To celebrate the release of their excellent new album All Yours, Widowspeak have shared a cover of 90s rock band Third Eye Blind’s (best) song, How’s It Going To Be. They’ve taken its inherent melancholy and smothered it in a languid, swirling haze giving it a disconnected dreamlike quality that is hard to resist. . Continue reading Widowspeak cover Third Eye Blind
Krautrock inspired post-punk trio TRAAMS recently announced their return with their second album, Modern Dancing. The record, due out in November, is the follow up to their 2013 debut Grin and on the strength of the first track we shared from it, Succulent Thunder Anthem, it became highly anticipated here at MM Towers. Now we have a second track to share from it, the hypnotically propulsive … Continue reading TRAAMS – Silver Lining
A few years ago we were very taken by an EP called Four Small Bodies by a band called Blood of the Bull, and in particular a song called American Movies. Since then many, many thousands of tracks have been added to our iTunes, and we kind of forgot about the EP until the other day when we got an e-mail that mentioned the band … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Holy Motors
Our third week of ten new tunes for you to test drive and decide…hit or miss? Honey Moon – Waiting (RIYL: Hazy pop, Mac DeMarco, Real Estate) . Seratones – Necromancer (RIYL: Garage soul, Detroit Cobras, Alabama Shakes) . Trudy – Behave (RIYL: Trash pop, Jonathan Richman, The Beach Boys) . Primitive Parts – Troubles (RIYL: Indie rock, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Swell Maps) . … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 3)
Marvellous garage rock and poppers The Black Lips are back with a limited edition split single with another fave MM band The Coathangers. The Black Lips track is called Freedom Fries and is as typically exuberant and pithy as you could wish for…listen for yourself. The single is out via Suicide Squeeze on the 13th November – you can order it here. . Continue reading The Black Lips Are Back
Pony are a foursome out of Toronto, Ontario that make sugary, sweet garage pop. They describe it as the love child of Brian Wilson and Kurt Cobain – it is easy to hear why if you listen to their new EP Crushed, packed as it is with fuzzed up romance, and which is available now on a pay-what-you-want deal on Bandcamp. Check out Don’t Go below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 775: Pony
Menton is a six minute indie-psych epic from Danish-Australian duo Palace Winter, and is taken from their upcoming debut EP Medication, released October 2nd. Dive in… . Continue reading MM Shorts 774: Palace Winter
Expertly blending elements of noise pop, krautrock, dreamy indie rock, and shoegaze, Brooklyn based quartet Operator have shared their debut single, I, Banana. Pulling inspiration from artists such as Stereolab and Beak> the single is a consciousness burrowing mix of motorik rhythms and interlocking analog synth grooves. Check it out below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 773: Operator
Ease those back-to-work Monday morning blues with some gorgeous finger-picked folk from Sam Moss. Walking The Line is from his new Pitkin County Morning EP. Three sweetly plucked songs that are presented as works in progress – he simply describes them as a lo-fi preview of things to come. Lovely, lovely stuff. Have a listen and purchase for $3 from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Sam Moss
Following yesterday’s collection of ten excellent new tracks from the past week, here are another ten for your listening pleasure including three more cracking cover versions. Kurt Vile – Life Like This Holly Miranda – Fourth Of July (Sufjan Stevens cover) White Fang – Bong Rip The Dead Weather – Cop And Go Wavves – My Head Hurts Radkey – Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode cover) … Continue reading Twenty Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)
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