Douglas Martin examines whether or not Dirty Shoes all-stars Thee Oh Sees are still the best live act around.

the new single off their upcoming album; same old Oh Sees-ness

Douglas Martin has two pairs of Red October’s on layaway Nobody likes being wrong about something. It was announced in January that Thee Oh Sees, a first-ballot Dirty Shoes Hall of Fame group if there ever was one, would be taking, in their words, “a very long break.” Upon hearing that news and to my […]

Douglas Martin is pouring out a little Anchor Steam. I. One summer a few years ago, I went to a show in Portland — a girl I knew really liked the Dodos and wanted me to go with her. There was a man at center stage with a guitar. He was clawing and scratching away […]

Douglas Martin stays trippy. It’s a question that hasn’t been raised with any sort of deep thought, even in the garage-punk circles of Ye Olde Internet. Which of the million bands John Dwyer has been in is the greatest? It’s because everybody knows the answer: Thee Oh Sees would stand to win that vote by […]

Douglas Martin prefers Simon Belmont to Simon Le Bon. A small list of things that I have either done or have had done to me during the five times I’ve caught a live set from Thee Oh Sees: 1. Stopped a renegade monitor from flying into Mike Shoun’s drum kit. 2. Saved two girls from […]

South Street Seaport Fest: Thee Oh Sees [Part 1] from Ray Concepcion on Vimeo. “Alright, we’re Thee Oh Sees from San Francisco, California. Thank you very, very much for having us here tonight. It is an absolute motherfuckin’ pleasure,” gushes John Dwyer, all in the same breath, charmingly turning this entire greeting into one sentence. […]

Being as though Thee Oh Sees, my personal favorite live band in the world, tour throughout the world on a very frequent basis, I have no idea how John Dwyer has enough time to write songs at such an alarmingly prolific rate. Does he write them on tour? Do I admire them as a live […]