Prolific singer/songwriter Ty Segall arrives on stage at The Ritz in the latest of his many incarnations, wearing a boiler suit and flanked by the Muggers – a sort of Californian underground scene super-group.
Indie rock icon Ty Segall may be gallivanting around the globe while dressed as a giant baby these days, but beneath his current art-rock facade lies the soul (and voice, and guitar ability) of a serious musician.
Babies are beautiful innocent creatures filled with wonder, but apparently not in Ty Segall’s world.
Ty Segall’s new “Candy Sam” music video continues the rock weirdo’s recent string of baby mask-wearing appearances, because why not stick with a schtick when it’s obviously working?
Following a memorable performance on “Colbert” back in February, Ty Segall’s Emotional Mugger track “Candy Sam” now has its own video.
Ty Segall and The Muggers perform a track from their album Emotional Mugger.
Monday night, Ty Segall did not disappoint a packed crowd at the Pilsen strong hold, Thalia Hall.
Punk foursome Beach Slang set the bar high Saturday night at Neon Reverb, and then fuzz-rocker Ty Segall obliterated it completely on Sunday, capping the weekend with a manic performance ranking among the Downtown festival’s all-time best.
Indie art-rock freak Ty Segall could have been the persona Gowan was referring to when he sang “You’re a Strange Animal, I’ve got to follow” in 1985 (click here if you really have to).
Let’s just get the obvious out of the way: Ty Segall is weird. Over the past few months, the singer and his newest backing band, The Muggers, have been seen dialing that weirdness to new levels on tour and television.
WGN Morning News Gets Psyched Out: Prolific garage rocker Ty Segall played two shows at Thalia Hall earlier this week.
The expectation for most artists these days is, after releasing an album, to tour and tour and tour until they just can’t tour no more.
There is a distinctly poetic sensibility about Ty Segall. You might not expect that given images of how the man fronts his new band, the Muggers: lumbering over the stage in blue coveralls, wearing a dead-eyed baby mask and whisking at his side what we can only assume to be his bloody (prop) umbilical cord.
Last weekend I had the pleasure of photographing yet another Ty Segall show, this time at Danforth Music Hall with support from openers CFM (Charles Moothart’s new band, you might know him from FUZZ).
Wednesday’s packed Ty Segall performance at First Avenue was a harrowing, shriek-filled freak show of sorts, with Ty first emerging in a giant, distorted plastic baby mask and later whipping a (hopefully) fake umbilical cord over the audience.
At some point on Monday, between my morning coffee and heading off to run errands, Ty Segall and the Muggers descended on WGN Morning News.
It was right around the time Ty Segall removed his man baby mask and draped an umbilical cord over my head that I knew it was going to be a weird show.
Ty Segall released the bugged-out psych-rock album Emotional Mugger earlier this year, and last month, he appeared on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show to give one of the weirder, more provocative late-night TV performances in recent memory.
On Saturday, February 27, Ty Segall & The Muggers played the first of two sold-out shows at New York City’s Webster Hall.
Ty Segall and his band the Muggers (King Tuff, Mikal Cronin, and more) performed on the WGN Morning News program in Chicago today.
Few people can hypnotize a crowd quite like Ty Segall. Since the release of his self-titled debut back in 2008, Segall has developed a reputation for being a garage-rock whiz kid, his playful live shows and critically acclaimed albums chock-full of theatrical antics and rollicking riffs.
Ty Segall has been all over this site for years, and the reason we keep coming back to his shows is the same reason that he sold out these two nights at Webster Hall last weekend: He’s one of the most exciting live acts around.
Ty Segall, accompanied by his band The Muggers (King Tuff, Mikal Cronin and members from Wand and The Cairo Gang) opened his first night in New York at Webster Hall last Saturday, touring off his January release “Emotional Mugger.”
“Infantile” is a good descriptor of Ty Segall’s current tour. This is not meant as derogatory, as much as a statement of fact.
Ty Segall had method behind his madness as he tore through 9:30 Club on Thursday night showcasing songs from his recent concept album, Emotional Mugger.
Probably the most prolific and reliable dude in rock right now.
Some people go to concerts to hear the band play their songs, others go to watch incredible visual displays that certain band are known to deliver and others go to take part in the sweaty stew that is a large group of fellow music fans unleashing their inhibitions.
The prolific San Francisco garage rocker Ty Segall has a gift for creating breezy pop melodies — which he then loves to warp and bury under avalanches of fuzz.
Ty Segall has reached a new plane in the realm of performance. His latest album Emotional Mugger is one that slowly grows on the listener.
