There’s a name to conjure with! Jonny Shitbag & The Smokes are releasing a run of 50 transparent tapes titled You Could Not Have Given The Slightest Of Fucks, via French label Hidden Bay Records. There is not much to be gleaned about the band, and whether they actually still exist or not following the apparent disappearance of Jonny Shitbag himself. Anyway, here is The Song … Continue reading MM Shorts 994: Jonny Shitbag & The Smokes
Eels – The Deconstruction The Decemberists – Severed No Age – Send Me Haley Heynderickx – Untitled God Song Hot Snakes – Six Wave Hold-Down Bonny Doon – I Am here (I Am Alive) Radkey – Not Smart Micah P. Hinson – Beneath The Rose ((Marc Riley BBC 6 Music Session 06/11/2012) Jack Cooper – Fat Old Sun (Pink Floyd cover) The Soft Moon – Choke … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Ba Da Bing are releasing Daydream Time Machine, the first EP from Brooklyn’s Wooing. Led by Rachel Trachtenburg (of Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Supercute!) the trio play a rough hewn stripped down rock that evokes the charisma of The Breeders by way of Syd Barrett. Lead single, In Colour, displays the vintage influences that come into play: the urgency of underground 90s rock meets the psychedelic sounds … Continue reading MM Shorts 993: Wooing
A love letter of sorts to her native Richmond, here is the video for the anthemic and horn-accented upbeat new single Addictions, from Lucy Dacus. It comes from her upcoming new album Historian, which is out on the 2nd March. Continue reading Lucy Dacus – Addictions
Montreal quartet Ought have shared the bright guitar sound and ultimately noisy percussion and spaced-out synths of Disgraced in America, the second preview from their third LP Room Inside the World, out February 16th on Merge Records. The song is accompanied by this excellent animated video directed by Heather Rappard, involving glycerine as paint thinner and painstakingly shot in 15-second increments over the course of three weeks. Watch … Continue reading Ought – Disgraced In America
Amen Dunes (aka the project of New York-based Damon McMahon) will release his fifth album, Freedom, on 30 March via Sacred Bones. On the surface, Freedom is a reflection on growing up, childhood friends who ended up in prison or worse, male identity, McMahon’s father, and his mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the beginning of recording. The characters that populate the musical … Continue reading Amen Dunes – Miki Dora
We’ve already shared three cracking tunes with you today, and now we have another in the shape of LA based indie rockers Western Scene’s Strange But True. It is their latest single, released via Grand Jury Music, and is a chugging, exhilarating earworm of a song that we’ve had on repeat for a while. It recalls something of the best of Lord Huron or Wilco, with its irresistible … Continue reading MM Shorts 992: Western Scene
We posted a track from Italian garage-psych trio Bee Bee Sea in our most recent New Year Round Up, and now we have another for you, and it is an absolute cracker. The marvellously titled This Dog Is The King Of Losers also comes from their upcoming long player Sonic Boomerang, and undoubtedly has the riff of the year so far! A perfect mix of the outrageously … Continue reading Another From Bee Bee Sea
With its blend of visceral punk, scratchy art-rock and needling guitars, we’re loving Is This Disco?, the debut single from the brilliantly monikered Hitlist Youth. Listen below. The single is out officially on the 16th March via Flowers In The Dustbin. Order here. Continue reading MM Shorts 991: Hitlist Youth
Halifax’s fast-rising The Orielles have announced details of the excellently titled Blue Suitcase (Disco Wrist), the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming debut album, Silver Dollar Moment which is released on the 16th February via Heavenly Recordings. Talking about the track, the band said: “Blue Suitcase is a track that was mostly written over the last few days of summer, inspired by events, discussions … Continue reading New Single From The Orielles
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