Monday Music News

08/28/2017

Jasmine Albertson

Singer-songwriter Jenny Mae Leffel passed away over the weekend at the age of 49, from "complications due to alcoholism." The Columbus, Ohio-based artist started out in the band Vibralux before branching out for a solo career as "Jenny Mae." She released two albums -- her now tragically-titled 1995 debut There’s a Bar Around the Corner…Assholes and the LP Don’t Wait Up for Me in 1998. She also released a split single with Guided By Voices, whose frontman Robert Pollard proclaimed her to be "one of the finest songwriters he’d ever met." Watch her perform her best-known track "Ho Bitch" below at Anyway Records' 20th Anniversary Show in 2012. [ Pitchfork]

MC Taylor has started this week out on a positive note but giving us two new Hiss Golden Messenger songs off his forthcoming album Hallelujah Anyhow. "Domino (Time Will Tell)" and "When the Wall Comes Down" are the first tastes we've gotten of the new album, which was recorded with a grand team of Brad Cook, Phil Cook, Chris Boerner, Josh Kaufman, Darren Jessee, Michael Lewis, and Scott Hirsch along with the harmonies provided by Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, Tift Merritt, Skylar Gudasz, Tamisha Waden, Mac McCaughan (Superchunk), and John Paul White. Hallelujah Anyhow will arrive September 22 via Merge. The Tractor Tavern will be hosting An Evening With Hiss Golden Messenger on Thursday, November 2. [ Under the Radar ]

It's possible John Dwyer may be an indecisive man because he's changed his band's name yet again. A couple months back he announced Thee Oh Sees would be dropping the Thee from the name to be solely Oh Sees. Today he announced that he would be going back to his original moniker of OCS for his next record Memory of a Cut Off Head. Dwyer released the last Oh Sees record Orc just last week. Memory of a Cut Off Head will be the 20th album in the band's 20 years and the 100th release on Dwyer's Castle Face label. Catch Dwyer and whatever his band is called by the time of the show on Saturday, September 23 at Neumos. [ Consequence of Sound ]

Veteran experimental indie band Deerhoof have surprised the world by releasing their new album Mountain Moves two weeks early and also for the very reasonable price of a minimum $1 donation, the total proceeds of which will be given to the Emergent Fund, a grassroots nonprofit that provides resources to marginalized communities who are facing discrimination in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Mountain Moves is out officially September 8 via Joyful Noise and features collaborations with Wye Oak's Jen Wasner, Stereolab's Laeticia Sadier, Juana Molina, and Xenia Rubinos. Deerhoof will play the Crocodile on Saturday, September 16. [ Stereogum ]

Mac DeMarco has shared a second video for the title track off his latest album This Old Dog. His first video, released in March, featured DeMarco and some friends wandering the streets in dog masks and sunglasses. For the latest clip, instead of the sunny streets, we're taken to a primitive VR world created by multimedia artist Rachel Rossin. STG is bringing DeMarco to Seattle for a two-night stint at the Moore Theatre on Sunday, September 10 and Monday, September 11. [ Pitchfork ]

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