Dr. Dog have shared a new track Listening In, which appeared in our Soundcloud feed this afternoon. All we’ve been able to establish thus far is that it comes from their Critical Equation album, which will be available on the 27th April. We also know it is another fine example of their psych infused Americana, carried along on metronomic percussion and a typically plaintive and questioning … Continue reading New From Dr. Dog
Chicago’s Meat Wave are back in business with the bracing one-two of new single Shame and Dogs at Night, the trio’s first new material since last year’s acclaimed The Incessant LP which arrived in March and made our end-of-year best of lists. Both tracks were recorded during the Incessant sessions and continue to mine the more playful, dexterous elements that the record brought to the band’s sound, all … Continue reading New From Meat Wave
Another of our round-ups of songs we should have posted from the end of 2017. Restless was a stomping single from Brooklyn-based folk rocker Common Jack. It’s anthemic take on Americana draws favourable comparisons to Lumineers, Neil Young and The Avett Brothers. Swedish indie rockers Francobello shared Future Lover, which rises and falls, building to a crescendo of gorgeous harmonies and ferocious guitar runs. LA-based Space-Psych … Continue reading New Year Round Up (Part 4)
First Aid Kit – Ruins Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain Suuns – Watch You, Watch Me Alela Diane – Ether & Wood Nap Eyes – I’m Bad Now Prism Tats – Daggers Public Access T.V. – Lost In The Game U.S. Girls – Pearly Gates Sunflower Bean – Crisis Fest Rik & The Pigs – America Frankie Cosmos – Jesse Kal Marks … Continue reading Fifteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Though a Chicago native for nearly two decades now, Jodee Lewis was raised in Osceola – a town of 800 people in the Missouri Ozarks. Her childhood home was down a secluded dirt track, set amongst 190 acres of woodland, where days were spent running through the trees, building forts and secret hideouts. She grew up in a household where Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Patsy … Continue reading MM Shorts 990: Jodee Lewis
In celebration of the 15th anniversary of their seminal album Let Go, Nada Surf are self-releasing Standing At The Gates: The Songs of Nada Surf’s Let Go, a charity album featuring a diverse list of artists covering the record including Aimee Mann, Rogue Wave, Ed Harcourt, Manchester Orchestra, Charly Bliss, Holly Miranda, Adia Victoria, and more. To ring in the announcement, the band has shared Ron … Continue reading Ron Gallo Covers Nada Surf
We’re hugely looking forward to the release of Drift, the new album from The Men, which is out on the 2nd March via Sacred Bones. The band have shared the album’s opener, Maybe I’m Crazy a wired, pulsating, synth-driven rocker complete with wonky sax at the end – it’s a cracker. Continue reading The Men – Maybe I’m Crazy
Suck The Blood From My Wound is the third single to be shared from Ezra Furman’s upcoming album Transangelic Exodus. It is a choppy, hook filled indie rocker that dials up the intensity and paranoia from his previous releases. Listen below, and pre-order the album, which is out on the 9th February, here. Continue reading Ezra Furman – Suck The Blood From My Wound
Car Seat Headrest, aka Will Toledo, has re-imagined and re-recorded his excellent 2011 Bandcamp masterpiece, Twin Fantasy, and it will come out on 16th February via Matador Records. It was a record Toldeo always knew he would return to (in fact it was part of his original deal with Matador), so far from a conventional re-recording, the follow up to 2016’s seismically brilliant Teens of Denial is a wholly revelatory, … Continue reading Car Seat Headrest Re-imagines Twin Fantasy Album & Announces UK Dates
Yep, the good stuff from last year keeps on coming… This time, we begin with Flesh from post-punk duo Chastity, a chaotic, antagonistic and downright eerie single released way back in October. Cut Worms (a.k.a. Max Clarke) shared Song of the Highest Tower, a seven minute track that combines a poignant, nostalgic Americana with classic Roy Orbison style licks. At the other end of the musical … Continue reading New Year Round Up (Part 3)
The Mad Mackerel 