Bikini Kill have announced a handful of reunion shows. The legendary riot grrrl punk band haven’t toured since the late ’90s, though they recently reunited for a 33 1/3 book release party on The Raincoats’ self-titled debut to play one song. However, the band will be playing three shows this year.
Mac DeMarco has confirmed that he will release a new album in 2019. “This will be the debut release on Mac’s Record Label (more details still to come),” reads a press release. The singer-songwriter has also announced a slew of new tour dates for the new year, which kick off after his appearances at this year’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival in April.
Mac DeMarco is looking to kick off 2019 on a strong note; the Canadian singer announced an upcoming North American tour on Tuesday, Pitchfork notes. Mac also has confirmed that he will release a new album this year.
Netflix’s latest release, Sex Education, features a mixtape worthy mix of ’80s and ’90s hits by bands such as The Psychedelic Furs, a-ha, The Cure, Violent Femmes, and Bikini Kill. Not content to firmly root itself in a soundtrack made up entirely of throwbacks, Sex Education creators worked with songwriter Ezra Furman for the rest of the soundtrack, which is a mix of originals and songs he wrote for his last album, Transangelic Excellence.
Oli Julian (Catastrophe, Cuckoo, Plebs) has composed the original score for the first season of the new Netflix original series Sex Education. The show also features original songs by singer/songwriter Ezra Furman.
Ezra Furman has written the soundtrack for new Netflix series, “Sex Education”, airing today (Friday, January 11th). The soundtrack features new original songs recorded during the summer, as well as songs from his previous albums.
This week in Ezra Furman news: The Bay Area musician with a sizable following in the UK was tapped to create the soundtrack to the British-produced coming-of-age comedy, Sex Education.
John Dwyer is never not busy. When he’s not touring non-stop or making records with Oh Sees (like this year’s awesome Smote Reverser), he’s got his solo project Damaged Bug, and the label he runs, Castle Face, that puts out a dozen or so records a year. He’s slowing things down just a bit this weekend when he brings his pastoral, folky OCS collaboration with onetime Oh See Brigid Dawson and a string section to Brooklyn’s Murmrr Theatre on Saturday (12/15).
Bedstock is an online “music festival” initiative by MyMusicRx, a program from the Children’s Cancer Association. The annual event features artists performing from their beds as a show of unity for children that have to spend their holidays in hospital beds. This year, artists including Jeff Tweedy, Ty Segall, Ben Gibbard, “Weird Al” Yankovic, TV on the Radio, Japanese Breakfast, Tune-Yards, Whitney, the Black Lips, Mary Lattimore, and many others participated in the event.
Tim Presley is one of our favorite artists here at WMF for a host of reasons: his steady quality musical output under the White Fence moniker, the significant role he played in a crucial era of post-punk mainstay The Fall, and his contributions as one half of DRINKS are three of those reasons, but there are even more topics we’ve been eager to cover with Tim. Curious about his diverse musical endeavors as well as his upcoming 2019 album, we recently had to the pleasure of conversing with Tim about these subjects and others, including his visual art, past collaborations with Jack Name and Ty Segall, and his return to simple, melodic songwriting.
Origins is a new music feature that gives an artist the chance to reveal the influences behind their latest effort.
Ty Segall has announced his sixth new album of 2018. He’s in a band called the C.I.A. with his wife Denee Segall and the Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly. Their debut self-titled album is out in December via In the Red.
The CIA, the band that features front woman Denée Segall along with Ty Segall, Emmett Kelly and drummer R.E. Carlos, will release their self-titled debut album in December on In The Red Records.
Evan Minsker of Pitchfork shares a list of his favorite recent garage and punk releases.
Titled I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk, it’s set to hit shelves January 25th via Drag City. The 13-track collection will serve as Presley’s seventh under his White Fence banner and long-awaited follow-up to 2014’s For the Recently Found Innocent.
On their second album, this quartet featuring Ty Segall and Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw produce and pull at their militaristic punk with psychedelic tricks and brief detours.
Now based in Los Angeles, Wellington-raised musician Jess Cornelius refined her skills as a songwriter, vocalist and instrumentalist in Melbourne with her acclaimed, genre-bending project Teeth & Tongue. From 2008 to 2016, she released four albums and used music as a way to explore the world, touring through Australia, Europe, the US and the UK, and connecting with audiences through song, humour and sentiment.
Ty Segall has announced a new covers album called Fudge Sandwich. The LP is out October 26 via In the Red.
Ty Segall deliciously covers Grateful Dead, Funkadelic, John Lennon and more on new album Fudge Sandwich
Mac DeMarco has announced he is launching his own record label. It is called Mac’s Record Label. “My friend Jen who plays drums in The Courtneys gave me the name,” he said in a press release. DeMarco has thus far released music via longtime label Captured Tracks. The new label will be distributed through Universal Music Group’s Caroline.
Mac Demarco has announced the launch of his own record label, titled ‘Mac’s Record Label‘. The new label will be distributed through Universal Music Group’s Caroline.
“With 21 full-lengths, eight EPs, two live albums, four compilations, and at least a dozen seven-inches released over the last 21 years, there’s a lot to talk about when it comes to garage-psych outfit Oh Sees (also known as Thee Oh Sees).”
“It, too, rips with a house-burning intensity. “Pre Strike Sweep” is a feverish punk-leaning thrasher. Guitars chug and screech behind Shaw’s hoarse barking and Moothart’s restless drumbeat. It kind of sounds like GØGGS covering Show Me The Body covering Dead Kennedys.”
GØGGS Announce New Album ‘Pre Strike Sweep’, Release Title Track
GØGGS announce new album ‘Pre Strike Sweep’, to be released on 09/28/2018 via In The Red
The hardcore four-piece’s sophomore effort is due September 28th via In The Red
“Eric Moore and Michael Cavanagh have known each other since they were in their teens, playing in nurturing musical communities before finding success in the ornately technical and mosh invoking seven-piece Melbourne outfit King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. “
In a new volume of Bloomsbury’s 33 ⅓ series, Berkeley-based singer-songwriter Ezra Furman dissects Lou Reed’s second solo album with a thoroughness and fervor that could only come from someone who has loved him for years.
“First single “Overthrown” jams a dose of heavy metal skull-crushery into Oh Sees’ typically frenetic style, and the latest album’s cover art leans further into the theme with a painting of a dragon looming over a burning city. It looks like the cover of a fantasy novel, which coincidentally is artist Matt Stawicki’s main gig.”
“The ever-prolific Oh Sees are back with a new album this summer. It’s titled Smote Reverser, and it arrives August 17 via Castle Face.”
