Having gained something akin to cult status last year when their paranormal love song Ghost Story was featured on the creepy hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale, dark and quirky alt-folk duo Charming Disaster, based in Brooklyn, NY, are hitting the road to promote their debut album, Love, Crime & Other Trouble. Inspirations for the album include the wonderful gothic humor of Edward Gorey, the … Continue reading Charming Disaster – Ghost Story
Here is another new track from provocative (in a wholly charming way) Infinity Cat new signings Daddy Issues. Their excellent new digital single, Shitty World further showcases their mixing pot of garage-surf-pop-punk and also features label owner and JEFF The Brotherhood guitarist Jake Orrall. Dive in to their world… . Continue reading MM Shorts 781: Daddy Issues
D.B. Rouse has a new release on another can’t lose, pay-what-you-want deal via Bandcamp. As he describes it, “It’s Americana with organs, it’s acoustic music with guts, it’s a topical album called Learn From Our Mistakes. Recorded in a stuffy attic in Milwaukee over a few weeks in July, (globally the hottest month in recorded history), this album is a reflection of the world on … Continue reading New Album From D.B. Rouse
Hard rocking trio Dinosaur Pile-Up have shared a new track from forthcoming album Eleven Eleven. Check out the riff on Red and Purple below… . Continue reading MM Shorts 780: Dinosaur Pile-Up
Our collection extends to no less than ten sweet new tracks for you this week, lovingly gathered up from the past seven days like shells from a beach. Or something like that… Torres – Special (Garbage cover) Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – Bennie And The Jets Julien Baker – Brittle Boned Beach Baby – Limousine Death Valley Girls – Death Valley Boogie Hamilton Leithauser & … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
A day late, but none the worse for all that. Here is this week’s jukebox jury selection for your listening edification. Hit or miss? You pick… . Jake McMullen – Always Single [RIYL: Singer-songwriters, James Vincent McMorrow, Ryan Adams] . Grassfight – Breaking Up Pigeons [RIYL: Psych-rock, Spacemen 3, Spoon] . Boys – Believe Anything [RIYL: Garage pop, The Strokes, The Legends] . PROM – Touch Me … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 5)
We have already posted Dead Man Walking the first single from psych-tinged indie rockers Coke Weed’s forthcoming album Mary Weaver. Now we have the follow-up for you in the shape of New Jive, which boasts a muscular central riff, some glam rock tendencies and a satisfyingly woozy undercurrent. Have a listen here. . Continue reading New From Coke Weed
Here is a new single from Spray Paint, the second taken from forthcoming new album Dopers. Signal Master is a slower, relentlessly ominous slab of brooding punk rock that is built around a discordant refrain of “it’s time to put the dog down“. Make of it what you will, but it is another intensely brilliant track that calls to mind the best of Jesus Lizard and … Continue reading Spray Paint – Signal Master
Songhoy Blues have announced their biggest UK headline show to date, a new EP and a deluxe version of their brilliant debut album, Music In Exile. They will play The Roundhouse in London on Saturday 21st May next year, and the deluxe version of the album is out on Friday November 6th. It features three extra tracks, all re-interpretations of tracks by some of the group’s key influences, … Continue reading Songhoy Blues Re-version the Clash…
Protomartyr have followed up the storming Dope Cloud with the bleakly brilliant I Forgive You which piles a wordy, lyrical onslaught on top of insistent, jumpy guitars. Listen below. . Continue reading Protomartyr – I Forgive You
The Mad Mackerel 