McBriare Samuel Lanyon “Mac” DeMarco (born Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith IV, April 30, 1990) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.[3] DeMarco has released six full-length studio albums, his debut Rock and Roll Night Club (2012), 2 (2012), Salad Days (2014), Another One (2015), This Old Dog (2017), and Here Comes the Cowboy (2019). His style of music has been described as “blue wave”[4] and “slacker rock”,[5][6] or, by DeMarco himself, “jizz jazz”.[7]
DeMarco was born in Duncan, British Columbia on Vancouver Island, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. His great-grandfather is Vernor Smith, Alberta’s former Minister of Railways and Telephones, for whom DeMarco was named,[8] and his grandfather (also named Vernor Smith) was a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta.[9] His mother, Agnes DeMarco, later changed his name to McBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco, after his father left when Mac was 4 and refused to pay child support.[10]
He attended McKernan School for junior high. Around this time he started playing guitar, with lessons from his grandmother.[11] During high school he was in several bands, including indie rock band the Meat Cleavers, alternative R
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