Pitchfork premieres Thee Oh Sees video for “Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster”
“Thee Oh Sees’ music video for “Minotaur” featured some bloodshed, but it was otherwise a pretty lighthearted video…”
“Thee Oh Sees’ music video for “Minotaur” featured some bloodshed, but it was otherwise a pretty lighthearted video…”
“If there’s any band that can get away with a video that grotesquely depicts — and arguably celebrates — murder, it’s San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees, whose lacerating fuzz-rock evokes all sorts of primal urges…”
“Their unique live shows, a combination of homebrew instrumentation and other-worldly puppetry, have earned them fans in odd places and taken them, most recently, to the Kennedy Center…”
“Coffin is an easy, spring-appropriate listen. Something about Thee Oh Sees always sighs warm air. This album does that, too, but with hurriedly-spiked punch heavy on its breath. Drink up, Johnny.”
“…It also illustrates that there’s no pre-established blueprint for an Oh Sees album, which means there’s no telling what’s next. As usual, that’s an exciting prospect…”
“The band played a forceful bunch of songs — at least judging by the four final ones that I saw — that drove the tightly focused, crowd-surfing fans to adrenaline levels unimaginable the morning earlier…”
“But one aspect that’s often overlooked is that Thee Oh Sees mastermind John Dwyer plays a mean flute…”
“…all gorgeous harmonies and palette-cleansing strings, demonstrates a band in charge of its own weird, fuzzy destiny…”
“Frontman John Dwyer licked the mic and wielded his guitar like a bazooka, then he spotted fellow Bay Area groovie Ty Segall in the front row of the VIP section and demanded he join the band onstage…”
“The dominant mode is galloping, double-drummered, overdriven but super-tight ramalam…”
“It’s a song slathered in acid-burnt fuzz where Presley stretches out with an echoing psych guitar solo after hammering out a simple, solid power chord hook…”
“Thee Oh Sees are set to release Floating Coffin, the follow-up to 2012′s Putrifiers II, next week…”
New album from Thee Oh Sees, Floating Coffin, streaming on Pitchfork Advance.
“Given the maturity and insight of White Fence’s previous releases and his collaborations with it-boy Ty Segall, it shouldn’t shock anyone that the act’s newest record, Cyclops Reap, is quite brilliant…”
White Fence’s new album Cyclops Reap is streaming on Pitchfork Advance.
“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 […]