| Hero With a Thousand Faces: Ty Segall “Manipulator” | October 6, 2014 |
Will Schube is the rhyme regulator/mic manipulator My favorite artists tend to be those whom have a deep and intense respect for the technical aspects of their crafts: the filmmakers who can give every sort of detail about their favorite childhood films or the musicians who can rattle off the list of snare drums used […]
| Ty Segall, From the Slaughterhouse to the Sleeper Hold | August 23, 2013 |
Duncan Boyd once beat a man insensible with a strawberry. It’s been roughly eight months, which means it’s time for another Ty Segall album. Fresh for 2013, it’s Sleeper, an album that again brings a striking change of pace to the SoCal rocker’s ever-expanding catalogue. Written during an unsettling period, it might be Segall’s most […]
| Video: Ty Segall – “Thank God For Sinners” | January 16, 2013 |
The philosophy of sin by Ty Segall. May not be safe for work unless you work in a mortuary or funeral home. In which case, you might want to play this for the entire office.
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: 2012, The Year of the Segall | December 21, 2012 |
The final part of The Top 50 Albums list arrives on Monday. In the interim, allow Douglas Martin to serenade you with the sweet sounds of Ty Segall. I. TY IS NOT A GAME Did you record not one, not even two, but three outstanding full-length LPs this year? Did you still have time to […]
| Ty Segall on Sugar Hill | August 13, 2012 |
In which Ty Segall comes through stunning. This sounds like a John Lennon cover of Beck’s “Devils Haircut.” The ethereal acid-jangled vocals, snarling guitars, and pumping piston drums. When I interviewed Tim Presley of White Fence, he told me that he firmly believed that Segall was that dude. Of course, indie rock guys doesn’t use […]
| Cloud Rock: The Sounds of San Francisco | June 14, 2012 |
Jonah Bromwich is wild like rock stars who smash guitars. Sequencing and song titles. Admittedly, these are two silly things to start to illustrate why the new San Francisco compilation In A Cloud II is so great, but sometimes it’s worthwhile to start with the peripheral issues. The album begins Ty Segall’s “Swag.” Aside from […]
Jonah Bromwich rocks a powdered wig. Ty Segall and White Fence’s new collaborative album Hair is very good. That’s not a surprise. Segall is an eternally under-appreciated, songwriting and riff whiz and White Fence’s Tim Presley, while not quite of Segall’s stature, has shown the ability to add both heart and muscle to his guitar-history […]
| Ty Segall & White Fence Shred with Scissors | April 9, 2012 |
Rock n’ roll, dusty and raw as Roc Marciano. Recommended for fans of 13th Floor Elevators, T. Rex, Love, The Troggs, Neu, and the Nuggets compilations. Hair is my favorite rock record of the first third of the year. Nothing else makes me want to throw my computer out the window and pop the acid […]
| Ty Segall & White Fence are not Gamers | March 29, 2012 |
Ty Segall and White Fence: the Method Man and Redman of modern psychedelic rock. Or maybe the Curren$y & Alchemist. Or maybe neither of these things. But they all make good weed music. I wrote about White Fence in January. Later, Tim Presley and I talked about EPMD, Zapp and Arthur Lee for my Bizarre […]
Douglas Martin prefers sourdough bread above all. In my Pitchfork review of his cover of GG Allin’s “Don’t Talk to Me,” I referred to Ty Segall as “the heir apparent to the garage-punk throne.” Others have called him “the next Jay Reatard”. Due for a crossover. A major crossover. A Kurt Cobain-like crossover? C’mon. But […]
