Courtney Barnett is releasing Everybody Here Hates You as a standalone single and as an exclusive 12″ single for Record Store Day. Everybody Here Hates You is built on a bluesy guitar chug and is a a rollicking paean to depression and self-belief; complete with squalling guitars, organs and tambourines. Watch the lyric video below. Continue reading Courtney Barnett – Everybody Here Hates You
Back at the beginning of last year we posted Italian glam-punk stompers Bee Bee Sea’s brilliant This Dog Is The King Of Losers. Now they’re back with a new single Be Bop Palooza, which is another insanely catchy riffola of a tune – a powerful, motorik rhythm that opens to a sticky chorus enriched with falsetto singing, while singer Wilson Wilson tells about his struggles … Continue reading New Single From Bee Bee Sea
In stark contrast to our earlier post featuring the sweet strum of The Lumineers we now have Pile’s new single – the excellently named The Soft Hands Of Stephen Miller. A song about the threat posed by the President’s far-right advisor. It is noisy and brutal and ferocious and we are loving all two minutes of it – for anyone who has a tune by … Continue reading Pile – The Soft Hands Of Stephen Miller
The Lumineers will release their new album III on September 13th through Dualtone in the U.S. and Canada and Decca Records for the rest of the world. The album is darker in tone than previous albums and is presented in three chapters, with each one centering on one main character from a fictitious family known as the Sparks, who span three generations in the album’s … Continue reading The Lumineers Announce new Album, Share Gloria
together PANGEA have shared a new track, Never Said I Wanna, from their upcoming Dispassionate EP, out on the 31st May. It is breezy, upbeat indie rock that casts a knowing backward glance to the surfing tunes of the 60s. Give it a listen. Continue reading together PANGEA – Never Said I Wanna
Portsmouth based psych aficionados, Is Bliss, have announced the release of their debut album Strange Communication, released on the 7th June via Club AC30. Formed via a shared love of Slowdive, Spacemen 3 and Verve, the band paint a sprawling, reverb filled sonic landscape mixing hypnotic, drug induced reveries with explosive noise, droning instrumentation and plenty of emotional rawness. Listen to an intimate and confessional … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Is Bliss
Field Medic, the moniker of Los Angeles-based folk artist Kevin Patrick, has released the bottle’s my lover, she’s just my friend (possibly our favourite song title of the year so far), from his forthcoming album fade into the dawn that will be released on April 19 via Run For Cover Records. The new album features ten sparse, acoustic tracks that reckon with our perceptions of success … Continue reading Field Medic – New Album and New Single – The Bottle’s My Lover, She’s Just My Friend
Loving these two tracks from Spectator. The band consists of wife and husband duo, Megan Rooney and Jeffrey Albert, who first met in 2006 in Saint Louis, Missouri. After years of playing each other’s songs, they began to cultivate their individual ideas that naturally blended together to form Spectator. Apparently the duo draws comparisons to the dream-pop sensibilities of Mazzy Star and early Tennis, which … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Spectator
San Francisco indie duo The Dodos have shared a new single, The Surface. It is a standalone single that follows the release of their excellent album of last year Certainty Waves. Stream it below. Continue reading New Single from The Dodos
Discovering LIFE at Truck Festival back in 2017 was one of our festival highlights, so much so we went straight out and bought a vinyl copy of their excellent debut long player Popular Music. A follow-up is (thankfully) due for release this year and they’re sharing the biting first single, Moral Fibre, which is out today via Afghan Moon / PIAS, and is available for … Continue reading New Single From LIFE
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