Sometimes you get an email from a band that already pretty much sums up everything we might want to say about a record in a couple of brilliant sentences. Deeside’s Chupa Cabra is a perfect case in point. First, they describe their music as “nauseating, salivating, hypnotizing, no good sucker-punch-piss-yourself polystyrene agitator Blues“. Nice! And they go on to describe their new single Violent Urges … Continue reading Introducing >>> Chupa Cabra
Slumlord is the brilliant first taste from Baxter Dury’s new album The Night Chancers, which will see a release in March next year. As one of the UK’s most interesting songwriters, he once again inhabits the song like a second skin, waxing lyrical in a literate and sharply observed way that very few can even hope to emulate let alone match. It is a tale … Continue reading Baxter Dury – Slumlord
Silverbacks are one (of quite a few it must be said) of our favourite Irish bands of the moment. They have a new single planned: Sirens, backed with Drool, which will be available as a limited edition double A side 7″ from the end of January. You can stream the lead track here – a wonderfully taut and spindly track that bristles with sardonic intent and its … Continue reading Silverbacks – Sirens
New Zealand’s Salad Boys are releasing a new single This Issue backed with Onwards And Downwards. It is another in a growing catalogue of jangly, razor sharp indie rock tunes and you can stream both below, watch a video or get is as a name-your-price download on Bandcamp here. Continue reading Salad Boys – This Issue
A few weeks ago we shared some tracks from Uncut magazine’s Wilco covers CD. Longstanding MM faves The Handsome Family also contributed a cover – of Capitol City – from 2011’s The Whole Love. Like pretty much everything they do, it is wonderful and Loose have now released it as a single. Enjoy. And the original… Continue reading The Handsome Family – Capitol City (Wilco cover)
Fiercely independent Swedish duo ShitKid’s upcoming release Duo Limbo/”Mellan himmel å helvete” presents four incendiary new blasts of grungy punk as they were originally conceived. Firstly as English-language tracks, before “Mellan himmel å helvete” (‘Between Heaven and Hell’) takes the same instrumental tracks and lays new Swedish vocals over the top. The effect is two sides of the same coin, defined by the subtle differences in … Continue reading ShitKid – Get Jealous
Human Touch is the new single from Nottingham duo Whisky Stain. A lean howl of squalor and heartache, the track adds a soupçon of tenderness to an otherwise raw and visceral punch to the guts – file somewhere near BRMC, Royal Trux and Death From Above 1979. Stream it below, or watch the single’s video – an emotive study of sexuality, violence, stigma and healing. Buy … Continue reading Introducing >>> Whisky Stain
Drive-By Truckers’ first new LP in more than three years – THE UNRAVELING – will be released at the end of January. The songs that have eventually emerged for the new record are shaped by our troubled times and number among the band’s most direct and pointedly provocative, tackling head-on the myriad horrors of our new normal. The first track to be shared illustrates this … Continue reading Drive-By Truckers – Armageddon’s Back In Town
Undoubtedly one of our favourite discoveries of last year, Portugal’s Sunflowers combine pummelling Stooges style proto-garage punk with some far out psychedelics into a brew that, as well as being irresistible, would also blow a smoking hole in your speakers. They have announced a new album, Endless Voyage (order here) which is a conceptual sci-fi record about the end of the world, the rise of the … Continue reading Sunflowers Announce New Album. Share Dreamweaver Single
The Restless Bear label’s first vinyl release is a split EP from GRAVVES and Deh-Yey. We have both tracks for you – North Wales noisy alternative punks GRAVVES have shared a new video for Jaws, fairly precisely dubbed a “short, hectic and animated barrage of riff-heavy punk rock” While Chester’s Deh-Yey scornfully question the all pervasive influence of mobile technology and social media with A Matter of Life & … Continue reading Split EP: GRAVVES & Deh-Yey
The Mad Mackerel 