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Primus have announced the Summer 2025 “Onwards & Upwards” US tour featuring new drummer John Hoffman.

Ty Segall and MonoNeon will rotate as support for the outing, which kicks off July 5th in Paso Robles, California, and wraps up with a two-night stand in Sacramento on August 7th and 8th. The tour will hit Chicago, New York City, Dallas, and Los Angeles, along with the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, among other stops.

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A Live Nation ticket pre-sale for select dates begins Thursday (March 27th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Funky. General ticket sales start Friday (March 28th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

Primus mastermind Les Claypool shared the following statement via a press release:

“Hitting the road this summer with Hoffer at the helm! This fiery, cheerful, octopus-like drummer from Shreveport, Louisiana has breathed a very potent breath of freshness...

Following two album releases in 2024, indie rocker Ty Segall shows no signs of slowing down, as he’s just announced his 16th studio album. Titled Possession, it’s out May 30th via Drag City. Along with the announcement, he’s shared the lead single, “Fantastic Tomb,” and a new string of fall tour dates.

Possession was co-written with filmmaker Matt Yoka, with whom Segall has collaborated in the past on music videos (like the 14-minute short film for 2016’s Emotional Mugger) and film scores (like Yoka’s 2020 documentary Whirlybird).

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As a non-musician, Yoka brings a different perspective than the one Segall has amassed throughout his career, but the sense of trust they’ve developed over the years allows them to “throw the conceptual ball back and forth, each acting as writer and editor in the process,” as described in a press release.

“Fantastic Tomb” is...

Kristen Stewartis about to get stoned. The actress and producer has co-written a wild stoner buddy comedy with her fiancée, the actress and writer Dylan Meyer, called The Wrong Girls. Better yet? The film is already in production in Los Angeles — making it one of the first independent films to begin shooting in LA since the catastrophic wildfires struck the city. Meyer is directing the film, which will also star Alia Shawkat and Seth Rogen.

The multi-hyphenated Stewart recently spoke with IndieWire about bringing the project to life, and it sounds like an episode of Broad City writ large (which is a huge compliment coming from this particular writer). According to Iw's reporting, the supporting cast will also feature the comedic talents of Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale. When speaking about the project, Stewart asserted her enthusiasm for the project, noting that she is "doing backflips" about it going into production,...

Neon has begun production on stoner comedy The Wrong Girls starring Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat and disclosed further details on what it says is one of the first independent films to shoot in Los Angeles after the wildfires.

Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale are among the supporting cast on Dylan Meyer’s feature directorial debut.

Neon said that over the course of the 29-day production the film will employ approximately 100 people per day, 95% of whom will be local residents, including cinematographer Todd Banhazl (Hustlers), singer-songwriter and composer Ty Segall, and costumer Heidi Bivens...

Neon has begun production on stoner comedy The Wrong Girls starring Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat and disclosed further details on what it says is one of the first independent films to shoot in Los Angeles after the wildfires.

Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale are among the supporting cast on Dylan Meyer’s feature directorial debut.

Neon said that over the course of the 29 day production the film will employ approximately 100 people per day, 95% of whom will be local residents, including cinematographer Todd Banhazl (Hustlers), singer-songwriter and composer Ty Segall, and costumer Heidi Bivens...

Alia Shawkat, Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox and Tony Hale have joined Kristen Stewart in “The Wrong Girls” at Neon.

The film, which marks Dylan Meyer’s directorial debut, began shooting last week, becoming one of the first independent films going into production in Los Angeles following January’s devastating wildfires. Neon will release the film theatrically in the U.S. and represent the international rights.

Over the course of the film’s 29-day production, which began last week, the film will employ approximately 100 people per day, 95% of which will be local L.A. residents, including Emmy-nominated cinematographer Todd Banhazl, singer-songwriter and composer Ty Segall and Emmy-nominated costumer Heidi Bivens (“Euphoria”).

Written and directed by Meyer (“Moxie”), the film follows Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Shawkat), codependent best friends living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip, when a case of mistaken identity throws their lives into chaos.

Alia Shawkat is joining Kristen Stewart in a lead role for The Wrong Girls, Dylan Meyer’s directorial debut for Neon now shooting in Los Angeles in the wake of the recent wildfires.

Written and directed by Meyer, the film follows Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Shawkat) as best friends living paycheck to paycheck, only to see a case of mistaken identity throw their lives into chaos. The Wrong Girls also has supporting roles played by Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox and Tony Hale.

Neon plans to release the film theatrically in the U.S. and shop the international rights. In 2019, Meyer wrote, directed and co-produced her own short film Rock Bottom.

The film’s 29-day production schedule is expected to employ around 100 people per day, 95 percent of which will be local Los Angeles residents, including cinematographer Todd Banhazl, singer-songwriter and composer Ty Segall and costumer Heidi Bivens.

Kristen Stewart has found the right co-stars for her upcoming feature “The Wrong Girls.”

Stewart, who will lead the film that is written and directed by her fiancée Dylan Meyer (“Moxie”), will also produce the feature. “The Wrong Girls” was announced in 2023, with Stewart describing it as a “stoner-girl comedy” at the time. Alia Shawkat will also star in the film; Stewart acted alongside Shawkat in “The Runaways” in 2010.

The supporting cast also includes Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale. Neon will release the film theatrically in the U.S. and represent the international rights.

“The Wrong Girls” is Meyer’s directorial debut. The film follows Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Shawkat), two codependent best friends who are living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip, when a case of mistaken identity throws their lives into chaos.

Stewart told IndieWire while promoting “Love Me...

Mac DeMarco, King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard, Jim James and the War on Drugs are just a few of the dozens of artists featured on a new benefit album released on Tuesday to help raise funds following the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.

Super Bloom: A Benefit for Los Angeles Fire Relief, is 62 tracks-long and also features songs from Guided by Voices, Jenny Lewis, Dr. Dog, Ty Segall, and Swamp Dogg, among many others. All 100 percent of the proceeds from the album — organized by nonprofit Sweet Relief Musicians Fund — will...

Some bands make their journey to the Fountain of Rockness to take a sip or two; others merely to gargle. But the Hard Quartet dip their four sets of lips into those waters and drink deep. They gather together for an indie-rock supergroup of kindred spirits, resulting in a shaggily delightful album of casual guitar kicks. In this corner: Stephen Malkmus, from Pavement and the Jicks. In that one: Matt Sweeney, from Chavez and Superwolf. They’re joined by Dirty Three drum legend Jim White and Ty Segall bassist Emmett Kelly.

Melvins drummer Dale Crover has released another new solo single, “Spoiled Daisies,” which features guest guitarwork from Ty Segall.

The track hails from Crover’s forthcoming third solo LP, Glossolalia, out September 13th via Joyful Noise. The singles so far have seen Crover in throwback garage-rock mode, with “Spoiled Daisies” following suit. It’s a catchy bit of guitar psych-pop, and the Segall feature — “a raging, psychedelic guitar solo,” in Crover’s words — is apt.

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“This one is about a psychedelic mushroom trip gone wrong,” Crover said via a press release for the track. “You’re looking for spirituality through psychedelics but end up having a bad trip and are exiled from the Garden of Eden.”

Glossolalia touts some other notable guest features, including guest vocals from Tom Waits, guitarwork from Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil — which we heard on the prior single “I Quit” — as...

The Hard Quartet — the indie supergroup comprised of Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White — have released their debut single, “Earth Hater.” What’s more, the band has plotted out their first tour dates for fall 2024.

In a press release, The Hard Quartet’s sound is described as “rock ‘n’ roll that is familiar but new, warm but icy, melodic but Sphinx-like in its seductive and subtle riddles.” With its catchy guitar riffs and surprisingly direct lyrics like, “Unto others you must do/ As you would have them do to you,” “Earth Hater” delivers on that promise. Watch the Eyedress-directed music video below.

For now, The Hard Quartet have only revealed a trio of October shows in Los Angeles, New York City, and London. Check out the full details below. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 2nd at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

Though Malkmus is...

The soundtrack for Yo Gabba GabbaLand!, the upcoming Apple TV+ revival of the popular kids TV show Yo Gabba Gabba!, has been announced for release on August 9th via BMG. As a preview, The Linda Lindas have shared their contribution to the album, a cute track called “I’m So Happy to Be Little.” Stream it below.

Besides The Linda Lindas, the Yo Gabba GabbaLand! soundtrack is stacked with guest appearances from Anderson .Paak, Portugal. The Man, Kurt Vile, Thundercat, Big Daddy Kane, Ty Segall, Betty Who, The Drums, and Claud — many of whom were previously revealed as special guests on the show. See the artwork and full tracklist below.

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“I’m So Happy to Be Little” will appear in Episode 3 of Yo Gabba GabbaLand! Season 1. In a statement, The Linda Lindas expressed excitement for their appearance on a show they grew up watching.

Melvins drummer Dale Crover has dropped a new song titled “I Quit” featuring Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil.

The track hails from Crover’s forthcoming solo album, Glossolalia, arriving September 13th via Joyful Noise. Structured around odd-tuned riffs and simple, pocketed drums, it’s grungy slice of garage rock that is ripe for a wild guest solo from Thayil.

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“It’s about trying to control people and thinking that you’re right about everything,” said Crover of the song via a press release. “It’s in a tuning that I call ‘Lazy Keith Richards.’ It opens in G, but you can only tune the A string to G. I thought it would be cool to get Kim to do a guitar solo on the track. That’s him after the second chorus.”

Glossolalia features a couple other notable guests such as Tom Waits and Ty Segall,...

Ty Segall has returned to announce Love Rudiments, his second album release of 2024, and shared the record’s first single, “The Dance (Edit).”

Love Rudiments is out August 30th via Drag City and follows Three Bells, Segall’s album from January of this year. According to a press release, Love Rudiments is centered on drums and percussion, and is an entirely instrumental album. Segall claims that despite many fans knowing him as a singing guitar player, the drums were his first love, and Love Rudiments features the musician tracking a romantic arc across four song cycles with percussion as the primary instrument.

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Ty Segall has also announced a 2025 acoustic tour, which will commence in February and will feature the musician playing solo (without any percussion) across North America. The tour kicks off in San Diego on February 20th and runs through cities like San Francisco,...

It’s easy to get lost in the desert, a fate that befalls Joshua Erkman’s debut feature. While his protagonists eventually get dangerously close to some lurid, lethal goings-on, this self-described “neo-noir horror” leaves a vague and rudderless final impression despite its intriguing-enough buildup. “A Desert” aims for the enigmatic, supernaturally-tinged mystery of something like Lynch’s “Lost Highway,” but in the end lacks the tension and atmosphere to pull that tricky gambit off. Nonetheless, its arty sojourn through backroads-thriller terrain is likely to gain some supporters as a Tribeca Fest midnight section premiere.

An opening sequence expanded upon much later introduces the idea that what we’re watching is some sort of purgatorial film loop that traps the unwary. But like several other conceits here, it’s never developed enough to take finite shape. Still, we first meet Alex Clark (Kai Lennox) as he’s exploring a dark,...

Director Joshua Erkman’s feature debut, “A Desert,” will be launched for world sales by Yellow Veil Pictures ahead of its Tribeca Film Festival premiere in June.

The film stars Kai Lennox, David Yow (“I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore”) and Sarah Lind (“A Wounded Fawn”). Cinematographer Jay Keitel shot the film and Ty Segall composed its soundtrack and original score.

“A Desert” marks the first production from Yellow Veil Pictures in partnership with Capes & Fog, a production company founded by Erkman.

The film follows a past-his-prime photographer on a road trip across the American Southwest hoping to recapture the magic and success of his previous work. Instead, he finds himself thrust into the dark and chaotic underbelly of America and unwittingly drags his wife and a shady private detective down into the nightmare world with him.

“Moving into the production space has always been a...

Ty Segall has released the final single from his upcoming album, Three Bells, out January 26th via Drag City. Titled “My Best Friend,” the track is an ode to Segall’s dogs, Fanny and Herman. Stream it below.

The accompanying music video follows the Pov of one of Segall’s four-legged companions, with a camera attached to the Dachshund’s back as it embarks on a day of adventures. “My best friend is easy/ He is laying on my bed,” Segall sings in coasting falsetto over shots of beach trips, living room roughhousing, and reluctantly accepted face-licking. “He said, ‘I love you, yes I do.'”

“My Best Friend” comes after the previously-released Three Bells singles “Void,” “Eggman,” and “My Room.” The 15-song album poses as a “journey to the center of the self,” according to a press release.

Segall will tour across North America in support of Three Bells...

Kilby Block Party has revealed a stellar 2024 lineup led by Vampire Weekend, The Postal Service, LCD Soundsystem, Joanna Newsom, Wu-Tang Clan, and Death Cab For Cutie.

The annual festival goes down May 10th-12th, 2024 at Utah State Park in Salt Lake City.

The 2024 lineup also promises Interpol, Jai Paul, Belle and Sebastian, Courtney Barnett, Dinosaur Jr., Alvvays, Guided By Voices, Yves Tumor, Ty Segall, 100 gecs, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Pond, Beach Fossils, Bombay Bicycle Club, Blondshell, Slow Pulp, Water From Your Eyes, Kara Jackson, Royel Otis, Andy Shauf, Joanna Sternberg, and more.

Three-day Ga and VIP passes to Kilby Block Party 2024 go on sale beginning Wednesday, December 6th at 10:00 a.m. Mt.

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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Dua Lipa returns with an addictive new dance track, Jack Harlow is feeling the love, and Kodak Black gets boastful. Plus, standout tracks off new albums from Chris Stapleton, PinkPantheress, and The Kid Laroi.

Dua Lipa, “Houdini” (YouTube)

Jack Harlow, “Lovin On Me” (YouTube)

Kodak Black, “Lemme See” (YouTube)

Chris Stapleton, “Higher” (YouTube)

Noah Kahan feat. Hozier, “Northern Attitude” (YouTube)

T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, “That’s How We Ballin” (YouTube)

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After releasing Hello, Hi last year, and dropping his first feature film score (composed for Matt Yoka’s documentary, Whirlybird), Ty Segall is set to debut his next album, Three Bells, on Jan. 26, 2024. Alongside the announcement, the singer also shared the music video for new single “My Room.”

The upcoming album is being billed as “a deeper, wilder journey to the center of the self, with Ty using his musical vocabulary with ever-increasing sophistication,” and an “an obsessive quest for expression.” According to a press release, the LP will include 15 songs brimming with “perspectives,...

Ty Segall has announced his latest solo album, Three Bells, due January 26th. He accompanied the announcement with the project’s latest single, “My Room.”

Three Bells was co-produced by Segall and Cooper Crain, who worked together on 2021’s Harmonizer and 2022’s Hello, Hi. The 15-song release includes five collaborations with Segall’s wife Denée Segall as well as appearances throughout with members of his backing Freedom Band including bassist Emmett Kelly.

Segall also dropped “My Room,” the third offering from Three Bells following the seven-minute jam “Void” in August and the September single, “Eggman.” The song offers plenty of the Segall’s signature movies like a twisty acoustic riff and screechy guitar effects, and yet the singer-songwriter still manages to get pelted by bananas in the accompanying music video. Watch it below.

Three Bells arrives on January 26th via Drag City. Pre-orders are ongoing.

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Before nominations closed, live music fans across the country submitted 1,300 local venues to our Hometowns of Consequence initiative. After tallying the votes, we narrowed it down to just four per region, and now we’re shining the spotlight on those selected finalists. Now that we’ve covered the Southeast, Northeast, and West, it’s time to give the floor to our Midwest finalists: Ohio’s Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, Minnesota’s First Avenue/7th St. Entry, Missouri’s Knuckleheads, and Illinois’ Metro.

Each venue answered our curated Q&a, sharing memories of favorite shows and stories from their respective communities. In addition to highlighting the venues themselves, we also want to give props to the people who make these spaces more than just a building, those working at all levels to keep live music alive.

Voting for our Hometowns of Consequence winners will continue through October 21st, with the winners...

Ty Segall has shared a doozy of a new single called “Eggman.”

The musician’s second new song this year, “Eggman” lives somewhere between Magical Mystery Tour and David Bowie’s “Fame,” layering multi-textural guitar riffs over a mid-tempo groove. But as the track struts along, it becomes increasingly paranoid: “Your mouth is agape/ And caked with eggs,” Segall chants, before the tune explodes into a cacophony of noise. “You sit and rot/ Your mind with thought.”

There’s really no telling what “eggs” symbolize in Segall’s extended metaphor here, but the one-take music video for “Eggman” — which he made with his wife and frequent creative partner Denée Segall — takes an extremely literal approach. It’s just Segall in a cowboy-inspired getup, scarfing down hard-boiled eggs until he’s visibly suffering. Really, it’s a lot. Also, where is he purchasing reasonably-priced eggs in this economy? It is a disconcerting video,...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Nicki Minaj returns with a somber single off of her upcoming album Pink Friday 2, Doja Cat taps into her demonic side, and Lil Wayne drops his first solo single of the year. Plus, a collaboration that feels straight out of 2007 from the iconic trio of Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, and Justin Timberlake.

Nicki Minaj, “Last Time I Saw You” (YouTube)

Doja Cat, “Demons” (YouTube)

Lil Wayne, “Kat Food” (YouTube)

Timbaland,...

Indomitable garage rocker Ty Segall is back with a new song, “Void,” as well as dates for a massive 2024 North American tour.

Clocking in at nearly seven minutes, “Void” is a sprawling, shape-shifting song. The first half drifts across a prog-y expanse, uneasy and mesmerizing, while the end settles in with a heavy guitar crunch: “Through a mirror you’ll see clearer,” Segall sings in the song’s final moments, “The stones are made of dust/And the metal is only rust.”

“Void” is accompanied by a fittingly surreal and...

Ty Segall has announced a new set of 2024 tour dates through next spring, and he’s paired the news a nearly seven-minute-spanning new single “Void.”

Segall’s 2024 North American trek kicks off with two nights at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall on February 20th and 21st. He’ll resume in April with stops to Nashville, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and more before wrapping in Sacramento on May 11th. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, August 30th at 12:00 p.m. Et via Ticketmaster.

Segall also shared “Void,” his first new material of 2023. Despite its vacuous title, the song ripples from an peculiar acoustic riff into a seismic dirge more befitting of its accompanying psychedelic trip of a music video, which was co-directed by the singer-songwriter and his wife Denée Segall. Watch it below.

Ty Segall’s last full-length, Hello, Hi arrived in 2022. More recently, he released the Live at Worship EP,...

Pearl Jam, Wet Leg, Mac DeMarco, Death Cab For Cutie, David Byrne and Devo, R.E.M. and Fleet Foxes are just a few of the artists contributing exclusive recordings for a new abortion rights benefit album set to release this week.

The album, Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All, is a collaboration between music advocacy organizations Good Music and Noise for Now. The album will drop this Friday, Oct. 7th, and it will only be available to purchase for one day on Bandcamp starting at midnight. According to the album’s organizers,...

Sasami has shared an alternate version of her track “Tried to Understand,” featuring some bonus shredding from Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis.

This grungier take on “Tried to Understand” is vastly different from the one that appears on Sasami’s most recent album, Squeeze. The original, with its breezy acoustic guitar strum and country twang is — to borrow Sasami’s description to Rolling Stone earlier this year — “truly a fucking Sheryl Crow pop song.” But this new take is a fully electric blowout, with Mascis’ characteristically ferocious guitar work spiraling around Sasami’s cool vocals.

The War on Drugs, Kamasi Washington, Japanese Breakfast, and Ty Segall are among the artists set to perform at this year’s Desert Daze festival, which returns to Lake Perris, California, the weekend of November 12th.

Toro Y Moi, Tim Heidecker, Weyes Blood, Yves Tumor, Devendra Banhart, the Budos Band, and more will also be on the lineup for the three-day outdoor festival, which will be scaled down in scope in 2021 in order to maintain proper Covid-19 guidelines.

“It’s been a long year-plus away from the Desert Daze community...

Jeff Tweedy has released a cover of Roky Erickson’s “For You (I’d Do Anything),” from the upcoming compilation, May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, set to arrive July 17th via Light in the Attic (a special vinyl version will be released as a Record Store Day exclusive).

Tweedy offers a wholly unique take on “For You (I’d Do Anything),” doing away with the tender country pluck of Erickson’s original, and instead using a mix of synths and pianos to craft a sweet and meditative soundscape.

When Roky Erickson’s 1981 cult classic album The Evil One was rereleased in 1987, it opened with the skronky “Two-Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer),” a song loosely inspired by the believe-it-or-not head-transplant experiments conducted by a Soviet surgeon in the Fifties. Over a snaking electric guitar lead, Erickson howled about “working in the Kremlin with a two-headed dog.”

Margo Price and her band put their own spin on the song for an upcoming tribute album to Erickson. While she flip-flops the title to “Red Temple Prayer (Two-Headed Dog),” the Nashville singer-songwriter...

Stevie Nicks, Run the Jewels, and the Strokes have been tapped to headline the 2021 Shaky Knees Festival, which will take place October 22nd through 24th at Central Park in Atlanta.

The three-day festival will also feature performances from St. Vincent, Mac DeMarco, Alice Cooper, Portugal. the Man, Modest Mouse, Phoebe Bridgers, Royal Blood, the Hives, Ty Segall and Freedom Band, Orville Peck, Idles, Living Colour, Arlo Parks, Dominic Fike, Jay Electronica, White Reaper, Cults, Cloud Nothings, and Bartees Strange.

Tickets for Shaky Knees will go on sale Wednesday, May 26th,...

St. Vincent, Erykah Badu, and Phoebe Bridgers will headline the 2021 Pitchfork Music Festival, taking place September 10th through 12th at Union Park in Chicago.

Bridgers will headline the first day of the festival, September 10th, which will also boast performances from Big Thief, Animal Collective, Yaeji, Black Midi, Kelly Lee Owens, Hop Along, and Dogleg. Early 2000s indie rock favorites the Fiery Furnaces are also booked to play their first show in a decade.

Day two, September 11th, will boast St. Vincent, Angel Olsen, Kim Gordon, Ty Segall and Freedom Band,...

Archival label Light in the Attic Records has announced the first-ever posthumous tribute album to the 13th Floor Elevators frontman and psychedelic rock pioneer Roky Erickson.

May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson will be released on July 17th as an exclusive Record Store Day vinyl release, available at participating independent record stores. The 12-track album features covers of Erickson’s songs performed by Lucinda Williams, Margo Price, Neko Case, Mark Lanegan and Lynn Castle, Jeff Tweedy, Gary Clark Jr and Eve Monsees, Ty Segall, Chelsea Wolfe,...

Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy have revealed their latest cover, performing a rendition of Johnnie Frierson’s “Miracles” with Ty Segall.

Directed by Sai Selvarajan, the video features vintage, sepia-toned photos of automobiles and American life, as Callahan takes the lead on vocals. “If you believe and if you try/You can do anything,” he sings. “You can do miracles/Things than seem impossible.”

“Ty Segall turns the party up to 11 as only he can, with a synth and rhythm box rebuild of Johnnie Frierson’s late-period Memphis outsider-gospel,...

Los Angeles trio Fuzz have shared a new song, “Spit,” from their upcoming album, III, out October 23rd via In the Red Recordings.

“Spit” is another blast of blown-out, big riff rock from a group that’s always reliable in that realm, with drummer and singer Ty Segall presiding over the crunch with a vocal performance that edges on the serene. While the song packs an immediate punch, in a statement, guitarist Charles Moothart noted it was designed to have “a subtle tweak that over time gets more obvious. The...

Los Angeles trio Fuzz, featuring Ty Segall, Charles Moothart and Chad Ubovich, are back with a new song, “Returning,” from their upcoming album, III, out October 23rd via In the Red Recordings.

“Returning” is a three-minute blast of big riffs, bruising bass and battering drums, with Segall howling the song’s final refrain, “There is no sum greater than one.” In a press release, “Returning” is described as a mission statement for III, an “auditory meditation on the power of one and the different perspectives of one, whether it’s...

Sometime during the mid-2000s, in a Buffalo, New York Circuit City, I came across a dog-eared book of music-industry advice from the 1980s. I didn’t buy it, and I can’t source it, for it is un-Googleable, but as an 11-year-old I sat and read the entire thing while my dad combed through home stereo systems. Among this book’s outdated maxims: “If your first record is a double album, you are a prick.” Though undoubtedly a potshot at soft-rock titans Chicago (of “Saturday in the Park” and “25 or 6 to 4” infamy) and their 1969 debut Chicago Transit Authority, which clocked in at 80 minutes of yacht rock and instrumental wank, it stuck with me as a shorthand way to tease overambitious musical debuts. I was reminded of that maxim, this week, while listening to Caleb Landry Jones’ 65-minute debut LP The Mother Stone.

Add to it that the “Caleb Landry Jones...

Fuzz — the trio of Ty Segall, Charles Moothart, and Chad Ubovich — will embark on their first North American tour in five years this May.

The run kicks off May 27th at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and crisscrosses the United States and Canada over the next month, with a special three-night run at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles June 5th through 7th. Fuzz will wrap the trek June 28th at Mr. Small’s Theater in Pittsburgh.

Tickets for the tour go on sale January 31st at 10 a.

Ascap has announced the org’s 22nd annual showcase series at the Sundance Film Festival, with a lineup of artists that includes Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls, the Bird and the Bee, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Joseph Arthur, Barry Zito, Zz Ward and Matt Berninger, the member of the National who’s come into his own as a film composer with scores like “The Two Popes.”

The Ascap Music Cafe runs daily for nearly the entirety of the film festival, from Jan. 24-31, with music starting at 2 p.m. each day and all performances free to badgeholders over 21. The performance space will be set up at 751 Main Street in Park City.

Additionally, Ascap will throw an invite-only cocktail party for composers and filmmakers in the middle of the festival, on Monday, January 27. The performing rights organization is trumpeting dozens of composers who scored films in this year’s program, among them Hans Zimmer,...

So, How Was Your Decade is a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.

Pearl Jam may have only released one album this decade, 2013’s Lightning Bolt, but they were hardly inactive. They celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2011 with the Cameron Crowe-directed documentary Pearl Jam 20, toured the world to celebrate their anniversary, entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year...

Long before the “Skip Intro” era, people have lamented the demise of the theme song. There certainly are times when the days of the wistful broadcast sitcom opening number (or even the days of theme songs that parodied them) seem firmly in the rearview mirror.

But with “Succession” Season 2 coming to a close on Sunday, the rapid rise of Nicholas Britell’s opening 90-second orchestral drum loop earworm spectacular is cause for rethinking that assumption. Maybe it’s just the law of large numbers, but even with the glut of shows that now reduce their openings to a simple title card and a “created by” credit, there are plenty of TV themes besides Britell’s worth celebrating.

Some of these fall closer to the more traditional instrumental expectations. Patrick and Ralph Carney’s opening for “BoJack Horseman” may not have any words, but it doesn’t make that heavy sax...

Ty Segall has a pretty good reason for plotting a multi-night residency at Los Angeles’ Teragram Ballroom. “This sound silly,” the garage rocker says, “But I wanted to figure out a way to stay at home for the summer.” Segall has performed at the Teragram every Friday since July 26th, playing both his new LP First Taste and other records from his extensive catalogue in full. When the residency concludes on September 27th, he’ll head to New York for a five-night stint at Brooklyn Steel and Bowery Ballroom, followed by a trek in Europe.

Prolific rocker Ty Segall released “Ice Plant,” a surreal song based on memories of the musician’s childhood. The track is the third and final single off First Taste, out August 2nd via Drag City.

“Ice Plant” features the melodic, intertwining voices of Segall and Freedom Band member Shannon Lay following a chilling intro of bare-boned percussion. “It’s a new day/ The sun don’t know how to say,” Segall sings, before chanting “Let your love rain down on me” in the chorus.

“‘Ice Plant’ is a fever dream reflection of my childhood,...

Ty Segall has a psychedelic identity crisis in his futuristic new song “Radio.” The track is the second single to his forthcoming album First Taste, out August 2nd via Drag City.

“The body has gone away/And given me a new name,” Segall observes in the opening lines, before professing over a searing parade of instruments ranging from the koto to the saxophone: “I just want to sit and watch the new radio/Watching people die all night long on the radio/It makes me feel like I am living for free.

Ty Segall reveals himself to be literally the most cut throat rocker out there in the wild new video for his new song “Taste.” The track will appear on Segall’s upcoming album, First Taste, out August 2nd via Drag City.

“Taste” is a heavy relentless track with a mesmerizing percussion rumble that buoys a barrage of noise that churns like a buzzsaw without forfeiting any melody. “Our salivating makes it all taste worse,” Segall wails before the song descends into a menacing final breakdown.

The Joshua Erkman-directed clip...

Ty Segall makes a lot of noise. Since 2008, the California garage-rocker has released nearly a dozen solo albums, plus quite a few collaborations, EPs, one-off singles and more. This summer and fall, Segall will explore his back catalog with a series of multi-night residencies in Los Angeles and New York at which he’ll perform several of his best-loved albums in full.

The albums in question are Melted (2010), Goodbye Bread (2011), Manipulator (2014) and Emotional Mugger (2016), all of which contain many a tasty riff and a hummable chorus. Segall will be joined by his current backing crew,...

Ty Segall and the Freedom Band reboot and recharge the rocker’s 2012 track “Love Fuzz” on the first offering from their upcoming live album, Deforming Lobes, out March 29th via Drag City.

From its introductory back-and-forth barrage of guitars, Segall and the Freedom Band transform the original garage chug of “Love Fuzz” into a relentless hard rock blast. The performance is capped off by an extended breakdown of feedback that erupts perfectly into the song’s mammoth end, with Segall bellowing, “Your love can heal!”

Segall and the Freedom Band – which boasts Mikal Cronin,...

Voters will have the opportunity to gain free entry, and in some cases a free non-alcoholic drink, to concerts on election day, Billboard reports. Shows by Drive-By Truckers, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Superchunk and many others who are performing nationwide on November 6th are participating in the #IVoted initiative.

Artist manager Emily White teamed with Madison House’s Mike Luba and Wilco’s Pat Sansone to create #IVoted, whose mission is to increase voter turnout now and into the future.

Several artists are participating in the campaign. In...