The e-mails have piled up like never before in our in-box, and having started to trawl through them for a few hours last night, here are a few gems we came across to make Monday more bearable – some old(er), some new, some borrowed, and some blue(s). Or something like that…check them for yourself. Let’s kick off with the brilliant Total Sunflower by Chimes is … Continue reading Start Of The Week Round Up
We first featured Port Isla a couple of years ago on MM and they were also the first band we caught live at this year’s Great Escape festival so it was good to hear that they have now signed to Parlophone Records and will release a new four track EP titled In The Long Run in a couple of weeks time. Sitting somewhere between the … Continue reading New From Port Isla
The latest instalment of our regular feature of songs you really should have wrapped your ears around in the past seven days…this week has a bumper crop of eight cracking new tunes. 1. Father John Misty – Bored In The USA 2. The Decemberists – Make You Better 3. The Dodos – Competition 4. Emmy The Great – Swimming Pool 5. The Districts – 4th And … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have revealed the video to their album track, Satan Speeds Up. It is taken from their debut release for Heavenly Recordings, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz released on December 1, a skeleton of propulsive kraut-beat fleshed out with a liberal dose of citric sweetness, flutes and harmonicas, a ton of wah, and many lovely left turns of delicate psych. Watch … Continue reading New Video: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Satan Speeds Up
Texas garage skate-punks Riverboat Gamblers will release the first in a new series of 7″ records and digital singles for End Sounds on December 2nd. The single, entitled Dead Roach also features a cover of the Big Boys’ Sound on Sound. A likely first for any band, a limited version (100 available) of the vinyl (download code and digital booklet included) will be available only for … Continue reading New Riverboat Gamblers 7″
New UK/French flower punk band Bosco Rogers have unveiled the first track from debut EP GooGoo, which is out on Bleepmachine on the 1st December. Driven by a whistling riff and fuzzy guitar, The Middle is laid back, catchy-as-hell, sun-tinged psych-pop of the very best kind. Have a listen, then hum it all day long. . Continue reading MM Shorts 630: Bosco Rogers
Parkay Quarts (Andrew and Austin from Parquet Courts) are streaming their new release Content Nausea online in full. The “in between albums album” is now due out on November 17th November After the release of this year’s excellent Sunbathing Animal, the addition of this record adds an extra level of heft to an already banner year for Parquet Courts. . Continue reading Stream Parkay Quarts Content Nausea
The New Southern Electrikk draw inspiration from psychedelia, krautrock and post-punk, crafting dark, mesmerisingly beautiful melodies driven by gritty, pulsating basslines. They posted a demo cover of the Gun Club’s Mother of Earth and generated a whole shedload of interest. Hear what all the fuss was about… . Continue reading The New Southern Electrikk Cover The Gun Club
Stoned – A Psych Tribute To The Rolling Stones is a compilation of 14 covers of Stones classics by some of today’s leaders in experimental space rock including Clinic, Allah-Las, Cheval Sombre, Pure X and this fabulous version of She Smiled Sweetly by The Vacant Lots. Buy the album here. . Continue reading Vacant Lots Cover The Stones
T. Hardy Morris is following up last year’s wonderful solo debut The Audition Tapes with a new album, as yet untitled, that will see a release in 2015 on Dangerbird Records. The first single from it is the twangy, and fierce, Painted On Attitude, which fair bristles with country-grunge and garage rock swagger. It augers mighty well for the full release. Have a listen. . Continue reading New Solo Album From T Hardy Morris
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