Off the back of a raucous Sydney show this week that we named perhaps the best show of 2016, Canadian Mac Demarco and a bunch of his ragtag mates have planned a mammoth Perth show in lieu of the cancelled Southbound Festival, due to WA’s raging bushfires.
Ezra Furman is a transformative performer. The last time I saw him wield a guitar was in February 2013 at a San Francisco acoustic Sofar Session. He was reticent, solo, and jarringly genuine. He was also dressed as a man in corduroy slacks. This was when he was on the verge of giving up as […]
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, […]
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.
Okay, I know this is a little bit of a cop out because everybody loves Mac so much it’s almost disgusting. But, Another One is truly so good.
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 […]
The Canadian artist quietly released his own version of Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby’s Chirstmas standard, titled ‘White Chirstma$’, on Boxing Day, writing “Twas the season” in a caption accompanying the video. The artwork for the track is a photo of Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks wearing a Santa hat.
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.”
A frenzy of poppy synths, rackety percussion and a throbbing bassline, this song effectively blends Furman’s visceral indie rock roots with his newer, glossier throwback sound.
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 […]
2015 was another big year over here at the Horseshack. Across the seven choice studios, across the world, that we invite the best musicians in the world to, we recorded and posted just under 1000 new sessions. We are happy to present the 100 sessions that stood out most from the crowd, for whatever reason.
Today’s Song of the Day is “Bone” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Their album, Paper Mache Dream Balloon, is out now.
‘Perpetual Motion People’ had already been cemented as my favourite album of 2015 by the time Ezra Furman turned in the live performance of the year at his Bristol show back in November.
We’re not sure how most music publications can cap their Albums of the Year lists at 50, there are too many worthy albums most years to leave it at that.
The ever-prolific Thee Oh Sees are set to release a new 7-inch single on February 12th. Coming through mastermind John Dwyer’s own Castle Face label, the single’s A-side, “Fortress”, has just been revealed.
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 […]
This garage-psych band from the land down under sure does freak me out. Expecting more of the ragingly unkempt sonic shout-outs that shone like a veritable watermark on some of their earlier work (notably 2014’s Oddments and this year’s Quarters!) I was surprised by what amounts to self-restraint on their seventh full length effort, Paper […]
Ty Segall has shared “Candy Sam”, a new song from his upcoming album, Emotional Mugger (which was originally teased as a VHS tape).
Blouse’s Charlie Hilton will release her debut solo album Palana on January 22 via Captured Tracks. It includes “100 Million”, which features vocals and music by Mac DeMarco.
Mac DeMarco has added more tour dates behind this year’s mini-album Another One.
Want loud? Los Angeles-based power trio Fuzz does that, pounding out relentless, ear-splitting riffs with abandon. But they do more, too. For starters, Fuzz is a guitar band par excellence. Name another band where every member—even the drummer—is a guitar-playing badass.
That Illinois boy Ezra Furman is really on a roll. After a year filled with loads of touring, a sure-to-land-on-year-end-lists album (Perpetual Motion People), and Iggy Pop praising him to the heavens on his radio show, the ever-evolving glam punk just posted a new tune and tour dates. Plus, he’ll be penning the 33 & […]
His gap-toothed smile and casual wardrobe might suggest otherwise, but DeMarco has a serious work ethic, with an album release and widespread touring every year, and a wariness of overindulging in the usual musician’s vices.
As Melbourne ensemble takes a breather with experimental folky album, it readies its most ambitious release to date.
“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…”
“Well, that process is over for another 12 months, and following vigorous head-scratching, hot debate and much umming and ahhing, the results are in. Returning heroes, brand new discoveries and instant classics mix in a melange of magical music…”
