Still one of music's best kept secrets, Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest has been pulverizing ear drums for the past five years with a genre bending lineup mixing rock, metal, hip hop, and comedy. This year's bill is no different, with metal titans Slayer, iconic hip-hop outfit Public Emeny, dance pop maestros Passion Pit, synth master M83, and a Danzig Legacy set (Danzig/Samhain/Danzig & Doyle Perform Misfits) topping the bill. Set for November 5-6 at Auditorium Shores, this year's edition also promises Rakim, Major Lazer, Okkervil River, Kid Dynamite, Flying Lotus, the [...]
The annual Treasure Island Festival is once again returning to the San Francisco Bay for its fifth year. Set to take place October 15-16, the 2-day bash is set to be headlined by Empire of the Sun (10/15) and Death Cab For Cutie (10/16). The opening day of the festival (October 15) will see performances by Cut Copy, Death From Above 1979, Flying Lotus, Battles, Chromeo, Dizzee Rascal, Shabazz Palaces, YACHT, Buraka Som Sistema, the Naked and Famous, Aloe Blacc, and Geographer. The second day of the bash [...]
The lineup for the Treasure Island Music Festival was just announced , promptly crashing the Treasure Island website and bringing down the Noise Pop site with it. Whoops. Here's the scoop from Pitchfork: The first day, headlined by (somewhat surprisingly) Empire of the Sun , has a lineup that leans toward stuff with dancey electronic influences: Cut Copy , Death From Above 1979 , Flying Lotus , Battles , Chromeo , Dizzee Rascal , [...]
San Francisco's Treasure Island Music Festival returns for its fifth go-around from October 15th to 16th at the breath-taking Treasure Island. As has been the case throughout the festival's history, the bill mixes the best of indie and electronic, with Death Cab for Cutie, Empire of the Sun, Cut Copy, Chromeo, and Death From Above 1979 heading the bill. The festival's first day leans toward the electronic side. Joining Empire of the Sun, Cut Copy, Chromeo, and DFA 1979 are Battles, Flying Lotus, Buraka Som Sistema, YACHT, The Naked and Famous, Dizzee Rascal, Shabazz Palaces, Aloe [...]
Wild Flag | Photo by John Clark What a weekend we have in store for you, Chicago. It’s a big one with both Wicker Park and Sheffield Garden Walk competing for your attention with great local and national acts like Wild Flag, Wavves, Soul Aslyum, Company of Thieves, Canasta, Archie Powell & the Exports and more rocking the two neighborhood fests. Not to mention Thee Oh Sees are playing not once, but twice this weekend. Let's get ready to rock! [...]
.5 HAPPY FRIDAY! Here's a mix just in time for your weekend. We're a bit past the half way point for 2011 and we thought it might be time to clue you in on some of the tracks that have been taking care of our days and nights like Charles in Charge. Enjoy! Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - We Almost Lost Detroit (Warner Bros.) The Dodos - Black Night (Frenchkiss) Bass Drum of Death - Young Pros (Fat Possum) [...]
Thee Oh Sees - "Ruby Go Home" MP3/download SWEET, SOUL-CUCKOLDING LORD, why does it take so long to track Thee Oh Sees records down? I had to go down on a blind man to get Peanut Butter Oven, laundered money ... Continue reading
Someone Else Talking is a new column for Sound on the Sound in which I harass a musician long enough that they cough up the fascinating gems that are their current inspirations. Be it music or food or film or folly, I want to know what's getting these people up in the morning. And because [...]
Maniaque prolifique de la scène de SF depuis presque quinze ans, c'est avec Thee Oh Sees que John Dwyer nous a gentiment attirés dans les tréfonds de son garage fantasque. Se plaisant à asséner à l'auditeur une moyenne de 1,5 albums par an, la formation s'est pourtant parfois illustrée, à défaut de se faire oublier, dans le dispensable. Castlemania , dont le titre n'a franchement rien à voir avec la pochette qui filerait des cauchemars old-school a n'importe quelle tête blonde, ne l'est heureusement pas. Constat : le groupe n'a pas oublié de manger du Mr [...]
Amazing pictures from last year's Bruise Cruise by Roger Kisby , amoung many where, Ty Segall, Black Lips, Thee oh Sees, Vivian Girls, Jacuzzi Boys, Strange Boys etc ... Watch | Ty Segall - "Girlfriend" at Bruise Cruise Watch | Black Lips - Go Out and Get It ( Bruise Cruise video )
The L Magazine produced some quality videos of various sets from New York's city-wide Northside Festival, during which Thee Oh Sees played a record release show to celebrate Castlemania . In addition to a performance at The Uptown on 7/28, the band has a few national dates up ahead, including a much-anticipated slot at this year's Woodsist Festival in Big Sur . They were also included in the very early lineup announcement for the second annual Bruise Cruise Festival in [...]
The Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman SULK - Sleeping Beauty (The Porters Remix) The Charlatans - I Don't Want To See The Sights The Drums - The Future The Ocean Blue - Sunshower The Vaccines - Post Break-up Sex Washed Out - Amor Fati Devo - Freedom of Choice Curve - Coast Is Clear (Live in Manchester '91) Crocodiles - Stoned To Death Oasis - Rock 'N' Roll Star Chapterhouse - There's Still Life Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave Spector - There she goes [...]
Last week, when I interviewed Blake Anderson from the Comedy Central show, Workaholics, I found out that he was a huge music fan. He had just returned from Bonnaroo, proclaiming that the Stones Throw Records and Pasadena native Dâm-Funk had put on the best show of the festival. I asked him to put together a mixtape for the site. If you are not familiar with Workaholics, it's one of the best comedies on television. The show revolves around three friends: Anderson, Adam DeVine, and Anders Holm of the comedy [...]
The opening track of Thee Oh Sees ' new album, Castlemania , '"I Need Seed" begins arrestingly, in a clappy, shambolic kind of way, reflecting John Dwyer's deeply held love for the psychedelic era. At one point, he sings "it don't feel good to me," when the converse is obviously true. He has always worked with opposites. Over the last 10 years, Thee Oh Sees have mixed up being experimental with being one of the tightest garage rock bands around. Castlemania is a very pleasing testament to [...]
John Dwyer's back for his twelfth album release with Thee Oh Sees , a project that began as an outlet for his solo experiments under the name OCS. The music has been labelled with several ambiguous tags that all sound very similar but the best word is probably experimental. The riotous ride that is a Thee Oh Sees album is certainly still the same with Castlemania . Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania As if to deliberately contradict me however, the [...]
THE BEST ALBUMS 1) The Sandwitches :: Mrs. Jones' Cookies "In 2011, there is perhaps no band more aggressively honest and loyal to their distinctive sound than the Sandwitches." Review The Sandwitches - "Lightfoot" 2) [...]
A solid day with a lot of night pickings and not too many day parties, Saturday's main Northside show featured festival headliner show with Guided By Voices supported by The Babies, Surfer Blood and Wavves in the afternoon. I later caught Mainland and Thee Oh Sees. The Babies are soooo Brooklyn. A supergroup of members [...]
Believe it or not Thee Oh Sees have just released their twelfth full-length album, the first three under the moniker OCS and the next two after that as The OhSees. Now the indecisive bandleader John Dwyer has decided on "Thee Oh Sees" with which he has created another campy goth-noise record, one playfully named after the 1987 Nintendo game Castlevania . Castlemania is bizarre to say the least, though approaching it as experimental art can make it easier to comprehend. Thee Oh Sees hurl psychedelic, garage, surf and gothic rock into one surreally abstract [...]
San Francisco, CA. Thee Oh Sees - If I Stay Too Long The hardest working band in the garage, John Dwyer and Thee Oh Sees just released Castlemania another noisy/beautiful LP to add to their ever-growing discography.
Brooklyn's third annual Northside Festival starts tonight, with a great lineup of national and local bands. Check out our guide to the shows happening over the next four days.
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