Strange Faces is a four piece rock band from Chicago, IL, delivering lo-fi punk rock with 60s pop hooks. Listen to Brand New Way taken from their debut album Stonerism, which came out last month. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 84 – Strange Faces
Canadian psych-rockers Pet Sun’s brilliant new EP Shade Driver is a doom laden, stoner garage starter kit fully equipped with some riffs, some poppy goodness, and a bit of doom. It’s a grab bag of sweets – some more sour than others. From the apocalyptic headbanger Dark Planet written for a stoned Darth Vader to Zenifer, their bite sized good vibes pop track which clashes a … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 83 – Pet Sun
Auckland trio Street Chant have shared the third single from their forthcoming album Hauora – due out on Flying Nun/Arch Hill early this year. Listen to the driving, tense guitars and pulsing rhythm of Never below, another excellent example of their sinewy, guitar rock. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 82 – Street Chant
Since 2013, Baby Bry Bry has been making a strong impression in the Washington DC’s punk and indie scenes with his brand of raw garage punk meets crooning soul. Cricket Cemetery has released The Way Things Was, a collection of Baby Bry Bry’s many rare singles and home recordings. The record provides a glimpse into the often contradictory world of this distinctive entertainer. With many disparate influences ranging from … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 81 – Baby Bry Bry
Fronted by twin sisters Helen and Nicola Frisby, The Frisbys are an alternative folk/country band from South London They have released their free double a-side single Born and Raised/Give in to the Dark, which is out now via Dantobaccus Records. Both tracks are taken from their forthcoming EP The Cause, which sees a release at the end of this month. Listen to the haunting beauty of Give In To … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 80 – The Frisbys
Southern indie-rock band from Raleigh, NC. Jack the Radio crafts the type of music to blast from your porch on early summer nights to help inspire the sweltering season to come. Recent long-player Badlands is a two-act, musical journey through a sci-fi western, which starts with the listener waking up in an unknown, strange world. The first six songs of the album travel through an … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 79 – Jack The Radio
Seattle indie-slack rockers Neighbors latest offering, the forthcoming Very Rare Expensive Jewelry, is an eight-track journey into the unforgiving depths of stardom and success. Filled with inspiration as far and wide as Lee Hazlewood and The Velvet Underground, listen to the jaunty It’s Hard from it here. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 78 – Neighbors
Swedish trio A Nighthawk release their debut full-length Ice In The Belly, Fire In The Mind via their own imprint Dead Dandelion Collective, on 26th February. A confident distillation of rhythm, songcraft and texture: signposts to Lykke Li, Susanne Sundfør, Beach House or perhaps a Nordic Cocteau Twins populate the album – giving the songs an eerie, sometimes Lynch-ian feel. Listen to Dune, and you’ll hear exactly … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 77 – A Nighthawk
Eugene Quell writes fuzz-driven sing-alongs. Eugene Quell is Toby Hayes. But not. He came to life when Hayes began experimenting with home recordings in 2012. Limited by lack of equipment, his early sound was more defined by restrictions than anything else. Listen to RRW below, the closing track from his latest EP I Will Work The Land, four excellent tracks of hazy pop, noise-rock and pretty much everything in between. … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 76 – Eugene Quell
It may have been four years, or maybe more, since we posted about Jason Ward, but the singer-songwriter has lost none of his acerbic wit and darkly observational skills. So listen to We Were Too Busy Fucking, a song that you might anticipate has some explicit lyrics, and is born from a truism, as Jason Ward says, “I wrote the song because it rang true. When … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 75 – Jason Ward
The Mad Mackerel 