Month: August 2014

NPR interviews Ty Segall
NPR

newest album, Manipulator is different: more produced and polished. Segall came to NPR West to talk about the album with NPR’s Arun Rath — and play a few songs for us…

225 reviews Ty Segall
225

While most contemporary bands force and market this cool, Segall is probably too concerned with recording his next three albums to care about what rock ‘n’ roll mystique means. He’s the leader of the pack of bands like White Fence, Mikal Cronin and Fuzz, all of whom save rock from the stale nü-grunge sounds time and time again…

Pop Matters review Ty Segall
Pop Matters

Ty Segall is a musician who doesn’t sit still. He’s been cranking out albums at a crazy pace for much of his career, and his pace has only increased over time…

Death and Taxes stream new White Fence single
Death and Taxes

The White Fence track, “Nero (Has a Lot to Think About)” is a tasty slice of psychedelic pop—something you might expect to find in a “Nuggets” one-off and wonder how it never blew up. A repeating riff on the xylophone makes for a unique, but incredibly catchy, track which closes with an unadulterated ‘60s organ freakout…

Seattle Weekly News reviews Mac DeMarco
Seattle Weekly News

Mac DeMarco is the real deal. On his second full-length record, Salad Days, the onetime Montreal-based singer/songwriter emits a toxic vapor of addicting warbles, slicked-up melodies, and hooks you can’t shake. The result is reminiscent of the softer side of Ween, if only brothers Gene and Dean had hooked up with Pavement in its prime. His unpredictable live set shouldn’t be missed…

Pitchfork reviews Ty Segall’s Manipulator
Pitchfork

Since popping the cork on his career back in 2008, Ty Segall has become synonymous with the word “prolific.” But unlike so many artists who commit their every passing whim to tape, in Segall’s case, it’s not just an impulsive quirk or random data dump—it’s the very engine that pushes him to greater heights…

Jam Bands interviews Mac DeMarco
Jam Bands

Yet one of the most memorable acts of the whole weekend was night one-Friday at the Far Out stage with Mac Demarco. It was a wild performance filled with crowd-surfing, beam-climbing, and serenading…

Vice reviews White Fence’s new music video
Vice

The first ever White Fence video features their sunny garage pop accompanied with video of Tim Presley getting the ever-living shit beat out of him, giving himself jailhouse tats, beating up corrections officers, and ultimately getting put to death…

NPR features Ty Segall on radio show
NPR

On this week’s episode of All Songs Considered, prolific fuzz-rock mastermind Ty Segall joins host Robin Hilton to share some of the music that shaped his new album Manipulator and a behind-the-scenes look into his recording process…

Gigwise reviews Mac DeMarco at Green Man Festival
Gigwise

Mac DeMarco delivered a typically explosive performance, playing heavily off his recent Salad Days LP and diving into the crowd during set closer ‘Still Together’, testing the trust of the audience after jumping from a pillar in the middle of The Far Out Tent to rapturous applause…

Noisey Premieres New Quintron Track!
Noisey

Quintron & Miss Pussycat will release their new LP Spellcaster II: Death In Space via Pizza Burglar Records on October 28, their first LP following three years’ worth of singles that eventually lead to a Grammy nomination. The 11-track effort features “Death in Space,” the first to be released out of the gate and available to stream below.

Q & Miss P will hold off on any huge celebrations of the new LP until early November, when the quirky garage punk duo hit the road for a string of dates on the East Coast. The November dates span Minnesota to Florida, and are all available below.

Mbird reviews Mac Demarco Salad Days
Mockingbird Blog

If I were a music critic, I’d try and fail to describe the playful self-awareness, the almost-total coincidence between irony and sincerity, etc. I can’t describe musical form too precisely, but suffice it to say, it’s tailored extremely well to the album’s content…

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