Minimalism has retained a surprising amount of cachet in mainstream rock music during the 21st century, an era in which pop, hip-hop and R&B have almost universally become more ostentatious in their stylistic fragmentation and metal has, in general, evolved to value hypertechnical, over-elaborate excess above all else.
Ty Segall is one of the most prolific and identifiable figures of the modern day garage rock scene, so much so that it isn’t exactly a surprise when he announces a new LP.
It’s only a few weeks into the year and Ty Segall just performed what will likely go down as one of San Diego’s best shows of 2016.
“Bizarre, crazy, amazing, I need to go get some ear plugs,” were just a few comments I heard during Ty Segall and The Muggers set Tuesday night at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco. You could feel the bands excitement of playing at The Fillmore and sharing the same stage as so many legendary acts.
There is perhaps no living artist more prolific than Ty Segall. In a mere decade, the Los Angeles guitarist has dabbled in garage pop, psychedelia, and glam rock while releasing eight minimalist lo-fi pop albums and joining at least eight different bands (three of which are ongoing concerns).
“No man is good three times” reads the sticker that adorns the cover of Ty Segall’s latest full-length solo record, Emotional Mugger. It’s the mantra that was at the heart of the reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s controversial victory in the 1944 U.S. Presidential election.
To get into Ty Segall’s sold-out show at the Teragram on Friday night, you had to fight your way past a line of David Bowie fans snaking down 7th Street from the nearby Monty Bar, where one of about a zillion Bowie tributes was taking place. It was hard not to read some fitting symbolism into this.
There are two things you can say about California’s Ty Segall. One, he’s incredibly prolific, and has been known to release more than just one album a year.
Ty Segall can’t stop writing songs, and seems to have run out of ways to release them. Advance copies of the underground/indie garage guy’s new album, “Emotional Mugger,” arrived on VHS tape.
Garage rock titan Ty Segall is back with what’s probably his most twisted album yet.
Garage-rock hero Ty Segall is back less than a year after his last solo release. In a promotion for Emotional Mugger, Segall created a hotline number for fans to call, where he explains what emotional mugging truly is.
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
Barreling on after a non-stop flurry of activity over the past eight years, Ty Segall is dropping his 10th solo album in the dead of winter, its cover depicting a Xeroxed baby head as it peers out of the fold amid a field of toner-black gradients.
Guys love Ty Segall in a very emotional way. Could it be said that Ty Segall is to dudes as Madonna is to women? No one has ever really said that before, but I just did.
Ty Segall changes his M.O. every time he releases a new album, going from acoustic rock to noisy garage sounds, and from wildly heavy psychedelia to a more glam-inspired sound. His new record seems to find him going back to a reliably loud and hard-rocking sound, so prepare to get wild.
With everyone always so distracted by the prolificness of Ty Segall, it seems that sometimes he doesn’t get enough credit for the sheer quality of his work.
The Smell turned 18 and had two extraordinary parties! The second night had someone who usually plays with every good musician in town. But on this particular evening, Ty Segall was a one man band.
When Ty Segall takes the stage at the Fillmore for his upcoming two-night stint, there’s little doubt he’ll be feeling pretty proud about headlining a venue where any number of early 1970s rock ’n’ rollers performed.
Secret shows” are not a rare thing in LA. Ty Segall seems to have one every few months. Previously, Segall had been booking the secret, Monday shows at the Griffin with Jason Finazzo of The Birth Defects. Last night I had the pleasure of attending a secret show with Ty Segall and his new band, The Muggers.
New album from the Laguna Beach, Calif., psych-garage rocker was announced with a VHS tape he sent to Pitchfork. He has also set up a hotline at 1-800-281-2968 with a brief, weird personal messag
Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to new music. Four times a year, we round up a list of albums, singles, EPs, reissues, and more arriving over the coming months. This installment covers winter 2016.
To those for whom simply owning a vinyl copy of one album or another is not enough, the eternally vintage-scoped Ty Segall teamed up with Famous Class Records for a collector’s treasure. Outside of the music itself, the Mr. Face EP comes with 3D glasses within the gatefold, the better with which to view the album’s trippy, mirror-reflection photography on another dimension, man!
Based on previous albums, this will likely be a rock-solid set of heavy, catchy power pop.
2015 was a quiet year for Ty Segall, but only by hyper-prolific Ty Segall standards. This year his band Fuzz released “II,” Ty Segall Band released a live album and he released a compilation of T-Rex covers, “Ty-Rex.”
Joanna Newsom, who’s much loved album Divers was met with much critical acclaim, moved down one spot to No. 3 from No. 2 while Neon Indian remained at No. 4. Fuzz remained at No. 7 for the third consecutive week. Givers entered the top 10 from No. 17 to No. 9, and Ty Segall moved from No. 25 to No. 10.
Ty Segall has shared “Candy Sam”, a new song from his upcoming album, Emotional Mugger (which was originally teased as a VHS tape).
“he effectively breathes life into a track so synonymous with pop culture that most people could probably happy live ever after without hearing a single second of it ever again…”
“‘Ty Rex’ is a set of Bolan covers by Segall that brings together two out-of-print Record Store Day releases, a 12-inch from 2011 and a seven-inch from 2013, with the addition of a previously unreleased take on ’20th Century Boy’ – a gritty rendition that darts along with hardcore intensity…”
“Before Ty Segall can issue Emotional Mugger, his latest (in a string of many) collections of grimy garage rock, but he has to look back before he moves forward. Way back. The California-based songwriter’s affinity for the sparkly songwriting of T. Rex’s Marc Bolan has been no secret, but next week he’s underscoring that with the release of Ty-Rex, a compilation of covers on Goner Records…”
“As the California garage-pop wunderkind becomes a grown-ass man, will he still make super catchy, loud and awesome music? The answer is most likely “heck yes.” Tickets are $16 Adv./ $18 Day of show. Get them here, OK!…”
