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.
If you want to understand how fluid the genre signifier “psych” can be, consider what a vast spectrum of sounds King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have explored throughout their discography.
After dabbling Brubeck-y jazz and gentle acoustics, Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are back in hyperactive psych mode on new album Nonagon Infinity, which will be out via ATO on April 29.
Aussie music machine King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have revealed full details of yet another studio album. Following the release of both Quarters and Paper Mache Dream Balloon in 2015, the septet will now follow them up with the April-bound Nonagon Infinity.
The reigning hooligan king of indie pop, DeMarco released a mini-album of love songs last summer that revealed, in addition to the nuances of his heart, his home address, complete with an invitation for coffee.
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.”
In a standout moment from Chicago-born songwriter Ezra Furman’s excellent 2015 album Perpetual Motion People, the singer wails “I have got a lousy connection!”
Like so many younger siblings, Jonah Furman latched onto his big brother Ezra when Ezra received a gift that made him instantly cool: a brand-new acoustic guitar for his bar mitzvah.
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.
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.
Let’s all just take a moment to step back and reflect on what’s been happening in realm of Australian music over the past decade, particularly across the southern coast. To say that the once arid musical wasteland from whence INXS, AC/DC and a slew of other acronymic cock-rockers emerged in the pre-Internet age has undergone […]
Every once in a blue moon, there comes along a band that will raise the musical bar and work standard of how a unit should operate. A rare breed that will continuously challenge what will be expected of them, but in turn keep producing records of such substantial merit that they do not get tiresome, […]
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Now say it again with an Australian accent. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Too funny right? This is probably one of my favourite bands, yet such a random one.
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.
While Tuesday nights are not usually an evening spent out on the town this Tuesday night you need to do so. Set aside some time on your schedule to partake in Ty Segall’s brand of organized musical chaos as he rolls into town for an evening of ear blistering music at the Variety Playhouse.
With their gonzo band name and mind-bending music released at a rate of a couple of albums a year, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are the latest Australian psychedelic group making an impact.
Ty Segall anchored one of Neon Reverb’s most memorable single nights—September 11, 2012 at the Bunkhouse—so perhaps it’s fitting the California garage-rocker will help Las Vegas’ revered DIY music festival usher in its new era, at the same (relaunched) Downtown venue.
After the vicious, noisy and quite brilliant assault of support band YAK is over, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard arrive to what sounds like ghost train music.
Ty Segall releases albums as if he has insider information on the amount of time we all have left on this planet and he does not want to leave anything on the table.
Last night, Mac DeMarco headlined a Planned Parenthood benefit at Brooklyn’s Music Hall Of Williamsburg, which also featured Kevin Morby, Mutual Benefit, and others.