You know the drill I’m sure. Here then are no less than 13 collected new tunes from the past week for a perfect weekend playlist… 1. Surfer Blood – Hey Ya (Outkast cover) 2. Childbirth – Nasty Grrls 3. Yuck – Hold Me Closer 4. Diet Cig – Sleep Talk 5. Public Service Broadcasting – The Other Side 6. Chelsea Wolfe – After The Fall … Continue reading Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Nashville supergroup, Lylas, featuring members of Lambchop, Stone Jack Jones, Coupler, Natural Child and The Features have shared a new song Sensual People that is on repeat here. Beat-driven, hypnotic Americana? Yes please… . Continue reading MM Shorts 738: Lylas
Brooklyn-based neo-psych rock trio Sunflower Bean are gearing up for their first-ever label release, a 7” coming out on Fat Possum on July 24th. To mark the occasion they have released a new, hard-hitting song entitled The Stalker, which will be the forthcoming single’s b-side. It follows the equally good, previously released a-side, I Hear Voices (which we posted here). . Continue reading Sunflower Bean – Stalker
Jazz / punk / barrelhouse musician Stephanie Nilles will release her fifth full-length album, Uncle Stephanie’s Murder Ballads digitally via Attention Spaniel Records on July 31st with a physical autumn release (date TBD) via Tradition & Moderne. Uncle Stephanie’s Murder Ballads blends original songs with covers of artists such as Jelly Roll Morton (The Murder Ballad) and MaxNormal.tv (Laf Nag). It is an album built on the dark … Continue reading Stephanie Nilles – Uncle Stephanie’s Murder Ballads
We posted a track by The Legal Immigrants in our recent Monday round-up, and now we have another from them for your listening pleasure. Infusing the dirty garage band sounds of the 70s with a lo-fi analog recording, the Michigan four-piece have concocted a mean love song with their riff-heavy single Bily Goat (and that’s not a mis-spelling)! Listen / download it here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 737: The Legal Immigrants
Thayer Sarrano grew up in a monastery and then the swamp in southern, coastal Georgia. Classically trained as a child, awakened by Grunge in the 90s, with chanting forever in her subconscious, she had always written instrumental compositions and poetry. With two previous releases to her name, debut album, the sparse and raw King was released in 2009 and follow up LP, Lift Your Eyes to … Continue reading Introducing >>> Thayer Sarrano
Today our new Conservative government showed their true, reprehensible colours with the backdoor announcement of their plan to amend the Hunting Act and usher in a return of the cruelest and most savage of all cruel sports. It seems apt therefore that we have an excellent new song from Ultimate Painting that also lambasts this out-of-touch, arrogant, and thoroughly loathsome bunch. The duo of James Hoare (Veronica … Continue reading New From Ultimate Painting
T. Hardy Morris’ excellent new album Drownin On A Mountaintop is now available from all good record stores (as they used to say), but more commonly from all good digital outlets, including Bandcamp here. . Continue reading T. Hardy Morris – Drownin On A Mountaintop
Coming out from Leicester’s Luminous Music Collective are MidCity, a young four piece taking influences from Nirvana, Death from Above 1979 and The Killers and throwing out jagged, grumbling, dirty bass driven indie garage-rock. Check out the rather good Needles below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 736: MidCity
Spare Change and Drinks the debut EP of old time Americana sounds from Glasgow’s John MacKay will see a release via Different Circle Records on the 27th July. The singer-songwriter’s usual tool of acoustic guitar won’t be found on this record, with banjo, stompbox and fiddle in its place. Lead single 16 Times Around sets the scene of the record with its claw-hammer picked banjo and … Continue reading MM Shorts 735: John MacKay
The Mad Mackerel 