It can be hard to reconcile that fame with his boundless "regular guy" charm, especially if you catch him in a quiet offstage moment-like when he’s nursing a hangover before a secret show, texting some friends and shooting the shit. It’s easy to forget that he is getting really famous, especially with college kids, and especially for a dude making low-key, lovey-dovey guitar jams in an era when almost every hit seems to be festival-sized. It didn’t take long for his stans to put the pieces together.Īlthough just a mellow, slightly grungy scene kid living way out in the Rockaways, Mac's found an audience that far outreaches his underground roots.
While the venue’s website reports the headliner is a band called Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, they also posted a gap-toothed, MAD magazine-esque illustration of the famed boy wizard that looked a lot like a certain laid-back Canadian singer-songwriter. We’re about half a block from the growing cluster of kids waiting outside the Williamsburg bar Baby's All Right where, in just a few hours, Mac will play a “secret” show to a couple hundred beer-drunk diehards. It's a muggy summer night, and the 25-year-old is wearing a tucked-in Nirvana tee that says I Hate Myself And Want To Die on the back.
A couple days before the release of his great new mini-LP, Another One, Mac DeMarco is chain-smoking on a Brooklyn curb.
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