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Album Review : Bill Callahan’s ‘Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest’
Bill Callahan is one of America’s best modern songwriters. Like contemporaries Will Oldham, Damien Jurado, Phil Elverum, and the late Vic Chesnutt, Callahan paints pictures of worlds of long ago in his songs. Touching on emotions and real life so plainly and without much need for interpretation, his dark voice and acoustic-driven songs feel like …
Track: Ty Segall Announces New Album ‘First Taste’; Listen To Single “Taste”
Whatever your opinion of singer/songwriter Ty Segall is, one thing we can agree on is that the guy never rests. If you look up the word prolific in the dictionary there will surely be a picture of our blonde-haired garage rock icon. Just as soon as he’s dropped one album there’s another waiting in the …
Watch: Check Out Wand’s New Video “Pure Romance”
It seems the biggest news over the last 24 hours is that Grimes and Elon Musk are dating. Really? Is that news? Well, if you’re like me and could care a less about who’s dating whom then slap your eyeballs right onto the screen and check out Wand’s new video for “Pure Romance”. The …
Track: Drinks – Real Outside
Drinks, the collaborative project between White Fence’s Tim Presley and Cate Le Bon’s err…..Cate Le Bon, have reconvened for a second album, titled Hippo Lite. Its a follow up to the pairs Hermits on Holiday record which came out on Tim;s Birth Records in 2015, and is due out via Drag City on April 20th. …
Album Review : Ty Segall’s ‘Freedom’s Goblin’
Ty Segall is not the type of guy to sit on his laurels. He doesn’t put out an album and then sit, lay back and just coast on good reviews for awhile. It seems that usually by the time he puts a record out he’s already onto the next record, project, music obsession, etc. For …
Album Review : No Age’s ‘Snares Like A Haircut’
Randy Randall and Dean Spunt have always come across as a couple art house punks with a hell of a lot of conviction. This Los Angeles noise/art/punk/rock duo known as No Age have never sounded like they’re particularly adept at their instruments, at least at the beginning. They came across as a couple sweaty punks …
Album Review : Wand’s ‘Plum’
Going into Wand’s Plum I was expecting a bit of the usual Ty Segall-inspired garage noise, much like what was on the three previous records(Ganglion Reef, Golem, 1000 Days.) Playing with both Segall and Mikal Cronin, Hanson does have a little of both hard-wired into his musical DNA. While there are moments where the weirdness …
New Track : Hear Ty Segall’s “Alta”
Photo by Kyle Thomas Okay, so maybe the whole world didn’t come together and thank the resident garage rock God for dropping a new tune. In fact, I think it was an equal split between guffaws with jaws dropping and “Who?” with a side of “Meh.” For those not in the latter camp, this is …
Track: Ty Segall – Orange Color Queen
Ty Segall, the always busy and always creating DIY California singer/songwriter is readying a new self-titled for release on January 27th of next year. Segall assembled a band consisting of usual pals in Mikal Cronin and Charles Moothart, along with Emmett Kelly and Ben Boye and hit the studio with full band in tact for this new …
Album Review: Axis: Sova : Motor Earth
Before hearing Axis: Sova’s newest album called Motor Earth I had no idea who he was. Yes, Axis: Sova is a he. That’s the name Chicago guitarist Brett Sova goes by when creating grainy garage rock albums. If you’re at all familiar with DIY, scuzzy rock gods like Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Kelley Stoltz, …