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In Loving Memory of Annie Southworth
Posted on March 6, 2018 by michelle
Panache lost one of our oldest agents and colleagues this past week, our dear friend Annie Southworth. Annie had worked with Panache for nearly a decade, and our friendship spanned over 15 years. When she joined forces with Panache, she brought such powerful wisdom, strength and experience to our very young fledgling booking agency. Together we became a power house of a booking team, that was being led by women. When she joined the agency she brought over bands like Oh Sees, No Means No, Kelley Stoltz, Fresh and Onlys and many others to our roster. She was a warrior for all womankind. Her utter love of music, vitality for life and resilient attitude helped form the foundation that Panache thrives on today. The world has suffered a great loss with Annie’s passing. Too soon. #fuck cancer #getyourbodieschecked #tellyourlovedonesyoulovethem
Panache hosts our annual V-day Village of Love Planned Parenthood of LA Benefit Concert on 2/14!
Posted on January 30, 2018 by michelle
Panache is excited to announce 2018’s VILLAGE OF LOVE, our sixth annual Valentine’s Day Planned Parenthood Benefit Concert. The event will take place on Wednesday, February 14th at The Teragram Ballroom and feature renowned musicians from Los Angeles performing original material as well as covers of their favorite love songs. There will also be a raffle hosted by Neil Hamburger featuring fabulous prizes, with all proceeds benefitting Planned Parenthood of LA. More artists to be announced soon. Tickets available here.
Oh Sees announced on Coachella!
Posted on January 30, 2018 by michelle
Excited to announce that Oh Sees will be rocking out in the desert at Coachella 2018 this spring! Tickets available here.
Mac DeMarco, Ty Segall, & Thee Oh Sees at FYF 2017
Posted on June 16, 2017 by michelle
Panache is excited to announce that Homeshake and Mac DeMarco have joined the line up of FYF 2017. Come see Mac, Ty Segall, & Thee Oh Sees tear it up at one of our favorite festivals this summer! Tickets on sale now!
Mac DeMarco Fan Club is looking for a new Fan Club assistant in Brooklyn
Posted on April 24, 2017 by michelle
Mac DeMarco Fan Club is looking for a new Fan Club assistant in Brooklyn. This position will be great for a college student!
Must have’s:
- Experience with Mailchimp
- Experience with Wordpress
- Great attention to detail
- Experience with IMovie, and can make quick graphics, videos
- Must live in the 5 borough area and willing to come to Brooklyn at least one day a week
Extra points for HTML/CSS experience. We will need someone two days a week with some flexibility. Hourly wage offered.
To apply: please send cover letter explaining experience, resume and your dankest Mac meme or Mac related gif to sarah@panacherock.com
Featured Artist
Ex-Cult
The Memphis punk powerhouse known as Ex-Cult started six years ago in Memphis, Tennessee. Founders Chris Shaw and MIchael Peery conceived the idea at the legendary Memphis dive the Lamplighter, a 37 person capacity “venue” where the band would later play it’s second show. Fast forward to 2018 and the band has toured the continental USA countless times, doing
Artist Updates
Hand Habits LA Weekly Feature
Nov 30, 2018
Hand Habits is a project from Meg Duffy, an L.A. singer and guitarist from upstate New York who has played with Weyes Blood, Mega Bog and Kevin Morby. The songs on Hand Habits’ 2017 album, Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void), are generally laid-back indie-pop reveries, with such gentle ballads as “Flower Glass” and “Actress” alternating with occasional arty interludes like the sound collage of murmuring voices “Greater L.A. (Scene).”
Watch Jeff Tweedy, Ty Segall, “Weird Al,” More Perform in Bed for Charity
Nov 29, 2018
Bedstock is an online “music festival” initiative by MyMusicRx, a program from the Children’s Cancer Association. The annual event features artists performing from their beds as a show of unity for children that have to spend their holidays in hospital beds. This year, artists including Jeff Tweedy, Ty Segall, Ben Gibbard, “Weird Al” Yankovic, TV on the Radio, Japanese Breakfast, Tune-Yards, Whitney, the Black Lips, Mary Lattimore, and many others participated in the event.
Tim Presley Talks White Fence, DRINKS, Collaborations, and More
Nov 26, 2018
Tim Presley is one of our favorite artists here at WMF for a host of reasons: his steady quality musical output under the White Fence moniker, the significant role he played in a crucial era of post-punk mainstay The Fall, and his contributions as one half of DRINKS are three of those reasons, but there are even more topics we’ve been eager to cover with Tim. Curious about his diverse musical endeavors as well as his upcoming 2019 album, we recently had to the pleasure of conversing with Tim about these subjects and others, including his visual art, past collaborations with Jack Name and Ty Segall, and his return to simple, melodic songwriting.
Surfbort's Friendship Music is Featured on The Mercury News 'Best punk rock albums of all time?'
Nov 15, 2018
Who better to talk punk rock with than John Doe of X?
Thus, I used the occasion of X’s return to San Francisco to chat up the legendary X man about his all-time favorite punk albums. He was definitely game, but he broadened the topic to include records that influenced him as a punk-rock musician.
Alt Citizen Premieres Surfbort's Music Video 'Dope'
Nov 15, 2018
Staying sober never seemed so cool. In Surfbort’s latest music video, “Dope”, lead singer Dani Miller sings through her mascara stained tears about leaving drugs behind. She stumbles down the Hollywood walk of fame and straight into her lover’s tinfoil clad arms in a DIY home-video haze (directed by Gilbert Trejo). It’s a slower, more melodic approach than their typical balls to wall punk we all know and love. Subverting society’s beauty standards and social norms amidst coming out about her relationship with drugs, “Dope” is arguably Surfbort’s most personal release to date. Watch below.
Oh Sees share the Origins of their video for “Enrique El Cobrador”
Nov 13, 2018
Origins is a new music feature that gives an artist the chance to reveal the influences behind their latest effort.
Surfbort, first album in all friendship
Nov 13, 2018
With Friendship Music, the punk tornado from New York Surfbort, led by the exuberant Dani Miller, shakes political music and opposes the established order as if we were in 1992
Opening for Iceage, Surfbort Is Riding the Freak Wave
Nov 12, 2018
The Brooklyn-based quartet is visually and musically stunning, to say the least, and singer Dani Miller is like no one else in rock music right now. Perhaps this is why ex-Strokes and current Voidz member Julian Casablancas snatched them up for his Cult Records label in October of 2017 and put out their new record, Friendship Music, late last month.
Surfbort’s Dani Miller is the friendly, burrito-puking queen of punk
Nov 12, 2018
Dani Miller is the puking punk princess bringing friendship and music to the world. The frontwoman of Surfbort, Miller and her band recently released the aptly titled Friendship Music, Surfbort’s first record on Julian Casablancas’ Cult Records. “It’s a record to be there for everyone, be a friend for anyone in need. It’s our response to these wild-ass times,” Miller describes.
The 15 Chicago Bands You Need To Know in 2018
Nov 8, 2018
Originally known for its jazz, blues and gospel music in the first half of the 20th century, Chicago’s music scene is one of the most diverse and historic in the country. Chicago has become synonymous with genres like those as well as house music, punk, alt-rock, hip hop, heavy metal, pop-punk and more.
Homeshake shares “Like Mariah,” announces new album Helium
Nov 7, 2018
Peter Sagar a.k.a. Homeshake has built a sizeable cult following for his smooth, playful, and intimate R&B compositions. Next year, he’ll share a new project called Helium, and today we’ve got its first single “Like Mariah.”
NYC Party People We Love Right Now Features Surfbort's Dani Miller
Oct 30, 2018
New York City nightlife is a constantly changing, beautiful beast. So to spotlight some of the NYC’s buzziest scenes—envelope-pushing queer parties, rock-and-soul ragers, new high-art affairs—we tagged along with a handful of personalities who are making the most of the city that never sleeps.
Surfbort’s Dani Miller Is All About Love
Oct 26, 2018
Dani Miller, lead singer of Brooklyn-based punk band Surfbort, seems to specialize in shock and awe. Between the band’s music videos—which have depicted Miller as a diabolical cherub who murders straight-laced businessmen—and her rollicking stage presence during live performances, it’s fair to label the 25-year-old a bit of a provocateur. And in the age of the vulgar rhetoric of the Trump administration, doesn’t it make sense to be equally loud and uncouth in resisting?
Nylon Magazine Interviews Dani Miller
Oct 26, 2018
Dani Miller, lead singer of Brooklyn-based punk band Surfbort, seems to specialize in shock and awe. Between the band’s music videos—which have depicted Miller as a diabolical cherub who murders straight-laced businessmen—and her rollicking stage presence during live performances, it’s fair to label the 25-year-old a bit of a provocateur. And in the age of the vulgar rhetoric of the Trump administration, doesn’t it make sense to be equally loud and uncouth in resisting?
The 10 Best Garage Punk Songs As of Late
Oct 23, 2018
Evan Minsker of Pitchfork shares a list of his favorite recent garage and punk releases.
The 10 Best Garage Punk Songs As of Late
Oct 23, 2018
Evan Minsker of Pitchfork shares a list of his favorite recent garage and punk releases.
White Fence announces new album, I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk, shares “Lorelei”
Oct 23, 2018
Titled I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk, it’s set to hit shelves January 25th via Drag City. The 13-track collection will serve as Presley’s seventh under his White Fence banner and long-awaited follow-up to 2014’s For the Recently Found Innocent.
Pitchfork Reviews GØGGS New Album, “Pre Strike Sweep”
Oct 22, 2018
On their second album, this quartet featuring Ty Segall and Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw produce and pull at their militaristic punk with psychedelic tricks and brief detours.
Surfbort Shreds It Up at ‘Friendship Music’ LA Release Show, Launches Tour
Oct 22, 2018
The debut album for New York punk band Surfbort, called Friendship Music, will drop on Oct. 26. So to celebrate, Surfbort put on a wild “pre-record release” show in DTLA with plenty of new music as well as some “golden oldies.”
Martin Frawley of Twerps signs with Merge Records, shares video for new song “You Want Me?”
Oct 15, 2018
The vibes are strong at Merge headquarters, as today we announce the signing of Martin Frawley. Known to many as a principal member of Melbourne’s beloved-but-now-defunct Twerps, Frawley recently struck out on his own to record an album with Stewart Bronaugh (Angel Olsen, Lionlimb), and the results are just as melodic and touching as his former band’s material, if not more so.
Exclusive: Martin Frawley Surveys Life After Twerps in "You Want Me?"
Oct 15, 2018
Martin Frawley of the Australian indie-pop band Twerps has released “You Want Me?,” his debut single as a solo artist after his signing with Merge Records. The track, premiering exclusively at Paste today, appears to mark the dissolution of Twerps. Frawley describes “You Want Me?” as “the prequel” to his debut solo album, “explaining why I am where I am, writing what I am.”
Hero Magazine Premieres Surfbort's Music Video for 'Slushy'
Oct 10, 2018
“The record is about romance with other freaks,” says Dani Miller, the riotous frontwoman of New York band Surfbort, speaking about their debut LP. Set for release later this month, the album, titled Friendship Music, is exactly that: music created to “be a friend to the masses and make people feel less alone.”
Ohtis is Featured on The 405 Track Of The Day With Single 'Runnin'
Oct 1, 2018
Ohtis is a band that has existed in some shape or another for a long while - ever since the core duo of Sam Swinson and Adam Pressley were in high school in fact. They were soon joined by multi-instrumentalist Nate Hahn. Unfortunately, Swinson soon fell prey to that most evil of addictions, heroin, which put distance between him and his musical partners. In 2009, when his problem became devastating, Pressley and Hahn put physical distance between themselves as they moved to far-flung parts of the country. Nevertheless, their tight artistic understanding remained, and they swapped musical ideas over email with no promise or hope of ever letting them see the light of day.
Surfbort go to the beach in “Trashworld” video (watch), on tour now
Sep 27, 2018
Brooklyn punks Surfbort are getting ready to release new album Friendship Music which they made with Eaters’ Jonathan Schenke (who’s worked on records by Parquet Courts, Bodega and others) and Chad Ubovich of Meatbodies. It’s out October 26 via Cult Records / Fat Possum, and the new single from the record is “Trashworld” which singer Dani Miller told us about.
Brooklyn Vegan Premieres Surfbort's Music Video for 'Trashworld'
Sep 27, 2018
Brooklyn punks Surfbort are getting ready to release new album Friendship Music which they made with Eaters’ Jonathan Schenke (who’s worked on records by Parquet Courts, Bodega and others) and Chad Ubovich of Meatbodies. It’s out October 26 via Cult Records / Fat Possum, and the new single from the record is “Trashworld” which singer Dani Miller told us about.