Falmouth four-piece Holiday Ghosts are back with their second LP West Bay Playroom, the follow-up to their very good self-titled debut album from 2017, which we featured a few times on MM. The band have a nicely authentic, primitive rock ’n’ roll sound that’s taps into the Velvet Underground and The Modern Lovers alongside some of the more contemporary garage rock acts, but on the … Continue reading Holiday Ghosts – West Bay Playroom
Fat Earthers -Letter Bomb Howe Gelb – A Thousand Kisses Deep (featuring M.Ward) The Chills – Bad Sugar Mount Hudson – Write A Book Yak -Fried Steve Gunn – Stonehurst Cowboy Continue reading Six Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Very sad to hear the news of Pete Shelley’s passing yesterday. One of the true punk pioneers and, with the Buzzcocks, created some timeless classics of irrepressible, irreverent, and thrilling punk rock. Here’s a small selection, together with his wonderful solo track Homosapien and the Honey Ants’ poignant cover of Ever Fallen In Love, which is gorgeous and probably just about right for the mood today. … Continue reading RIP: Pete Shelley
Traveling On is the title song from The Decemberists’ new EP, all five of which are unreleased tracks from the same sessions that produced their excellent album I’ll Be Your Girl. Top tune. Continue reading The Decemberists – Traveling On
It somehow seems appropriate that a band called Cabbage, an irreverent, malevolent, and downright scuzzy band to boot, should choose to share a Christmas record. The result, Smells Like Christmas, is another addition to their catalogue of churning, scathing post-punk releases imbued with more than their usual dose of grim, observational humour and existentialist dread. This is a festive song more likely to sit somewhere … Continue reading Cabbage – Smells Like Christmas
We’ve not been able to post much recently, which is a great shame, given how much good new stuff has been appearing over the last week or two. Chief amongst them is this eerie, evocative new track from Sharon Van Etten’s upcoming new record Remind Me Tomorrow (due out on January 18th). Titled Jupiter 4, you can stream it below or watch the particularly good … Continue reading Sharon Van Etten – Jupiter 4
It’s soon to be the most wonderful time of the year! And in the old tradition, Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert invites you to gather round the fire for Ghost Stories for Christmas. These are the ghosts of love, haunting happy homes and fairy-lit bars; these are the ghosts of memory, of haunted mirrors, pagan festivities, and unforgettable friends. Aidan Moffat’s quiet, pensive storytelling finds … Continue reading Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Ghost Stories For Christmas
Post Lovers, the Athens-based act of songwriter and vocalist Eleni Karageorgou have announced the release of their self-titled debut album, due out on December 10th via Inner Ear and they’ve also shared the album’s first single Tiger. It is gorgeously crafted and sweetly melancholic with echoes of Cate Le Bon and is well worth a listen. Great artwork too! Continue reading Introducing >>> Post Lovers
Moulded in the raw poeticism of Lou Reed and Nico-era Velvet Underground, sixteen year old Gabriella Rose’s dynamic songwriting comes from a deeply broken place. Her roots inject even more piercing context to the songs on her debut Lost In Translation EP, on which her voice houses her turbulent past – the loneliness, the uncertainty, and the gloom. But in analyzing her past, she has taken those experiences … Continue reading Introducing >>> Gabriella Rose
Loving this track of stripped back, insistently sparse folk from New York duo Frog. The wonderfully poignant and unrestrained Bones comes from new album Whatever We Probably Already Had It, out on Audio Antihero, and which can be ordered from Bandcamp here. Listen to it below, along with the (possibly equally good) frantic strum of American. Continue reading Frog – Bones
The Mad Mackerel 