It has been more than a couple of years since we featured London based garage-popsters Love L.U.V. They have shared a new track, a cover of Buddy Holly’s Maybe Baby, released exclusively for Record Store Day as part of the Don’t Try compilation (a title borrowed from Bukowski’s headstone) for American indie label Worker Bee Records. Borrowing their name from the immortal spoken word intro to … Continue reading Love L.U.V. Cover Buddy Holly
The Pop Group and Sleaford Mods will release a split 7” on Monday June 18th through Freaks R Us. The single features Face To Faces a raw alternate version of a vitriolic track featured on the forthcoming Sleaford Mods new album, and Nations, a track taken from Citizen Zombie, The Pop Group’s recently acclaimed album. Listen to both here. . . Continue reading Sleaford Mods & The Pop Group Announce Split 7″
It can’t be anything other than a good day when a new indie-guitar band turns up in your in-box with just enough bravado and swagger matched with the necessary grit and urgency to carry things off. So it is with The Doctorates, a Kent three-piece boasting influences from The Ramones to The Vaccines, and their new single Make For An Exit which boasts plenty of ’70s punk influences … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Doctorates
As you might expect from a band named after a Dylan song, New York’s Hollis Brown mix gritty Americana, rootsy twang and classic country rock into a seductive simmering whole. Have a listen to 3 Shots the title track from their forthcoming album out on May 5th on Jullian Records. Pre-order from Amazon here. . Continue reading Hollis Brown – 3 Shots
Scarlet Rascal are a young four piece Bristol based band with influences ranging from Roxy Music to the The Strokes, and from Television to The Fall. Newly signed to Invada Records, their first single is Venus – stream it below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 699: Scarlet Rascal
Tim Foljahn’s solo records have always been inward looking. They’re sparsely set, late night interior monologues intoned in an echoey baritone that pretty much defines the sound of being alone. His latest solo album, Fucking Love Songs, is out now on Kiam Records. With a beautifully layered, dense, full-band sound that amplifies Foljahn’s evocative songs, you can listen to Legends with its cavorting, porch-picked guitar lick, its lilting, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Tim Foljahn
This coming week Negative Fun Records will release No Jerks Allowed, the latest cassette EP from Pretty Greens. Full of melodic punk-pop, surf-rock, and garage swagger, Pretty Greens like to play it fast and loose. Listen to Tiny Locket below and pre-order from the label here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 698: Pretty Greens
Fehm craft thunderous songs channelling the best of post punk and hardcore. They are songs about desperation, unemployment, anxiety and the urban decay of 21st century Britain, all perfectly displayed on their forthcoming debut EP Animal Skin, released this April on cassette and digital download. Listen to Hand to Mouth below and order the EP from Bandcamp here. . Btw that reminded me that Urban Decay were … Continue reading MM Shorts 697: Fehm
You know the drill. Our weekly gathering of new songs released this week. 1. Best Coast – Feeling OK 2. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Gloria 3. Rose Windows – Strip Mall Babylon 4. Wolf Alice – Bros 5. Susanna – Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen cover) 6. Spray Paint – Day Of The Rope 7. Iron & Wine / Ben Bridwell – Bulletproof Soul (Sade … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
To celebrate Record Store Day, Blitzen Trapper are releasing a note-perfect live cover of Neil Young’s seminal Harvest album. This is their faithful, and reverent, cover of Heart of Gold. . Continue reading Blitzen Trapper Cover Neil Young
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