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Kathleen Hanna’s Feminist Party Band Le Tigre reunite: ‘It’s depressing our lyrics are still relevant 20 years later’

The Guardian April 14, 2023

Most bands wring their hands over whether to reunite or not, but for Le Tigre it was easy. The impetus was a festival in Pasadena, Los Angeles, in 2022. “It was three miles from my house,” says frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, laughing. “I was like: ‘I want to do this because I can cruise down the hill and go to the festival and all my friends can come.’” Then they concluded that the rehearsals for the festival – done over video call, and in LA and New York where bandmates Johanna Fateman and JD Samson live – shouldn’t be wasted. They announced a full tour, their first since 2005, which hits the UK in June.

Riot grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill: ‘We’re back. It’s intense’

The Guardian June 9, 2019

Their songs excoriated rape culture, their motto was ‘girls to the front’ – and they inspired Nirvana’s biggest hit. Now Bikini Kill are back with a mission still relevant in 2019

Perfectionism and poverty: why musicians struggle with mental health

The Guardian January 19, 2018

When Jess Cornelius named her 2016 album Give Up on Your Health, she did so as a warning to herself not to get sick – physically, or mentally. As an artist, she couldn’t afford it. The musician, who performs as Teeth & Tongue, has just swapped Melbourne for LA. Sounds great, except she found that sorting out visas, tax, social security numbers and bank accounts leaves little time for creativity. Being a musician is dispiriting, she says.

Leather daddies and jazz: a beginner’s guide to garage-rock hero John Dwyer

The Guardian November 28, 2017

My motto is: try everything, life is short,” says John Dwyer, the leader of San Francisco garage rockers Thee Oh Sees. “We are growing at every turn. Every day you get a little older, a little closer to the grave – you should taste it all.

The Guardian gives Mac DeMarco’s London performance 5 stars

The Guardian May 30, 2017

“…and the crowd embrace DeMarco’s ramshackle corniness, waving actual lighters along to the Careless Whisper-ish One More Love Song and going wild to Freaking Out the Neighborhood in a way that no crowd has gone wild to a song sounding like Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing since 1987…”

The Guardian talks to Ty Segall on Black Flag, T Rex and more

The Guardian January 20, 2017

“…Segall has a knack for spinning out garage rock, punk and fuzz with monster hooks – shredders and stompers that recall an earlier golden era – without sounding too much like a throwback to the past.”

The Guardian covers Ezra Furman’s London Show

The Guardian October 23, 2015

““This is weird, huh?” says Ezra Furman, genuinely mystified. “What happened here? Two thousand people at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. What the hell happened here?”

We’re just two songs into an hour-and-50 minute set from Furman and his band, the Boy-Friends. As they move breathlessly from the itchy, life-affirming pop of Anything Can Happen to the searing, Bo Diddley-indebted At the Bottom of the Ocean, it’s impossible not to love and admire them in equal measure.”

The Guardian Interviews Mac DeMarco

The Guardian September 11, 2015

“DeMarco is one of the most distinctive songwriters in modern guitar music, his songs recalling the hazy romance of a more innocent era, a sound that rouses an incongruously seething mosh pit from the DeMarco-clones at his raucous gigs…”

Mac DeMarco Picks his favorite tracks for The Guardian

The Guardian September 6, 2015

“The laid-back Canadian on the power of weird music, dad rock and the joy of finding old Neil Young albums in the bargain bin…”

The Guardian reviews Mac DeMarco’s Performance at Roundhouse, London

The Guardian September 2, 2015

“There’s devastation and self-doubt beneath the goofy exterior as the Canadian stoner-rock prodigy moves into more melancholy territory…”

The Guardian tells you why you should listen to Mac DeMarco’s ‘Another One’

The Guardian August 14, 2015

“The new mini-album from Canadian songsmith Mac DeMarco is a woozy, laidback affair full of lovelorn lyrics and Beatles-esque guitar playing…”

The Guardian streams Mac DeMarco’s ‘Another One’

The Guardian August 10, 2015

” Everyone’s favourite scruffy looking indie lad returns with a luscious mini-album of twanging guitar and dreamy, sun-drenched pop…”

The Guardian reviews Ezra Furman’s Perpetual Motion People

The Guardian July 2, 2015

“Furman would probably have seemed fairly unusual in any era, but his distinctiveness shines a little brighter in a world where a lot of rock is painted in neutral shades…”

The Guardian interviews “New Orleans musical legend” Quintron

The Guardian May 14, 2015

The humidity peaks in the dark nightclub packed with hundreds of excited, drunk bodies, when New Orleans one-man-band Quintron turns the key on his “Drum Buddy”, lighting it up like a miniature aurora borealis.

The Guardian reviews Mikal Cronin’s MCIII

The Guardian April 30, 2015

Mikal Cronin might not be the best-known of California’s latterday garage-rock pack, but he is perhaps the keenest to experiment. On his third album, MCIII, you can practically hear him rubbing his hands with glee as he stuffs his songs with joyous strings and horns, which couch his most emphatic and vulnerable moments.

The Guardian reviews King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s I’m in Your Mind Fuzz

The Guardian November 27, 2014

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is a wholly suitable name for this seven-piece Australian psychedelic outfit, who metaphorically throw DayGlo paint at the studio walls without regard for taste – blues harmonica, double drummers, flute, beaty pop, heavily treated vocals – and see what emerges.

The Guardian reviews Ty Segall’s show at Electric Ball Room in London

The Guardian November 13, 2014

Segall and his band attack these garage-psych nuggets with wild glee, joyriding them like stolen cars.

The Guardian premiers Ty Segall’s ‘The Singer’

The Guardian October 9, 2014

While the song explores the “mythic experience of rock” the video imagines Segall summoning the spirit of the Ty Segall Band with his guitar, right before Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding arrive and shut the whole thing down.

The Guardian interviews Ezra Furman

The Guardian September 11, 2014

Day of the Dog, Furman has said, is his manic record, following its depressive predecessor, The Year of No Returning

The Guardian reviews Mac DeMarco’s Salad Days

The Guardian March 27, 2014

…DeMarco is hardly the first artist in recent years to bear the mark of an infatuation with My Bloody Valentine, but rather than going for straightforward distortion-laden pastiche, he applies their pitch-bending sound to music…

The Guardian profiles Mac DeMarco

The Guardian March 21, 2014

DeMarco’s lovable jackassery has helped make him a kind of brohemian hero, but it’s his talents as a songwriter that have sustained the love. Sometimes sleazy, always sincere, his songs have a kind of slacker-stealth to them…

The Guardian reviews Ezra Furman’s Day of the Dog

The Guardian February 13, 2014

Day of the Dog is a savagely truthful set that seems to tear at the fabric of the Chicagoan’s very being.

The Guardian covers Ezra Furman’s Day of the Dog

The Guardian December 5, 2013

Ezra Furman has made an album of classicist rock’n’roll that never feels like an exercise, but a living, breathing piece of self-expression.

The Guardian reviews Mac DeMarco’s show at the Scala

The Guardian October 29, 2013

On record, it often sounds as if John Peel is reaching out from beyond the grave to play Mac DeMarco’s entire career at the wrong speed

The Guardian features Fuzz

The Guardian September 20, 2013

Now he’s unveiling a new band, Fuzz, in which he leaves the riffing to his bandmates, settling for a spot behind the drum kit.

The Guardian reviews Mikal Cronin’s MCII

The Guardian May 11, 2013

“…Cronin’s shiny, happy second album packs a surfeit of melody, an unexpected boogie-woogie piano solo, some violin, key changes to punch the air to…”

Ty Segall’s Twins reviewed on The Guardian

The Guardian October 9, 2012

“Ultimately, the appeal of Twins – and Segall – rests not so much on the individual tunes, tuneful as they may be. You put one of these sneery, sweet, hyperactive, electric records on as a force field to ward off the dead, grey creep of the everyday, to remind you what a good time sounds like.”