What a treat to have the anthemic, high powered punk riffing of No Age back on the scene. This is C’mon Stimmung, a first taste from new album, An Object, out via Sub Pop in August. Have no fear, it doesn’t disappoint! . Continue reading MM Shorts 390: No Age Are Back
Here are eight of the very best tracks to reach out to us from our inbox and the internet over the past few days. First up we have a new track from the forthcoming album Soft Will from Smith Westerns, which distills the spirit of Big Star into a delicately reverential tribute to classic 70s radio rock. We have the superbly maudlin, gloom-pop of Franklin the … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight Of The Best
Black Joe Lewis have announced details of their brand new full-length LP, Electric Slave, to be released on August 27 on Vagrant Records. The first taste is the excellently named Skulldiggin, which grips from the off with a blistering, distorted blues riff of righteous fury and a gruff vocal of just the right amount of hellfire and brimstone zeal to match. Welcome back boys! Continue reading New Album From Black Joe Lewis
Garage noiseniks Speedy Ortiz have featured a number of times on Mad Mackerel and it is fair to say we are very much looking forward to their debut long player Major Arcana, which is out in less than a month on Carpark Records. No Below is the second single to be taken from it and offers more than enough to whet the appetite for the … Continue reading New Single From Speedy Ortiz
. Taken from their eagerly anticipated debut album (set for release in the autumn), here is the thumping first single from Whales In Cubicles. Disappear is a song about the fragility and fleeting nature of identity. Set against a riotous backdrop of Smashing Pumpkins-esque guitars and driving drums, it is certainly a pretty big statement of sonic intent from the band. Continue reading MM Shorts 389: Whales In Cubicles New Single
Enjoy a dreamworld populated with magical jellyfish from Dungeonesse in their video for Nightlight, a no frills live performance from Young Aviators and their anthemic Forward Thinking and lastly watch everything go wrong for an inappropriate Mickey Mouse in the Naive New Beaters film for the rocking Shit Happens.. . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Dungeonesse || Young Aviators || Naive New Beaters
We were pretty taken with our discovery of Algernon Doll’s debut long player, Camomile, last year. It was a record of uniquely off-kilter folk, and an often painfully raw and dark exploration of his struggles with extreme anxiety and bipolar disorder. Now he is back with a follow-up in the shape of Citalo-pop, which is out now via Common Records. Taster track Anti-them indicates that this … Continue reading New Album From Algernon Doll
On 23rd July, Hardly Art will release the new full-length by California’s Hunx & His Punx. Street Punk, as the title implies, is a dramatic departure from the band’s previous outing, 2011’s Too Young to Be in Love, and includes a deep-cut Beastie Boys cover, Egg Raid on Mojo, and brief, blistering anthems like (the possibly self-explanatory) Everyone’s a Pussy (Fuck You Dude). In fact, it … Continue reading Hunx & His Punx New Album: Street Punk
We loved the Public Service Broadcasting single Signal 30 and the album from which it came, Inform Educate Entertain. The latest single from it is this one, Theme From PSB. It takes in pioneering American news broadcaster Edward R. Murrow’s famous speech from 1958, celebrating an instrument that can ‘teach… illuminate and yes, even inspire’, breezing along to a climax which invokes the very best that … Continue reading New Single From Public Service Broadcasting
Melbourne post-punkers Teenage Mothers are a band that have crammed a lot into a short period. They were kicked off M83’s tour in Australia when their lead singer inhaled Nitrous Oxide on stage, back flipped into the crowd, and almost set the stage on fire. Teenage Mothers’ lead singer, JK, left school at 16 to be a pro skateboarder. Then he quit the Nike team … Continue reading Introducing >>> Teenage Mothers
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