On August 7, Mac DeMarco will release a project he’s calling the Another One mini-LP, and to tease its release three months ahead of time, the alt-scuzz musician has shared “The Way You’d Love Her.” The new cut is breezy and head-over-heels gushy.
Wilco announced the lineup for their Solid Sound Festival today, and this year, they’ll be joined by SPIN’s 2014 Band of the Year Parquet Courts, Real Estate, and Mac DeMarco.
It’s certainly the most accomplished work in the steadily rising, notoriously musically incontinent career of the 27-year-old phenom of the San Francisco garage-rock scene (recently resettled in L.A.). Before this, Segall already had produced seven or eight estimable solo albums, depending how you count, in the blink of six or seven years…
For The Recently Found Innocent is as much a lesson in self-awareness as it is a thoroughly enjoyable listen. Over the last four years, Presley has recorded at a relentless rate in his Echo Park home…
Merge has also shared a free compilation featuring current artists covering some of the label’s classic tracks. …Hiss Golden Messenger does Spoon’s “The Beast and Dragon, Adored,” and Saint Rich offers a version of Mikal Cronin’s “Am I Wrong.”
During the four-plus years he’s been performing as White Fence, the prolific songwriter’s approach has largely been the same: He writes hundreds of scuzzy-riffed songs in his Echo Park apartment…
By the time August 26 rolls around it’ll have been more than a full year since the release Ty Segall’s last studio album, Sleeper. That’s a pretty brief refractory period for most bands, but in Segall years, that’s like, an eternity, man.
You don’t have to be a psychedelic guitar freak to want to check in once in a while with someone as prolific as John Dwyer, who coaxes truly electric-toothbrush-esque frequencies out of his guitar on Thee Oh Sees’ 13th album’s opener…
We all got a bad scare late last year when the prolific and consistently great garage-psych institution Thee Oh Sees announced their hiatus, but now here we are just a few months later and the band is back with a brand new album.
doubly significant for Thee Oh Sees: Not only do the garage-rock kings have a new album coming out (Drop, due April 19), but the summer gig will also mark the band’s first Bay Area performance since frontman John Dwyer relocated…
It’s these dissonant bits that elevate DeMarco’s easily digestible pop, the reason his single “Passing Out Pieces” will be one of the most memorable moments in indie rock this year.
Being pegged as class clown on his previous solo outings… likely shaped the mind state in which we find DeMarco here. Without the attention-grabbing antics, his core sound hasn’t changed much.
The upcoming split seven-inch kicks off with a new Mikal Cronin song called “Soul in Motion.” Opening with an anachronistic drum machine loop, the track manages to feel akin to the dulcet fuzzbombs found on Cronin’s Essential MCII…
Mac DeMarco will serve up his Salad Days LP on April 1 via Captured Tracks.
Fuzz dropped their eponymous debut in 2103 but failed to release any proper visuals until now. Turns out this was worth the wait.
Thee Oh Sees’ indefinite hiatus turned out to be mercifully brief. The garage-rock champs will release new album Drop on April 19…via frontman John Dwyer’s Castle Face label.
Segall’s stamp usually guarantees a certain level of mad-eyed intensity and furious energy, and Fuzz’s version of “Till the End of the Day” doesn’t disappoint.
..it may come as a surprise that Californian garage-punk lifer and Ty Segall pal Mikal Cronin is also in possession of a bachelor’s degree in music. On his Merge debut, the confessional Cronin puts both his formal and informal education…
Music-festival staples, tireless tourdogs, frequent visitors to all the big cities — we’ve seen more Oh Sees shows than it’s worth recounting here. But on Friday, an especially psyched crowd made for an especially berserk set.
On December 3, the garage rock gatekeepers will share the franchise’s second installment: a four-track platter documenting a recent set that SPIN cover star Ty Segall played with Fuzz at the SF Eagle.
New Orleans’ Quintron and Miss Pussycat have made the personal touch their calling card. She makes puppets for surreal, onstage puppet shows — such as the one involving Christmas Bear and a goblin cake that she performed last night.
Cronin juxtaposes his upbeat “Peace of Mind” with this simple, not-exactly-upbeat plot to create a touching clip. Wild Flag member Mary Timony, an indie-rock…
…they’re amplifying that unholy blend of psychedelic showmanship and punk snarl to a deafening volume on the just-unveiled “What’s In My Head.”
Famous Class Records is currently auctioning off a slew of rare 7-inch releases from SPIN cover star Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Cass McCombs, Deerhoof, Lower Dens, the Mallard, and more.
Famous Class Records is currently auctioning off a slew of rare 7-inch releases from SPIN cover star Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Cass McCombs, Deerhoof, Lower Dens, the Mallard, and more.
I have a really hard time stepping back and removing myself from my work,” Mootheart says of the album. “But I’m insanely stoked on this record.”
Segall wrote the 10 mostly acoustic tracks for Sleeper after losing his father to cancer last year and relocating to Los Angeles to be closer to his younger sister.
livestream performances by Divine Fits, Vile, Van Etten, Bird, and Parquet Courts, in addition to White Fence, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Lightning Dust…
Last week, Mac DeMarco unveiled “Young Blood,” a lo-fi mumbler inspired by the 1986 Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe hockey movie of the same name.
Fans can hear the Canadian tunesmith take the piss out of Limp Bizkit’s ‘Break Stuff,’ Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman,’ the Beatles’ ‘Blackbird,’ Eric Clapton’s ‘Cocaine,’…
