We have loved the first two tracks, the fabulously filthy North Hollywood Microwaves and pummelling riffage of Ambulance City, shared from the forthcoming Pink Mountaintops album Get Back. Here is the official video for the latter. Brilliant stuff. . . . . Continue reading Video: Pink Mountaintops – Ambulance City
Sweden by way of Montreal band That Hillbilly Palace play a sweet brand of Americana, mixing acoustic and electric guitars, pedal organ, oboe, violin, accordion, and layered vocals to good effect on their five track EP The Tellers. Inhabiting a space somewhere between classic artists like Crosby Stills Nash & Young and The Band and contemporary leading lights like Band of Horses and The Low Anthem, … Continue reading Introducing >>> That Hillbilly Palace
The short psychological thriller, Are You Okay, was written by the inimitable Bret Easton Ellis and features the single of the same name by Dum Dum Girls. Watch it here. . . Continue reading Video: Dum Dum Girls – Are You Okay
Southern are Belfast-born, Liverpool-based brother and sister band Thom and Lucy Southern. They follow the acclaim for the Southern EP, with Where The Wild Are EP, another instinctive collection of songs that veer from juggernaut-sized blues-kissed rock’n’roll to gorgeously opaque pop-noir. Take a listen to the title track – it stomps and swoops, loaded with melody and the infectious vocal delivery. It’s leftfield pop with heart. … Continue reading MM Shorts 531: Southern
Shortly after releasing Positive Distractions Part I, Chicago’s Secret Colours release the first single, Heavy & Steady, from Positive Distractions Part II. The bass-heavy single showcases the quintet’s maturing psych-pop sensibilities heard throughout both EPs. Have a listen. . Continue reading Secret Colours – Heavy & Steady
A graffiti filled video for Japanther’s fuzzed-up, boisterous single Do It (Don’t Try) from forthcoming album Instant Money Magic. . . Continue reading Video: Japanther – Do It (Don’t Try)
Psych-folkies Two Wings will soon release their new album A Wake on Tin Angel records – out on the 14th April. It is a record about love, loss and moving on where psych-rock guitar is married to the keening whoosh of Hanna Tuulikki’s vocals. It calls to mind everything from Joanna Newsom to Richard and Linda Thompson, from pastoral, bucolic, traditional folk to quirky improvised Acid-Country … Continue reading Introducing >>> Two Wings
Having already given up Peepshow, we’re chuffed to be sharing a new track of stripped back, sloppy, devil-may-care punk from Austin’s Ghetto Ghouls. This time it is the tribal beat and metronomic curse and wail of Living Alone – 90 seconds of punk rock genius. Their self titled album (recorded in four hours) is out on the 8th April via Monofonus Press – pre-order here. … Continue reading New From Ghetto Ghouls
Multi-instrumentalist S. Carey may be best known for his work in tandem with a certain Bon Iver, but his new record, and his second solo release, Range Of Light may change all of that. To date he has shared two stunning songs from the record, Fire-Scene was first and now we have the glorious, delicately cascading folk of Crown The Pines, which is simply gorgeous. The album … Continue reading S. Carey – Crown The Pines
In April Horse Feathers will release a four cassette box set titled KRS Archives. It will include their lushly moving cover of Nirvana’s Drain You which was originally released in 2010. You can remind yourself how good it is below. . Continue reading Horse Feathers Cassette Box Set
The Mad Mackerel 