Meet Mac
If you're looking to trip this Spring Weekend but don't make it to the show, have no fear: enter www.mac-demarco.com into your browser and prepare to be amused for the next two or three hours. And if you're still curious as to what the show sounds like, then fondly recall the beachy, psychedelic sounds of Bikini Bottom. Yes, like from Spongebob. Because Mac Demarco's warbly guitar, synthesized keys, and crooning vocals sound a lot like the background music that Spongebob's music supervisor must've gotten stoned to.Mac Demarco is 25 years old and has labeled his genre of music "jizz jazz." Interpret that how you will. He is a shaggy hipster who hails from Canada. He's sold out Manhattan's Webster Hall and opened for Phoenix in arena shows. He has a tab on his website titled, "Fun."Demarco's biggest hit is "Salad Days," off his second studio album of the same name. Listen to it and memorize the words. It's going to be the last song of his set, I can almost promise you that, and if we're all standing in the crowd, linking arms and swaying side to side while chanting "la di da da da" along with Mac, there's no way it won't be a grand ol' time.My favorite thing about Mac Demarco is the last track on his most recent EP, Another One, released last year. The song is two minutes and 24 seconds of water lapping on a shore, then ten seconds in which he calmly says: "Six eight zero two, Bayfield Ave., Arverne, New York. Stop on by, I'll make you a cup of coffee. See you later."In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mac said that "In the two weeks since the eight-song album leaked prematurely on the Internet, about 30 strangers have come to his door... some trekking more than two hours to reach his 'kind of sketchy' neighborhood in Far Rockaway, at the end of a subway line, on the edge of a bay overlooking JFK Airport.'The way I rationalize it,' DeMarco says, 'to have the address you’ll have to listen to the album to the very end. Second, to even consider coming to my house you have to be a kind of a superfan. And thirdly, it’s in such a weird part of New York that if they actually get there, they deserve a cup of coffee.'"Whether you're that superfan or relatively unfamiliar with Mac, I think you'll enjoy his lo-fi rock with the sun beaming down on the Green (yes, we can will the weather to be great). That being said, if you are unfamiliar, check him out below.