Ezra Furman soundtracks ‘Sex Education’
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This week in Ezra Furman news: The Bay Area musician with a sizable following in the UK was tapped to create the soundtrack to the British-produced coming-of-age comedy, Sex Education.
This week in Ezra Furman news: The Bay Area musician with a sizable following in the UK was tapped to create the soundtrack to the British-produced coming-of-age comedy, Sex Education.
These are difficult times to think of any musician not born David Robert Jones. The legacy of Davie Bowie is so vast and so influential, that any thoughts of other artists inevitably flow back to the iconic musician who passed away on January 10
Ezra Furman really seems to speak to depressed people. As you all learned last year, my mom died in the summer of 2014. I was fine…for a while. The loss wasn’t sudden — it didn’t put me in bed for months on end or convince me to stop eating. It just left me feeling kinda “…What now?”
“Fuzz, a no-nonsense garage rock trio that specializes in loud kickass songs and even louder kick ass songs, will play two shows in the Bay Area on Sunday and Monday nights…”
Pickathon Music Festival organizers are releasing a limited edition split LP capturing 2013 festival sets from King Tuff and Ty Segall.
The pushy riff and swell of feedback are so damn certain sounding that they serve as a recognizable heads-up for the breakneck fervor to come, like a trigger warning for the rock ‘n’ roll weary, or something.
It’s been almost five whole months since he put out a record, but he’s back with the Mr. Face EP, out this week on Famous Class. Mr. Face is a double 7″ EP pressed on translucent red and blue-colored vinyl, and you can apparently use the records as a pair of 3D glasses.
Castle Face is back with the fourth installment of the label’s Live in San Francisco series, featuring Ty Segall Band’s February 2014 performance at Rickshaw Stop.
“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.
…brilliant and representative of indie, Americana, soul, hip hop and, yes, even punk and rock and roll genres. With performers like Mikal Cronin, Diarrhea Planet and The War on Drugs playing this year, Pickathon literally rocked.
He’ll be joined at the fest by garage-psych powerhouse White Fence, whose Phono performance arrives just ten days before the arrival of their Ty Segall-produced To The Recently Found Innocent LP on Drag City.
Thee Oh Sees are back after all with an unexpected new LP, Drop. Set to release on Record Store Day 2014, the album is an energetic dive straight back into the electric pool of psychedelic rock n’ roll that Thee Oh Sees are known for.
Thee Oh Sees are still not off their indefinite hiatus yet. Though San Francisco’s sweethearts may be on a long-deserved break, that doesn’t mean they haven’t been productive. Case in point: their new video for “The Lens”…
Musically, White Fence played a solid set of straightforward garage-rock — forgoing the studio trickery of their LPs and becoming a bit more down-to-earth in the process.
It makes more sense when you watch it. A blurry, flickering callout to B-movies of old, the “The Man Man” video sees Ty himself being stalked by a car full of creepy creatures.
San Francisco’s royal family, Thee Oh Sees, are setting out on a month long US tour with Austin psychopaths OBN III’s and Minneapolis lunatics The Blind Shake. The circus began with a sold-out, three-night takeover at The Chapel.
White Fence certainly had the louder, garage rock part of the festival covered but could have played even louder and taken full advantage of echoes and acoustics.
The seated performance was basically an extension of the band’s FYF set, only in a far more appropriate indoor setting. Sleeper, Segall’s first album of 2013, was played in its entirety.
Ty Segall played their first set at the “Woods Stage,” which was tucked deep into in a thick forest. The band played with acoustic guitars…
White Fence played their first set in the main stage area, where their raucous sound had plenty of room to breathe.
It’s quite a run, too: three nights in a row at The Chapel from October 10th through the 12th, accompanied in all three by OBN III’s and The Blind Shake.
Yes, it’s that time again. The one that comes not once, sometimes twice, and often three times a year: Ty Segall is releasing a new record
…drawing over four thousand people to Potrero del Sol Park for a day of amazing music and food capped by stellar sets from Thee Oh Sees and YACHT.
… Fuzz’s Sabbath-esque, stringy haired, garage rock certainly fit the bill.
Thee Oh Sees took the stage last to finish up the show, playing a mix of old songs and new ones off their absolutely stellar recent album Floating Coffin.
“Needless to say, it was an epic finale, capped off with the band’s typical closer “Still Together,” during which fans literally busted out their lighters, a classic concert tradition that I haven’t witnessed in almost ten years…”