Mac DeMarco stars in a goofy video sketch called “Backer”, directed by Cole Kush. He plays a character named Dave Fuck who is a “backer”, as in, it is his job to help drivers back up their cars. However, he turns a seemingly menial task into something more poetic, exploring his dreams and realizations.
We’ve been listening to the live stream of Mr. Quintron’s Weather Warlock, an analog synthesizer whose sensors gather data on light, precipitation, wind and temperature and transform the readings into sound.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, from Australia, clearly don’t take themselves entirely seriously, but they tore into their hopped-up boogie drone, topped with blues harp. Immigrant Union revived the folk-rock wing of psychedelia.
Looking/sounding like some post-Adderall version of Redd Kross circa Neurotica, this Aussie psych troupe bash hooks, keyboard noise, and infinitely colored outfits all around the stage and into one of the must-see acts of 2014, forget the fact that they’re on one of the must-see events of CMJ.
When we first received a copy of Manipulator, one of our DJs suggested a new category for rotation: Light, Medium, Heavy, and Ty Segall. That’s how much everyone here at KEXP loves the new record.
The Weather Warlock is the latest addition to Quintron’s cache of self-made electronic instruments. For the curious who want to experience it for themselves outputs from the Weather Warlock are streamed live, 24 hours a day on Weather for the Blind.
White Fence released For the Recently Found Innocent this past July and have garnered nothing but raves reviews. This latest record sees him re-team with Ty Segall to produce a beautiful set of elaborately crafted songs, harmony vocalizations and trippin’ guitar tones that conjure a fantasy about reality.
These psychedelic garage rockers have also been receiving high praise from the music community and as of this month have released seven albums in three years. The prolific seven piece band were brought together through living in a share house and their mutual love for Pavement and Thee Oh Sees.
Next year’s festival runs from March 13 to 22, but the buildup/lineup reveal is a gradual striptease of sorts, with Round 1 announced today. At first glance, we’re happy to see locals The Stone Foxes, The Dodos, The California Honeydrops, and Thee Oh Sees.
A couple of tracks from Death in Space — the fuzzy, buzzy title track and a second, “Do the Raid” — have premiered online. So has an ongoing stream of the Weather Warlock, a unique synthesizer programmed to translate the effects of natural light, wind and rain into sound.
Just in time for their new album I’m in Your Mind Fuzz, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will be touting their psychedelic, flute-driven garage rock to what have to be unassuming CMJ audiences.
Singer songwriter Tim Presley, aka White Fence, is prolific, to say the least. His sound mixes the carefree attitude of ’60s psych-pop with the raw sensibilities of garage rock — meaning, get ready to dance, sway, and freak out.
The Carlton Dry Independent Music Award winners have a new album set to drop on John Dwyer’s Castle Fact Records this October, so expect even bigger and better things from these freaks in the future as success and accolades continue to pour in.
Melbourne outfit KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD didn’t disappoint with their UMO-flecked garage riots.
Tim Presley had made some outstanding music under the pseudonym WHITE FENCE and if you haven’t had the time to fall down that rabbit hole, you might want to dig up Hair, Family Perfume, and Cyclops Reap.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have a new album on the way, I’m in Your Mind Fuzz, next month and the band recently shared another song off the album. Check out the fairly gentle “Hot Water” along with the previously released “Cellophane.”
“Hot Water” makes the case that not all prog has to exist lost in the depths of a mythical forest during the dark ages. “Hot Water” is the second single from KGLW’s forthcoming record I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, out November 11
He’s been praised as the most prolific and hardest working man in music, and when it comes to Ty Segall, it’s emphatically warranted. ‘The Singer’ is a standout on the record that now has a rad video to accompany it.
Australian garage psych outfit King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have a new track coming to us from their upcoming fifth album, I’m in Your Mind Fuzz “Hot Water” is a bass thumping track accented by swirling flute riffs and steady drum work. One thing’s for sure: this definitely isn’t your dad’s Jethro Tull.
In less than a decade Ty Segall has already amassed a catalog so extensive that it would shame most artists who have been around twice as long. Manipulator, Segall’s latest excursion, is his most accomplished yet, a fuzz-driven romp through 17 conceptually-linked tracks that variously recall everything from the Stooges and the Seeds to T. […]
For the second year in a row, III Points has shown it definitely has a way of obliterating your sleep schedule. But it’s all worth the lack of rest, if a life-affirming fix of four-to-the-floor beats is what you’ve been needing.
Mac DeMarco discussed his recording process, how personal he gets in his writing, and internet fame in a new interview for Pitchfork.tv and Canal 180’s “Entrevista” series.
With KG & the LW set to visit Subterranean on Saturday, Oct. 18, here’s a list of reasons you might want to consider these Aussies your new favorite band.
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard not only hands down win the award for band name of the week, but their paisley-coloured psych is as pleasingly trippy as you’d expect from a bunch of reptilian magic-makers.
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.
Ty Segall’s Maniupulator is one of the best and most critically-acclaimed rock records of the year. It’s seventeen tracks of psychedelic, sludgy, garage rock that is steeped in ’60s influences while still sounding fresh and new. “The Singer” is one of the record’s mellowest tunes, but stay tuned for the shred-your-face guitar solo near the […]
Day of the Dog is where Furman crosses a subtle but significant line from a punk version of indie folk to a punk version of rockabilly.
Mac DeMarco’s army of fans are more used to seeing him in darkened venues at the climax of a night of partying, but at ACL he also proved that he’s a man for all seasons: including the blistering heat of a 1pm show under the Texas sun.
The goofy Canadian guitar guy in the cap and unbuttoned flannel shirt never comes off as too cool for his crowd, which has the funny effect of making him all the more cool.
Watching sunsets and sunrises are some of life’s loveliest pleasures, and hey — it turns out listening to them is pretty incredible too. Quintron, an experimental musician based in New Orleans, built a synthesiser and sensors that convert weather to sound, with special audio effects at dusk and dawn.
