…San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees will release a new album, Drop, on April 19th via frontman John Dwyer’s Castle Face Records. Already we’ve heard album opener “Penetrating Eye”, and today the band’s unveiled “The Lens”
On April 1st, Mac DeMarco returns with his new album, Salad Days. Already we’ve heard a few tracks off the LP, including lead single “Passing Out Pieces” and three others which DeMarco debuted during a recent radio session.
…Mac DeMarco has announced details of his next album. Though not as outrageous as A Little Bit of Pussy, it still packs a hilarious title, Salad Days, and features the above portrait as its artwork.
For everyone else, the beer-swilling, chain-smoking troubadour has just announced a tour of North America and Europe with a couple of South American dates thrown in.
This swirling mix of emotions is also the best way to describe Mikal Cronin’s own mad dash from the world of psychedelic garage rock toward a lush garden of power pop beauty and sublime contemplation.
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…
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.
Halloween may be over, but the nightmare’s just begun for Ty Segall in his video for the Sleeper standout “The Man Man”.
Sonically, Fuzz sprawls out far and wide, meshing psychedelic expanses with chugging guitar hooks, shitkicking bass lines, and post-apocalyptic drums, prolonged and slow.
FUZZ, the other other side project of Bay Area garage rocker Ty Segall, return today with “What’s In My Head”, the second single off their forthcoming self-titled debut, due out October 1st via In The Red.
It’s almost comical that Ty Segall would call his latest album Sleeper. In just a few short years, the Bay Area garage rocker has done anything but rest…
Going for more of a rockabilly spin to his usual blend of simple, grimy rock and roll, DeMarco manages to sound sensual with lines like…
DeMarco charmed the pants off the not-yet-relaxed crowd with humorously cliché compliments, a faux-emcee persona, and that toothy, near-psychotic grin.
…while the omnipresent Mikal Cronin on his third of four NXNE sets teased “Come Sail Away” as an intro to a blistering “Situation”…
“I can’t tell what he’s saying but it makes me so happy and it sounds good.” This seems like both the gift and the curse of Mikal Cronin. The 27-year old has really…
“His debut on Merge, the CoS Top Star-earning MCII, is the product of ever-shifting landscapes in Cronin’s personal and professional life…”
“I’ve listened to Mikal Cronin’s sophomore album about 54 times already. That doesn’t say anything else but this: It’s really good…”
“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…”
“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.””
“Yesterday, Consequence of Sound hosted a day full of SXSW festivities, beginning with our second annual unofficial day party, CoSigns, featuring Thurston Moore’s Chelsea Light Moving, The Thermals, Mac DeMarco, St. Lucia, Ex-Cops, Wampire, White Lung, Fort Lean, Teen, and AbdeCaf…”
“Turn it up loud, especially for the crashing finale that closes this out in ways that would make your greying pops (or surly uncles) smile…”
“Since the first record came out, my life has changed quite a bit,” Cronin explains in a press release, referencing his move to San Francisco and his work alongside Segall. “I was presented with a whole new slew of problems and situations that I was trying to work through.”
“Reverse Shark Attack is the closest thing to re-living Segall’s journey without asking him ourselves. And it’s a most engaging tale…”
“…unlike their distant cousins hardcore and ‘70s punk, Cronin and Segall’s refurbished garage jams are neither brooding nor predatory. Stunningly raw — fresh, even — Reverse Shark Attack prowls at the unsuspecting ear instead of tearing at flesh…”
“Known as much for their prolific musical output and incessant work ethic as they are for their kinetic live shows, the band treated fans to a set that drew sizably from the band’s latest offering, Putrifiers II, as well as the band’s boatload of other releases, many of which were fleshed out for the stage.”
“He [Segall] and his band screamed, slashed, and played within an inch of their lives, and audience members were more than happy to follow him to the edge, heaving seemingly everything they could get their hands on onstage from beer to shirts and hats…”
“Along with the album’s 458th reissue, Universal Music and Castle Face Records are commemorating the 45th anniversary of The Velvet Underground & Nico with a covers album featuring a bunch of Bay Area psych rockers.” Included is a rendition of “Femme Fatale” by Ty Segall.
Thee Oh Sees cover “European Son” on The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castle Face And Friends. The covers album will be available on vinyl for pre-order only, to be released November 6th, though the songs will also be available to download via various websites from October 15th-29th.
