Pages tagged “gonerfest”

Five Goner Records Gateway Bands

Five Goner Records Gateway Bands

It's the penultimate day of Gonerfest 2010, the seventh annual garage rock extravaganza in Memphis, Tennessee...  read more

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Ty Segall Takes Lemons And Makes Really Big Fall Tour

Ty Segall Takes <em>Lemons</em> And Makes Really Big Fall Tour

As a one-man garage band powerhouse, San Francisco's Ty Segall is cooler than this guy, this guy, and all of these guys put together, who aren't even a one-man band. He plays drums and guitar at once, throttles his vocal chords and ships it all off through waves of reverb with, like, great melodies and stuff....  read more

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Gonerfest 6 Goes Full Throttle with The Clean, NOBUNNY, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Box Elders, Many More

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Memphis, Tenn.'s Goner Records has helped hold together a worldwide scene's worth of ragged, sleazy guitar rock with little more than willpower since 1993. They've released full-lengths from Atlanta's Carbonas, Melbourne's Eddy Current Surpression Ring and Memphis' own clown prince of the gutter, Jay Reatard. They run a vibrant record store in the heart of Tennessee. And they put on their yearly Gonerfest, which tends to fill three days with so much overdriven, yelp-tastic rock 'n' roll that, for the slightest moment, the city of Memphis becomes one big parents' garage....  read more

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