Stripping down their garage rock abandon and jangly oeuvre even further for new album Sinking Ships (out early 2016), Portland based trio Hey Lover hones in on a pop-punk realm on a set of highly addictive tracks like opener I Wanna Be With You, the barebones rhythm-driven Ahhh, and the raucous Problem. Want proof? Watch the video for peppy road-punk opus I’ve Got A Car below. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hey Lover
Liverpool quartet Jimmy & The Revolvers are releasing their new single The Morning Paper backed with Drink & The Devil Blues. It is an infectious blast of indie rock that plots a harmony drenched line from the classic Merseybeat sound of the 60s through to the Teardrop Explodes and Dexy’s Midnight Runners right up to The Las and the Arctic Monkeys. Give them a spin here. … Continue reading MM Shorts 791: Jimmy & The Revolvers
It has been three years or so since we featured Bay Area-based orchestral indie-pop band Foxtails Brigade. Earlier this year, the group was asked to participate in a Joanna Newsom tribute concert and it was from this that they went on to record their latest offering, an endearing and sweetly poetic cover of Newsom’s Book Of Right On. Stream or download it below. Continue reading Foxtails Brigade Cover Joanna Newsom
Our regular collection of the best of this week’s new releases for you including a couple of tasty cover versions. Freakwater – The Asp And The Albatross Quilt – Eliot St. The Brainstems – Simple Joys Freedom Fry – 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins cover) Coves – Stormy Coke Weed – Malocchio Noun – Loveblood Little May – Skeletons (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover) Kite Base – Miracle … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Asleep Between Stations is the new single to taken from The Leaf Library’s debut album Daylight Versions out now on wiaiwya. The track started life as an ode to falling asleep on trains, but could just as well be about drifting off to the buzz and static of radio waves over the North Sea. The song is underpinned by heavy pedal steel drones and joyful … Continue reading The Leaf Library – Asleep Between Stations
The Dead Heir are a six piece psychedelic rock group from Melbourne, Australia that we featured previously back in July of last year. The band are soon to release their second EP The Dead Heir Go Wild!, through Psychic Ric Records on 2nd November 2015. Having detached themselves from their garage grit, and shifted up a gear in production, they have recently released a single, … Continue reading New EP From The Dead Heir
Stolen Body Records have announced the third in their split series of releases, this one featuring the glam-garage rock of the brilliantly named Peace And Love Barbershop Muhammad Ali, and the reverb drenched raw garage of the equally excellently monikered Druggy Pizza. Check out the former’s Lord, and the latter’s I Wanna Eat Until I’m Dead below. You can pre-order your copy of one of 250 half … Continue reading New Split From Peace And Love Barbershop Muhammad Ali & Druggy Pizza
Ten more new tunes on the virtual jukebox for you to investigate and consider. The Lonely Wild – Hunted [RIYL: Folk-rock, Lord Huron, The Lone Bellow] Expert Alterations – You Can’t Always Be Liked [RIYL: Indie-pop, The June Brides, The Headlights] Honeymilk (feat. De Montevert) – Psychrocker [RIYL: Baggy-Indie, The Charlatans, Primal Scream] Kharlos – Dawn [RIYL: Garage Rock, Ty Segall, Thee Oh … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 7)
While the warm, mellow Americana of the Great American Canyon Band has featured a few times on MM, we haven’t heard anything from the husband and wife duo for a couple of years. Now they are back with details of their first full length album, Only You Remain, on which they expand their signature sound with a song cycle that works through the despair and disorientation of watching … Continue reading Great American Canyon Band – Crash
Like a feral Allah-Las, the Atlantic Thrills combine scuzzy surf licks with classic sounds of the lysergic 60s to create a sonic stew all of their own making. On new album Vices their electric howl will ring in the ears of sinners and Sodomites hungry for the sound of true American psychedelic rock and roll. Listen to the title track here. Continue reading MM Shorts 790: Atlantic Thrills
The Mad Mackerel 