Segall recorded almost everything on his massive double album Manipulator himself. Along the way, he learned some new tricks: Conjuring grandeur with walloping choruses, injecting syncopation into his riff-rock onslaught, turning his howl into a potent glam-rock.
Mac DeMarco made a quick appearance on Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show earlier this week. Everything starts off normally enough with DeMarco playing 2 track “Still Together,” but things take a weird turn when the host stops everything and announces that it’s time to “Attack DeMarco” and a bunch of samurai come out to hit the singer with sticks and try to choke him.
The Melbourne psych-rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard recently released “Cellophane” from their upcoming album I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, and now they’ve released a 3D music video for the song, directed by Jason Galea.
Zany Melbourne garage psych collective King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, a self-described band of “completely fried theremin wielding psychopaths,” are a perfect fit for Thee Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer’s label Castle Face.
Segall has always existed head and shoulders above just about anyone else in the retro-garage rock scene that birthed him, but that says more about the scene than it does about Segall…
This past weekend, the 2014 Pickathon Music Festival was held, as always, at the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, just outside Portland. Major draws this year included the War On Drugs, Mac DeMarco, X, and People Under The Stairs.
This past weekend, the 2014 Pickathon Music Festival was held, as always, at the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, just outside Portland. Major draws this year included the War On Drugs, Mac DeMarco, X, and People Under The Stairs.
The video for Mac DeMarco’s “Chamber Of Reflection” starts off with a woman crouching in front of a Ford truck grille wearing a Homer Simpson mask — and it only gets weirder from there.
Mac DeMarco released his new album, Salad Days, earlier this year, but now fans will be getting something more: DeMarco’s previously released demos for the albums 2 and the aforementioned Salad Days will be getting a proper vinyl release…
Nardwuar The Human Serviette posted an interview with Mac DeMarco, and like most of Nardwuar’s interviews, it revealed a wealth of strange and wonderful stories. The two talk in depth about DeMarco’s early days playing DIY shows….
Thee Oh Sees took the main stage for an early afternoon set under the most belligerent sun the weekend offered. Of course, this is the new Oh Sees, pared down to a power trio, and it was easily one of my favorite sets at BottleRock.
Mac DeMarco recently released Salad Days, and in the last year or so has gained a large following. Pepperoni Playboy is a short documentary on the musician that gives you a look into his recording space, the process of making that new record…
Bay Area garage-rock torchbearers Thee Oh Sees announced a hiatus late last year, but not before they recorded Drop, a psychedelic Lemonhead of a new album that’ll be out later this month.
The two songs we’ve heard from Thee Oh Sees’ forthcoming Drop spanned a vast aesthetic distance; “Penetrating Eye” was a gnarly unhinged riff monster, while “The Lens” was a subdued and pretty psych ballad.
Mikal Cronin, the Bay Area scuzz-rocker who recently contributed to the new Thee Oh Sees album and released his second album, MCII, last year, is releasing a single titled “Soul In Motion” as the A-side of the LAMC 7″.
Mac DeMarco is a wiseacre dirtbag with a raucous live show, and he’ll probably always be known best as such, but he’s also got a gift for small, personal, slow-dissolve melodies.
We heard the riff-powered rager “Penetrating Eye” last month, and now a second song called “The Lens” is out in the world.
The clip finds DeMarco performing an easygoing ballad called “Let My Baby Stay” at Portugal locales including a rooftop, a parking garage, outside what appears to be a museum, and on a treadmill at the gym. T
Prolific Bay Area psych-garage warriors Thee Oh Sees announced a hiatus last year, but even as they were doing it, they made it good and clear that they weren’t breaking up for good, even claiming that they’d have an album out early in 2014.
Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival, which is living up to its reputation as perhaps the best-curated big festival in the entire planet, just announced the lineup for this year’s festival, which comes to Parc del Fòrum 5/29-31, and Slowdive is just a small part of it.
Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco has a new album called Salad Days, the follow-up to 2012′s breakthrough 2, coming in April on Captured Tracks. DeMarco stopped by Edmonton’s CKUA to perform an acoustic set…
Dwyer has a new solo project that he’s calling Damaged Bug, and he’ll release an album called Hubba Bubba under that name in just a few weeks. First single “Eggs At Night” sounds absolutely nothing like any incarnation of Thee Oh Sees…
His new video for the album track “The Man Man” would’ve been perfect for Halloween, but it’s still pretty badass a few days later. In the LEAF-directed video, a quartet of terrifying monster-masked gunmen stalk Segall through a dark street.
And Bay Area psych weirdo White Fence has turned in a jangly, flowery cover of “Today’s Lesson,” a 1991 banger from the crustcore band Filth. The White Fence version does not sound anything like the Filth one, and you can hear it below.
…Drag City released another great album by San Francisco’s Ty Segall, Sleeper. Now, the label has posted a funny series of TV commercials for the album on their YouTube channel.
Over the weekend, Mac DeMarco unveiled new track “Young Blood,” inspired by the Patrick Swayze hockey movie of the same name.
…Mikal Cronin served as musical guest on Conan. That means Cronin is now a big enough deal to command late-night airtime, which is good news for the Bay Area…
“Thee Oh Sees are set to release Floating Coffin, the follow-up to 2012′s Putrifiers II, next week…”
“Thee Oh Sees are set to release new LP Floating Coffins later this month and have given visuals to its first single “Minotaur.”…”
“The San Franciscan psych rocker and longtime Ty Segall co-conspirator Mikal Cronin is getting ready to release his new solo album MCII, and today he’s shared its opening track, the breezy and uplifting “Weight.” The song has all the finely sculpted fuzz-tone we expect from the Bay Area garage-rock underground, but it’s also got a furiously sharp classic-rock hook at its center, and it’s got me seriously excited to hear the rest of the album…”
