Ezra Furman possesses an increasingly rare quality that eludes most musicians: the ability to exploit a multi-faceted persona, reinventing and adapting from one record to the next. Day of the Dog was released late last year to rave reviews.
Tickets to Mac DeMarco‘s Laneway Festival 2015 sideshows have already begun to fly out the door, with his first Melbourne show already sold out. Victorian fans needn’t worry though, as DeMarco has just announced a second sideshow in the city.
DeMarco, the consummate performer, hits the iconic SF venue tonight with LA psych rocker Chris Cohen.
Now working as a power trio, Dwyer along with bassist Timothy Hellman and drummer Nick Murray stopped at the Gothic Theatre on the second date of their fall tour to serve up a quick, high energy set of jagged yet groovy garage rock.
Ty Segall will release his new compilation called $ingle$ 2 on November 18 via Drag City. It is the sequel to the 2010 cassette release and is full of the loose tracks he recorded between the years 2011 and 2013—the Goodbye Bread, Twins, and Sleeper years. In the compilation, he also covers the Velvets, GG Allin, and the Groundhogs.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard were a bevy of noises, with two drummers, a harmonica and synth player and at times, two bassists. Their set was loud, rhythmic and full of raw energy. The band took no breaks between songs, preferring to segue in lengthy psychedelic jams.
The ultra-prolific garage rocker couldn’t stick at just the one release this year, and he’s just announced that a new collection, $INGLE$ 2, will be out on November 17.
Combining VU riffs, acid-washed AM ’70s rock and a touch of The dB’s pop, his plaintive lyrics are at odds with his ‘Dude, Where’s My Career?’ persona. Could DeMarco be Paul Westerberg and Bob Stinson at the same time?
For those garage heads who yearn for the years before Ty moved to L.A. with its fame and high-pressure jacuzzi jets, this is the album for you. It’s pure San Francisco Ty, it’s Dolores Park Ty with a neon hula-hoop, Fisherman’s Wharf clam chowder bread-bowl Ty.
Due out November 18th via Drag City, $ingle$ 2 collects 12 “now-out-of-print sides” recorded between 2011 and 2013. That includes originals like “Spiders”, “The Hill,” and “Would You Be My Love”, alongside covers of The Velvet Underground (a total rework of “Femme Fatale”), GG Allin, and The Groundhogs.
Earlier this year, Ty Segall released Manipulator, a massive, 17-track album that has received great acclaim. Segall has announced $INGLE$ 2, a compilation album of loose tracks he recorded between 2011 and 2013.
$ingle$ 2 covers the years 2011 through 2013, bringing together no-longer-in-print singles that, according to a press release, add up to a cohesive album. This was the era when the songwriter released the albums Goodbye Bread, Twins and Sleeper, plus the Ty Segall Band LP Slaughterhouse and the White Fence team-up Hair.
Manipulator delivers generous distortion and the idiosyncratic, quirky sound that has become the defining characteristic of his music. A particularly singular record, Manipulator continues to showcase Segall’s eclectic rock taste, drawing its sound from psychedelia, glam, punk, noise and most of all, garage rock.
The mellowed-out muso will play two extra dates at Sydney’s Metro Theatre and at The Hi-Fi in Melbourne during the last week of January and first week of February. DeMarco is coming to Aus with a special visitor for his Laneway appearances — his mum Agnes, who will emcee the festival.
Opens with the most electrifying combination of songs the band have concocted to date.
The Magnificent Seven are doing so well that their record will get some prominent worldwide coverage this Monday. Can’t say too much but exciting times.
The acclaimed seven-piece will celebrate their latest album, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, out today, with five shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Fremantle. The band will be joined by labelmates The Babe Rainbow at each of the gigs and tickets are on sale now.
The final run of King Gizz shows for 2014 begin with a hometown show before the gang heads up to Sydney for a pair of shows and then across to Western Australia for gigs in Perth and Fremantle.
It’s one of the most compelling things they’ve put to tape thus far and they slay it live. If you like your home furnished with paintings of Looney Tunes as interpreted by an un-dead Carl Sagan on peyote, look no further.
“Before He Met Her (Decomposing Lime)” is a brand new track from former city denizen Tim Presley’s White Fence that dropped just yesterday. It’s a tripped out rock anthem reminiscent of Sgt. Pepper’s-era Beatles.
What’s getting you to Voodoo this year? Friday’s Outkast-Slayer-Melvis matchup? Saturday with Ms. Lauryn Hill, Benjamin Booker and Skrillex? Sunday brings hometown favorites Quintron and Miss Pussycat and recent converts Foo Fighters.
This week, mad scientist musician Quintron and his puppeteer partner Miss Pussycat released Spellcaster II: Death in Space. He and Miss Pussycat go all out for their annual Halloween show at One Eyed Jacks.
Mac DeMarco’s strong vocals were in full throttle last night as he performed a rare solo show at the Foellinger Auditorium. Without any additional instrumental backing, DeMarco held together a beautiful, raw set for the couple hundred audience members that spread out through the main floor and balcony.
From Montreal to Brooklyn, Mac DeMarco has quickly turned into a laid-back, surf-rock sensation with a propensity for songwriting. His most recent album, Salad Days placed No. 11 on Billboards US Top Rock Albums, and DeMarco’s songwriting has transformed his persona on the newest record.
Melbourne’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have landed next week’s feature album on triple j with their album I’m In Your Mind Fuzz.
The set – sandwiched between local heroes Courtney Barnett and The Smith Street Band – allows DeMarco to make his biggest Australian introduction yet, having kicked off his debut tour on the Wednesday prior with a co-headline show alongside Twerps.
If Dave F**k sounds too good/weird to be true, that’s because he is. Instead, Canadian musician Mac Demarco plays the character in a seriously silly new mini-mockumentary directed by Cole Kush. Mac DeMarco lends his signature ball cap and jean jacket to the character, along with a hilarious baritone voice. His trademark comedy style finds meaning in the mundane, as Dave F**k gets lost in a deep and profound CGI parking lot dream. We don’t claim to totally understand the video, but somehow it’s perfect.
Quintron and Missy Pussycat’s “Do The Raid” is something that would belong right next to “Time Warp” in Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it has more distortion—and plenty of puppets. For over a decade, the New Orleans-based duo have been making psych-heavy rock that’s easy to dance to: In the “Do The Raid” video, Miss Pussycat bops around with her maracas as Quintron flops his hair around to the beat of the music, which sounds a lot like what LCD System was aiming for with 2007’s “Watch the Tapes.”
The puppets, though, who Miss Pussycat makes and frequently performs with, are the video’s real stars. Most are unidentifiable shapes like the one-eyed blob, but there is one adorable panda wearing a bow-tie—no matter how cute they are though, they’re all pretty unruly: The video ends with one of the more colorful puppets setting some sticks of dynamite off.
Mac DeMarco is a very talented singer/songwriter, but sometimes that takes a backseat to how his fans receive him: as a living internet meme. So naturally that makes him a perfect candidate for a Reddit AMA.
Then there was King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, no strangers to Baby’s All Right, who came armed with three guitarists, two drummers, a flute and an insane amount of energy. The Australian band may have played more shows during CMJ than any other band, but their crazed stage presence never flagged, nor did audiences bouncing.
