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On Monday, March 7 and Tuesday, March 8, Ty Segall and the Muggers will appear at Thalia Hall. Segall, the 28-year-old California native and garage rock mainstay, is a can’t-miss live act, bringing snappy and crunchy jams to Chicago venues almost every year. This time around he’ll be with his new backing band the Muggers and supporting his new album “Emotional Mugger.” Here are four reasons why you should go.
4. Just look at how many records he’s released
The dude’s almost impossibly prolific. Last month, Spin took the herculean task of ranking all of his 59 (!) released records, which include 7-inch singles and full-length albums. While I’m not going to attempt to go into that much detail on Segall’s extensive career, he has a wealth of great projects under his own name and others including Fuzz, his high school band Epsilons and collaboration albums with Mikal Cronin and White Fence. If I had to choose my top four, it’d have to be his 2013 album “Twins,” 2009’s “Melted,” 2014s “Manipulator” and his 2012 album under Ty Segall Band called “Slaughterhouse.” They’re all worth checking out though.
3. This charming interview with Nardwuar
Ty Segall doesn’t really do interviews (I can’t count how many times I’ve tried to get him on Blind Spots), but he did make time for Nardwuar, the Human Serviette. If you’re unfamiliar with Nardwuar, you’re unfamiliar with one of the most iconic, well-informed and entertaining music interviewers, whose videos have featured conversations with people like Snoop Dogg, Chance the Rapper, Blur, R.E.M. and so many more.
Nardwuar, whose real name is John Ruskin, surffered a stroke in December. For Nardwuar’s first interview back, he went deep with Segall about his influences, his old bands, whose parents went to school with the Surfaris and more. Watch it above.
2. So many incredible musicians are in The Muggers.
Here’s who makes up Ty Segall’s backing band: Mikal Cronin, Kyle Thomas (aka King Tuff), Emmett Kelly (aka The Cairo Gang) and Wand’s Evan Burrows and Cory Hanson. All five of those musicians have incredible projects on their own, so it’s really cool to see artists who could normally sell out shows themselves take a backing role.
1. This tour’s shows are just bonkers
Man, just watch this live video from “Late Night with Stephen Colbert.” The costumes, Segall passing out gummy worms to an unsuspecting CBS studio audience. It doesn’t get more rock ‘n’ roll than that.
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