Following their signing to Rough Trade Records in May and release of debut single ‘SWEAT’, and latest single, ‘DEATH IN THE FAMILY’. LA six-piece The Sophs now return with a cover of Mac Demarco’s ‘For the First Time’. Ethan of The Sophs explains their thinking behind the cover, “When I first heard “For the First Time” by Mac DeMarco, it felt fragile in the best way. My band, The Sophs, loves that kind of emotional rawness, but we usually...
Juan Wauters announces his forthcoming album, Real Life Situations, featuring collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David Aguilar, and more, out April 30 via Captured Tracks. Along with the announce, Juan shares a new single and video, ‘Real (with Mac DeMarco)’. Much like preceding single/video ‘Presentation (with Nick Hakim and Benamin)’, ‘Real’ evokes nostalgia for warm days. In the video (directed by Matthew...
Meet Walter TV! What is there to be said that hasn’t already been said about the old Walter TV band? Our main men in the group (Joe McMurray, Simon Ankenman, Pierce McGarry) are either aged 30 or close to. They do their best to make music that is meaningful, interesting, and…danceable? Emotionally razed these bad boys are pumping out of the ashes, instruments in hand. Simon is a canoe guide in the Northwest...
Mac DeMarco’s third full-length album, This Old Dog, is out today! It was a little space—in time, location and method—that inspired DeMarco while making This Old Dog. Arriving in California with a grip of demos he’d written in New York, he realised after a few months of setting up his new shop that the gap was giving him perspective. DeMarco says, “I demoed a full album, and as I was moving...
What better way to get a final peek of Mac DeMarco’s third full-length album This Old Dog before hearing the whole darn thing, released next Friday, than through one of the album’s most soulful numbers. Listen to ‘One More Love Song’ below! As Mac told Sirius XMU, “Sometimes [love songs] come from a specific place, but in a lot of instances they could just be plucked out of the air. Have...
With under a month to go until Mac DeMarco’s new release, This Old Dog, out Friday 5th May. Mac offers up another taste of what’s to come with ‘On The Level’, listen below! Following the more acoustic-minded ‘This Old Dog’ and ‘My Old Man’, Mac revels in the high-gloss synth-pop of ‘On The Level’ showing once again that he’s at his best with the slower jams. It’s another number giving a further glimpse...
After sharing two singles ‘My Old Man’ and ‘The Old Dog’, Mac DeMarco offers up a self-directed video for the latter track, filmed in his new hometown of Los Angeles. Read his statement about the video below: “A devoted dog discovers the meaning of its own existence through the lives of the humans it teaches to laugh and love. Reincarnated as multiple canines over the course of five decades, the...
Mac DeMarco (aka 26-year old MacBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco) will release, This Old Dog, his third album and first full-length since 2014’s Salad Days, on May 5th via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. In conjunction with today’s album announcement, DeMarco is sharing two lead singles — ‘My Old Man’ and ‘This Old Dog’. They are the album’s openers and right off the bat, they show a new sonic direction and...
