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Next week Dan Deacon will load up his veggie-oil powered bus for another national tour (dates below), this time with pals Nuclear Power Pants. To celebrate, Post Typography designed a new tour poster and if you're the first to ID all 243 cartoon characters portrayed within the poster you'll win one hell of prize package that includes:

1. $500 cash 2. A portrait of you painted by Dan Deacon 3. One of the last copies of Wham City Box Set #1 4. A copy of each of Dan Deacon's first 8 impossible-to-find releases (Silly Hat vs Egale Hat, Meetle Mice, Goose on the Loose, A Green Cobra is Awesome vs The Sun, Porky Pig, Twacky Cats, Live 2003, Acorn Master)

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Download your own high-res copies of all the materials needed for the contest here Send your submissions to: postercontest@whamcity.com

Dan Deacon's Tour Dates 10-01 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle * 10-02 Atlanta, GA - Eyedrum * 10-03 Athens, GA - 40 Watt * 10-04 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree * 10-05 Nashville, TN - The End * 10-06 Memphis, TN - Hi Tone Café * 10-07 New Orleans, LA - Big Top * 10-09 Austin, TX - Emo's Alternative Lounge Outside * 10-10 Marfa, TX - The Shade Structure* 10-14 Irvine, CA - Pacific Ballrom (UC Irvine) * 10-15 Los Angeles, CA - Echo * 10-16 Los Angeles, CA - Eagle Rock Center for the Arts * 10-17 San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island Festival 10-19 Sacramento, CA - Fungarden * 10-21 Eugene, OR - Agate Hall (University of Oregon) * 10-22 Portland, OR - Worksound * 10-23 Portland, OR - Holocene * 10-24 Seattle, WA - Vera Project * 10-27 Denver, CO - Rhinoceropolis * 10-29 Northfield, MN The Cave (Carleton College) * 10-30 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium * 11-01 Gambier, OH - The Horn Gallery * 11-03 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dees * 11-04 Toronto, Ontario - Great Hall * 11-05 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore * 11-06 Montreal, Quebec - Eastern Bloc * 11-07 Middlebury, VT - Middlebury College * 11-08 Boston, MA - Pozen Center (Mass. College of Art) * 11-09 Pawtucket, RI - Machines * 11-10 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street Nightclub * 11-13 Troy, NY - Experimental Media & Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute * 11-14 Worcester, MA - The Grind (Clark University) * 11-15 Ithaca, NY - Emerson Suites (Ithaca College) ** with Nuclear Power Pants

posted by: Harold Johns III

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Deacon-NPP-tour-for-web

Next week Dan Deacon will load up his veggie-oil powered bus for another national tour (dates below), this time with pals Nuclear Power Pants. To celebrate, Post Typography designed a new tour poster and if you’re the first to ID all 243 cartoon characters portrayed within the poster you’ll win one hell of prize package that includes:

1. $500 cash
2. A portrait of you painted by Dan Deacon
3. One of the last copies of Wham City Box Set #1
4. A copy of each of Dan Deacon’s first 8 impossible-to-find releases (Silly Hat vs Egale Hat, Meetle Mice, Goose on the Loose, A Green Cobra is Awesome vs The Sun, Porky Pig, Twacky Cats, Live 2003, Acorn Master)

DD-NPP-poster-contest-diagr

Download your own high-res copies of all the materials needed for the contest here
Send your submissions to: postercontest@whamcity.com

Dan Deacon’s Tour Dates
10-01 Chapel Hill, NC – Cat’s Cradle *
10-02 Atlanta, GA – Eyedrum *
10-03 Athens, GA – 40 Watt *
10-04 Birmingham, AL – Bottletree *
10-05 Nashville, TN – The End *
10-06 Memphis, TN – Hi Tone Café *
10-07 New Orleans, LA – Big Top *
10-09 Austin, TX – Emo’s Alternative Lounge Outside *
10-10 Marfa, TX – The Shade Structure*
10-14 Irvine, CA – Pacific Ballrom (UC Irvine) *
10-15 Los Angeles, CA – Echo *
10-16 Los Angeles, CA – Eagle Rock Center for the Arts *
10-17 San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Festival
10-19 Sacramento, CA – Fungarden *
10-21 Eugene, OR – Agate Hall (University of Oregon) *
10-22 Portland, OR – Worksound *
10-23 Portland, OR – Holocene *
10-24 Seattle, WA – Vera Project *
10-27 Denver, CO – Rhinoceropolis *
10-29 Northfield, MN The Cave (Carleton College) *
10-30 Chicago, IL – Logan Square Auditorium *
11-01 Gambier, OH – The Horn Gallery *
11-03 Toronto, Ontario – Sneaky Dees *
11-04 Toronto, Ontario – Great Hall *
11-05 Montreal, Quebec – Il Motore *
11-06 Montreal, Quebec – Eastern Bloc *
11-07 Middlebury, VT – Middlebury College *
11-08 Boston, MA – Pozen Center (Mass. College of Art) *
11-09 Pawtucket, RI – Machines *
11-10 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street Nightclub *
11-13 Troy, NY – Experimental Media & Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute *
11-14 Worcester, MA – The Grind (Clark University) *
11-15 Ithaca, NY – Emerson Suites (Ithaca College) *

* with Nuclear Power Pants

posted by: Harold Johns III

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  1. FunSucker says:
    September 25, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Too bad this tour is a giant circle around the midwest :(

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