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Rock it Out! Blog: “A Conversation With Mac DeMarco”
Consequence of Sound

“In a back alley in Austin, TX during South By Southwest, the Rock it Out! Blog’s Sami Jarroush caught up with rising singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco. During their brief chat, the two spoke about DeMarco’s plans for 2013, who he’d like to see during SXSW, and the refund value for cans and bottles in Montreal, Canada…”

Ty Segall’s Proto-Metal Project Fuzz Confirms ‘Sleigh Ride’ Single, Debut Album
Spin

“Fuzz are set to deliver a follow-up 7-inch on April 16 dubbed “Sleigh Ride.” Los Angeles DIY mainstay In the Red will handle the release, and reports that, “The band more than live up to their name with a a sludgy, heavy, psyched-out proto-metal sound that is steeped in shredding fuzztone guitar. Comparisons to Blue Cheer, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Black Sabbath have been made and are not far off the mark.””

Quintron & Miss Pussycat Play with Puppets, Tour
Ad Hoc

“The latest one, Trouble in Old Bathbath, is set to have its official premiere on April 18 at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, smack in the middle of their upcoming East Coast American tour. If this is sounding like too much awesome noise to handle, dig this: their 4/20 date will feature Black Dice and K-Holes…”

Rolling Stone checks in with Thee Oh Sees on Floating Coffin progress
Rolling Stone

“”I don’t want to answer to anybody at all.” That philosophy has seen Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer through nearly two decades in San Francisco’s garage rock scene, a stint that has included 13 bands, countless records (35 Oh Sees releases alone) and a career trajectory that’s brought the 38-year-old to his best-known band’s 12th and most unconfined full-length, Floating Coffin.”

Spin talks to White Fence about upcoming album Cyclops Reap
Spin

“Cyclops Reap, Presley’s forthcoming album on Thee Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer’s Castleface Records, was originally intended as a grab bag of leftovers from his last three years of insane productivity. But Presley’s drive quickly transformed the project into a full-fledged album…”

Fader streams White Fence new track, “Fragility”
Fader

“White Fence‘s albums are great and all, especially if you’re in the mood for psych jams dusted with LA smog and a little weed smoke, but sometimes it feels like frontman Tim Presley works better as a singles artist, pushing these deep nuggets of wobbly pop into the world to be compulsively studied and listened to so many times that seemingly innocuous lyrics like did you get what you needed today? start to sound pretty heavy…”

Quintron & Miss Pussycat Play with Puppets, Tour
Ad Hoc

“The latest one, Trouble in Old Bathbath, is set to have its official premiere on April 18 at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, smack in the middle of their upcoming East Coast American tour. If this is sounding like too much awesome noise to handle, dig this: their 4/20 date will feature Black Dice and K-Holes…”

Ty Segall’s Fuzz side project announces 7″ and full-length debut
Consequence of Sound

“Now, as Exclaim.ca points out, Segall has plans for another 7″ Fuzz single, titled “Sleigh Ride”, which is set for an April 16th release via In the Red. According to an accompanying announcement, “The band more than live up to their name with a a sludgy, heavy, psyched-out proto-metal sound that is steeped in shredding fuzztone guitar. Comparisons to Blue Cheer, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Black Sabbath have been made and are not far off the mark.””

Austinist reviews Thee Oh Sees performance at SXSW
Austinist

“They had more energy than should be allowed on the last day of SX, and the audience guzzled down every last drop. Bass player Petey Dammit slung his instrument (what looked to be a Fender Bass VI for you gear nerds out there) high, and laid down fat, pounding lines that were as meaty as they were hypnotic…”

Mikal Cronin makes Spin’s The 50 Best Things We Saw at SXSW 2013
Spin

“Mikal Cronin — former sideman for San Francisco garage-rock icon Ty Segall — has released perhaps the year’s finest power-pop album, MCII, using these latter methods; in addition, he’s written the best power-pop song of the year, “Shout It Out,” which combines all of the above gushingly, and features the priceless line, “Shit goes on and on and on and on.””

Stereogum reviews Mikal Cronin at SXSW
Stereogum

“I lounge comfortably while Mikal Cronin unfurls divine garage pop steeped in layers of guitar and decades of songwriting genius. You can tell all these great Bay Area garage bands compete with each other to hit the hardest; this set is so wonderfully intense and maximalist…”

The Washington Post reviews Mikal Cronin SXSW performance
The Washington Post

“Even better was a Friday night sugar rush from Mikal Cronin, whose rock anthems came dunked in color, charisma and electricity. From song to song to song, you could see the stiff-jointed audience slowly committing to the music with their bodies — and then with their giggles, namely whenever Cronin, who looks like a grunge John Cusack, flung his hair skyward…”

The Washington Post reviews Thee Oh Sees performance at SXSW
The Washington Post

“And while his band riffed for passers-by on Red River Street, actually seeing Dwyer through the mini-mob was tricky. For a better view, a dozen faithful climbed up onto the roof of his band’s Ford E-350 tour van, parked in an adjacent alleyway. On the patio, two peroxide blondes perched atop an ATM like punk gargoyles.”

Pitchfork features Mac DeMarco at SXSW
Pitchfork

“Unsurprisingly, in the moments before this performance, he and his band looked exhausted. But oh man did they power through the lethargy. Mac whipped around wildly, crowdsurfed, latched himself onto a beam, and started swinging from Swan Dive’s ceiling…”

Los Angeles Times reviews Mikal Cronin’s performance at SXSW
Los Angeles Times

“Cronin was more direct, but provided an equally timeless service. Though the band’s three-part guitar attack sometimes tripped over itself – one 20-second solo giving way to another giving way to a shout-along, misfit chorus – Cronin and his band of unkempt music geeks (they covered Wreckless Eric’s “[I’d Go The] Whole Wide World”) wrote songs for the boys and girls out of their league and all the hopeless romantics who have fallen in love with a record collection…”

Austinist reviews Mac DeMarco performance at SXSW
Austinist

“The Canadian singer/guitarist is known for his unpredictable and usually hilarious onstage antics, as well as releasing one of the best guitar albums last year in 2, and his set far exceeded expectations in both the quality of the performance and the sheer hilarity of DeMarco and his band…”

Mikal Cronin on Spin’s The 5 Best Things We Saw at SXSW Thursday
Spin

“You can’t get too comfortable during a Mikal Cronin song. At the Parish, the ridiculously talented Bay Area power-popper and Ty Segall compadre would launch into music that was all welcome signs — his own high, crisp rhythms, lovely plaintive melodies — then he and his backing band would snap…”

Mac DeMarco featured on Paste’s 100 Great Bands to see at SXSW
Paste Magazine

“From the same class of Kurt Vile’s forward-thinking takes on classic rock comes Mac DeMarco, a cigarette-loving slack rocker with a taste for jangly guitars and loose riffs. Although it wasn’t an easy path, the songwriter just released his second album, titled 2 last year and has been turning heads of critics and music fans ever since…”

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