Evergreen singer-songwriter and Austin resident extraordinaire, Shakey Graves has released The Man From Taured as a pay-what-you-want release on Bandcamp. The eleven tracks are a collection of demos, b-sides and rarities from the past ten years and is well worth getting hold off. Want proof? Listen to a demo of Call It Heaven with Esme Patterson below. Continue reading Shakey Graves Releases The Man From Taured
Springtime Carnivore released the gorgeous visuals for her song Midnight Room today. The title track to her most recent album, the video is the work of animator Kevin Andrews, who created a series of painterly scenes for the song. Watch it here. Continue reading Video: Springtime Carnivore – Midnight Room
Since we began MM on Google’s chronic Blogspot, we’ve been posting music by muscular psych-rockers Black Angels, which means getting on nine or ten years now. After a too-long four year hiatus, the band have confirmed details for their upcoming album, Death Song, out on the 21st April. Stream the scorching opening track Currency below. It is a cracker. Continue reading New Album From The Black Angels
Here is a slightly chaotic pop song by Tin Can Telescope about being a tourist in New York. It is inspired by a classic Strokes-esque New Yorker sound and infused with the slacker mentality of Pavement and the psychotic vocals by Black Francis of Pixies. Tin Can Telescope is a Danish garage rock band from Grenaa. Their latest EP is Winding up the Reeling Sensation, released … Continue reading MM Shorts 918: Tin Can Telescope
We are willing to bet that You Can Catch A Lobster With Eggs But Not Egg Salad will be one of the year’s more unusual album titles. It comes from indie folk duo Retail Space and will be self-released this week (order here). Blue Jeans is the second single from it, a charming blend of folk, synth pop, and indie rock that’s as ethereal as it is emotional. Listen … Continue reading MM Shorts 917: Retail Space
Named after a song by The Softies, Spanish trio Me and the Bees are indie-pop aficionados; raised on a diet of charming 60s girl-pop and seminal 90s indie rock greats. The result is Menos Mal, a 15 song-long album of radiant, lo-fi pop hits, due out on 7th April. Listen to new single Spinnin’, a two minute meditation on the bittersweet feeling of heartbreak and new beginnings. … Continue reading MM Shorts 916: Me And The Bees
Brian Jonestown Massacre have announced details of a new double album Don’t Get Lost, which will be released on 24th February, just a mere four months after the release of their last album Third World Pyramid. The new record mixes their shoegaze/psychedelic sound with more experimental twists and nods to the likes of PIL (Metalbox), Primal Scream and even Ornette Coleman. The first taste comes … Continue reading New Album From Brian Jonestown Massacre
We are eagerly anticipating Chicago trio Meat Wave’s forthcoming album The Incessant out on 17th February on Big Scary Monsters here in the UK and EU, and via Side One Dummy in the States. We posted the title track recently and Incessant was brilliant, but the rollicking, self-referential Bad Man, might be even better – one of the most cathartic, bile-ridden songs in a catalogue littered with … Continue reading Meat Wave – New Track & UK Tour
Back in November we shared Still & All from Belgian garage punks Mind Rays. Now we can share a new single from their upcoming long player Nerve Endings, which sees the light of day on the 24th March. Demuie is equally energetic, equally furious, equally chaotic, equally good. Just a minute longer… Listen below. Order the album via Bandcamp here. Continue reading Another From Mind Rays
Nine songs for your listening pleasure gathered from the week’s new releases. We have Mountain Goats showing that even with a throwaway song, composed off the back of a jokey Twitter conversation, John Darnielle can better 95% of what is out there, whilst Molly Burch and Tara Jane O’Neil’s beautifully composed songs are at the other end of the pendulum’s swing. We also have some brilliant fuzzy, … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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