VIDEO: Jonathan Rado’s “Faces”

With his album Law And Order (Woodsist) now available for listening and munching (NOTE: do not munch on his music. Munching along with it would be okay), Jonathan Rado has made public a video for one of its songs. Directed by Austin Kearn, “Faces” involves an underground/basement boxing match with sweaty men and bricks. It looks cinematic and serious but then it leads to some unique boxing techniques.

Rado will be appearing at the Woodsist Festival in Big Sur, California later this month, and also has some other festival dates lined up. Newly added dates are listed in bold:

September 18… Brooklyn, NY (Glasslands) *
September 22… Big Sur, CA (Woodsist Festival @ Henry Miller Library)
September 27… Champaign-Urbana, IL (Pygmalion Music Festival)
September 28… Cincinnati, OH (Midpoint Music Fest)
October 4-13… Austin, TX (Austin City Limits Festival)
October 15-19… New York, NY (CMJ)

* w/ White Fence

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SOME STUFFS: Mac DeMarco is in a sharing mood with new tour dates and a video for ya

For fans of Mac DeMarco, he has two treats that he’d like to pass along to you. If you are a fan of his 2 album released last October on Captured Tracks, he will be on tour in late spring as he finds his path towards the Pitchfork Festival in mid-July. Check out his path:

June 6… Halifax, NS (OBEY Festival)
June 13… Brooklyn, NY (Brooklyn Bowl @ Panache Northside Festival Showcase) *
June 14… Raleigh, NC (Kings Barcade)
June 15… Manchester, TN (Bonnaroo Festival)
June 16… Bloomington, IN (Russian Recording)
June 18… Minneapolis, MN (7th Street Entry)
June 20-22… Calgary, AB (Sled Island Festival)
June 24… Edmonton, AB (Wunderbar)
June 25… Saskatoon, SK (Vangelis Tavern)
June 26… Winnipeg, MB (The Park Theatre)
June 27… Fargo, ND (The Aquarium)
June 28… Madison, WI (University of Wisconsin)
June 29… Ann Arbor, MI (The Blind Pig)
June 30… Toronto ON (The Hoxton)
July 13… Quebec City, Quebec (Le Cercle) [Quebec City Summer Festival]
July 20… Chicago, IL (Pitchfork Festival)

*w/ White Fence, Walter TV

On top of that, he has made a video for “My Kind Of Woman” so if that’s your favorite (or one of your faves) on the album, now you can see what he did with it.

http://www.nowness.com/media/embedvideo?itemid=2998&issueid=2425

Mac DeMarco: My Kind of Woman
on Nowness.com

SOME STUFFS: Woodsist Festival to be held at two venues this year

With help from the good people at Folk Yeah, the Woodsist Festival will be returning this year to the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California but as an added treat, a third day has been added at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, California. The venues are about seven to eight hours away from one another, but it will give people in each area to catch some great music. If you are able to make the drive or flight from one city to the other, awesome.

The Big Sur shows (tickets will be available here) will have six bands per day, while the Pioneertown show (tickets to be sold here) will have a total of seven. The festival begins just after the first day of fall, here is the list of scheduled performers for each show:

Sunday, September 22 – Big Sur
Woods
White Fence
Foxygen
Michael Hurley
Skygreen Leopards
Jessica Pratt

Monday, September 23 – Big Sur
Real Estate
The Fresh and Onlys
Peaking Lights
Little Wings
MV & EE
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks

Saturday, September 28 – Pioneertown
Real Estate
Woods
Fresh and Onlys
White Fence
The Babies
Jessica Pratt
Alex Bleeker and the Freaks
& more TBA

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While you are able to do your research for lodging options, here are a few that Woodsist and Folk Yeah are suggesting for tentative attendees of the festival:

Fernwood Resort (Big Sur)
47200 Highway 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
(831) 667-2422

Big Sur Camping
Glen Oaks (Big Sur)
Big Sur River Inn

Bottchers Gap Campground
Camping Big Sur
805-434-1996

Andrew Molera State Park
Hwy 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
(831) 667-2315

Kirk Creek Campground
Hwy 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
(805) 434-1996

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For those planning on attending in Pioneertown:
Travel Lodge
54850 Twentynine Palms Hwy
Yucca Valley, CA 92284
(760) 365-3311

SOME STUFFS: A man has changed his name and body to become White Fence

This is how the press release for Tim Presley begins:
“I have cyclops vision now. But I’m not a giant. I changed my name and body only, and stabbed my social nous in the right ear. I still read fear but there are no police this year. I can repeat the same dream. I can let birds talk to me. I’m in jail. I have love and a whistle. I lay where the lotus lay and then spring the frozen flowers on any giving day. I apologize to those put in the trees, but I was gathering the Cyclops reap.”

Insane, right? Well if not that, then at least creative, for Presley is now White Fence and we have to accept the situation and circumstances that lead him to this moniker. When you write and record a song that’s titled “To The Boy I Jumped In The Hemlock Alley”, you have to wonder: what is this guy about? White Fence is about pop trippiness and everything that it can and can’t be, and then going beyond. As for that Cyclops reap he was gathering, it now comes in the form of an album that he calls CYCLOPS REAP, to be released this Tuesday on Castleface and as for that song with the long title, you may have a listen to its splendid adventure. It almost sounds like a George Harrison song from the mid to late 70’s, which is not bad at all.

SOME STUFFS: Woods share B-side and tour dates

When Woods released “Cali In A Cup“, vinyl junkies were able to check out the non-LP B-side called “Give Your Lights off”, and now you can too by clicking the stream below.

With a new album that was released earlier this week, the band will be going on tour, as reported here. Since then, they’ve added a few new shows, which are in bold:

September 8… New York, NY Meatopia at Randall’s Island
September 26… Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse *
September 27… Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom *
September 28… Asheville, NC Orange Peel *
September 29… Cincinnatti, OH Midpoint Music Fest / Grammers *
September 30… Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls *
October 2… Toronto, ON The Garrison
October 3… Ann Arbor, MI Yellow Barn
October 4… Chicago, IL Subterranean #
October 5… Madison, WI Der Rathskeller at Memorial Union #
October 6… St Paul, MN Turf Club #
October 7… Iowa City, IA The Mill #
October 8… Omaha, NE (The Sidedoor Lounge)
October 9… Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
October 12… Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
October 13… Vancouver, BC Media Club
October 14… Seattle, WA Barboza
October 16… Oakland, CA New Parish
October 17… San Francisco, CA Preservation Hall
October 18… Santa Barbara, CA TBD
October 19… Los Angeles, CA The Echo
October 20… San Diego, CA The Loft @ UCSD
October 21… Pioneertown, CA Pappy and Harriets
October 24… Austin, TX Red 7 %
October 25… Dallas, TX Club Dada %
October 26… Memphis, TN Hi Tone %
October 30… Asheville, NC (Grey Eagle)
October 31… Chapel Hill, NC Duke Coffeehouse %
November 1… Richmond, VA Strange Matter %
November 2… Washington, DC Red Palace %
November 3… New York, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg %#

* = with The Walkmen
# = with Purling Hiss
% = with Widowspeak

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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: Say hello to new single by Ty Segall Band

The Ty Segall Band will be releasing a new album in June called Slaughterhouse (In The Red), and vinyl junkies will be happy to know that it will be pressed up as a double 10″. As a preview of the album, you can hear a track from it called “Wave Goodbye”.

Next month, the group will be going on tour to bring their new music to fans. Then they’ll be a break before they make a stop in July at the Pitchfork Festival, so adjust your coordinates:

May 2… San Francisco, CA Independent *%
May 3… Portland, OR Star Theater %
May 4… Vancouver, BC Waldorf Hotel %
May 5… Seattle, WA Chop Suey %
May 6… Missoula, MT The Palace %
May 8… Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry %
May 9… Madison, WI High Horse Saloon %
May 10… Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall !%
May 11… Detroit, MI Lager House !%
May 12… Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern !%
May 13… Montreal, QC Il Motore !%
May 14… Portland, ME Space Gallery !%
May 16… New York, NY Webster Hall $%
May 18… Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s %
May 19… Raleigh, NC King’s Barcade %
May 20… Atlanta, GA Earl %
May 21… Nashville, TN The End %
May 22… Memphis, TN Hi Tone %
May 23… Little Rock, AR Whitewater Tavern %
May 24… Houston, TX Walter’s %
May 25… Austin, TX Mohawk (outside) %
July 15… Chicago, IL Pitchfork Festival

! = w/ The Strange Boys
$ = w/ The Men
% = w/ White Fence
* = w/ Shannon and the Clams, The Mallard

VIDEO: Ty Segall & White Fence’s “Time (Live on ROOM 205)”

Ty Segall & White Fence performed on the last installment of Room 205 (for the time being), and this is one of the songs, “Time”. You can watch it here and also listen to it by streaming the Soundcloud player below.

To see and hear previous installments of Room 205, click here.

SOME STUFFS: Ty Segall & White Fence unite for new album

SHINE THE SPOTLIGHT ON THIS ONE!!! An album cover with a photograph taken with a fish-eye lens? Or at least using a fish-eye filter? I’m sold, I don’t even want to hear it, nor do I want to know more. But I must tell you anyway, for you’re curious, aren’t cha?

Ty Segall and White Fence are releasing a collaborative album on April 24th via Drag City called Hair. The press release was confusing, but I was able to isolate words like “poppy lunges”, “acoustic strolls”, “freak-downs”, and “harmony vocals and compression”. What does all means, and what the equation will sound like, it beats me. Maybe that’s the point: for the music to beat you. Hopefully not in a Chris Brown fashion.

Both Ty Segall and White Fennce will go on tour together, and they’ll also be doing shows on their own here and there. Where? Here:
TY SEGALL & WHITE FENCE
March 2… San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall #
March 3… Los Angeles, CA – The Troubadour #
May 3… Portland, OR – Star Theater
May 4… Vancouver, BC – Waldorf Hotel
May 5… Seattle, WA – Chop Suey
May 6… Missoula, MT – The Palace
May 8… Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
May 9… Madison, WI – High Horse Saloon
May 10… Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall !
May 11… Detroit, MI – Lager House !
May 12… Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern !
May 13… Montreal, QC – Il Motore !
May 14… Portland, ME – Space Gallery !
May 16… New York, NY – Webster Hall $
May 18… Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
May 19… Raleigh, NC – King’s Barcade
May 20… Atlanta, GA – Earl
May 21… Nashville, TN – The End
May 22… Memphis, TN – Hi Tone
May 23… Little Rock, AR – Whitewater Tavern
May 24… Houston, TX – Walter’s
May 25… Austin, TX – Mohawk (outside)

# = w/ Mikal Cronin, Feeling of Love
! = w/ The Strange Boys
$ = w/ The Men

WHITE FENCE ONLY
February 25… Los Angeles, CA (USC)
March 8… Pioneertown, CA (Pappy and Harriets) *
March 9… Las Vegas, NV (Beauty Bar) *
March 10… Albuquerque, NM (Launch Pad) *
March 11… Denton TX (35 Denton Festival) *
March 13-16… Austin, TX (SXSW) *
April 22… Santa Cruz, CA (Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium) +

* = w/ Thee Oh Sees
+ = w/ The Shins

TY SEGALL ONLY
April 13… Gambier, OH (Kenyon College [solo set])
April 27… Berkeley, CA (UC Berkeley)

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SOME STUFF: Tim Presley finds no reason to favor either side of his White Fence

Tom Presley is known as a member of Darker My Love, and people have been comfortable with knowing him this way. Presley is about to expose a new side of his music with what he calls White Fence, and it’s different from what fans know and expect from him. He wants you to know this off the top. Woodsist are working with him again to release an album called …is Growing Faith on January 10, 2011. For a sample, you can listen to “Lillian (Why Don’t You Play Drums)” by clicking to Soundcloud and downloading there.

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