Taking influences as disparate as Bad Brains, Neu, The Birthday Party and minimal techno, the visceral Girl Band were one of the best live shows from our trip to The Great Escape. We’ve already posted their new single De Bom Bom, and now we have the B-side for you, a crushing cover of Beat Happening’s I Love You. Released on 7″ by Dublin’s Any Other City Records, … Continue reading Girl Band Stream I Love You (Beat Happening Cover)
Asheville-based garage rockers The Tills release their new six-track EP today, capturing smoldering definitive versions of songs upon which the band have built their raucously fun reputation. The vinyl 7” features 4 songs as well as a digital download card offering two additional tracks. Check out the catchy, garage-pop classic-in-waiting Gee Golly below. Continue reading MM Shorts 602: The Tills
Brooklyn’s Backwords blends modern psychedelics with folk-rock, 60s-pop and a myriad other sonic surprises. Gentle, lazy melodies that cannot be forgotten, and a swooping darker underside mean nothing can be taken for granted – be it in lyrical cynicism, primal growl, or feed backing improvisations – in between the sun-drenched, flowery pop melodies, freak-outs are always welcomed. New album Nest is released on September 16th, check … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Backwords
Karen O will release her solo album Crush Songs on the 9th September. A record of resolutely lo-fi bedroom recordings that were put together during 2006 and 2007, the first taste comes with Rapt. Pre-order the record here. . Continue reading Karen O – Rapt
Saint Saviour releases her new album of layered, lush, pastoral folk, In The Seams, on November 4th through Surface Area. The lead single is the achingly beautiful I Remember, watch the video below. “I remember when we would hang about in hollow trees New sounds, sitting smoking leaves Walking past boarded up windows gets you down Shit town, knew you couldn’t breathe” . Continue reading New Video: Saint Saviour – I Remember
We’re loving the punk-pop of Hot 97 Summer Jam, the lead track from a new EP from Chumped called That’s The Thing Is Like. It precedes a debut full length, Teenage Retirement later in the autumn. Describing themselves as “bummer punk”, the track has an opening salvo which just about sums up their expectations of the classic girl-meets-boy scenario. “We’re reading books We’re drinking coffee I’m looking … Continue reading Introducing >>> Chumped
Having already posted Cinnamon, the lead track from the Dirty Nil’s latest single, we now have the B side for your aural delight. Check out the equally raw and bruising Guided By Vices. Visit their Bandcamp page here, or order the vinyl from Fat Wreck Records here. . Continue reading The Dirty Nil – Guided By Vices
Finish the weekend by submerging yourself in the lovely, warm Americana of Elijah Ocean’s Ride It Out, a sweetly evocative and plaintive track that recalls such luminaries as Neil Young, Gram Parsons and The Band. It is taken from his forthcoming album Bring It All In, released on October 8th via New Wheel. . Continue reading MM Shorts 601: Elijah Ocean
Long standing psych-rockers Asteroid No.4 have announced they will be releasing their eighth full-length album this autumn. The band have shared a couple of tracks already from the record, the transcendent, fuzzed-out first track, Rukma Vimana and the pulsating, hypnotic Back Of Your Mind. Mixing krautrock, shoegaze, folk and some cosmic country whilst employing sitars, eastern-tinged sparsity, and space-rock fueled anthems, the results are a heady and gratifying stew of … Continue reading New From Asteroid No. 4
Here are a couple of tracks from Quiet Life’s recent, excellent EP Housebroken Man. The first, the title track, features a rollicking cameo from Cary Ann Hearst from Shovels & Rope, and the second, a mesmerising and poignant cover of Townes Van Zandt’s Waiting Around To Die features Jim James of My Morning Jacket. Buy it here. . . Continue reading Quiet Life – Housebroken Man
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