We’ve already shared Daddy Issues’ marvellous track The Bruise from their Ugly When I Cry cassette release via Infinity Cat (out 30th June). Now we have the second single, Unicorns & Rainbows (Boyfriend), which might just be their best yet as a potential boyfriend is given short shrift over one of the best guitar refrains we’ve heard in a punk song for a good long while. Order from Infinity … Continue reading Another From Daddy Issues
Boston’s Tomboy exhibit all the verve, energy and sass that you could ever want from a screw-you, all-girl punk group. New seven track release Sweetie is full of come-ons and put-downs, coyly cooed harmonies and vicious, scorching guitars. Anti-creep opener Tomboy Anthem is a 90 second call to arms whilst the righteous fury of I’m In The Fucking Band is a metaphorical punch in the face … Continue reading Introducing >>> Tomboy
We’re loving this new single from SF’s Happy Diving. It is the follow up to the excellent short, sludgy punk of last year’s Big World debut long player. You can stream So Bunted below, a song that somehow manages to match a purposeless, melancholy feel to an energetic, purposeful riff and make the juxtaposition work perfectly. Buy from Topshelf Records here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 725: Happy Diving
This week we have collected no less than ten new releases for your listening pleasure. Every one a winner! 1. Ausmuteants – Echo Beach (Martha & The Muffins cover) 2. Bueno – Assed Out 3. Day Wave – Drag 4. The Foetals – Fine 5. Nathaniel Rateliff – S.O.B. 6. The Lighthouse And The Whaler – I Want To Feel Alive 7. The Creeping Ivies – … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Stiff Cats are a psych-rock band with one foot firmly, and unapologetically set in the more acid-fried end of the swinging sixties. Thankfully the other is embedded in more contemporary times allowing them to pay their dues to their influences without slipping into pastiche or parody. Watch the videos for Electric Velvet (the title taken from a quote from Tom Wolfe’s counter-culture classic The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test. The … Continue reading Introducing >>> Stiff Cats
Avalanche, the new EP from Canadian songwriter Kalle Mattson, is set for release on the 21st August on HOME Music Co. While still firmly anchored in his folk roots, lead single A Long Time Ago is built around a delayed hip hop beat and features plenty of synths as well as a drum machine, and perfectly encapsulates the EP’s themes of anxiety, nostalgia, the past, and the … Continue reading Kalle Matson – Avalanche EP
On the day that we lost screen legend Sir Christopher Lee it seems fitting to share this new video from Scots Trembling Bells for Sweet Death Polka, imbued as it is with a real undercurrent of bucolic menace that resembles Lee’s own favourite film, the 1971 pagan horror classic The Wicker Man. It is nothing less than you’d expect from a band that delight in feverish … Continue reading New Video: Trembling Bells – Sweet Death Polka
Brighton’s Slum Of Legs have released their second single via Tuff Enuff Records. Renowned for their exhilarating live shows, risk taking and uncompromising attitude, Doll Like is a brilliant, pummelling motorik punk track that comes across like some kind of freakish amalgamation of Sons & Daughters rhythms with the joyous sleaze of the Fat White Family – it is a clarion call echoing the vibrant queer DIY scene flourishing around the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Slum Of Legs
Widowspeak are back with a new album of elegant dream-pop and slowcore rock and roll full of easygoing melodies and dusty, snaking guitars. Titled All Yours, it will be released on Captured Tracks on September 4th. They have shared the title track via NPR here, and also shared the first single Girls which you can stream below. . . Continue reading Widowspeak Announce New Album
Scott Bartenhagen is a native of the tiny town of Lathrop in California’s Central Valley, and a folk singer and guitar player. In Lathrop, he picked up his mum’s guitar in 6th grade, got into jazz, and eventually found his way into Tejano music group Los Bandidos, a band he toured with for several years, before engineering an indie folk sound all his own. He … Continue reading Introducing >>> Scott Bartenhagen
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