NME reviews White Fence’s Cyclops Reap
“His follow-up, ‘Cyclops Reap’, keeps the party going…”
“His follow-up, ‘Cyclops Reap’, keeps the party going…”
“Tim Presley doesn’t seem to be running out of songs and this is another quality batch of paisley-scented psychedelia…
“…Death By Audio has announced the Sunshine Reverberation effects pedal, which is inspired by Ty Segall…”
“… Yes, the New Orleans ambassadors of down ‘n’ dirty “swamp tech” are on the bill for something called the New Orleans Bingo! Show, which also features the Preservation Hall Jazz Band…”
“The husband and wife duo, born Robert Rolston and Panacea Theriac, will bring their gritty and distorted swamp-tech to Club Downunder on Tuesday, April 9…”
“The husband and wife duo, born Robert Rolston and Panacea Theriac, will bring their gritty and distorted swamp-tech to Club Downunder on Tuesday, April 9…”
“Relentless, powerful, tight: This San Francisco psychedelic guitar band Thee showcases its wild, spastic rock on “Floating Coffin,” its seventh record…”
“White Fence is hardly the first band to dabble in the Beatles discography, but for the first time, it feels like they are expanding on the sound rather than simply copying it…”
“Needless to say, it was an epic finale, capped off with the band’s typical closer “Still Together,” during which fans literally busted out their lighters, a classic concert tradition that I haven’t witnessed in almost ten years…”
“Mr. Quintron is an American institution, a testament to all that is great in New Orleans music AND the most wigged out fringes of the avant-garde…”
“Mr. Quintron is an American institution, a testament to all that is great in New Orleans music AND the most wigged out fringes of the avant-garde…”
Photos from Mac DeMarco, Phoenix show at The Independent.
“Not that he needs any more accolades, as there are about to be a ton coming down on MCII, but the album is a pretty hefty jump from Cronin’s debut.”
“Two years ago he celebrated the vinyl lovers’ holiday by sharing the Ty Rex EP, a six-song set of T. Rex covers done in the lo-fi jangly San Francisco style we’ve come to hold so dear…”
“As SPIN’s David Bevan wrote in his cover profile of Ty Segall last fall, the San Franciscan garage-punk cyclone’s newly formed outfit is so aptly named, it’s a wonder someone didn’t beat them to it. As Fuzz, Segall and his former Epsilons pals — Roland Cosio (bass) and Charlie Mootheart (guitar) — are a well-oiled […]
“Thee Oh Sees have given us a video for their song “Minotaur,” a track off of this year’s Floating Coffin. The video, directed by band members John Dwyer and John Harlow, follows a day in the life of a mythical minotaur. This beast is as ordinary as the rest of us: he watches TV, punches […]
“Thee Oh Sees are set to release new LP Floating Coffins later this month and have given visuals to its first single “Minotaur.”…”
“”Weight,” the excellent track that kicks off San Francisco garage-pop hellraiser Mikal Cronin’s second solo album MCII (out May 7 on Merge), is about waking up on the morning you’ve vowed to turn over a new leaf but lacking the motivation– or maybe the good night’s sleep– to actually make the change…”
“Cronin’s accustomed to whipping up a frantic sonic storm as a sideman, but his solo work is more winsomely melodic and carefully crafted. “Don’t Let Me Go” and the aptly titled “Piano Mantra” are lovely and lilting, while “I’m Done Running from You” and “Am I Wrong” burst with giddy rhythm, high harmonies, crisp guitars, […]
“The San Franciscan psych rocker and longtime Ty Segall co-conspirator Mikal Cronin is getting ready to release his new solo album MCII, and today he’s shared its opening track, the breezy and uplifting “Weight.” The song has all the finely sculpted fuzz-tone we expect from the Bay Area garage-rock underground, but it’s also got a […]
“The above clip of a new, unidentified Cronin song arrived during the lead-up to the biggest fest in the Old Wild West, at a humble little shindig called Denton 35. While it doesn’t offer the “mondo, full of frenzied energy” affair that our own David Marchese witnessed a few days later, the MCII track is […]
“DeMarco just emanates a rush of freewheeling lightheartedness when he plays, and it was perceptibly infectious. In the frenzied excitement of the Bottle it didn’t, however, do much to let the airy, calm side of DeMarco’s music through. With the amped-up crowd came faster, more charged versions of DeMarco’s normally soft ‘n’ greasy tunes…”
“In a back alley in Austin, TX during South By Southwest, the Rock it Out! Blog’s Sami Jarroush caught up with rising singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco. During their brief chat, the two spoke about DeMarco’s plans for 2013, who he’d like to see during SXSW, and the refund value for cans and bottles in Montreal, Canada…”
“Fuzz are set to deliver a follow-up 7-inch on April 16 dubbed “Sleigh Ride.” Los Angeles DIY mainstay In the Red will handle the release, and reports that, “The band more than live up to their name with a a sludgy, heavy, psyched-out proto-metal sound that is steeped in shredding fuzztone guitar. Comparisons to Blue […]
“The band, called Fuzz and featuring bassist Roland Cosio and guitarist Charles Moonheart, have already released the sold-out debut single, ‘This Time I Got A Reason’, and now they’ll put another (entitled ‘Sleigh Ride’) out on 16 April…”
“The latest one, Trouble in Old Bathbath, is set to have its official premiere on April 18 at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, smack in the middle of their upcoming East Coast American tour. If this is sounding like too much awesome noise to handle, dig this: their 4/20 date will feature Black […]
“”I don’t want to answer to anybody at all.” That philosophy has seen Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer through nearly two decades in San Francisco’s garage rock scene, a stint that has included 13 bands, countless records (35 Oh Sees releases alone) and a career trajectory that’s brought the 38-year-old to his best-known band’s 12th […]
“Cyclops Reap, Presley’s forthcoming album on Thee Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer’s Castleface Records, was originally intended as a grab bag of leftovers from his last three years of insane productivity. But Presley’s drive quickly transformed the project into a full-fledged album…”
“White Fence‘s albums are great and all, especially if you’re in the mood for psych jams dusted with LA smog and a little weed smoke, but sometimes it feels like frontman Tim Presley works better as a singles artist, pushing these deep nuggets of wobbly pop into the world to be compulsively studied and listened […]
“The latest one, Trouble in Old Bathbath, is set to have its official premiere on April 18 at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, smack in the middle of their upcoming East Coast American tour. If this is sounding like too much awesome noise to handle, dig this: their 4/20 date will feature Black […]