Drug Dealer is the new single from Toronto based singer-songwriter Mike Riley. He says of the song, “it was born from a feeling of hopelessness in a small, shitty one-store-town where the only thriving business is the local drug trade. It’s about feeling stuck, full of envy and betrayal as you watch the only people you care about move on.” Sounds pretty damn good to us… … Continue reading Mike Riley – Drug Dealer
We’ve already shared a couple of excellent tracks from Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures’ new album Tequila Island. Now we have a third for you – Living Without You – which is another lo-fi cracker. “I like the experience, the change, but living without you is strange,” laments Brinks in his signature nasal tones over a lazy lo-fi Americana roll. It is an ode to … Continue reading More From Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures + Live Dates
LA based grunge rockers Goon have recently signed to Partisan (home of IDLES and Fontaines D.C.) and have shared their satisfyingly crusty behemoth of a new single Check Engine Light, which comes from their upcoming debut album Heaven Is Humming (out on the 19th July). Have a listen. Continue reading Goon – Check Engine Light
We’re loving this single from emerging Brighton five-piece Youth Sector, a post-punk outfit offering up a blend of drawling vocal melodies and crooked guitars on new single Renting Spaces In My World. It sounds like it has come straight out of NYC in the early 1980s and definitely has echoes of Talking Heads, Devo and even some classic indie disco, but happily it ploughs its own furrow, … Continue reading Introducing >>> Youth Sector
Fresh from the release of their excellent debut album Dogrel, Fontaines D.C. have now shared a new video for album track Sha Sha Sha. The video takes place in the same the same circus company (Duffy’s) as featured on their album artwork. Watch it below – buy the album here. Continue reading Fontaines D.C. – Sha Sha Sha Video
The Goa Express will release their urgent new single The Day on Friday the 5th of July. It combines an unstoppable new wave rhythm and abrasive guitars with sneering vocals that brim over with the spirit of seizing the day while everything is falling apart around you. Sure, their sound may rustle with the ghosts of acts like The Stooges, Psychedelic Furs and contemporaries like … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Goa Express
Also out now via PNKSLM is Sudakistan’s brilliant new 7″ Automaton/Quiero Ser Tu Perro. Released on the 24th May, we’ve already shared the B side (a marvellous Iggy & The Stooges cover in Spanish), and the A side is equally good – a storming, irresistible slab of psych infused garage rock. Listen here. Buy it here. Sud Continue reading Sudakistan – Automaton
London based country-infused rock quintet Sleep Eaters will soon unveil their EP Holy Days on 9th August via Stockholm’s ever reliable PNKSLM Recordings. We were excited by their debut single Ghost on Fire last year and if anything Bad Love from the new EP is even better. It follows on from first taster Don’t Sell Your Soul and both are brilliant country-infused takes on garage rock. … Continue reading Sleep Eaters – Holy Days EP
Get Saturday off to a shredder. New videos from METZ, DZ Deathrays and Toronto’s Possum. Noisy. Continue reading METZ || DZ Deathrays || Possum – New Vids
A couple of weeks ago Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures shared their new single Sober In Barcelona, which is the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming new album, Tequila Island, released next week, 21st June on Fika Recordings. it’s an ode to a lost afternoon in the baking Spanish sun that sees Mr Brinks mournfully lamenting a period of sobriety on the … Continue reading Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures – Sober In Barcelona
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