Spin announces Mac DeMarco’s live album Live at Russian Recording
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The whole 13-song set — which mostly consists of DeMarco’s wart-covered originals — is streaming below. Jurassic Pop is also offering a limited cassette run…
The whole 13-song set — which mostly consists of DeMarco’s wart-covered originals — is streaming below. Jurassic Pop is also offering a limited cassette run…
Ty Segall’s proto-metal project Fuzz will deliver a full-length platter on October 1 — via Los Angeles’ In the Red Records, as previously reported.
The lineup boasts several stars from the Captured Tracks roster, including DIIV, Mac DeMarco, Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils, Soft Moon, and Blouse.
Ty Segall has revealed more details on his upcoming album, Sleeper. Due August 20 via Drag City, the garage rock warrior’s next full-length will feature a total…
Over ten songs detailing a young man’s despair and self-doubt, he delivers a performance that’s both deeply confident and convincingly vulnerable,…
“…”Change” is its most aggressive moment, a “wild and wooly” guitar freakout “made more forceful by dizzying strings and woodwinds.”…”
“Ty Segall makes it difficult to imagine him ever resting, let alone sleeping. On August 20, however, the Bay Area garage rocker will release a new album titled Sleeper via Drag City…”
“MCII, smartly arranged with a keen, child-of-the-’90s ear for quiet-loud dynamics, is a glimmering feast of sun-licked, surf-spackled melody that benefits from the emotional layering that Cronin finds lacking in “fuck it garage-rock.”…”
“…Cronin’s sincere, gentle approach breathes new life into the Scot rockers’ oft-mocked chugger, which came to fame via 1993’s Benny & Joon.”
“…the horn-enriched “Better Man” marries a winding, delicate melody to swaths of glowing distortion, resulting in a fragile but formidable tune…”
“Strap on a pair of headphones because SPIN has collected 10 albums that are ready for streaming…”
“…the performance clip opens with a brief homage to Woody Allen’s Manhattan before cutting to the psych-sludge track…”
“…Adult Swim offer a quick taste of the upcoming mix via Thee Oh Sees’ rollicking “Devil Again,” a reliably sloppy jaunt from the San Francisco fuzz warriors….”
“…The free compilation, sponsored by Dr. Pepper and titled Garage Swim, collects 15 previously unreleased songs and is set for a May 6 release date…”
“MCII offers an even split of hooks, beauty and brawn…”
“Empire of the Sun, Solange, Polyphonic Spree, Mac DeMarco, William Tyler, and more have been added to the lineup for this year’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, taking place from June 13 to 16 in Manchester, Tennessee…”
“Frontman John Dwyer licked the mic and wielded his guitar like a bazooka, then he spotted fellow Bay Area groovie Ty Segall in the front row of the VIP section and demanded he join the band onstage…”
Photos from Mac DeMarco, Phoenix show at The Independent.
“Two years ago he celebrated the vinyl lovers’ holiday by sharing the Ty Rex EP, a six-song set of T. Rex covers done in the lo-fi jangly San Francisco style we’ve come to hold so dear…”
“As SPIN’s David Bevan wrote in his cover profile of Ty Segall last fall, the San Franciscan garage-punk cyclone’s newly formed outfit is so aptly named, it’s a wonder someone didn’t beat them to it. As Fuzz, Segall and his former Epsilons pals — Roland Cosio (bass) and Charlie Mootheart (guitar) — are a well-oiled doom machine spewing out noxious proto-metal and blues-dripping rippers the likes of which the world hasn’t heard since Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer infested the airwaves…”
“Cronin’s accustomed to whipping up a frantic sonic storm as a sideman, but his solo work is more winsomely melodic and carefully crafted. “Don’t Let Me Go” and the aptly titled “Piano Mantra” are lovely and lilting, while “I’m Done Running from You” and “Am I Wrong” burst with giddy rhythm, high harmonies, crisp guitars, and effervescing melody…”
“The above clip of a new, unidentified Cronin song arrived during the lead-up to the biggest fest in the Old Wild West, at a humble little shindig called Denton 35. While it doesn’t offer the “mondo, full of frenzied energy” affair that our own David Marchese witnessed a few days later, the MCII track is a lovely little slab of upbeat downer music about getting older and being bolder…”
“Cyclops Reap, Presley’s forthcoming album on Thee Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer’s Castleface Records, was originally intended as a grab bag of leftovers from his last three years of insane productivity. But Presley’s drive quickly transformed the project into a full-fledged album…”
“Fuzz are set to deliver a follow-up 7-inch on April 16 dubbed “Sleigh Ride.” Los Angeles DIY mainstay In the Red will handle the release, and reports that, “The band more than live up to their name with a a sludgy, heavy, psyched-out proto-metal sound that is steeped in shredding fuzztone guitar. Comparisons to Blue Cheer, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Black Sabbath have been made and are not far off the mark.””
“Mikal Cronin — former sideman for San Francisco garage-rock icon Ty Segall — has released perhaps the year’s finest power-pop album, MCII, using these latter methods; in addition, he’s written the best power-pop song of the year, “Shout It Out,” which combines all of the above gushingly, and features the priceless line, “Shit goes on and on and on and on.””
“You can’t get too comfortable during a Mikal Cronin song. At the Parish, the ridiculously talented Bay Area power-popper and Ty Segall compadre would launch into music that was all welcome signs — his own high, crisp rhythms, lovely plaintive melodies — then he and his backing band would snap…”
“After a stellar, self-titled 2011 debut in 2011, Cronin is preparing for the release of his Merge debut, MCII, a thoughtfully arranged slab of shimmering, high-grade California power-pop”
“DeMarco’s live performances are notoriously wacky, oddly seductive, sometimes nude, and not to be missed”
“After a stellar self-titled debut in 2011, the Laguna Beach native is preparing for the release of his Merge debut, MCII, a thoughtfully arranged slab of shimmering, high-grade Californian power-pop that already sounds like one of the year’s finest outings.”
“The Los Angeles-based one-man garage band known as White Fence has picked up some swell shine thanks to a recent album-length collaboration with … Ty Segall.”