Thee Oh Sees: 2009 Noise Pop Set
Watch Thee Oh Sees (@TheOhSees) perform ten songs during their 2009 Noise Pop Set at Cafe Du Nord. read more
Found in: Featured VideosThee Oh Sees: Carrion Crawler/The Dream
To call John Dwyer prolific is a bit like calling The Beatles “like the best band ever.” Its been said before. But regardless of the statement’s lack of originality, it isn’t any less accurate or fitting. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThee Oh Sees Announce Tour Dates
California rockers Thee Oh Sees have announced some sporadic tour plans for the summer and fall, in addition to a spot on the seafaring Bruise Cruise Festival in February. The band will be touring in support of their latest LP, Castlemania, out now on In the Red Records.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThis Week's Album Releases (6/13)
Each week we list what we consider to be the most important albums coming out. Tomorrow, that Jimmy Fallon-look-a-like Neil Young releases archived recordings, Vetiver expands its musical repertoire with a new pop album and Marissa Nadler shows off her psych-folk stylings on a self-titled album.... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesThee Oh Sees: Castlemania
In an age where any jackass kid with a four-track can bathe his ill-conceived “songs” in feedback and then post them to the internet overnight, John Dwyer has become something of an elder statesmen in the nebulous and increasingly popular garage/punk rock underground, and he did it the old-fashioned way.... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsBlack Lips, Vivian Girls, Ty Segall Rock Inaugural Bruise Cruise
The first official act of the Bruise Cruise happened when cruise director Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Chain and The Gang) took the stage in an immaculate sherbet-orange suit to open the festivities by invoking the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour. “Never before had a rock band taken its fans on such a journey,” he announced dramatically. "Until now.” Then, while 3,000 miles away from his hometown of San Francisco, which was preparing for its first snowfall in 35 years, Ty Segall stepped onstage and tore into his first song. Before his set concluded, the Bruise Cruise had seen... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesOblivians, Best Coast, King Khan, Many More Awesome Bands to Play Scion Garage Fest
Scion AV is hosting a fantastic-looking garage-rock festival in Lawrence, Kan. on Oct. 2.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBlack Lips, Vivian Girls, Strange Boys to Set Sail on Bruise Cruise
By the time February rolls around, even those of us in relatively balmy climes are ready for a little warmth... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsFifteen Albums, Songs That Defined 2009 for Paste's Web Editor
This was a confusing year for me... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWalking in a Garage-Rock Wonderland: 10 Examples of 2009's Excellence in Terms of Scrappy, Catchy Song
“In the garage I feel safe No one cares about my ways In the garage Where I belong No one hears me sing this song In the garage” -Weezer: “In the Garage” For as long as dudes have been banging on six-strings, the garage has served as a safe haven of sorts, a place where, as Rivers Cuomo so melodically put it in the song above, said dudes could write “stupid words” and “stupid songs,” loving every one. And seemingly every few years since “garage rock” as a genre was coined way back in the middle ’60s, someone announces, breathlessly,... read more
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