A bumper week for new tunes, many with an Americana flavour, including songs from The Head & The Heart, Lydia Loveless, Frankie Lee, The Low Anthem and Band Of Horses. We have a tasty REM cover from The Districts as well, and the return of Beck and of Montreal amongst twelve new tracks for you to delve into. Enjoy! Band Of Horses – Whatever, Wherever The Head & The … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Following on from their much acclaimed debut Empty Light, Richmond based band Avers are releasing their upcoming record Omega/Whatever via EggHunt Records on the 29th June. They are a band that freely swap roles: songwriting, bass, guitar, and vocal duties are all interchangeable, and who confidently use this freedom to make top notch 60s inspired psych and garage rock music. Have a listen to Everything … Continue reading New From Avers
Australia-via-Los Angeles garage punks, The Gooch Palms will shortly be releasing their sophomore album, Introverted Extroverts. They have recently shared the second single from it, Ask Me Why, and it’s everything you’d expect from the irreverent punk duo, plus more; anthemic, gritty and blisteringly fun. Spin it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 850: The Gooch Palms
The title of Emily Jane White’s fifth album, They Moved in Shadow All Together, is a play on the opening line from Cormac McCarthy’s novel Outer Dark which hauntingly depicts a group of uncanny travelers descending a hill in the Appalachian mountains. The eleven songs on the album focus conceptually upon the symptomatology of trauma with songs about the anti-racist struggle against police violence and the epidemic … Continue reading Emily Jane White – Frozen Garden
Hater are a brand new quartet based out of Malmö in the south of Sweden who are introducing themselves to us with their debut single Radius due out on the 8th July via Stockholm’s PNKSLM Recordings. They have a sound equally influenced by current day indie pop stalwarts like Alvvays, The Radio Dept. and Melody’s Echo Chamber as by classic acts like Violent Femmes and The Pretenders. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hater
After his critically acclaimed 2014 release The Lights From The Chemical Plant, Robert Ellis is set to return with his eponymous fourth album on June 3rd via New West Records. It promises to be his most personal statement yet, and many of the songs have an element of melancholy as much of the record revolves around the dissolution of Ellis’ marriage. The video for first single How I Love … Continue reading Video: Robert Ellis – How I Love You
Sweden’s reverb-laden indie-rock duo, Pink Milk have a rather tasty (no pun intended) new single out. Influenced by 80s and 90s music like Jesus & Mary Chain, Cranes and Cocteau Twins and movies like Twin Peaks, True Romance and Sofia Coppola’s work, their shoegaze infused sound is inspired by stories of love and death Listen to the chaotic and addictive Detroit here. Continue reading MM Shorts 849: Pink Milk
Here is some new music from Grand Rapids, MI psych/garage rock band Heaters who released an excellent debut album Holy Water Pool last September, and who also featured in our best tracks of 2015. They will release new album Baptistina on the 5th August via the Beyond Beyond is Beyond label, and the first taste from it comes in the shape of the looping lunacy of Centennial. Listen … Continue reading New Album From Heaters
Earlier this month we posted Turfin and now Nashville’s Ranch Ghost has shared Ragged Mile, the second single from the bands’ new album Lookin. The album comes out on the 1st July via Rough Beast Records (pre-order here). The song is a stomping, swampy psychedelic garage rock cut and is well worth a listen. Try it on for size below. Continue reading MM Shorts 848: Ranch Ghost
Another day, another dollar. Or nickel in this case. Check out Volume 19 of our virtual jukebox with another ten tunes of all shapes and sizes taken from our bulging in-box. The Van T’s – 35mm [RIYL: Surf-rock, Hinds, The B-52s] Wonky Tonk – Suitors [RIYL: Independent Country, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton] NARCS – Bullingdon Boys [RIYL: Post-punk, Future Of The Left, Pulled … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 19)
The Mad Mackerel 