Month: October 2014

Huffington Post covers Backer, a short film staring Mac DeMarco
Huffington Post

If Dave F**k sounds too good/weird to be true, that’s because he is. Instead, Canadian musician Mac Demarco plays the character in a seriously silly new mini-mockumentary directed by Cole Kush. Mac DeMarco lends his signature ball cap and jean jacket to the character, along with a hilarious baritone voice. His trademark comedy style finds meaning in the mundane, as Dave F**k gets lost in a deep and profound CGI parking lot dream. We don’t claim to totally understand the video, but somehow it’s perfect.

The Daily Illini interviews Mac DeMarco
The Daily Illini

From Montreal to Brooklyn, Mac DeMarco has quickly turned into a laid-back, surf-rock sensation with a propensity for songwriting. His most recent album, Salad Days placed No. 11 on Billboards US Top Rock Albums, and DeMarco’s songwriting has transformed his persona on the newest record.

Brooklyn Vegan covers King Gizzard at CMJ
Brooklyn Vegan

Then there was King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, no strangers to Baby’s All Right, who came armed with three guitarists, two drummers, a flute and an insane amount of energy. The Australian band may have played more shows during CMJ than any other band, but their crazed stage presence never flagged, nor did audiences bouncing.

Entertainment Weekly Premieres New Quintron & Miss Pussycat “Do The Raid” Video!
Entertainment Weekly

Quintron and Missy Pussycat’s “Do The Raid” is something that would belong right next to “Time Warp” in Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it has more distortion—and plenty of puppets. For over a decade, the New Orleans-based duo have been making psych-heavy rock that’s easy to dance to: In the “Do The Raid” video, Miss Pussycat bops around with her maracas as Quintron flops his hair around to the beat of the music, which sounds a lot like what LCD System was aiming for with 2007’s “Watch the Tapes.”
The puppets, though, who Miss Pussycat makes and frequently performs with, are the video’s real stars. Most are unidentifiable shapes like the one-eyed blob, but there is one adorable panda wearing a bow-tie—no matter how cute they are though, they’re all pretty unruly: The video ends with one of the more colorful puppets setting some sticks of dynamite off.

Get Spooky with Panache in NY this weekend at our Two Parties featuring King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Purling Hiss, Del Zeppelin & more!

Panache is excited to announce two Halloween Parties this upcoming week in NY! Hosting six events during CMJ just wasn’t enough, so we felt like we owed both you and ourselves another opportunity to rage. Panache artists like Purling Hiss, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Meatbodies, Tonstartssbandht will all be celebrating the festivities in […]

Pitchfork Highlights Quintron’s Spellcaster II LP in Shake Appeal!
Pitchfork

His latest LP shows an artist doing a lot more than just making novelty music. “Something Is Wrong With Jim Bob” is 90 seconds of arid, instrumental guitar. “Fatal Harmonic” is a track by the Weather Warlock, his project featuring a device that’s controlled by the elements (an undeniable highlight at Gonerfest). The best part of the album by a mile is “Do the Raid”, which is probably the best Quintron and Miss Pussycat song of the past decade. It’s a sneering track where they stare down a young student and say, “Your parents are dumb, kid, do the fuckin’ math.”
Truly, an anthem for elementary school teachers who no longer give a fuck.

SF Weekly announces Thee Oh Sees at SXSW
SF Weekly

Next year’s festival runs from March 13 to 22, but the buildup/lineup reveal is a gradual striptease of sorts, with Round 1 announced today. At first glance, we’re happy to see locals The Stone Foxes, The Dodos, The California Honeydrops, and Thee Oh Sees.

Upstate Live announces White Fence’s show at BSP
Upstate Live

White Fence released For the Recently Found Innocent this past July and have garnered nothing but raves reviews. This latest record sees him re-team with Ty Segall to produce a beautiful set of elaborately crafted songs, harmony vocalizations and trippin’ guitar tones that conjure a fantasy about reality.

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