Category: Alternative

Alternative, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Rock

NGHTCRWLRS Share Fear And Greed

Somewhat appropriately after yesterday, NGHTCRWLRS have shared their latest single, Fear And Greed. The band describe it thus,, “Fear and Greed is about modern capitalism, an ideology that almost all Americans from a very young age are taught to respect and believe to be intrinsically good. The issue is that no single economic ideology is intrinsically good. Any system without true checks and balances can be corrupted, … Continue reading NGHTCRWLRS Share Fear And Greed

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Tobin Sprout – Future Boy / Man Of Tomorrow

Tobin Sprout, formerly of indie rock icons Guided by Voices, will release his sixth solo album The Universe and Me via Burger Records in February. The record was hatched during a seven-year gestation period that included unearthing lost recordings and digging through a treasure chest of memories in his home studio in Michigan, where he composed behind his shambling grand piano and trembling, boyish voice. First single is … Continue reading Tobin Sprout – Future Boy / Man Of Tomorrow

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Alternative, Garage, Music, Pop, Rock

MM Shorts 890: Chemtrails

London quintet Chemtrails return with a new single Burnt Shadows, the second taken from their upcoming debut EP Love In Toxic Wasteland (due on the 9th December, via PNKSLM Recordings). It is an addictive three and a half minute blast of garage pop about dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. Stream it below. Pre-order the EP here.   Continue reading MM Shorts 890: Chemtrails

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Alternative, Country, Garage, Indie, Music, Punk, Rock, Rock & Roll

Swampmeat – Sister Mary

Swampmeat is the project of Dan Finnemore, former co-frontman of US rock & roll act Low Cut Connie and the drummer from The Castillians, as well as a former member of Birmingham cult act Black Mekon. Swampmeat’s official debut release Gin & Tonic is out on the 25th November 25 via PNKSLM Recordings (pre-order here or digital here). It is a collection of countrified rock and roll, straddling … Continue reading Swampmeat – Sister Mary

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The Trance Farmers – The Veil

The Trance Farmers deal in stupidly infectious sample-based bedroom psych-pop, demented soul and greasy glam-punk and all are in evidence on new cassette release For Whom The Scarecrows (order here). Listen to The Veil below, a song that sounds like it comes from a long lost Addams Family soundtrack album and in just over two minutes manages to rhyme veil, with pale, trail, nail, frail, tale, and … Continue reading The Trance Farmers – The Veil

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Las Kellies – Celebrate Life

No one does infectious garage-pop as well as Argentinian trio Las Kellies. New single Celebrate Life is the perfect case in point – an irresistible combination of buzzsaw garage rhythms and doo-wop pop harmonies. The single is taken from the new record Friends & Lovers out now on Fire Records. They tour Europe from November. Brighten up your day below.   UK Tour Dates 06 … Continue reading Las Kellies – Celebrate Life

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Alternative, Americana, Blues, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Rock

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Here is the latest round up of our favourite new releases of the past week gathered from our in-box and the internet. We have the return of psych-rock heavyweights Moon Duo, a Beatles cover from Yuck and new offerings from Foxygen, Methyl Ethel, Duke Garwood and Surfer Blood. Breast Massage is a Nashville supergroup of sorts featuring members of JEFF The Brotherhood, Diarrhea Planet and King Karl and … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Live Review: TRAAMS (Bullingdon, Oxford)

It has long been a frustration that Oxford, a city with such a rich recent heritage of music, should be so poorly served by live music nowadays. Fourth rate tribute bands, pointless 70s and 80s reunion tours and over-hyped next-big-things clog up what remains of the city’s venues ad nauseam. Every time we check the tour dates of bands and artists we’d love to see … Continue reading Live Review: TRAAMS (Bullingdon, Oxford)

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New Single From Abattoir Blues

Brighton five piece Abattoir Blues channel all their social injustice frustrations and emotive issues through a very distinctive wall of sound – part psych, part noise, part sludge rock, part punk. All good. The band have just shared their new track Fading. It is released tomorrow on 7” vinyl alongside lead track Sense (order here). Fading is a blistering slab of caustic post-punk, written following public and media … Continue reading New Single From Abattoir Blues

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Alternative, Blues, Garage, Gothic, Industrial, Music, Post Punk, Rock

Dale Barclay Is Back With And Yet It Moves

Man we loved the Amazing Snakeheads – watching their show with Chris T Popper at the Great Escape was one of the most captivating, uncompromising and downright threatening live performances we’ve ever witnessed – due in no small part to frontman Dale Barclay. Their ultimate disintegration was as sad as it was seemingly inevitable. And now after two years away, he is back with a new … Continue reading Dale Barclay Is Back With And Yet It Moves

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