Mikal Cronin: Ty Segall’s Homie On The Bay Area Scene, No Doubt, And Making Music His Mom Likes
LA Weekly interviews Mikal Cronin.
LA Weekly interviews Mikal Cronin.
Describing the experience of a Thee Oh Sees show is an exercise in futility, like trying to explain the vastness of the Grand Canyon to someone who has only seen it in pictures.
Propulsive, careening, and at times, openly dangerous, Thee Oh Sees are like the house band for a runaway train.
Mikal Cronin: Making Sense Of It All
Alongside Woods themselves, White Fence has been the strongest live force on the Woodsist roster this year.
Playing with two acts on the better side of the rock ‘n’ roll spectrum paid dividends for him in a couple ways. First, he knows his way around a melody. And second, it gives him access to Segall, Charlie Moonheart, even John Dwyer.
The title track from Goodbye Bread could be a sleeper anthem for the legions of disenfranchised, underemployed young adults who, as new census figures reveal, are among the hardest-hit by the recession.
On his eponymous debut, Mikal Cronin proves he can hold his own.
It’s a very intimate recording, full of sounds they wisely never tried to recreate again, and vocal takes that are often inflected with a heart-crushing vulnerability.
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Goodbye Bread is filled with such rich, breathtaking moments, and Segall, who plays every instrument here, sounds as though he’s savoring every part of his process.
An album that unfolds almost imperceptibly.
San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees have morphed from a showcase for skronk-savant John Dwyer’s sensitive side into the hardest working band in garage-rock.
A Rolodex of garage styles circa 2011, 1979, or 1966
Part of SPIN’s 5 Best New Artists for April.
If you’re anywhere near New York right now you’re probably dealing with the same blizzard we are. And if you’re anything like us, you’re going to want to hole up in your apartment drinking coffee and listening to psychedelic music until this thing blows over. Lucky for you, Tim Presley is here to guide you […]
But Monday’s main attraction was sexy cartoon lady Miss Pussycat, the hands behind VBS’s puppet “soap-opera” Trixie and the Tree Trunks, and her organ-taming, jam-skating life-partner Quintron.
But Monday’s main attraction was sexy cartoon lady Miss Pussycat, the hands behind VBS’s puppet “soap-opera” Trixie and the Tree Trunks, and her organ-taming, jam-skating life-partner Quintron.
Music critics, place your hands over your hearts and join me in this pledge: We shall not exploit the cataclysmic flooding of New Orleans to attach a pat resonance to the new Quintron & Miss Pussycat album.
Music critics, place your hands over your hearts and join me in this pledge: We shall not exploit the cataclysmic flooding of New Orleans to attach a pat resonance to the new Quintron & Miss Pussycat album.