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.
Panache is excited to announce two Halloween Parties this upcoming week in NY! Hosting six events during CMJ just wasn’t enough, so we felt like we owed both you and ourselves another opportunity to rage. Panache artists like Purling Hiss, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Meatbodies, Tonstartssbandht will all be celebrating the festivities in […]
His latest LP shows an artist doing a lot more than just making novelty music. “Something Is Wrong With Jim Bob” is 90 seconds of arid, instrumental guitar. “Fatal Harmonic” is a track by the Weather Warlock, his project featuring a device that’s controlled by the elements (an undeniable highlight at Gonerfest). The best part of the album by a mile is “Do the Raid”, which is probably the best Quintron and Miss Pussycat song of the past decade. It’s a sneering track where they stare down a young student and say, “Your parents are dumb, kid, do the fuckin’ math.”
Truly, an anthem for elementary school teachers who no longer give a fuck.
Mac DeMarco stars in a goofy video sketch called “Backer”, directed by Cole Kush. He plays a character named Dave Fuck who is a “backer”, as in, it is his job to help drivers back up their cars. However, he turns a seemingly menial task into something more poetic, exploring his dreams and realizations.
We’ve been listening to the live stream of Mr. Quintron’s Weather Warlock, an analog synthesizer whose sensors gather data on light, precipitation, wind and temperature and transform the readings into sound.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, from Australia, clearly don’t take themselves entirely seriously, but they tore into their hopped-up boogie drone, topped with blues harp. Immigrant Union revived the folk-rock wing of psychedelia.
Looking/sounding like some post-Adderall version of Redd Kross circa Neurotica, this Aussie psych troupe bash hooks, keyboard noise, and infinitely colored outfits all around the stage and into one of the must-see acts of 2014, forget the fact that they’re on one of the must-see events of CMJ.
When we first received a copy of Manipulator, one of our DJs suggested a new category for rotation: Light, Medium, Heavy, and Ty Segall. That’s how much everyone here at KEXP loves the new record.
The Weather Warlock is the latest addition to Quintron’s cache of self-made electronic instruments. For the curious who want to experience it for themselves outputs from the Weather Warlock are streamed live, 24 hours a day on Weather for the Blind.
White Fence released For the Recently Found Innocent this past July and have garnered nothing but raves reviews. This latest record sees him re-team with Ty Segall to produce a beautiful set of elaborately crafted songs, harmony vocalizations and trippin’ guitar tones that conjure a fantasy about reality.
These psychedelic garage rockers have also been receiving high praise from the music community and as of this month have released seven albums in three years. The prolific seven piece band were brought together through living in a share house and their mutual love for Pavement and Thee Oh Sees.
Next year’s festival runs from March 13 to 22, but the buildup/lineup reveal is a gradual striptease of sorts, with Round 1 announced today. At first glance, we’re happy to see locals The Stone Foxes, The Dodos, The California Honeydrops, and Thee Oh Sees.
A couple of tracks from Death in Space — the fuzzy, buzzy title track and a second, “Do the Raid” — have premiered online. So has an ongoing stream of the Weather Warlock, a unique synthesizer programmed to translate the effects of natural light, wind and rain into sound.
