Happyness have just announced a brand new double A-side single release in the form of long-time fan favourites Montreal Rock Band backed with the contrastingly upbeat It’s On You. The former is the track that won the band an NME Award for Best Lyric back in February. “I’m wearing Win Butler’s hair / There’s a scalpless singer in a Montreal rock band somewhere”. Awesome! Stream the … Continue reading New Single From Happyness
We have already shared the first two excellent singles from Du Blonde’s forthcoming album Welcome back To Milk which sees the light of day on the 18th May. Now we have a third, Hunter shows the other side to Beth Jeans Houghton’s reinvention – this time we have a heartbreaker ballad complete with massive emotional chorus that contrasts dramatically with the riff-heavy aggression of her previous singles. … Continue reading New Single From Du Blonde
Samantha Crain justifiably received much acclaim for last year’s excellent Kid Face album and will release the follow-up Under Branch & Thorn & Tree via Full Time Hobby on the 17th July. As with previous releases, her smoky, sultry voice is a distinctive joy, set further apart from the norm with her use of jazz style vocal phrasing. The album is a sombre one with … Continue reading New Album From Samantha Crain
My Me is the new single from T. Hardy Morris’s forthcoming long player Hardy & The Hardknocks: Drownin On A Mountain Top, out June 23rd via Dangerbird Records. It is a straight-up whiskey-fuelled rocker that sounds like it was just made for the wide open road, a high octane muscle car and some serious rebelling. Obviously we love it. Stream it here. Pre-order the album here. … Continue reading T. Hardy Morris Shares New Song
Mixing up flowery bubblegum fuzz, Nuggets-era garage beat and drugged-out psychedelia, Betrayers take the listener on a hallucinogenic journey across an eerie landscape inspired by late nights, bad behaviour, warped love, and total freedom. The Edmonton based six piece released their debut album Let the Good Times Die early last year, and now they’re back with the feverish rumble and freaked out grooves of the … Continue reading Betrayers – Love Rat 7″
Alberteen make what they describe as “rhythm & noir“, a compelling mix of garage-rock, punk and 60s pop-tones. Their forthcoming album Miss World is out on the 25th May, and a single, A French Connection precedes it by a week. Give it a spin below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 706: Alberteen
A much loved discovery of Mrs M’s, five piece pop folkies The Keston Cobblers Club are set to release their new album Wildfire on Tricolour Records /Absolute via Universal in June. Triggered by teenage obsessions with British power pop and Glaswegian indie dreamers, the twelve track collection is a sonic journey of sounds. Building on the band’s bedrock of urgent anthems, thumped drums, sweet strums and … Continue reading New Video: Keston Cobblers Club – Won’t Look Back
Celtic tinged folkies Red River Dialect will release a new album Tender Gold And Gentle Blue in July. The first taste comes with Fallen Tree – stream it below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 705: Red River Dialect
Here is the second part of our weekly round up of cracking new tunes – another nine from a bumper collection from the past seven days! See Part 1 here. 1. Titus Andronicus – Dimed Out 2. Angelic Milk – IDK How 3. Pet Symmetry – Gone Gone Gone (Even Further Gone) 4. God Damn – Vultures 5. Communions – Summer Oath 6. Guantanamo Baywatch – … Continue reading Songs You Should Have Heard This Weekend (Part 2)
You know the drill. SO many songs this week. Dive in. Enjoy. More tomorrow. 1. Chelsea Wolfe – Iron Moon 2. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Trevor Forever 3. Teleman – Strange Combinations 4. Marissa Nadler – Carnival 5. Daughn Gibson – It Wants Everything 6. Rose Windows – The Wanton Song 7. Cayucas – Moony Eyed Walrus 8. Yukon Blonde – Como … Continue reading Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
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