast while touring Oregon. Bands should be thinking about new, creative ways to approach their blogs. That’s why I’d like to take a minute to praise Atlanta’s Deerhunter for going out on a limb and taking a chance with its online journal.

Deerhunter’s blog has barely been up a week, and yet it’s stirred up more controversy in the indie world than Animal Collective’s recent album leak. It all started when the band announced the creation of a “poop journal” in which they would offer photos and descriptions of their daily BMs. Online indie tastemaker PitchforkMedia.com jumped on the story, poking fun at the band’s antics.

On Wednesday, Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox pushed the blog’s boundaries a bit further by making a borderline-pornographic post about his top five fantasy boyfriends. The post was complete with lurid details and nude pictures of the young men he described. Although it was obviously in jest — Huckleberry Finn was No. 3 on the list — dozens of readers were outraged. Consequently, the blog was bombarded with scathing comments from “fans.”

As usual, Pitchfork hopped on the bandwagon, calling the band’s blog one of the “seediest corners” of the Internet and accusing Cox of posting child pornography — an accusation Cox vehemently denies. The controversial entry was promptly taken down from Deerhunter’s blog and replaced with a “fuck you” letter from Cox.

Sure, the poop journal and the fantasy top five list are cringe-worthy features to most of us, but at least they’re not boring. In any case, the band isn’t going to let the naysayers ruin its fun. In his response letter, Cox tells all of his detractors that they “can eat the shit [they’ll] be seeing photos and journal entries about.” I guess that means the poop journal’s still on. Sweet.

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