Oli Julian (Catastrophe, Cuckoo, Plebs) has composed the original score for the first season of the new Netflix original series Sex Education. The show also features original songs by singer/songwriter Ezra Furman.
Ezra Furman has written the soundtrack for new Netflix series, “Sex Education”, airing today (Friday, January 11th). The soundtrack features new original songs recorded during the summer, as well as songs from his previous albums.
This week in Ezra Furman news: The Bay Area musician with a sizable following in the UK was tapped to create the soundtrack to the British-produced coming-of-age comedy, Sex Education.
John Dwyer is never not busy. When he’s not touring non-stop or making records with Oh Sees (like this year’s awesome Smote Reverser), he’s got his solo project Damaged Bug, and the label he runs, Castle Face, that puts out a dozen or so records a year. He’s slowing things down just a bit this […]
Bedstock is an online “music festival” initiative by MyMusicRx, a program from the Children’s Cancer Association. The annual event features artists performing from their beds as a show of unity for children that have to spend their holidays in hospital beds. This year, artists including Jeff Tweedy, Ty Segall, Ben Gibbard, “Weird Al” Yankovic, TV […]
Tim Presley is one of our favorite artists here at WMF for a host of reasons: his steady quality musical output under the White Fence moniker, the significant role he played in a crucial era of post-punk mainstay The Fall, and his contributions as one half of DRINKS are three of those reasons, but there […]
Origins is a new music feature that gives an artist the chance to reveal the influences behind their latest effort.
Ty Segall has announced his sixth new album of 2018. He’s in a band called the C.I.A. with his wife Denee Segall and the Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly. Their debut self-titled album is out in December via In the Red.
The CIA, the band that features front woman Denée Segall along with Ty Segall, Emmett Kelly and drummer R.E. Carlos, will release their self-titled debut album in December on In The Red Records.
Evan Minsker of Pitchfork shares a list of his favorite recent garage and punk releases.
Titled I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk, it’s set to hit shelves January 25th via Drag City. The 13-track collection will serve as Presley’s seventh under his White Fence banner and long-awaited follow-up to 2014’s For the Recently Found Innocent.
On their second album, this quartet featuring Ty Segall and Ex-Cult’s Chris Shaw produce and pull at their militaristic punk with psychedelic tricks and brief detours.
Now based in Los Angeles, Wellington-raised musician Jess Cornelius refined her skills as a songwriter, vocalist and instrumentalist in Melbourne with her acclaimed, genre-bending project Teeth & Tongue. From 2008 to 2016, she released four albums and used music as a way to explore the world, touring through Australia, Europe, the US and the UK, […]
Ty Segall has announced a new covers album called Fudge Sandwich. The LP is out October 26 via In the Red.
Ty Segall deliciously covers Grateful Dead, Funkadelic, John Lennon and more on new album Fudge Sandwich
Mac DeMarco has announced he is launching his own record label. It is called Mac’s Record Label. “My friend Jen who plays drums in The Courtneys gave me the name,” he said in a press release. DeMarco has thus far released music via longtime label Captured Tracks. The new label will be distributed through Universal […]
Mac Demarco has announced the launch of his own record label, titled ‘Mac’s Record Label‘. The new label will be distributed through Universal Music Group’s Caroline.
“With 21 full-lengths, eight EPs, two live albums, four compilations, and at least a dozen seven-inches released over the last 21 years, there’s a lot to talk about when it comes to garage-psych outfit Oh Sees (also known as Thee Oh Sees).”
“It, too, rips with a house-burning intensity. “Pre Strike Sweep” is a feverish punk-leaning thrasher. Guitars chug and screech behind Shaw’s hoarse barking and Moothart’s restless drumbeat. It kind of sounds like GØGGS covering Show Me The Body covering Dead Kennedys.”
GØGGS Announce New Album ‘Pre Strike Sweep’, Release Title Track
GØGGS announce new album ‘Pre Strike Sweep’, to be released on 09/28/2018 via In The Red
The hardcore four-piece’s sophomore effort is due September 28th via In The Red
“Eric Moore and Michael Cavanagh have known each other since they were in their teens, playing in nurturing musical communities before finding success in the ornately technical and mosh invoking seven-piece Melbourne outfit King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. “
In a new volume of Bloomsbury’s 33 ⅓ series, Berkeley-based singer-songwriter Ezra Furman dissects Lou Reed’s second solo album with a thoroughness and fervor that could only come from someone who has loved him for years.
“First single “Overthrown” jams a dose of heavy metal skull-crushery into Oh Sees’ typically frenetic style, and the latest album’s cover art leans further into the theme with a painting of a dragon looming over a burning city. It looks like the cover of a fantasy novel, which coincidentally is artist Matt Stawicki’s main gig.”
“The ever-prolific Oh Sees are back with a new album this summer. It’s titled Smote Reverser, and it arrives August 17 via Castle Face.”
This week, we’re sharing songs from Ezra Furman, whose latest record, Transangelic Exodus, was just released last week.
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 […]
Which is to say, is there too much recorded music in the world? Yes. Is most of it forgettable? Certainly. Below are 30 albums, alphabetically arranged, by Los Angeles-area artists issued this year that deserve your investment.
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.
