Pitchfork posts photos of Mikal Cronin’s performance at Pitchfork Festival
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Pitchfork posts photos of Mikal Cronin’s performance at Pitchfork Festival
Pitchfork posts photos of Mikal Cronin’s performance at Pitchfork Festival
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…Yours Truly filmed Mac DeMarco and his band playing a session at Austin’s Driskill Hotel. Below, watch him perform the excellent 2 closing track “Still Together”,…
“The Energizer Bunny of San Francisco garage rock, Ty Segall, has another new album coming on August 20 called SLEEPER…”
“Joining Loop, Mogwai, the Pop Group, Dirty Beaches, and more at the final weekend are Ty Segall…”
“…Joining Loop, Mogwai, the Pop Group, Dirty Beaches, and more at the final weekend are Ty Segall, White Fence…”
“…Check out a trailer for the record below, which features Ty cheekily resting in various spots and a bit of music, presumably from the release…”
“…California fuzz-rocker Mikal Cronin has shared a grungy house-party clip to accompany “Change”, a highlight from his excellent new MCII LP…”
“…The 7-minute mini-doc, directed and produced by Babak Khoshnoud and Will Abramson, follows Cronin around the Mission in San Francisco, into the studio, and down to the gritty-looking basement where he works…”
“…For this edition, we spoke with Mikal Cronin, a member of Ty Segall Band whose second solo album, the Best New Music pick MCII, is out next week…”
“…Cronin has proved with this album that, like Cobain before him, he’s so much more than a longhair with a fuzz pedal. He’s an excellent pop craftsman who knows how to turn the power up for maximum effect.”
The outcome is a great sounding album that sits nicely between the poles of “fuzz war” and “cooing balladeer.” Cronin has proved with this album that, like Cobain…
“…Prepare to get intimately familiar with the gap in between Mac DeMarco’s front teeth, and learn what he looks like in a dress and wig…”
“Thee Oh Sees’ music video for “Minotaur” featured some bloodshed, but it was otherwise a pretty lighthearted video…”
“…It also illustrates that there’s no pre-established blueprint for an Oh Sees album, which means there’s no telling what’s next. As usual, that’s an exciting prospect…”
“It’s a song slathered in acid-burnt fuzz where Presley stretches out with an echoing psych guitar solo after hammering out a simple, solid power chord hook…”
New album from Thee Oh Sees, Floating Coffin, streaming on Pitchfork Advance.
White Fence’s new album Cyclops Reap is streaming on Pitchfork Advance.
“…Death By Audio has announced the Sunshine Reverberation effects pedal, which is inspired by Ty Segall…”
“”Weight,” the excellent track that kicks off San Francisco garage-pop hellraiser Mikal Cronin’s second solo album MCII (out May 7 on Merge), is about waking up on the morning you’ve vowed to turn over a new leaf but lacking the motivation– or maybe the good night’s sleep– to actually make the change…”
“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…”
“That happy medium is best exemplified by “Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster”, a hit of swirling psych-pop aimed at the pleasure centers of that faction of Flaming Lips fans who wish Wayne Coyne and crew would ditch the concept albums and confetti-covered theatrics and get back to the feel-good fuzz-rock of Transmissions From the Satellite Heart…”
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“Just yesterday, Phoenix announced a return to North America for a tour leading up to Coachella. Now, Mac DeMarco has been confirmed as the opener for a string of those dates in March and April– an extension of his continued touring in support of last year’s 2 and Rock and Roll Night Club EP…”
“At a time of year when many of us would trade our mothers for a temperature above freezing, Mikal Cronin’s “Shout It Out” is an instant blast of summer, like drinking an ice cold beer at a bonfire or tossing a frisbee around in the sunlight…”