Podcast episode 23 - Post RSD

Darren kicks things off talking about his latest release from Shockwave Riderz, with tips for this crazy splatter pressing. Pitchfork covered it here.

New Ty single on Drag City - (Thanks @rockyshane on twitter)

3RD MAN Vault Vs. Insound - who's selling the exclusive Vault pressing? What happens to poor saps like Darren who already ordered the Vault version from Insound?

The LP for Third Man Records' Vault package #20 will be the ONLY limited version of JACK WHITE'S NEW ALBUM LAZARETTO to be released. Pressed on split-color blue-and-white vinyl and coupled with exclusive album art, this alternate presentation of the album is both insightful and deserving. Also exclusive to the Vault is a fold-out poster accompanying the album, featuring a classic National Archives photo that serves as a recurrent image throughout the album art.

We talked about Conor Oberst's new record on Nonesuch and his Record Store day single. A couple of new ones from Mt. St. Mtn.: Burnt Ones & The Mallard.

Crazy pressings of Thee Oh Sees and Dylan Shearer from Castleface and Empty Cellar.

Darren's pick is Satellite of Love various artists single.

Jason's pick is Darren's Shockwave Riderz single.

Podcast Episode 9

Latest episode is up and we just realized we better get to picking our top list for 2013 so next week is the top singles of the YEAR. Finally settled once and for all.

This week we talked about a Ty Segall and Chad & the Meatbodies single, a Thee Oh Sees Singles Collection (Vol3!) on Castleface Records, New Jeff Novak on Trouble in Mind, New Tim Cohen on Empty Cellar, Jeff the Brotherhood box set on Infinity Cat, the singles club kickstarter and the new third man Vault Club is torn open to see what insanity they pressed up this month.

My pick for this week is the Roco Jet single on Folktale Records which I'll be getting to covering later this week, Darren picks the Flaming Lips Peace Sword RSD Release.

Call the singles hotline, leave a message about the show 347-770-1469, or vinyl we should check out, or your picks for the best of 2013.

New podcast is up - Episode 6

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Your up to the minute seven inch news coverage for the tristate area. 

This week we cover:
The great Drag City, Ty Segall, Gemini debacle of 2013.

Post by Drag City Records.

The roundtable review of Gemini from The Firenote, The Polyvinyl 4-track seven inch club?!!!!!, The WFMU Record fair and the new Rough Trade shop in Williamsburg.

Darren’s pick for the week is the Mud City Manglers on Mind Cure Records - great record store releasing a new single from a new Pittsburg band every month.

Jason’s pick for the week is the new Minks record on Captured Tracks, Tides End and has trouble explaining why he's completely loving it.

The seven inches hotline is free for scared singles: (347)770-1469
Leave a message about the show and 7" singles we should check out.

Check out Darren’s releases over at Velocity of sound.

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Darren and I talk about a guy selling his store on ebay, the third man records turkey seven inch giveaway, Gemini is still up for sale at some mail order in England (cancelled -ed), Mogwai has a new album on Subpop with a bonus single (we love this trend).
My pick this week is the Sebadoh bonus single from Joyful Noise. Darren picks 2 (cheater) The Goodbye Boozy Warm soda tour single and The Polyvinyl Records compilation "I Need You Bad" curated by Sonny and The Sunsets.

Modern Vinyl is in the middle of a Velocity of Sound giveaway, a signed copy of the smoke pressing of The Lees of Memory. Enter by the 24th.

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Ty Segall / Mikal Cronin split on Goodbye Boozy

Just wanted to get the word out about this repress of a split between these two genius maniacs on Goodbye Boozy Records...haven't been able to track any of this stuff down being a label out of Italy, but possibly someone has a local distro hookup?
Lots of other singles form The Outdoorsmen and Mikal....it's pretty great they have the mediafire links to download them right there on the blog. If you want the hard copy you'll have to email this guy for a total. goodbyeboozy(at)tin.it

Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread on Drag City Records

The bloodhound on the cover of Ty Segall’s latest full length, Goodbye Bread on Drag City could be something of a metaphor for the Bay area artist; the result of highly focused breeding with a single trait in mind, smell. It’s a bit of a stretch probably... does that mean then that Melted has something to do with deformed mannequins? Burn victims? I doubt it, but there is something to the idea to me about Ty being as determined to examine, experiment and rework his guitar sound as that freakishly wrinkly breed. His songwriting is quickly evolving, the number of singles and full length releases the last five years, counting only the work done under his own name is impressive by anyone’s standards, and with every release, the gritty, blues distortion is punched up with fast surf and 60’s garage rock tempo’s in unique ways. The stabs in different directions could be enough to provide paths for multiple bands to explore, but Ty is content to completely decimate a line of thought and move on.
The roots of Ty’s early work might have been recorded underneath a low-fi, over-modulated dense fuzz, but Goodbye Bread has the shiny gleaming production of something more classic, not that those elements don’t show up in different ways, the tortured squealing guitar sound is still there, and in this White-era Beatles reverb context it’s even more effective, it isn’t ever a progressive style pat on the back, it naturally settles into a comfortable crevice, reminding me of that single note solo on “Cinnamon Girl”. Ty’s guitar playing has the same economy and expression in an incredibly minimal melody, that’s his constant trick, to be a hell of a guitar player, and never let you know it.
Overall, Goodbye Bread is more laid back then the overwhelming bashing over the head, tom tom rhythm’s of previous records, but those raw influences and inspired songwriting has just taken a different form.
Take the sentiment of “Comfortable Home (A True Story)”, like “My Girls” from Animal Collective, Ty tackles the very responsible attitude towards buying a house, all done in typical stomping rhythm, and damaged solo with a surprising amount of vocal harmony, the track eventually devolving in breaking down the very structure itself. He’s also exploring combining this stripped down riffing with a drawn out psyche sound with a majority of tracks coming in at over four minutes. “I Am With You” even finds Ty playing a shimmery acoustic guitar, a stream of consciousness list of abstract things he’s sick of, until the song takes an optimistic turn towards appreciating the simple things. A heavy, stumbling crunch guitar gets down into the thick of truly mind expanding freakout. “You Make The Sun Fry” maybe the best example of both Ty’s traditional garage songwriting ability and his latest direction, heavy reverb vocal over a bluesy stuttered scale which launches into epic airy psychedelic heights. An album which is going to be a solid entry point for new fans and satisfying the ones who still cherish the 'Cents' single as a touchstone of dirty garage pop.

Trouble in Mind 4 way! Ty Segall

Just heard about this amazing 4way split of covers from Trouble in Mind records. They've been putting out a ton of stuff this year from the Fresh & Onlys and Ty Segall, and this is the 12th release already! Damn. That's the way to kick off a label.
I can't get enough of Ty Segall, he's got such a great fuzz guitar sound on every single I've ever heard, and his reverb vocals...how he can pull this off with just guitar is impressive, there's a whole new sound there, it's more than just a rehash of the whole garage genre. It's great simple songwriting that doesn't show any sign of letting up anytime soon.
He killed it at DBA and Mercury Lounge, I overheard him talking with someone after the ML show saying he blew it, but I don't know what the fuck he was talking about. Seriously, don't be so hard on yourself.
Cococoma have been rocking their straight ahead dirty rock forever, all chorus with occasional organ, classic garage style. They've been doing it since the early days, and starting this label is just icing on the cake. White Wires have the whole, hanging out let's jam and get some pizza, oh and rock some jams thing down. I'd maybe want to hear this a little more raw, it's recorded a little too nice, but then again, it might get lost in the sea of we want to sound like shit. But then I check out Charlie and the Moonhearts and those frantic layers of delay and reverb sound so freaking good... to have everyone covering these classics is pretty amazing.
I have to hear this.

It doesn't show up yet on T.I.M.'s site but Midheaven's got it:

Various
4-Way Covers Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 6TH)
PS, US San Francisco savant TY SEGALL tackles the Bob Seger System's fiery political number "2+2=?", Chicago's COCOCOMA rip thru the Wipers' "Messenger", Ottawa punks the WHITE WIRES cover "That's the Way A Woman Is" (popularized by the Ohio Express), & San Fran/LA garage surfers CHARLIE & THE MOONHEARTS close it out with a banging version of Love's classic "Seven & Seven Is"!!! ONE TIME PRESSING ON WHITE VINYL LIMITED TO 1000, INCL. DOWNLOAD CODE
TroubleInMind-012
45
$8.25

The Perverts on HBSP records

Another Ty post today from a label I haven't come across yet, the mysterious HBSP. They also released the 'Horn the Unicorn' Ty collection of singles and B-side material, then came this Perverts double 7". What's this got to do with Ty you ask?
He's in The Perverts. But what do they sound like?
Well if you imagine a slightly more surf distorto slant than Ty's solo stuff...I actually can't tell if this is him singing due to all the reverb and that it's slightly more buried than his solo stuff, so I'm going to say it's not?
I think I say surf because of the massive reverb and the tempo. Fast, choppy chords, with that tube Fender (maybe?) amp sound. His influence is definitely all over it though. It sounds a little more raw, lively, with everyone in the room, this is maybe take 2.
Remember when I said I imagine him writing 4 songs on a tuesday night while you're sleeping? Well here's at least 4 more across two singles...and for $8? It's an easy paypal.

There's a lot of questions and hardly any answers. Is Ty Segall solo finished? Are the Perverts playing anywhere soon? Ty's playing Mercury Lounge solo this month, will the perverts be the live band? Will I be able to get a copy of this?

Answer on of them with Hbsp, who says they are runing low or got to Aquarius and search for Perverts....not with google, that's a mistake.

PERVERTS- Perverts 7" (Hbsp-2x) $7.99
Six songs from TY SEGALL’s PERVERTS. This 7-inch is loud as fuck, will melt your face off and do a line of blow off your skull. prepare to die.

Why doesn't blogger spellcheck understand reverb? If it's on an amp or pedal it's a fucking word already!

Ty Segall - Thee Oh Sees split on Castle Face

This one I picked up in Portland, home of a ton of mom and pop record stores, at least 10, for a city that size? I was impressed...at every turn I had to go look for singles. I don't even remember where I picked this up, but it was some punkish place downtown with a million t-shirts naging all over the place, decent vinyl, but mostly nothing I was into. After going through the single section I recognized this Thee sleeve right away and picked this up. I don't even know if I realized it was a split with Ty. I think I mentioned it before but I never came across it locally. And when you're on vacation you can spend money on dumb shit like singles. I know that doesn't make sense, but I couldn't walk down the street to Academy because I shouldn't be spending another $5 on a 7". It's come to that.

These two are covering each other on this CastleFace Records, home of Ty's full length and The Fresh and Only's...
Don't know enough about Thee Oh Sees to really get a sense of where this fits in their catalog, but putting these two together was obviously a no-brainer. Now that I found Ty's version, Thee Oh Sees have really dirtied this up. It's probably recorded more live, you can hear the interaction, a different kind of energy when it's the band in a room together, driving everything a little harder. There's a real distorted high end that's half deliberate style and half things getting out of control. They feel more in the Blues school to me, living somewhere in the neighborhood of the Black Lips...that southern garage blues? Hmmmmm.
On the Ty Side I can really hear that contrast, it's tighter, more home recorded, intimate. Almost no echo on the guitar, a little reverb on the drums...or percussion, I'm not sure what he's hitting...damn now that I hear this it makes me want to revisit Doo Rag, they were really out on their own...ahead of their time? Maybe, who knows, things come back around and get cool again. I think Ty is trying a Thee Oh Sees scream here near the end, that's not normally his style. These are so similar I'm realizing I need to find more Thee albums and check these guys out.

Academy in Brooklyn still has it as well as the mighty Insound.

Ty Segall - Cents on Goner records

I happened to pick this up in SF at Amoeba, long after it was gone from Goner.
How can you make just a distorted guitar sound so good. So energetic, clean...there's no hiss to any of this, the quiet breaks are silent, just the vocals and guitar are distorted...with that hint of reverb that wavers on when he abruptly pauses. It's got everything mystical from that garage era wrapped up in the two minutes. The natural flat sounding drums, minimal arrangement...no cymbals always on the beat, 4/4, snare kick snare kick. Like Doo Rag, it's all deep thump of hitting mic'ed cardboard boxes. Everything just shines on this, the blown out vocals, it's all maxed out, crunch guitar is turned up. It's pop informed by this overall low-fi approach.

'Cents' even starts and ends with a thud of setting the guitar down or getting ready to strum. I'm trying to think why I keep thinking about the White Stripes. It's hard to imagine them now without all the nonsense of the past few years rearing up but their self titled full length was so great at the time, so simplified, just focused on classic songwriting and reinterpreting the blues...or going back to that formula and reenacting it in a pure way...all of this Ty Segall has by the junkyard-full.

He's the kind of guy who probably throws this down on the 4-track on a Wednesday night and calls it another single.
This is such complete energy that I wasn't getting from the Traditional Fools, I didn't get this sound from them at all.
The B-Side is even more frantic, with 'No, No' but it never goes all off the tracks, it's concise, gated effects, that punch, it has to be a few guitars in layers. There's a great little moments of solo-ing with two guitar tracks distorted and running into each other, harmonized. On 'Standing at the Station' it just reminds me the guitar melodies are always so simple... it's all about rhythm, very much that memphis/reatard/novak sound. The focus on the strummed chord and it's jagged arrangements.

Scratched in the gutter is 'Can't stop No!', I get it Ty, there's going to be a lot more singles on the way. I'm going to scratch on my wallet, 'Please give me a break already.'

OH SEES, THEE / TY SEGALL Split! On Castleface

Aquarius says :
OH SEES, THEE / TY SEGALL "split" (Castle Face) 7" 5.98
Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall cover each other on this brand new smokin' seven inch. We really don't need to say anything more. Anyone who's been listening to the current wave of charged, blown out garage pop these days knows that these are two of the most potent forces in the game. Thee Oh Sees are coming off what we think may be one of the best records of the year, Help, and Ty Segall's debut was one of our favorites of '08. So rad to hear them tackle each other's songs. Thee Oh Sees do "The Drag" with a deep-in-the-void reverb filled flair that suits the song so well. Ty does "Maria Stacks" from The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In, a song which might just be Andee's favorite Oh Sees jam, not just cuz it's hooky and catchy, but it also immortalizes AQ pal and amazing artist/zine-maker Maria Forde. Ty finds a way to make the song a bit more lo-fi and fucked up sounding while still holding on to the great melody that makes the original stick like it does. Pretty much a no-brainer, best grab one of these while you can!

From Fusetron too:

*Artist: THEE OHSEES / TY SEGALL Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Castle Face Country: USA Price: $6.00 "A new single split between two of San Franciscos hottest acts. THEE OHSEES deliver a cover of TY SEGALLs "The Drag," followed by Segall, who offers his take on Thee Ohsees "Maria Stacks." Limited edition of 1,000 copies." - Castle Face.

They are really making my life easy this week. I think aquarius is on this coast! Yay!

Ty Segall on Goner records and Truepanther records

Ty Segall is a one man distorted blues punk machine. Initially with the Traditional Fools project, he's moved on to that great full length album Castle Face, and one single on Chocolate Covered records, now a simultaneous release by Goner and truepanther.
The Goner release Cents, is on his myspace. Even listening to this track, it's a huge body of similar work. You love anything he's done, this is no disappointment here. Fuzzed out guitars, distorted vocals with major sing a long melodies. It's always energetic, spazzy, cymbals crashing, awesomeness. One foot in the roots of blues, the other in west coast surf rock. This track is slowly plowing along with this steamroller bassline melody on guitar. His changes are key. like Jay and Jeff, Ty obviously has a natural ability to weave together perfect changes of pop punk. It's always catchy. Maybe that's why they tend to be under 2 minutes. You don't want to just repeat it, it's not their style. Innovate innovate innovate. This type of power punk just exists as a genetic ability....it's their super power.
What's the kryptonite?
CD's?
An Atlantic/Virgin/Epic records contract?

This one is from Goner

TY SEGALL "Cents" (Goner - 51 GONE) 7" $ 5.75 (07SEGALCent)
***"Cents" is a teaser single for TY SEGALL's upcoming Goner Records full-length, Lemons. The three-track 7-inch features exclusive versions not available elsewhere. "Ty Segall is a phenomenon in a bite-size package. He plays guitar and drums, and howls like a wolf in awe of the moon. His boyish good looks, sky-blue eyes, and fever shakes may make you swoon, but it's his lustrous croons and garage rock songs awash in boisterous distorted noise that will make you take notice." -SF Chronicle. Upcoming Lemons Full-Length to be released 7/14/2009.


Then I noticed this one from TruePanther records out of Brooklyn....how many labels are in Brooklyn, it's insane.
***You know, I just checked on this, the paypal button still works, but it does say sold out underneath...it's up to you. Definitely a label I'll be checking up on....and sooner.

New single from SF's one man band genius Ty Segall. Universal Momma co-written with his MOM Cherrie Segall. 86'd is a ripper. Limited to 500

Oh wait, one more,a split 12" with Black Time from Telephone explosion.
I think we have a new hardest working man in rock and roll.

Ty Segall on chocolate covered records

Ty Segall from the Traditional Fools has just released this solo 7" offering on Chocolate Covered records. Ty has been performing drum duties in the Fools and ever since I found that out, I can't help but hear the lazer focus on the rhythm section, the percussion is relentless, the influence of thinking about that particular area: pounding.

The sleeve of a demented 50's scene gone cat... all cut and pasted...might give you a clue about what's lurking under the surface...just barely.
I had some other things to say about the art but this single doesn't waste any time diving right into serious low-fi stomping. The bass range sounds all peaking out, recorded at 11. Strumming like mad electric with some surf reverb turned up, That echo that you wonder is it even in the same room? Is this a room sound? Is he singing in the bathroom, it's organic, really natural.
This really reminds me of Bob Log... or Doo Rag definitely...the same use of the guitar. It's all strumming, like a washboard, the sound of the strings becomes percussive, there's a melody there but it's stripped down, barely two notes. The frantic-ness of 'Here We Go' with stomping tamborine on the high hat. Now that I'm hearing it again, I don't think there's any snare here?
The sound of crackling cables barely hanging on ends the leg shaking and we're onto......

(Go have a listen from CC, click play on the realplayer track thingy...then you will click on the buy button.....trust me.)

'It' is kick drum at speed, supportingTy's ultra blown out vocals. Again we're playing through some kind of severly broken equipment, which is sounding so analoge and fuzzy. It's the best kind of low-fi...It's recorded really specifically, with all kinds of tracks, effects, I'm sure but with a patina of gainy film. An old blockbuster.
Like everything is just turned up, all in the red for the majority of this weighty EP... a lot heavier than Traditional Fools who seem to want be taken a little less seriously, this is in your face, and catchy as hell, immediately...there's no time getting used to this. It's turned up full at low levels, mixed right at the max for 45. The guitar is just overwhelming, a low nonstop roar. It's seriously loud, and keeps getting louder.
It can't be talked over at your party.
Front and center.

On the Bside 'Son of Sam' alternates between that reverb guitar but slightly different drum recording it sounds like. Cleaner ride cymbal and even more mechanical sounding reverb this time. The drum drops in and out. Ty here is like Screaming Jay Hawkins, or John Spencer...channeling that flair.... the whoop and holler, bellowing out in the middle of nothing...tortured. Well, not exactly tortured, this is pure fun...maybe it's more like a good sermon.
'Son of a bitch!'
That warbly electrified blues vocal with a howl at the end. I am tracking down the original by Chain Gang...thanks for schooling me Ty.
This makes way for 'Sweets', another crafted little jem based on that great muffled sound.
Is something wrong with the stereo?
Honestly.
It's 4 songs that don't let up, a more finely tuned sound than Tradiional fools, It sounds like a lazer focused vision of a very particular low-fi. A succinct vision and a hell of a solo single across all 4 tracks.


$6 From Chocolate Covered Records:
Ty Segall steps out from behind the drumkit of the Traditional Fools and sit down behind a much simpler drum kit to start his own one-man band. It's crunchy, lo-fi goodness for the whole family...
...the Manson family! Includes a cover of Chain Gang's "Son of Sam." Now that's hip!