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Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Mac Demarco and Mikal Cronin announced on FYF Fest lineup
Posted on May 16, 2013 by michelle
Panache is excited to announce that Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Mac Demarco and Mikal Cronin will be performing at this year’s FYF Fest at the beautiful LA State Historic Park. We are very excited to spend two amazing days out in the sun with such a fabulous line-up. Tickets are available now and can be purchased here.
Panache announces Mac Demarco & William Tyler at Bonnaroo Festival
Posted on April 25, 2013 by michelle
Panache is thrilled to announce that Mac Demarco and William Tyler will be performing at this year’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, taking place from June 13 to 16 in Manchester, Tennessee. Both artists will be playing Sat June 15, we’re looking forward to the hot sun & awesome lineup at this year’s event. More info here.
Panache SXSW Wrap Up
Posted on March 24, 2013 by michelle
Panache would love to thank everyone who came out to all our events at SXSW. 2013 was another smashing success! Our artists won over the hearts of hundreds of fans from across the globe who had traveled to Austin for one crazy weekend of music. Congratulations to our New York agent John Bohannon for his feature in the New York Times where writer James Mckinley explored the life of a booking agent at SXSW seeking out new talent. You can check out that article here.
Panache announces Cassette Mixtape Series Volume I featuring unreleased tracks from Thee Oh Sees, Mac Demarco, Mikal Cronin, Redd Kross & more.
Posted on March 4, 2013 by michelle
Panache announces their first official cassette mixtape available now!!! Volume I features mostly unreleased tracks from 25 Panache artists including Thee Oh Sees, Mac Demarco, Reigning Sound, Fuzz, Fat Tony, Bleached, Mikal Cronin, Redd Kross & more. Limited run, only 650 in total. One time only pressing!! Only 100 for sale online! Will sell out! $7 + $2.50 Shipping—Purchase Below—PLEASE NOTE THESE WILL NOT BE SHIPPED UNTIL THE WEEK OF MARCH 18TH. Domestic shipping only. No international orders, please. The remaining tapes will be available at our SXSW events, our official showcase info is here.
Panache announces Bruise Cruise Boat Party at SXSW w/ Milk Music, Fat Tony, The Blind Shake & Outer Minds
Posted on March 2, 2013 by michelle
Panache is excited to announce a very special edition of the Bruise Cruise at SXSW this year. The agency will be teaming up with the Seaport Music Festival and Hot Burrito to present Milk Music, Fat Tony, The Blind Shake, and Outer Minds on a two hour cruise on Monday March 11. The boat sails from 6pm to 8pm on Lady Bird Lake. In addition to seeing four amazing artists, the purchase of a ticket hooks you up with an unlimited booze pass as you sail into the sunset with the Panache crew. Hope to see you on board cruisin’ for a bruisin’! More info here. Tickets are very limited, and will go fast, get yours here.
Featured Artist
Fuzz
Since it’s first issue in 1966, the ‘Fuzz Face’ pedal has sung it’s distorted siren song & lured many a burgeoning guitar player to the rock. Hendrix & Townshend swore by them, and apparently so does the San Francisco mystery group FUZZ. [Trouble in Mind] received an unsolicited email submission from these guys & despite [their] best efforts, cannot discern who is responsible for these jams. All [they] know is that [they] haven’t been able to stop playing these two tracks over & over & over! Tinnitus here we come! read more…
Today’s Shows / May 24, 2013
Imperial Teen
San Francisco, California
Bottom of The Hill
Mikal Cronin
Los Angeles, California
The Echo
Black Pus
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Small Engine
Coliseum
Baltimore, Maryland
Otto Bar
Kinski
San Francisco, California
Hemlock Tavern
Idiot Glee
Chicago, Illinois
Subterranean
Gap Dream
Los Angeles, California
Echo
Artist Updates
Life In LA features VietNam
May 23, 2013
“The album, which features an ambient, analog twist on their previous blues-influenced indie rock style, is made up of a series of lengthy, poetic jams—a style Gerner describes as “drifting in and out of songs like a dream”...
La Luz featured in Burger Records "BURGER TV" Episode
May 23, 2013
Watch La Luz perform “Sunstroke” on BURGER TV.
News Review features Kinski, show at Cafe Coda
May 23, 2013
“...Essentially, there’s a little something for everyone—even Tool fans—in Kinksi’s music. And again, along with everything else that’s happened along the way, it only made them a better band. Go hear for yourself…”
PopMatters reviews Eluvium's Nightmare Ending
May 22, 2013
“...From here Cooper could do almost anything next; all we can really predict is that it will sound like Eluvium, and it will be wonderful.”
Mikal Cronin on cover of SF Weekly
May 22, 2013
“...But his new album for Merge, MCII, is not a garage-rock record, or a punk record. It’s a gorgeous, deeply personal pop record — jangly, hooky…”
Pitchfork announces Ty Segall to tour for new album SLEEPER
May 22, 2013
“The Energizer Bunny of San Francisco garage rock, Ty Segall, has another new album coming on August 20 called SLEEPER...”
Impose Magazine interviews Fat Tony
May 22, 2013
“...we checked in with Fat Tony to talk about Danny Brown’s recent stage shenanigans, crowd-surfing felines, and the time he was scammed out of a deposit for a Brooklyn apartment…”
Secret Sound Shop reviews VietNam performance at Glasslands
May 22, 2013
“...the audience was clearly supportive and enthusiast of the music, and by the time the show ended the initial timid claps had now transformed into a fairly long round of screams and bravos…”
PopMatters reviews Julianna Barwick track, "Pacing"
May 22, 2013
“...her voice has never sounded so much like an instrument, a piece played with the piano, not over the top of it…”
The L Magazine announces Bleached to play Northside Festival
May 22, 2013
“We’re still adding bands to the lineup, and are pleased to announce that come June 13-16, Northside Music will host (among many others) Chance the Rapper, A Place to Bury Strangers, Bleached…”
Mac DeMarco performs on BBC Radio 6
May 22, 2013
“Canadian Mac DeMarco joins Marc for a live session and a chat! Track list: - The Stars Keep On Calling My Name - Freaking Out The Neighbourhood - Ode to Viceroy”
The Record announces new Richard Buckner album, tour dates
May 21, 2013
Surrounded is the followup to 2011’s Our Blood, a beautiful achievement for Buckner and one of the hallmarks of his rich career
Coliseum covers Eddie Money's "Shakin" on A.V. Club's Undercover
May 21, 2013
“... The band’s choice of Eddie Money’s “Shakin’” was pretty perfect: It’s such a gloriously simple song that it could only benefit from such an intense treatment…”
Ty Segall's Sleeper on Rolling Stone's The Season's Must Hear Albums
May 21, 2013
“...The album trailer, which features what could be the title track, finds Segall returning to the more lo-fi acoustic side…”
Speedy Ortiz's Major Arcana featured on Rolling Stone's The Season's Must Hear Albums
May 21, 2013
“...After a series of EPs and singles, the band will release its debut LP Major Arcana on July 9th via Carpark…”
Brooklyn Vegan announces Calvin Johnson to tour
May 21, 2013
“...K Records magnate Calvin Johnson (of Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System et al) has a few East Coast/Midwest dates this week…”
Brian Chippendale of Black Pus on Spin's 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music
May 21, 2013
“...Brian Chippendale is the Energizer Bunny of noise rock, a player who combines relentless intensity with a lovably cartoonish persona…”
Free Press Houston interviews Brian Chippendale of Black Pus
May 21, 2013
“...Black Pus has seven releases–each more expansive than the next, each capturing a new approach to style and method while still representing the established sound those familiar have associated with Chippendale…”
Roomrunner album Ideal Cities streaming on Spin
May 20, 2013
““We just wanted it to be bigger.” That’s what Roomrunner frontman Denny Bowen says he and his bandmates hoped to achieve with their full-length debut, the soon-to-be-released Ideal Cities...”
XLR8R announces King Midas Sound to play Unsound Festival
May 20, 2013
“Unsound’s 2013 edition will include performances by King Midas Sound…”
PopMatters reviews Mikal Cronin's MCII
May 20, 2013
“...before any expectations for MCII can fully set in, Cronin is already breaking all preconceptions, coming out of the gate with the album’s most relentlessly catchy, fully realized guitar-pop confection on a disc brimming over with ‘em…”
Spin features and streams Pharmakon track, "Ache"
May 20, 2013
“...now we’ve got “Ache,” an aptly named piece that throbs with nasty noise and pierces with horrific screams…”
Pitchfork announces Pharmakon to tour, some dates with SWANS
May 20, 2013
“Swans have added a string of North American dates to their current world tour. New York noise artist Margaret Chardiet aka Pharmakon will open a string of shows…”
NME talks to Mac DeMarco at The Great Escape 2013
May 20, 2013
Watch a clip of Mac DeMarco talking to NME at The Great Escape 2013.
The Line of Best Fit interviews Marnie Stern
May 19, 2013
“...Marnie Stern takes the Best Fit Q&A and tells us all about her dreams of flying, fears of being stuck in limbo and who she’d most like to apologise to…”