We first posted about Best Friends back in the summer, and since then they have signed to FatCat Records and are offering up a free download of Shred Til You’re Dead, which is taken from their forthcoming debut album. It is a propulsive whirl of jangly guitars and garage-pop fuzz and we like it a lot. Have a listen. . Continue reading MM Shorts 657: Best Friends
Building upon the interest that was provoked by last year’s tracks XXX and Swarm, two kraut-engined, lazer-guided garage rock missiles which introduced The Bohicas as a formidable new force of both brain and brawn, here is the video for their next single To Die For (out on March 2nd). Watch it below, and check out the earlier tracks too. . . . Continue reading Video: The Bohicas – To Die For
A veritable plethora of tunes to pick through this week – tunes that, by rights, you should already have been spinning… 1. Lower Dens – To Die In L.A. 2. Isobel Campbell – How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees cover) 3. Akron/Family – Everyone Is Guilty 4. Los Angeles Police Department – Insecurity 5. Gal Pals – Here’s To The Gals 6. Rye Pines … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Post-punk five-piece La Bete Blooms have released a free download of their latest single Stay Away and a striking collage video of guitars, teeth and blood, filmed at one of the Hull band’s favourite hangouts, Früit. It is the third and final single to be taken from the group’s debut self-titled EP, a barrage of guitar feedback, distorted bass and snarling vocals, reminiscent of the likes of … Continue reading New Video: La Bete Blooms – Stay Away
The American Spirit are a three-piece making the kind of thoughtful folk rock that fans of My Morning Jacket or Father John Misty might recognize. If there’s one thing their debut album, the enigmatically titled Season of Violence or Mourning, Protest, & Birth of Bishop Killborne, can be called, it’s diverse. Often shifting from dreamy, lackadaisical, free-roaming jaunts to fuzz-laden indie anthems to good ole’ folk ballads … Continue reading The American Spirit Debut Album
Anthemic and noisy. Pop racket. American Culture live out in the desert near four corners (where Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico meet.) There are no other bands there. No other references. They really like Guided By Voices, Jesus and Mary Chain and Dinosaur Jr. And also powerpop bands like The Soft Boys, The Shoes and The Records. They don’t really want the world to know … Continue reading Introducing >>> American Culture
Pedestrian At Best is the brilliantly acerbic first taste from Courtney Barnett’s much anticipated ‘proper’ debut album Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Think, which is released on March 23rd worldwide. . Continue reading New Video: Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian At Best
York duo …And The Hangnails have announced the release of their next single Everybody’s Luck on the 9th March, along with a series of new live dates to kick off the year. The two-piece formed back in 2011 with a DIY punk ethos and frenetic approach to both their live shows and releases, their debut album No Time For Naysayers was written and recorded in … Continue reading MM Shorts 656: …And The Hangnails
We posted recently about Amsterdam based garage punk band St. Tropez’s debut EP recorded live on the banks of a canal in a former gay sauna. This is their new single Cut Me Loose. . Continue reading New From St. Tropez
Beech Creeps have a new video for Son Of Sud. It’s like Motorhead kicking Superchunk’s backside and Soundgarden cheering them on. Or the Melvins eating the Cure. Real rock and roll with juice and bile and sweat and heart. . . Continue reading New Video: Beech Creeps – Son Of Sud
The Mad Mackerel 