Australia’s King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard were in NYC over the weekend for back-to-back shows at Baby’s All Right on Friday (5/16) and Saturday (5/17) that wrapped up their post-Psych Fest tour.
Revolt features Mac DeMarco’s documentary, “Pepperoni Playboy”
He’ll be joined at the fest by garage-psych powerhouse White Fence, whose Phono performance arrives just ten days before the arrival of their Ty Segall-produced To The Recently Found Innocent LP on Drag City.
Today, Pitchfork.tv is proud to present Pepperoni Playboy, a short film about Mac DeMarco. Directed by Jon Leone, Pepperoni Playboy, a 34-minute “Macumentary” shot in part by DeMarco and bandmate Pierce McGarry…
Mac DeMarco recently released Salad Days, and in the last year or so has gained a large following. Pepperoni Playboy is a short documentary on the musician that gives you a look into his recording space, the process of making that new record…
Bumbershoot, which is hosted in Seattle, Wash at the Seattle Center, has announced it’s lineup including Wu-Tang Clan, The Replacements, The Head and the Heart, Elvis Costello, Poliça, Mac Demarco, Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Both…
The lineup was just announced and includes The Replacements, Wu-Tang Clan, Elvis Costello, Schoolboy Q, Afghan Whigs, The Dismemberment Plan, Nada Surf, Bobby Womack, Danny Brown, Mac DeMarco, Twin Shadow…
Directed by Jon Leone, Pepperoni Playboy, a 34-minute “macumentary” shot in part by DeMarco and bandmate Pierce McGarry, follows Mac as he hams it up on tour in China, shows off his Jizz Jazz Studios in Brooklyn…
In this episode, Chas visits indie wunderkind Mac Demarco at his home in Montreal. They begin by cooking steak, which is promptly burnt, and things devolve from there. Conversation topics include crazy fans…
The Monograph’s Alex Scoppie had an exclusive chat with Ezra Furman about saxomophones, cross-dressing and the elusiveness of success.
Those who enjoy thrashing around to Thee Oh Sees live, take note: frontman John Dwyer has an entirely new touring band, as BrooklynVegan reports. The touring group is now a trio, including drummer Nick Murray and bassist Timothy Hellman.
But who is in The Oh Sees now? Now living in Los Angeles, frontman John Dwyer has an all-new live touring lineup of the band and it’s a trio, with Nick Murray on drums and Timothy Hellman on bass.
Analog Avenue interviews Mac DeMarco
He formed his first band, “Ezra Furman & the Harpoons,” in 2006 while attending Tufts University. His lead singing and songwriting connected with listeners like a left hook to the jaw, a mix of stinging garage-rock and stripped-down acoustic numbers.
Given the large crowd’s reaction, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard picked up more than a few new fans with its hair-whipping garage psych.
DeMarco is a skilled musician, which is something people don’t talk about often: His songs, recorded on duct-taped, cigarette-fogged equipment, glimmer with sophisticated chord progressions and band interplay…
Mikal Cronin is a busy guy. When he’s not writing, recording, or touring under his own name, he’s usually playing bass in his friend Ty Segall’s band. Based out of San Francisco, the garage rocker is taking a short break to write his third album…
You don’t even want to know. Solid interview from our Assistant Music Director Stacey Karl with Mac DeMarco.
For the latest instalment in this series on our heroes’ heroes, lo-fi singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco tells us about his infatuation with Japanese musical legend Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Mighty Melbourne seven-piece King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have had a very busy 2014. In the last six months they’ve released a new album, rocked a national tour, blasted crowds at Golden Plains and The Gum Ball, escaped a stage collapse…
After plenty of work for Castle Face Records, Presley has completed his first White Fence LP for Drag City. The album is called To the Recently Found Innocent and was produced by Ty Segall.
Lo-fi psych rocker Tom Presley, a.k.a. White Fence, has signed to Drag City for the release of his sixth studio album. Due out July 22nd, To The Recently Found Innocent was produced by friend and frequent collaborator Ty Segall…
Lo-fi psych rocker Tim Presley, a.k.a. White Fence, has signed to Drag City for the release of his sixth studio album. Due out July 22nd, To The Recently Found Innocent was produced by friend and frequent collaborator Ty Segall…
Mac DeMarco is a Canadian songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. Born in British Columbia, DeMarco has been making music since 2008, self-releasing a series of albums under the name Makeout Videotape.
The soundtrack also includes Mac DeMarco, Rooney’s Robert Schwartzman, Tonstartssbandht and more. See the tracklist below.
It just goes to show that, even at their most relaxed and reverential, Thee Oh Sees’ feisty, impulsive essence still cuts through loud and clear.
You don’t have to be a psychedelic guitar freak to want to check in once in a while with someone as prolific as John Dwyer, who coaxes truly electric-toothbrush-esque frequencies out of his guitar on Thee Oh Sees’ 13th album’s opener…
Thee Oh Sees will play a free Northside Festival show at McCarren Park in Brooklyn on June 14. This will be the West Coast group’s first New York show since they went on hiatus last year.
The band are coming over to North American for Austin Psych Fest and will be touring afterwards, finishing up here in NYC with shows at Baby’s All Right on May 16 & 17.
Drop opens with some robotic triads, sliding riff-heavy and hard into “Penetrating Eye”. John Dwyer tackles six instruments on the album, including synthesizer, percussion, and the Mellotron – it’s one of his jack-of-all-trades albums…
