With members hailing from England, Ireland, and New York City, The Wild Deer’s individual nationalities reflect the three countries from which rock & roll music originated and evolved. Their songs have recently been heard on ESPN and MTV. Influential music magazine The Deli said, “the Wild Deer are so good at this classic rock thing we can’t really pinpoint what band they sound like.” Their song “Danny Felter” is a favorite of DJ Rich Russo, who recently played it two times back-to-back on his Anything Anything radio show. The NY Daily News and The NY Post have also included the Wild Deer on their “NYC bands to watch” lists. The band’s brand-new 3-song EP is being released this evening, produced by Kurt Reil (Smithereens, Doughboys, Anderson Council, Swingin’ Neckbreakers). They are thrilled to be returning to The Rock Shop for their Brooklyn CD Release Party with their friends Firenza and Stolen Rhodes!

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"I want to be Husker Du for 2010." That was the response from Eric when asked what kind of band this should be. Though informed by all of the great post-punk, pre-punk and actual-punk that came before (along with power pop, classic pop, mod pop, pop art, alt pop, brit pop. We can go on and on here...), the band doesn't really sound like Husker Du. It's more about how three guys might approach making music. And it's not going to sound like frickin Cream, will it? God, help us all.

Firenza formed to play a set of cover songs for our friend’s birthday. We played The Beatles “Rain,” The Jam “In The City,” Guided By Voices “Game Of Pricks,” The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” and some others. It was “Waterloo Sunset” that crystallized the vision of what this band could be. Powers had worked up a version of the tune for solo acoustic shows which he had been doing off and on. It was pretty true to the original but with a twist in the outro which made it sound how The Who might interpret it, something a friend picked up on immediately after the first proper gig. Bombastic and noisy, building from quiet to loud, fiery drum fills, impossibly huge fuzzed out bass runs, screeching feedback...

The band knew they were onto something. So songwriting commenced utilizing those basic concepts discovered in “Waterloo.” A sound that is still being sculpted into a mission statement of very loud, very short, very noisy pop songs that echo the masters from the past while churning forward at an unrelenting pace.