It’s hard to talk about Ty Segall without mentioning the sheer amount of music he’s put out, and what that means for the people who listen to it. In the time between the release of his last LP Manipulator and this week’s Emotional Mugger, Segall has released two EPs, a live album, and an LP of T-Rex covers.
True to his not-modern music, Ty Segall promoted his latest solo album, Emotional Mugger, with several old-fashioned industry techniques.
In Being John Malkovich, Craig and Lotte Schwartz – played by John Cusack and Cameron Diaz, respectively – find a portal that takes them inside the mind of the great actor. If such a portal existed and we could travel inside Ty Segall‘s mind, what would we find?
No matter how much rock writers and fans worship him, no matter how many opportunities acclaim and a loyal fan base may bring, Ty Segall has always kept his distance from music industry trends and patterns.
Ty Segall has long been a musical seeker—in a 2012 Weekly interview he listed Hawkwind, The Fugs, Gong and The Residents among key recent spins—and his latest album finds him putting his record collection to full use.
VHS tapes haven’t been relevant in years, so when Ty Segall sent his newest record to music journalists on VHS, it shed light on his thought process while recording the album. The busiest man in rock music is eager to try new things.
Ty Segall is one of the most active rock and rollers in the scene today, and maybe even one of the few prominent musicians who is actually a rock and roller. Whether touring incessantly or recording new music under his own name or with his numerous side projects, Ty Segall is a guitar-shredding force to be reckoned with.
The music that Ty Segall plays is, at least on the surface, not all that complicated. He plays rock and roll. That might be oversimplifying it a bit, but not by much. The San Francisco singer-songwriter is at his best when his songs are slathered in obscene gobs of dirty, druggy fuzz.
In the interest of foregoing the usual chronicling of Ty Segall’s chameleonic artistic turnarounds, suffice it to say that here is another Ty Segall album.
Call 1-800-281-2968, and you’ll be subjected to an off-putting message from Ty Segall, grody sound effects and all (“I am itching to hear how I can fill the holes in your ego…do you need a daddy?”).
Ty Segall has never stuck with one distinct sound. He’s based his prolific career on constantly rejigging the boundaries of garage rock.
You could accuse Ty Segall of having an old-school work ethic – he even circulated early copies of this album on VHS tape. But there’s nothing dusty about him. The San Francisco garage-punk wunderkind flaunts all his frantic energy and wild-eyed humor on Emotional Mugger.
There is perhaps no living artist more prolific than Ty Segall. In a mere decade, the Los Angeles guitarist has dabbled in garage pop, psychedelia, and glam rock while releasing eight minimalist lo-fi pop albums and joining at least eight different bands (three of which are ongoing concerns).
“Bizarre, crazy, amazing, I need to go get some ear plugs,” were just a few comments I heard during Ty Segall and The Muggers set Tuesday night at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco. You could feel the bands excitement of playing at The Fillmore and sharing the same stage as so many legendary acts.
It’s only a few weeks into the year and Ty Segall just performed what will likely go down as one of San Diego’s best shows of 2016.
Ty Segall is one of the most prolific and identifiable figures of the modern day garage rock scene, so much so that it isn’t exactly a surprise when he announces a new LP.
Minimalism has retained a surprising amount of cachet in mainstream rock music during the 21st century, an era in which pop, hip-hop and R&B have almost universally become more ostentatious in their stylistic fragmentation and metal has, in general, evolved to value hypertechnical, over-elaborate excess above all else.
Whether under his own name or from various side projects, Ty Segall has kept new music waiting around the corner for years. Over a mountain of releases, he’s proven that he can shred multiple times over, and that he can match that intensity in his acoustic singer/songwriter mode.
“No man is good three times” reads the sticker that adorns the cover of Ty Segall’s latest full-length solo record, Emotional Mugger. It’s the mantra that was at the heart of the reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s controversial victory in the 1944 U.S. Presidential election.
To get into Ty Segall’s sold-out show at the Teragram on Friday night, you had to fight your way past a line of David Bowie fans snaking down 7th Street from the nearby Monty Bar, where one of about a zillion Bowie tributes was taking place. It was hard not to read some fitting symbolism into this.
There are two things you can say about California’s Ty Segall. One, he’s incredibly prolific, and has been known to release more than just one album a year.
Garage rock titan Ty Segall is back with what’s probably his most twisted album yet.
Ty Segall can’t stop writing songs, and seems to have run out of ways to release them. Advance copies of the underground/indie garage guy’s new album, “Emotional Mugger,” arrived on VHS tape.
Garage-rock hero Ty Segall is back less than a year after his last solo release. In a promotion for Emotional Mugger, Segall created a hotline number for fans to call, where he explains what emotional mugging truly is.
Rejoice, Tone Deaf readers, we’re taking you into the weekend with some good news, particularly if you happen to be a fan of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard or Thee Oh Sees.
These are difficult times to think of any musician not born David Robert Jones. The legacy of Davie Bowie is so vast and so influential, that any thoughts of other artists inevitably flow back to the iconic musician who passed away on January 10
Panache is excited to announce that Mac DeMarco, Ty Segall, La Luz and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard will be performing at Sasquatch Festival this year. Full lineup available here. Can’t wait to attend. See you there!
Barreling on after a non-stop flurry of activity over the past eight years, Ty Segall is dropping his 10th solo album in the dead of winter, its cover depicting a Xeroxed baby head as it peers out of the fold amid a field of toner-black gradients.
Guys love Ty Segall in a very emotional way. Could it be said that Ty Segall is to dudes as Madonna is to women? No one has ever really said that before, but I just did.
Wolf Alice, Yeasayer, Bully, Speedy Ortiz, Mac DeMarco and Savages also appear at the 15th edition of the festival, along with Purity Ring, Oscar, Shamir, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The festival takes place over Memorial Day Weekend (27th-30th May) at the Gorge Amphitheater, Quincy, Washington (USA).
