Music on TV - Week of 10.08.12: Ty Segall

Ty Segall makes an appearance on Conan, Tuesday, in support of the new release Twins.

Picks for the week
Monday, October 8
ABC: The View: Pete Townshend
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Ben Howard
COMEDY CENTRAL: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Pete Townshend
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: The Wallflowers
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Sun Kil Moon
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Hives
TBS: Conan: Michael Kiwanuka
Tuesday, October 9
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Father John Misty
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Miguel
COMEDY CENTRAL: The Colbert Report: Morrissey
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Pete Townshend, Jens Lekman
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Milo Greene
SYNDICATION: Live With Kelly & Michael: Rick Springfield
TBS: Conan: Ty Segall
Wednesday, October 10
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Dwight Yoakam
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: KISS
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Ellie Goulding
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Fidlar
TBS: Conan: Ellie Goulding
Thursday, October 11
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Prince
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Daughter
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Grizzly Bear
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Jackson Browne
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Kimbra
Friday, October 12
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Jamey Johnson with Alison Krauss
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Peter Gabriel, Ben Gibbard
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Andrew Bird (REPEAT)
Saturday, October 13
NBC: Saturday Night Live: Passion Pit
PBS: Austin City Limits: Bon Iver

Bumbershoot 2012: The Streak Continues (Fishbone, Ty Segall, Passion Pit)

Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit

So we're at 26 now.

Yes, after all my blustering about missing this year's Bumbershoot and ending my streak at the solid number of 25 straight, I ended up going the final day of the music festival a few weeks back. One good friend passed on a participant ticket for that day and I got back from my trip out of town to attend. Couple that with a donated VIP pass and I was in business again.

Decked out in my 22 year old Fishbone t-shirt (that STILL glows in the dark), I brought my camera just in case and was accompanied for the first few hours by my music festival loving 5-year old, who "helped" me take some photos of Reign Wolf's early set. "Help" involved pressing the button on the camera while I held him and the camera steady. Just a couple minutes of this and my shoulder felt like it was going to fall off, but we did capture a couple good ones (scroll down to see).

After ditching my child (he got cab fare, don't worry!) I banked on my familiar face to get me into the pit, which worked for Foxy Shazam. Slight of build lead singer Eric Sean Nally was a blur on the stage, turning the classic idea of a rock star on its ear, as he is wont to do. Ty Segall and his face melting set was next, and for this, fellow rocktographer Marianne slipped me an extra photo pass and there was no more need for blatant deceit. After that, I saw some of the M83 set and the kids trying to start a mini-riot -- the youth in the bleachers didn't take kindly to the floor being kept at just half-full.

After some Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the act I was most excited to see was up -- Fishbone. Call it nostalgia, call it curiosity (have you seen Everyday Sunshine yet?), whatever the impulse, the 'bone were the band I wanted to see all weekend. My Fishbone T-shirt might not have lost some of its glow (we'd lost some daylight charge for it by that point) but what transpired on stage was illuminating enough. They reached deep into their catalog for a crowd-pleasing set list. Their raucous performance of "Party at Ground Zero" was easily the highlight of the day.

The rest of the night, we managed to see Hey Marseilles, The Vaselines and Passion Pit, and that all just felt like the cherry on top of the night. Next year (#27!) we'll get that damn application in time and they'll be less drama... promise. (Photos below and full set on flickr.)

Angelo Moore of Fishbone

Reign Wolf

Ty Segall

Eric Sean Nally of Foxy Shazam

Matt Bishop of Hey Marseilles

M83 plays while the youth revolt.

Full set of photos on Flickr

Now Downloading: New Releases 06.26.12 - Ty Segall, DIIV

The eyes have it -- Ty Segall Band release Slaughterhouse.

I've been taken out of the game for a bit, thanks to Sasquatch! Music Festival (with editing nearly 5k photos) and a new job. There have been some great releases I've lost out on in the process (Fiona Apple's latest, for one), but I couldn't pass up this week's great releases from Ty Segall and DIIV, even if we have to keep it short. Other notable new releases come from Sonny & the Sunsets, the return of Beachwood Sparks, The Flaming Lips, The Henry Clay People, Everest, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Chain and the Gang, Milk Maid and Joe Jackson's tribute to Duke Ellington.

Playlist: New Releases 06.26.12: Spotify

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Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse [Insound]
LP via Insound / iTunes / Stream via Rhapsody

Following so quickly on the heels of 2011's quieter and more controlled Goodbye Bread, Ty Segall's 2012 barrage of garage rock gems quickly put to bed any fears that Segall was mellowing out. Two months ago it was the excellent collaboration with Timothy "White Fence" Presley (Hair), and this week he returns with more friends to lay waste to your garage rock expectations. Slaughter is Segall at his fuzzed-out best, loud and brash but always with an ear out for a pop loving melody. There's so much good pop to be had under all the muck that the closing 10-minutes of distortion (the aptly named "Fuzz War") merely acts as a palate cleanser, working it's way through your ears and cleaning out any of the many earworms that Slaughter has left behind.

Download: "Wave Goodbye" [mp3]

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DIIV - Oshin [Insound]
LP via Insound / iTunes / Stream via Rhapsody

Combining the dream pop of Disintegration-era Cure with the shoegaze/Creation Records sound, Brooklyn's DIIV (pronounced "Dive" in honor of the Nirvana song) have produced a compelling debut. Great songs like "How Long Have You Known" and "Doused" are surrounded by instrumentals and eightiesish audio landscapes making an end-to-end dream-like experience for the ears.

Download: "How Long Have You Known?" [mp3]

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More on the radar (and in the mp3 player) this week:
Sonny & the Sunsets - Longtime Companion [Google Play] / Stream from Polyvinyl Records
Beachwood Sparks - The Tarnished Gold [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream / "Forget the Song" [mp3]
The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends [emusic]
Henry Clay People Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives [emusic] / Free AOL Album Stream
Everest - Ownerless [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream / "Rapture" [mp3]
Milk Maid - Mostly No [emusic]
Joe Jackson - The Duke [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Throw It to the Universe [emusic]
Chain and the Gang - In Cool Band [emusic]
A Place to Bury Strangers - Worship [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream / "You Are the One" [mp3]
The Daredevil Christopher Wright - The Nature of Things [emusic]
Jessica Hoop - The House That Jack Built [Google] / Free AOL Album Stream / "Born To" [mp3]
Lorn Ask the Dust [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream
REISSUES
The Mountain Goats - Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp [emusic]

tags: music, album review, ty segall, diiv, indie rock, new releases

Now Downloading: New Releases 04.24.12 - Ty Segall, Jack White

Ty Segall and Timothy "White Fence" Presley combine their psych rock wonder powers for Hair.

We're back after taking a week off for a little R&R in Mexico last week (sorry Spiritualized and Moonface... we'll get you next time). This week is marked by a lot of classic guitar-based rock influences. Ty Segall and White Fence hole up in a garage for 30 minutes of psych rock fun, while Jack White puts all his appreciation of rock history into his debut solo release. Elsewhere, White's Raconteur partner Brendan Benson returns with an album, while there's noteworthy new releases from Death Grips, Brad (Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard + friends from Satchel), Bad Veins, Diamond Rugs, Toro y Moi, Torche, Battleme, Human Don't Be Angry (Arap Strap guitarist Malcolm Middleton), The Raveonettes, Eddie the Gun and a live album from Peter Gabriel.

Playlist: New Releases 04.24.12: Spotify

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Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair [Insound]
LP/CD/FLAC/mp3 purchase via Drag City / iTunes

For those already familiar with the psych rock of both Ty Segall and White Fence, the side project of Darker My Love's Timothy Presley, than Hair won't seem so much of a surprise as it is a realization of how two great tastes can taste great together. Sure, throwing the two in a room to jam in a room full of illicit drugs (of my own imagining) could have gone horribly wrong, but the Syd Barrett on speed mix of Hair is the kind of beautiful mess that a psych rock jam should shoot for. Joined by White Fence bro Sean Presley and Segall collaborator Mikal Cronin, Hair is further insurance (along with Thee Oh Sees, Davilla 666, etc) that the prolific SF Bay area garage scene isn't slowing down any time soon.

Download: "I Am not a Game" [mp3]

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Jack White - Blunderbuss
Purchase [mp3 purchase & stream via Google Play] / iTunes / Stream via Rhapsody or Stream via Spotify

Wrote in some depth already about Blunderbuss' prevalent theme of relationships and the ensuing chaos, but it's worth pointing out that White has made a point that his debut solo release has little or nothing to do with his recent ex, model Karen Elson. Considering how much of the album is dedicated to a man scorned by his love, Meg White appears to be the target of much of the fiery barbs and resulting melancholia. Besides the consistent ground covered via lyrics, White has varied up his sound enough here that you don't feel too White'd out, a danger given how much of the same ground the blues-rock purveyor has had to tread over the years. It's accessible, but just weird enough for it to seem like an odd introduction for the remaining few not familiar with White's oeuvre -- not that there are that many by this point. As with any White-related release, one of the highlights is what song he chooses to cover, and in the case of Hair, it's no exception -- "I'm Shakin'" was originally a hit for Little Willie John, and hin White's hands, it's a moving tribute to the power of rock from that era of time. And reminds us that those bouncy numbers sung by the brothers Miser were cribbed a bit from Little Willie.

Free AOL Album Stream

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More on the radar (and in the mp3 player) this week:
Brendan Benson - What Kind of World [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream
Death Grips - The Money Store [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream
Brad - United We Stand [Google Play]
Toro y Moi - June 2009 [emusic]
Bad Veins - The Mess We've Made [Google Play]
Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs [Google Play]
Battleme - Battleme [iTunes] / Free AOL Album Stream
The Raveonettes - Into the Night [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream
Human Don't Be Angry - Human Don't Be Angry [Google Play]
Waco Brothers and Paul Church - Great Chicago Fire [Google] / "Chicago Fire" [mp3]
Torche - Harmonicraft [Google Play] / "Kicking" [mp3]
Eddie the Gun - Kids [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream
The Macabees - Given To The Wild [Google Play]
Peter Gabriel - Live Blood (Live In London/2011) [Google Play] / Free AOL Album Stream

tags: music, album review, ty segall, jack white, indie rock, new releases