…I heard Ty Segall band member Mikal Cronin’s debut solo album, I loved it. The second time, I still loved it. The hundredth time, I couldn’t even hear it. I took a little break. But now that he’s back with a whole new album…
It’s the sense of prohibition-era rockabilly breathed into a modern day after-life for kids who still don’t give a fuck.
NXNE will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2014. The festival takes place June 13-22 in Toronto. The initial lineup has been announced, and it includes St. Vincent, Danny Brown, Mac DeMarco…
NXNE is returning for its 20th year in 2014 from June 13-22 in Toronto, and the initial music lineup has just been announced. It includes St. VIncent, Juicy J, Danny Brown, Rhye, Mac DeMarco…
Spillover Music Festival, Parade of Flesh’s annual festival featuring of some of the best bands at SXSW with 1000% less nonsense to deal with, has just announced the first portion of its 2014 lineup. Featured bands include pop shit-starter Ty Segall…
Simply put, MCII is as close as anybody got to pop perfection in 2013. Its mix of fuzzed-out guitars, Beach Boy-esque harmonies and Phil Spector-like production is hard to resist…
Joining Dave in the studio today is none other than Ty Segall! He’s one of the most, if not THE most, prolific musicians of our time, and such a nice guy. They talked “freaking out”…
No longer a cult band championed by in-the-know indie nerds, Thee Oh Sees have become trendsetters thanks to their ever-broadening sonic language and seemingly tireless work ethic.
Ezra Furman has made an album of classicist rock’n’roll that never feels like an exercise, but a living, breathing piece of self-expression.
The Four Oh Five post photos of Ty Segall’s show at The Scala
Prior to this year Cronin was best known for being a Bay Area garage rock crony to the likes of Ty Segall, who may have been the only person to see the sun-breaking-through-the-clouds brilliance of this year’s MCII coming.
Redd Kross and Mikal Cronin performed at The El Rey Theatre on Tuesday night. Cherry Glazerr opened the show.
Photos include co-curators Loop, Comets On Fire, Fennesz, 23 Skidoo, White Fence, Hookworms, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Dirty Beaches, The KVB, Kandodo and The Dismemberment Plan.
..it may come as a surprise that Californian garage-punk lifer and Ty Segall pal Mikal Cronin is also in possession of a bachelor’s degree in music. On his Merge debut, the confessional Cronin puts both his formal and informal education…
Vol. 3 is the best of these singles collections yet, with some downright gems and curious if imperfect steps into the unknown. Most importantly, it shows that Dwyer and Thee Oh Sees are far from settling into a groove….
Mikal Cronin is the next generation of alt-rocker. He was born in 1985 but his music channels early Redd Kross with salivating, no holds barred freakouts that switch between noise and pop.
“It’s good to start with a bang, and then lead them somewhere weird,” says Mikal Cronin, summing up the philosophy behind his second solo LP and first for Merge Records, MCII.
Thee Oh Sees aren’t breaking any new ground on Singles Collection Volume 3. Instead, long-time fans who have a completist urge will find owning these tracks in one stylish package to be a necessity…
Canada’s goofball, over-achieving slacker-core overlord and his equally loose and lucid band will be playing Meredith Music Festival on Saturday and hanging around for Sunday bloody (Mary) Sunday.
The drums thump a back beat with the determination of a toddler wielding a toy hammer, the bass line jigs in place, and Dwyer rips open his guitar to the skies…. For him and for his faithful, it’s a gathering place.
It was high time we caught up with Ezra Furman. Between leaving his band, the Harpoons, moving across the country and putting out two excellent records this year (The Year of No Returning and Day of the Dog), there was a lot that we were overdue for a chat about.
Mac DeMarco and his band played the 2013 M for Montreal twice last week. First, as Walter TV, where Mac just plays bass, with Pierce McGarry on vocals and guitar. Then on Saturday night, he headlined the 1000-capacity Club Soda.
Montreal-based indie rocker Mac DeMarco, who released his debut album, 2, last October via Captured Tracks, which was a longlisted nominee for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize, performed at The Hoxton in Toronto last night…
…the label currently home to Japandroids, Of Montreal, Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof, Saturday Looks Good to Me, the Dodos, and more, has announced a 2014 7″ singles series. Participating artists are Cloud Nothings, Mikal Cronin…
One Eyed Zine posts footage of Thee Oh Sees playing Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
Thee Oh Sees have always had plenty of non-album songs to spare, and the Bay Area garage outfit are collecting a chunk of them on their upcoming Singles Collection Volume 3
Over the last 16 years, Bay Area garage rockers Thee Oh Sees have built up quite the sizable discography, including some 12 full-lengths, dozens of singles and EPs, and countless more contributions to various compilations.
Two of Montreal’s biggest noisemakers internationally in 2013 on one late-night bill. They have little in common musically, although both are essentially telling their personal stories with refreshing directness.
