Jamie T is back with a cracking new single. Tinfoil Boy is a tense, angst-ridden rocker which erupts into a dark, anthemic chorus. It is the first track since 2014’s brilliant comeback album Carry On The Grudge. Listen below. Continue reading New Single From Jamie T
I have only just got my hearing back after seeing The Cult Of Dom Keller shred the room at The Great Escape – just in time in fact for their new single Shambhala Is On Fire! It is a scorching slab of experimental goth-tinged psych that fans of Swans and The Icarus Line will find plenty to entertain themselves with here, but (whisper it quietly) so too will all those … Continue reading The Cult Of Dom Keller – Shambhala Is On Fire
Having announced her third studio album My Woman – out on September 2nd via Jagjaguwar – Angel Olsen has shared the video for excellent new single Shut Up Kiss Me. Directed by Olsen herself, the video encapsulates everything that’s captivating about her and her music – fiery, yet beguilingly playful, whilst the song itself has a nervy, grungy quality to it with an edge of desperation. … Continue reading New Video: Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me
Singer-songwriter Daniel Pearson will release his new single titled 4th July on June 17th. The immediately infectious track is a freewheeling slice of Americana that welds driving guitars, Johnny n’ June vocal harmonies and raucous harmonica into an ironic tale of love gone sour that fizzes by in under three minutes. Spin it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 854: Daniel Pearson
The charmingly named New Jersey trio Vomitface have announced details of their debut album, Hooray For Me, which sees a release on the 26th August. The album is chock full full of sharp, deceptively catchy songs, each delivered with a self deprecating smirk – you can check out the booming drums and buzzsaw guitars of the first single Senior Pictures below. Continue reading New From Vomitface
Well, on this gloomiest of weeks a little ray of sunshine perhaps with some new music gathered up from the best of the last seven days (oh the irony). So while Johnson and Gove revel in the toxic slime of their own making and the Labour Party implodes, hit play on nine new songs from the likes of Devendra Banhart, ShitKid, Wymond Miles, The Wind-Up Birds and covers … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Today is a sad day. A day I am sad to say I feel embarrassed to be “English”. A day I feel impotent rage at the Tory party’s supreme arrogance that constant austerity measures and cuts after cuts after cuts aimed at the poorest and the weakest wouldn’t leave people feeling ever more disenfranchised and disconnected from the world. A day I feel impotent rage … Continue reading WTF!
NOTS were one of the best bands I saw at The Great Escape – berating a half-full room of slightly hungover festival goers early in the afternoon with a short, pulsating set of brilliantly fierce and raw punk rock that somehow blended the Ramones with Television and Sonic Youth and then added a dash of Hawkwind. Their second album will be with us via the … Continue reading NOTS Announce New Album
Oxford, MS-based Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster – the singer/guitarist for long standing MM faves Water Liars – will release his debut solo album Constant Stranger on the 30th September via Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum. With evocative imagery of the natural world, Constant Stranger seamlessly blends deeply personal ruminations on family, lovers, a musician’s transient life, and the frequently confounding nature of existence – and creates a … Continue reading Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster of Water Liars Announces Solo Album
We were delighted to hear of the return of singer-songwriter Adam Torres and have already shared the lovely High Lonesome from his forthcoming album Pearls to Swine, which is out on the 9th September. Now we have another track for you – sprawling in scope and devastating in content, this time it is the hauntingly eerie and moving six minutes of Outlands. Listen below. Continue reading Another From Adam Torres
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