Spin Magazine photographs Mac DeMarco show at The Independent
Photos from Mac DeMarco, Phoenix show at The Independent.
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 […]
“Now, as Exclaim.ca points out, Segall has plans for another 7″ Fuzz single, titled “Sleigh Ride”, which is set for an April 16th release via In the Red. According to an accompanying announcement, “The band more than live up to their name with a a sludgy, heavy, psyched-out proto-metal sound that is steeped in shredding […]
“Watch Montreal-based Mac DeMarco and his band play “I’m a Man” live on the final day of the FADER Fort…”
“They had more energy than should be allowed on the last day of SX, and the audience guzzled down every last drop. Bass player Petey Dammit slung his instrument (what looked to be a Fender Bass VI for you gear nerds out there) high, and laid down fat, pounding lines that were as meaty as […]
“Mikal Cronin — former sideman for San Francisco garage-rock icon Ty Segall — has released perhaps the year’s finest power-pop album, MCII, using these latter methods; in addition, he’s written the best power-pop song of the year, “Shout It Out,” which combines all of the above gushingly, and features the priceless line, “Shit goes on […]
“I lounge comfortably while Mikal Cronin unfurls divine garage pop steeped in layers of guitar and decades of songwriting genius. You can tell all these great Bay Area garage bands compete with each other to hit the hardest; this set is so wonderfully intense and maximalist…”
“DeMarco closed out his Wednesday afternoon outdoors at the Paste/HGTV party with a fantastically goofy rendition of “Still Together,” playing deadpan lounge singer for the verses and unhinged punk yodeler for the choruses…”
“Even better was a Friday night sugar rush from Mikal Cronin, whose rock anthems came dunked in color, charisma and electricity. From song to song to song, you could see the stiff-jointed audience slowly committing to the music with their bodies — and then with their giggles, namely whenever Cronin, who looks like a grunge […]
“And while his band riffed for passers-by on Red River Street, actually seeing Dwyer through the mini-mob was tricky. For a better view, a dozen faithful climbed up onto the roof of his band’s Ford E-350 tour van, parked in an adjacent alleyway. On the patio, two peroxide blondes perched atop an ATM like punk […]
“In the evening, we teamed with Shea Stadium Records for an official showcase celebrating DIY music with performances by So So Glos, Diarrhea Planet, Kitty, Stagnant Pools, Roomrunner, and Duolouge. Check out various photos from both events in the gallery below.”
“Unsurprisingly, in the moments before this performance, he and his band looked exhausted. But oh man did they power through the lethargy. Mac whipped around wildly, crowdsurfed, latched himself onto a beam, and started swinging from Swan Dive’s ceiling…”
“Cronin was more direct, but provided an equally timeless service. Though the band’s three-part guitar attack sometimes tripped over itself – one 20-second solo giving way to another giving way to a shout-along, misfit chorus – Cronin and his band of unkempt music geeks (they covered Wreckless Eric’s “[I’d Go The] Whole Wide World”) wrote […]