Last week, the Raveonettes surprised us all by releasing the new album Pe’ahi without any prior notice. The album opens with the blaring, aggressive synth-rock of “Endless Sleeper,” and today you can watch that song’s very creepy music video, directed by the band’s Sune Rose Wagner. It begins wit...

Last month, Drag City released another great album by San Francisco’s Ty Segall. Now, the label has posted a funny series of TV commercials for the album on their YouTube channel. Check them out below.

The young San Francisco psych-rock don Ty Segall cranks out albums quickly, but each of those albums has its own sense of sonic identity. Segall has flirted with a quieter singer-songwriter sound before, going for Neil Young fuzz-bliss on 2011′s Goodbye Bread. But Segall’s new album Sleeper still works as a big leap, as it [...]

Prolific US star will release latest solo album in August    

Last year, the young Bay Area garage-rock god Ty Segall released three full-length albums, which is ridiculous. Thus far this year, he’s been in slothful mode, limiting himself to a couple of singles from his new stoner-metal power trio Fuzz, a T. Rex tribute EP, and a heaping handful of spare tracks. And now he’s [...]