Residing near the intersection of carnival rides, radio drama and groovy horror movies, Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s music is a trip without the controlled substances, and his gadgets and her puppets make their gigs an experience with few contemporary parallels.
Life is complicated and full of tough questions. We seek answers from people we respect, so who better to turn to than your favourite artists? Mac DeMarco is everyone’s favourite person. If he isn’t yours, then, well, I’m not sure what to say.
Tracking the output of garage rock guru Ty Segall is becoming increasingly difficult. With his frequently expanding list of side projects and guest appearances, Segall has affirmed himself as a reliable force in music today, as with every release he aims to keep not only the audience attentive, but himself as well.
To me, Ty Segall is one of the most interesting rock musicians in the business. He’s certainly one of the most prolific — he’s released more than a dozen records in the last ten years — but with every new album, something’s different. He evolves, he improves, he expands.
Ty Segall’s latest collaboration—with Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw and Fuzz’s Charles Moothart—isn’t a revolution. They’re just three friends, hellbent on sustaining guitar music’s urgency and simplicity.
GØGGS, the garage punk power trio of Ty Segall, Chris Shaw of Ex-Cult, and Ty’s Fuzz bandmate Charles Moothart (also of CFM and more), just released their great debut album and they’re about to kick off a tour in support of it.
Ty Segall seems to form new bands roughly as often as most folks do their laundry, but the guy is good enough that the results are nearly always rewarding, and that’s certainly the case with GØGGS.
GØGGS debut, self-titled record is heavier than almost anything Ty Segall has worked on before. We caught up with lead singer Chris Shaw to discuss the album.
Me and him, we’re each sitting on a sofa in the artist lounge and bar area in the basement of the famed San Francisco venue, The Warfield, where he’ll be playing to a sold out crowd in a few hours, one night after playing a sold out show across town at The Independent.
On its debut album, Los Angeles three-piece sludge rock band GØGGS tears through 10 songs in a little more than 25 minutes, laying waste via lyrics about a Glendale junkyard, the assassination of a doctor, some sort of needle swap and the local proto-punk band Würm.
Ty Segall, Chris Shaw (Ex-Cult), and Charles Moothart all individually have records out this year, and it’s very likely that the GØGGS album will be the best thing any of them deliver.
The second single released, “Glendale Junkyard,” is a straight-ahead punk song that features molten riffs congealing into a mass to swallow everything even remotely near its path.
GØGGS — a.k.a. the super-trio of Ex-Cult vocalist Chris Shaw, lo-fi renaissance man Ty Segall, and Segall’s Fuzz bandmate Charles Moohart — have been planning a collaboration for three years.
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.
If you happen to live near Los Angles, Chicago, San Francisco, or Brooklyn, you have the fortune of thrashing around to GØGGS live in the upcoming weeks.
Earlier in May, Ty Segall’s new garage-punk project GØGGS (Segall, Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw, and Fuzz member Charles Moothart) released an explosive single called “Glendale Junkyard,” along with the news of a debut self-titled LP coming a few months later.
Late last month, Ty Segall released a nightmarish music video for “Candy Sam”, a highlight taken from his latest solo album Emotional Mugger. That’s not the only project the prolific rocker and multi-tasking master has been promoting, though.
Ty Segall recently added GØGGS to his long list of musical projects. Comprised of Segall, Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw and Charles Moothart of Fuzz, GØGGS swims in the garage punk rock pond.
Ty Segal, Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw and Charles Moothart of Fuzz today share new single “Needle Trade Off” ahead of the self-titled debut from their new band GØGGS, out July 1st on In The Red Records.