Don't know if we'll ever see a Deerhunter vid on MTV but there's a few of us here in the Newsroom who love this band to no end. At the 2006 Corndog O Rama in Atlanta (a fantastic music festival, if you ever get the chance to go), Bradford inexplicably yelled at my then-girlfriend after she introduced them on stage. He apologized immediately afterwards, and really I couldn't be that mad because they were fantastic.

But that's neither here nor there. This dispatch from John Norris on his weekend before Bradford's Atlas Sound shows in NYC:

This weekend I got the chance to sit down for an extended chat with the inimitable Bradford Cox of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/Ghetto Cross, and the subject of a million blog entries and dozens of side projects – and I’m working on a story from that interview right now. But one of the most exciting collabos he told us about is an upcoming album he’ll be doing in Morocco at the end of March, with Ed Droste from Grizzly Bear and Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett. They’ll spend two weeks in an Ed-rented villa working on a ‘pop record’. That’s quite a threesome – Cox, Droste and Pallett. Kind of an indie Hope, Crosby and Lamour in “Road to Morocco”? (IMDB it) Will there be houseboys, I had to ask? “Um, no” said Bradford, “I’m told there is a house girl.” The better to focus on work.