Despite it being the height of the holiday season we’ve still collected together ten new songs for you from the past week. They include the return of Warpaint as well as more new tracks from Cass McCombs, Cheena, Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam, and JEFF The Brotherhood, and some lovely folk from Lisa / Liza. Explore away… Cass McCombs – Medusa’s Outhouse of Montreal – Let’s Relate … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Woozy, psych-pop weirdos, Happyness have announced that a brand new EP, titled Tunnel Vision On Your Part, will be released this September 23rd through Moshi Moshi Records. The lead track on the EP is Anna, Lisa Calls – stream it below. Continue reading New From Happyness
Drive-By Truckers have shared a new track, the powerful and poignant What It Means, from their much-anticipated new album, American Band, due out on 30th September via ATO Records. Describing the song, Patterson Hood said “it’s a song I wrote a couple of years ago protesting the Ferguson decision and the Trayvon Martin killing. Unfortunately, the song is still timely today. I hope and pray that … Continue reading Drive-By Truckers – What It Means
We’ve previously posted a couple of tracks from San Francisco based four-piece Cool Ghouls’ new album Animal Races – the follow up to band’s excellent 2014 album A Swirling Fire Burning Through the Rye. They have updated the raw, primitive sound of their debut into a refreshingly contemporary take on classic psych-rock and the laid-back Spectator is another excellent example. The album is out on the 19th August. … Continue reading Cool Ghouls – Spectator
The eleventh installment from the Adult Swim Singles Program is from MM faves Detroit post punk outfit, Protomartyr. The track titled Born To Be Wine is another one of their disquieting, uncomfortable indie rock gems, featuring timeless riffs and typically sardonic lyrics from frontman Joe Casey. Check out the new track below, and share and download it for free via AdultSwim.com Continue reading Protomartyr – Born To Be Wine
Usually drawing on a heady brew of Pink Flag Wire, The Fall, Wipers and Deerhunter, Murmur of the Heart is the third track from Cold Pumas’ new record The Hanging Valley and is possibly their “poppiest” moment yet. It follows two other cracking singles, the brilliant, epic sludged-out motorik of Fugue States and the post-punk smear of Severed Estates. Stream all three below. We’re looking forward to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Cold Pumas
As we have been soaking up the rays in Crete this week it seems appropriate to share a track from Holy Monitor who also hail from the sunbaked Mediterranean shores of Greece. They seamlessly blend acid-drenched, neo-psychedelia with krautrock to create dreamy, groove-heavy soundscapes. Golden Light/Aeolus brings together the groups two self-released digital EPs for the first time, creating the perfect summer album for turning on, tuning … Continue reading Introducing >>> Holy Monitor
Having spent a mighty fine week soaking up the sunshine in Crete we are feeling pretty good about life. And if that wasn’t enough here are ten of the best of the week’s new releases (as judged by us of course). They Include the very welcome return of fire and brimstone gothic folkies Wovenhand and Argentinian garage-posters Las Kellies, cracking tracks from Bueno and Okkervil River, … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
So Cow have now been around for over 10 years. Lisa Marie Airplane Tour is their fifth album, although there are those who could argue that it is number six, seven or eight depending on how much value can be placed on temporary bandcamp releases or hastily uploaded .zip files. No matter, these are twelve songs about anxiety; written in the midst of it, but … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… So Cow
Out today on Lazy Octopus Records, Under The Palm Trees is the first new material from Anti Pony since their debut 7″ on PNKSLM in 2014. It is a perfect slice of hazy, summer-soaked psych-pop infused with a spaghetti western twang. Perfect. Give it a spin. Continue reading MM Shorts 864: Anti Pony
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