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Spin reviews Fuzz’s “II”

Spin October 26, 2015

“Ty Segall isn’t yet as prolific as Robert Pollard or Ryan Adams, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t trying his damnedest to reach their collective level of (over)productivity. Since 2008, his solo output alone encompasses seven full-length albums and in excess of 30 singles, EPs and miscellaneous live or split records. Factor in his collaborations with Sic Alps, White Fence and Mikal Cronin, as well as limited-run releases, and it’s clear that the 28-year-old’s catalog is calibrated to give completists fits…”

Spin shares Mac DeMarco’s “The Way You’d Love Her”

Spin May 11, 2015

On August 7, Mac DeMarco will release a project he’s calling the Another One mini-LP, and to tease its release three months ahead of time, the alt-scuzz musician has shared “The Way You’d Love Her.” The new cut is breezy and head-over-heels gushy.

Spin announces Mac DeMarco at Solid Sound Festival

Spin March 4, 2015

Wilco announced the lineup for their Solid Sound Festival today, and this year, they’ll be joined by SPIN’s 2014 Band of the Year Parquet Courts, Real Estate, and Mac DeMarco.

SPIN announce Ty Segall Manipulator as Album of a Year

Spin September 2, 2014

It’s certainly the most accomplished work in the steadily rising, notoriously musically incontinent career of the 27-year-old phenom of the San Francisco garage-rock scene (recently resettled in L.A.). Before this, Segall already had produced seven or eight estimable solo albums, depending how you count, in the blink of six or seven years…

Spin reviews White Fence’s For the Recently Found Innocent

Spin July 23, 2014

For The Recently Found Innocent is as much a lesson in self-awareness as it is a thoroughly enjoyable listen. Over the last four years, Presley has recorded at a relentless rate in his Echo Park home…

Mikal Cronin’s “Am I Wrong” covered by Saint Rich for Merge’s 25th Anniversary Compliation

Spin July 8, 2014

Merge has also shared a free compilation featuring current artists covering some of the label’s classic tracks. …Hiss Golden Messenger does Spoon’s “The Beast and Dragon, Adored,” and Saint Rich offers a version of Mikal Cronin’s “Am I Wrong.”

Spin features White Fence recording “For the Recently Found Innocent”

Spin June 13, 2014

During the four-plus years he’s been performing as White Fence, the prolific songwriter’s approach has largely been the same: He writes hundreds of scuzzy-riffed songs in his Echo Park apartment…

Spin posts a video sampler for Ty Segall’s Manipulator

Spin June 9, 2014

By the time August 26 rolls around it’ll have been more than a full year since the release Ty Segall’s last studio album, Sleeper. That’s a pretty brief refractory period for most bands, but in Segall years, that’s like, an eternity, man.

Spin reviews Thee Oh Sees’ Drop

Spin April 24, 2014

You don’t have to be a psychedelic guitar freak to want to check in once in a while with someone as prolific as John Dwyer, who coaxes truly electric-toothbrush-esque frequencies out of his guitar on Thee Oh Sees’ 13th album’s opener…

Thee Oh Sees’ Drop featured on Spin’s 10 Albums to Stream

Spin April 18, 2014

We all got a bad scare late last year when the prolific and consistently great garage-psych institution Thee Oh Sees announced their hiatus, but now here we are just a few months later and the band is back with a brand new album.

Spin announces Thee Oh Sees’ inclusion to Burger Boogaloo

Spin April 16, 2014

doubly significant for Thee Oh Sees: Not only do the garage-rock kings have a new album coming out (Drop, due April 19), but the summer gig will also mark the band’s first Bay Area performance since frontman John Dwyer relocated…

Spin reviews Mac DeMarco’s Salad Days

Spin April 1, 2014

It’s these dissonant bits that elevate DeMarco’s easily digestible pop, the reason his single “Passing Out Pieces” will be one of the most memorable moments in indie rock this year.

Mac DeMarco’s Salad Days featured on Spin’s 10 Albums to Stream

Spin March 27, 2014

Being pegged as class clown on his previous solo outings… likely shaped the mind state in which we find DeMarco here. Without the attention-grabbing antics, his core sound hasn’t changed much.

Spin features Mikal Cronin’s “Soul in Motion”

Spin March 26, 2014

The upcoming split seven-inch kicks off with a new Mikal Cronin song called “Soul in Motion.” Opening with an anachronistic drum machine loop, the track manages to feel akin to the dulcet fuzzbombs found on Cronin’s Essential MCII…

SPIN hosts Mac DeMarco’s new single “Brother”

Spin March 6, 2014

Mac DeMarco will serve up his Salad Days LP on April 1 via Captured Tracks.

Spin features Fuzz’s video for “Raise”

Spin February 26, 2014

Fuzz dropped their eponymous debut in 2103 but failed to release any proper visuals until now. Turns out this was worth the wait.

Spin streams Thee Oh Sees’ “Penetrating Eye”

Spin February 13, 2014

Thee Oh Sees’ indefinite hiatus turned out to be mercifully brief. The garage-rock champs will release new album Drop on April 19…via frontman John Dwyer’s Castle Face label.

Spin features Fuzz’s “Till the End of the Day”

Spin January 14, 2014

Segall’s stamp usually guarantees a certain level of mad-eyed intensity and furious energy, and Fuzz’s version of “Till the End of the Day” doesn’t disappoint.

Mikal Cronin featured on Spin’s Best Albums of 2013

Spin December 3, 2013

..it may come as a surprise that Californian garage-punk lifer and Ty Segall pal Mikal Cronin is also in possession of a bachelor’s degree in music. On his Merge debut, the confessional Cronin puts both his formal and informal education…

Thee Oh Sees featured on Spin’s 5 Best Things We Saw on Friday at Fun Fun Fun Fest

Spin November 9, 2013

Music-festival staples, tireless tourdogs, frequent visitors to all the big cities — we’ve seen more Oh Sees shows than it’s worth recounting here. But on Friday, an especially psyched crowd made for an especially berserk set.

Spin features Fuzz’s “You Won’t See Me (Live)”

Spin November 7, 2013

On December 3, the garage rock gatekeepers will share the franchise’s second installment: a four-track platter documenting a recent set that SPIN cover star Ty Segall played with Fuzz at the SF Eagle.

Quintron and Miss Pussycat featured on Spin’s Best things we saw on Sunday of Voodoo fest 2013

Spin November 4, 2013

New Orleans’ Quintron and Miss Pussycat have made the personal touch their calling card. She makes puppets for surreal, onstage puppet shows — such as the one involving Christmas Bear and a goblin cake that she performed last night.

Spin features Mikal Cronin’s video for “Peace of Mind”

Spin October 1, 2013

Cronin juxtaposes his upbeat “Peace of Mind” with this simple, not-exactly-upbeat plot to create a touching clip. Wild Flag member Mary Timony, an indie-rock…

Spin streams Fuzz’s “What’s in my Head”

Spin September 12, 2013

…they’re amplifying that unholy blend of psychedelic showmanship and punk snarl to a deafening volume on the just-unveiled “What’s In My Head.”

Spin announces auction of Ty Segall records for charity

Spin September 6, 2013

Famous Class Records is currently auctioning off a slew of rare 7-inch releases from SPIN cover star Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Cass McCombs, Deerhoof, Lower Dens, the Mallard, and more.

Spin announces auction of Thee Oh Sees records for charity

Spin September 6, 2013

Famous Class Records is currently auctioning off a slew of rare 7-inch releases from SPIN cover star Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Cass McCombs, Deerhoof, Lower Dens, the Mallard, and more.

Spin interviews Fuzz’s Charles Mootheart

Spin September 4, 2013

I have a really hard time stepping back and removing myself from my work,” Mootheart says of the album. “But I’m insanely stoked on this record.”

Ty Segall’s Sleeper featured in Spin’s 15 Albums You Can Hear Now

Spin August 14, 2013

Segall wrote the 10 mostly acoustic tracks for Sleeper after losing his father to cancer last year and relocating to Los Angeles to be closer to his younger sister.

Spin posts the Pickathon live stream schedule featuring White Fence

Spin August 1, 2013

livestream performances by Divine Fits, Vile, Van Etten, Bird, and Parquet Courts, in addition to White Fence, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Lightning Dust…

Spin features a video Mac DeMarco playing “Young Blood”

Spin July 29, 2013

Last week, Mac DeMarco unveiled “Young Blood,” a lo-fi mumbler inspired by the 1986 Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe hockey movie of the same name.

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