Scene are a very new band from London and details are sketchy at best about them. No matter, this video for Hear No Lies is a little gem of indie goodness with enough individuality about it to mark them out as well worth watching. a Visit their Facebook page. Continue reading MM Shorts 162: Scene Video
Australian band The Broken Needles debut album, Terra Nullius, is a ghost story about escaping from their grim, desolate hometown in North Queensland. It is a journey through the seedy seaside caravan parks, salt flats, flood plains, cyclone damage and sordid characters that dot the landscape, and it is delivered with a mix of country balladry and spit ‘n’ snarl punk rock that is a little like Tom Waits fronting the Mekons. It is everything … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Broken Needles
Two Wounded Birds arrive just in time for summer with a debut that blends new wave and punchy pop with sepia-toned beaches. The band will release their self-titled album on June 4th (UK) and in the USA on June 24th via Holiday Friends Recording Company, a newly minted member of the Frenchkiss Label Group. You can check out and download the album’s first single To … Continue reading New Single And Free Download From Two Wounded Birds
Scaling back the noise, but keeping the intensity, Anabot’s cover of The Japandroids recent release The House That Heaven Built is a treat. Managing to retain the essence and heart of the song and keeping the rebel-yell passion in place, though restrained deliciously behind the girl group background vocals, it makes the song’s chorus, “And if they try to slow you down/Tell ’em all to go … Continue reading MM Shorts 161: Anabot Covers Japandroids
We’ve already posted about Dubious Ranger’s new album Found Recordings From The Panda Valley Mining Company c.1931, and the record was officially released earlier this week. It is a wonderfully diverse and eclectic mix of tunes and influences that never once crowds out or overwhelms the top-notch songwriting that sits proudly at the heart of this album. To celebrate, here is a third track from it, the gloriously … Continue reading Dubious Ranger Release Found Recordings From The Panda Valley Mining Company c.1931
The tunes playing on Radio 6 this morning in tongue-in-cheek honour of National Goth Day made us all nostalgic for our very own black and purple tinged youth, when Wayne Hussey and Andrew Eldritch ruled the airwaves (sort of) and Fields of the Nephilim kept Homepride in business. Here then for your listening and reminiscing pleasure, as the witching hour approaches, a 13 song mixtape … Continue reading World Goth Day: A Nostalgic Mix!
Following on from yesterday’s post on Hurray For The Riff Raff’s Daytrotter session, the band have now made a second track available from their excellent new release Look Out Mama. The story behind Ode to John And Yoko written by Alynda Lee Segarra is somewhat autobiographical, being inspired by growing up in a Puerto Rican household in the Bronx that never played the Beatles. Despite … Continue reading More From Hurray For The Riff Raff
The Mad Mackerel 