After two albums of highly contagious garage-tinged indie rock Oklahoma’s BRONCHO are back with their third album Double Vanity, (due out May 27). This time it is a record that finds the band slowing into a darker and hazier groove – a sleeker, plusher sound, a place bright with the polished gleam of chrome and bleached white sunlight. Think suburban shopping mall wastelands, glazed eyes, dead grass, … Continue reading BRONCHO Announce New Album
Loving this track of blurry, slacker-psych-pop from Stockholm quartet Magic Potion. Milk is the first single taken from forthcoming long player Pink Gum. It is a gem of irresistible melody and sweetly laconic vocals that combine to create a utopia of hazy, blissed out euphoria. Wonderful. Listen below. Order from Bandcamp here. Continue reading Magic Potion – Milk
The excellently monikered Flat Worms are a garage punk supergroup of sorts, a trio consisting of Will Ivy (Dream Boys, Wet Illustrated, Bridez), Justin Sullivan (Kevin Morby, the Babies) and Tim Hellman (Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Sic Alps). They have a three track single coming out on 7″ vinyl via Volar Records, and limited to 500 copies (order it here, we have). Anyway, this is Petulance … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Flat Worms
Kent based garage rock/punk trio The Bay Rays have announced the forthcoming release of their debut single Four Walls. It is a sub-two minute blast of unstoppable, frenetic rock n’ roll, and is played with a raw energy that suggests the end of the world is coming… Join us in the virtual mosh pit. Continue reading MM Shorts 828: The Bay Rays
The Brainstems have shared an appropriately tripped out new video for their standout track of vintage garage-psych Time To Ride. Enjoy it below. Taken from the excellent album No Place Else, released late last year. Continue reading New Video: The Brainstems – Time To Ride
Baltimore-based Great American Canyon Band (who made our 2015 end of year lists) will be releasing their debut LP Only You Remain on April 8 via Six Degrees Records. They’ve shared the brilliant Undertow, an epic of yearning Americana and cinematic shoegazing guitars that combine to stunning effect. Listen here. Continue reading Great American Canyon Band – Undertow
Nashville’s favourite rock and rollers, Diarrhea Planet are back with the first single from their upcoming album Turn To Gold, which sees a release in June. This is Life Pass. Continue reading Diarrhea Planet – Life Pass
To their eternal credit, Toronto’s Hooded Fang continue to blast their sound to smithereens before picking up the the most jagged pieces and moving forth. Due out on the 13th May via their own Daps Records, their latest musical offering, Venus On Edge, is full of Ritalin tempos, sheet metal guitars, manic riffs, hypnotic basslines and spastic rhythms. The band have shared album standout A Final Hello from it … Continue reading Hooded Fang – A Final Hello
Eagulls have announced details of the release of a new single, Skipping, from their forthcoming second album, Ullages. It is another bleakly pulsating slab of post-punk gristle and glory, although its dark heart is shot through with shards of piercing, melodic intent. Which all means we like it very much. And you should to… Skipping, recorded at Continue reading More From Eagulls
Alpenglow is a band intensely influenced by its surroundings. They made their 2014 EP, Chapel, while living in a ramshackle house in a Vermont mountain town, population 588, once home to Robert Frost. After moving to Brooklyn, Alpenglow’s music gained an urgency and intensity that wasn’t there before. Their focus shifted to beats, grooves, tones, and colors. They started using synthesizers and bought a drum … Continue reading Alpenglow Release Callisto
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