The Dead Tongues, the moniker of North Carolina based songwriter Ryan Gustafson, has released a new single off of his upcoming album, Transmigration Blues (out on the 26th June). Deja Vu, which features backup vocals from MM faves Mountain Man, is Gustafson’s light in the darkness song, a wistful track that serves as both a lamentation and a way forward, which culminates in the joyous, … Continue reading New Video: The Dead Tongues – Deja Vu
We recently shared a couple of tracks from Permanent Collection’s upcoming long player Nothing Good Is Normal (out this Friday – and all June digital sales of the record are going to the Anti Police Terror Project). Now we have a new track from the record to share with you. Breakaway – two minutes of ferociously propulsive noise-rock that is foot to the floor stuff from about … Continue reading Permanent Collection – Breakaway
We’re loving Golf Alpha Bravo’s (aka Gab Winterfield of Jagwar Ma) debut solo album The Sundog LP. Here is another track from it – some mellow psych-surf rock in the shape of Comet Loop, a sun-bleached hazy gem that bounces along on the back of a sweet 70s soul groove. Continue reading Golf Alpha Bravo – Comet Loop
Following the excellent seven minute plus epic of garage-psych glory that was Page Before, here’s another from Venus Furs, the moniker of Montreal’s Paul Kasner. Beginning with a heavy guitar riff Paranoia carries a tenacity that matches the song’s theme. A powerful exploration of mental illness examining the isolation and pain brought on from depression and anxiety. Catch the video below. The self-titled LP will … Continue reading More From Venus Furs
Yet another mighty fine discovery from Dublin, Pillow Queens new single Handsome Wife comes from their upcoming debut album In Waiting (due 25th September). Powerful, emotive indie rock can all too easily stray into the territory of the overwrought and the over melodramatic, and while this is the arena that the four-piece walk in, they tread carefully and confidently imbuing the single with a bruised … Continue reading Introducing >>> Pillow Queens
Arre! Arre! release their new EP Heavy Breathing on the 14th August via PNKSLM, and have shared another new single from it in the shape of the salaciously suggestive Make It Rain (SFP2). Stream it below, another fine example of their catchy, yet no holds barred, confrontational indie punk that draws from influences as diverse as Savages, James Brown and the Shangri Las. Continue reading Arre! Arre! – Make It Rain (SFP2)
Mossy Kilcher’s 1977 Private Press Double-LP Northwind Calling will get a digital re-release on the 10th July via Tompkins Square. Originally recorded for family and friends, the record is a love letter to the land outside Homer in Alaska, where her family lived as pioneers beginning in the late 1930’s and where she still resides to this day. It is a gorgeous folk record. The gentle … Continue reading Mossy Kilcher – Coyote’s Cry
Blitzen Trapper open their arms and embrace the world of psychedelic, cosmic Americana with new single Masonic Temple Microdose #1, a jaunty, twangy country bop that belies its lyrical message of American apathy and nihilism. Watch the video, and pre-order new album Holy Smokes Future Jokes from Bandcamp here. Continue reading Blitzen Trapper – Masonic Temple Microdose #1
Fontaines D.C. have shared a second track from their forthcoming album A Hero’s Death – out July 31 via Partisan. I Don’t Belong opens the album and with its lonely intensity, stands in stark relief to the swagger that kicked off their debut album last year (Big). Watch the video and take in all its brooding, resigned brilliance. File somewhere between the Pixies and Joy … Continue reading Fontaines D.C. – I Don’t Belong
Choctaw-American artist Samantha Crain has shared a new single and video, Pastime, which is from her forthcoming album, A Small Death, out July 17 via Ramseur Records/Thirty Tigers and Real Kind Records/Communion Records. A Small Death finds the Oklahoma-based artist confronting decades of grief, trauma, and an incapacitating physical pain which left her home in bed and barely able to perform or play an instrument. The … Continue reading Samantha Crain – Pastime
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