Wrinkle Pillow is the DIY, lo-fi, bedroom recorded B-side to Lucky Shivers’ debut single, Human By Night. A catchy slacker indie track that is accompanied by a homemade phone video made for just £10, a green screen and some tinfoil. Watch / stream them both below. Continue reading MM Shorts 935: Lucky Shivers
Car Seat Headrest – That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore (Smiths cover) Royal Blood – Lights Out Iggy Pop – Asshole Blues Hurray For The Riff Raff – Be My Baby (Ronettes cover) YAWN – Hum Land Of Talk – Loving (featuring Sharon Van Etten) Kevin Morby – Aboard My Train Wavves – Million Enemies Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
This week has seen a few MM faves all share some top-notch new tunes via YouTube, and so here is a quick video collection from garage rockers Black Lips, psych-juggernauts Black Angels, psych-freaks King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, hazy troubadour Mac DeMArco, some classic old-time Americana from The Deslondes and some amphetamine filled blues boogie from Left Lane Cruiser. … Continue reading Videos: Black Lips / Black Angels / King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard / Mac DeMarco / Deslondes / Left Lane Cruiser
We’re loving this track from Jeff Tweedy’s upcoming record Together At Last. The album contains reworked material from his back catalogue – new solo recordings of Wilco classics and Smog and Loose Fur rarities. Laminated Cat is the latter of these, a gentle, acoustic croon that feels like days spent doing not much more than watching sunlight on water. Listen to the track below and pre-order the … Continue reading New Solo Album From Jeff Tweedy
Justin Townes Earle will release his New West Records debut Kids In The Street on 26th May. It is one of our most anticipated albums for the first half of the year. We’ve already shared lead track Champagne Corolla, and now we have the compassionate, yearning ballad Faded Valentine for you – it is classic country with a touch of honky tonk and an absolute gem … Continue reading More From Justin Townes Earle
The Dirty Nil have an upcoming compilation release, Minimum R&B, out April 28 via Dine Alone/Fat Wreck Chords. They’ll also be playing some UK dates this month too. From it we have Caroline for your listening pleasure -it was originally appeared on a small-run, self released EP the band burned onto CDs and released in 2009. See them live 18 – Southampton @ Talking Heads 19 – … Continue reading New From The Dirty Nil
Hypnotically excellent Bristol trio Beak> are back with a tasty new single, Sex Music, which will be released digitally and as a 7″ single on June 9th. This is the first taste of new music since 2015’s BEAK>/<KAEB split EP and is the first single taken from their forthcoming album. Have a listen. It lives up to its name… Continue reading BEAK> – Sex Music
The Right Stuff is the new single to be released by latest signings to the marvellous Loose label, The Americans. Hailing from Los Angeles, the quartet blend country and blues with a fiery blue collar rock’n’roll attitude, absorbing and reconfiguring the history of American music from Chuck Berry and Tom Waits to Bruce Springsteen. The band named themselves after the controversial photo series by Robert Frank, which was … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Americans
Protomartyr – Sweeney Ashtray Strand Of Oaks – I Know YOU Know You Are Evil Mitski – Fireproof (One Direction cover) Marika Hackman – My Lover Cindy Daddy Issues – I’m Not Big Thief – Mythological Beauty Chemtrails – Headless Pin Up Girl H.Grimace – Lipsyncer Vulgarians – Of Humdrum Consumption The Wooden Sky – Deadhorse Creek … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The solo project of Musician/Producer/Engineer Danny Nogueiras, LA’s NO WIN is rife with honesty, distortion and unapologetic straight-up indie rock ‘n’ roll. Latest single is Crooked Heart – just imagine if The Replacements got into a bar fight with Teenage Fanclub and somehow Superchunk ends up with the black eye…That’s NO WIN. Stream it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 934: NO WIN
The Mad Mackerel 