Punk foursome Beach Slang set the bar high Saturday night at Neon Reverb, and then fuzz-rocker Ty Segall obliterated it completely on Sunday, capping the weekend with a manic performance ranking among the Downtown festival’s all-time best.
Indie art-rock freak Ty Segall could have been the persona Gowan was referring to when he sang “You’re a Strange Animal, I’ve got to follow” in 1985 (click here if you really have to).
Let’s just get the obvious out of the way: Ty Segall is weird. Over the past few months, the singer and his newest backing band, The Muggers, have been seen dialing that weirdness to new levels on tour and television.
WGN Morning News Gets Psyched Out: Prolific garage rocker Ty Segall played two shows at Thalia Hall earlier this week.
I’ve never been to Australia, but I have seen every Mad Max movie multiple times, which means I find it entirely plausible that the country could support at least one color-coded garage-rock druid-cult.
The expectation for most artists these days is, after releasing an album, to tour and tour and tour until they just can’t tour no more.
The expectation for most artists these days is, after releasing an album, to tour and tour and tour until they just can’t tour no more.
There is a distinctly poetic sensibility about Ty Segall. You might not expect that given images of how the man fronts his new band, the Muggers: lumbering over the stage in blue coveralls, wearing a dead-eyed baby mask and whisking at his side what we can only assume to be his bloody (prop) umbilical cord.
From Nonagon Infinity, Melbourne psych rock outfit King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s follow-up to last year’s Paper Mâché Dream Balloon (review), out April 29 via Flightless.
Fans of genre bending Australian garage-psych rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard should rejoice over the news that the seven-man sound machine is releasing a brand new LP entitled Nonagon Infinity on April 29, available for pre-order here.
Last weekend I had the pleasure of photographing yet another Ty Segall show, this time at Danforth Music Hall with support from openers CFM (Charles Moothart’s new band, you might know him from FUZZ).
“I’ll see discussions sometimes, on message boards online, about the sound I get from my guitar,” Mac DeMarco said one overcast February afternoon as we drove around Far Rockaway, Queens.
Wednesday’s packed Ty Segall performance at First Avenue was a harrowing, shriek-filled freak show of sorts, with Ty first emerging in a giant, distorted plastic baby mask and later whipping a (hopefully) fake umbilical cord over the audience.
At some point on Monday, between my morning coffee and heading off to run errands, Ty Segall and the Muggers descended on WGN Morning News.
It was right around the time Ty Segall removed his man baby mask and draped an umbilical cord over my head that I knew it was going to be a weird show.
Ty Segall released the bugged-out psych-rock album Emotional Mugger earlier this year, and last month, he appeared on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show to give one of the weirder, more provocative late-night TV performances in recent memory.
No matter how many albums it takes, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are going to make the world stand up and listen.
When Mac DeMarco was working on his Another One mini-album during the spring of 2015, he achieved what he describes as a state of Zen.
On Saturday, February 27, Ty Segall & The Muggers played the first of two sold-out shows at New York City’s Webster Hall.
If you want to understand how fluid the genre signifier “psych” can be, consider what a vast spectrum of sounds King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have explored throughout their discography.
After dabbling Brubeck-y jazz and gentle acoustics, Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are back in hyperactive psych mode on new album Nonagon Infinity, which will be out via ATO on April 29.
Aussie music machine King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have revealed full details of yet another studio album. Following the release of both Quarters and Paper Mache Dream Balloon in 2015, the septet will now follow them up with the April-bound Nonagon Infinity.
Ty Segall and his band the Muggers (King Tuff, Mikal Cronin, and more) performed on the WGN Morning News program in Chicago today.
The reigning hooligan king of indie pop, DeMarco released a mini-album of love songs last summer that revealed, in addition to the nuances of his heart, his home address, complete with an invitation for coffee.
Few people can hypnotize a crowd quite like Ty Segall. Since the release of his self-titled debut back in 2008, Segall has developed a reputation for being a garage-rock whiz kid, his playful live shows and critically acclaimed albums chock-full of theatrical antics and rollicking riffs.
Ty Segall has been all over this site for years, and the reason we keep coming back to his shows is the same reason that he sold out these two nights at Webster Hall last weekend: He’s one of the most exciting live acts around.
Si je découvre King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard avec cet album, ce collectif australien sort en fait son 7ème opus en 3 ans!
Ty Segall, accompanied by his band The Muggers (King Tuff, Mikal Cronin and members from Wand and The Cairo Gang) opened his first night in New York at Webster Hall last Saturday, touring off his January release “Emotional Mugger.”
“Infantile” is a good descriptor of Ty Segall’s current tour. This is not meant as derogatory, as much as a statement of fact.
In a standout moment from Chicago-born songwriter Ezra Furman’s excellent 2015 album Perpetual Motion People, the singer wails “I have got a lousy connection!”
