Mikal Cronin will release his third album, MCIII, on Merge Records. As previously noted, MCIII‘s second side comprises a conceptual, six-song mini-album that represents Cronin’s “coming-of-age story,” and in an interview with Exclaim!, the California songwriter and bandleader shed more light on the troubled time in his life that inspired the ambitious new full-length.
Cronin has always known his way around a melody, but on MCIII, he’s refined it to a needle’s point and woven that skill throughout a collection of immaculately written songs.
Ty Segall and King Tuff have both made a name for themselves with their rowdy, infectious garage rock, and now they’re teaming up for a split record. Live at Pickathon will be released on May 4 through Welk Music Group.
$INGLE$ 2 feels, if anything, like a companion to 2011’s Goodbye Bread: fuzzy, sometimes grimy and with riffs that chug along at the perfect speed to be chilled but not lulling. It’s a sweet spot that Segall has hit so well that it makes even a collection of B-sides a decent album.
The Ty Segall Band, which sees our boy working with Mikal Cronin, Emily Rose Epstein and Chares Moothart, will release Live in San Francisco early next year.
$ingle$ 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.
The single, the 12th installment of Famous Class’s Less Artists More Condos series, flirts with a blur of sped-up merry-go-round sounds before gelling into a hazy strum of acoustic guitar, soul-coating xylophone and a crackling backbeat…
Headlining the Tree Stage, Mac DeMarco and his merry band of pranksters were set to bring their famously debaucherous live show to Osheaga.
Though not much has been revealed behind the next platter from New Orleans oddities Quintron & Miss Pussycat, the duo will be taking their organ-heavy tracks and puppet show on the road this fall.
Mac DeMarco is very quickly growing beyond his Salad Days. Not only has that album garnered critical attention, but the singer also has a fan-drawn 7-inch contest, his own documentary, a videogame and, most recently, was mentioned on the Polaris Music Prize long list.
Live, DeMarco isn’t beyond relying on tried-and-true crowd-pleasing gestures, but the silly banter and beach-party vibe should not draw attention away from the sturdy hooks of songs like “Salad Days” or “Blue Boy,”…
Mac DeMarco’s messy hair, grubby ball cap and gap-toothed grin make him extremely easy to draw as a caricature, so it makes perfect sense that the cheeky songwriter is giving fans a chance to capture his likeness.
…California garage dweller Tim Presley has been cranking out albums as White Fence for a while now, and as he prepares to issue To the Recently Found Innocent next month, he has booked a North American tour in support of the album.
After plenty of work for Castle Face Records, Presley has completed his first White Fence LP for Drag City. The album is called To the Recently Found Innocent and was produced by Ty Segall.
The soundtrack also includes Mac DeMarco, Rooney’s Robert Schwartzman, Tonstartssbandht and more. See the tracklist below.
Mac DeMarco might be the wild and crazy showman on stage, but Salad Days shows there’s plenty of tenderness behind that shit-eating, gap-toothed grin.
Recorded at Jizz Jazz studio, Salad Days finds DeMarco returning to the AM warble and warped guitars that made his previous records such a success, while delving into deeper sonic and lyrical territories with vintage keyboards…
Jovial sleaze-pop solo artist Mac DeMarco may only be 23 years old, but over time he’s slowly become one of the defining voices of his generation, thanks to his 2012 debut Rock and Roll Nightclub and its subsequent follow-up, 2.
Mac was born in Duncan, BC, but did most of his growing up in Edmonton, AB. Before any aspirations to become a musician, he was really into computers in his pre-pubescent years — in a big, nerdy way.
California psych-garage favourites Thee Oh Sees gave their fans panic attacks a couple of months ago after announcing a hiatus, in part instigated by leader John Dwyer’s move from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and years of touring.
In classic DeMarco style, the album announcement came via a bizarre VHS-style promo video. You can stream that below along with debut single “Passing Out Pieces,” a dreamy pop tune.
…along with a handful of dates in Canada. It’s not a Canadian tour proper, but Mac and his merry band will return to Quebec in April for shows in Wakefield, Sherbrooke and Montreal.
Simply put, MCII is as close as anybody got to pop perfection in 2013. Its mix of fuzzed-out guitars, Beach Boy-esque harmonies and Phil Spector-like production is hard to resist…
Thee Oh Sees have always had plenty of non-album songs to spare, and the Bay Area garage outfit are collecting a chunk of them on their upcoming Singles Collection Volume 3
Lovable sleazeball Mac DeMarco is known for his slippery jangle pop and his so-called “jizz jazz” brand of rock’n’roll, but he’s showcasing a softer side of his sound by releasing a new acoustic EP.
Prolific, garage-favouring jam band Thee Oh Sees are compiling yet another batch of their non-album tracks for a third Singles Collection. This latest edition arrives November 26 via band leader John Dwyer’s Castle Face Records imprint.
…Mac DeMarco released a paired of beloved records in 2012, he has spent most of 2013 focused on live shows. In the coming months, he will continue his campaign with an international tour.
His band FUZZ…will release their self-titled debut on October 1 through In the Red, and they’ve given us another taste of it with the song “What’s In My Head.”
While Ty Segall’s FUZZ project are just about ready to release their self-titled LP, there’s even more new music in store from the psych rockers than we had originally thought.
