Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Well here we go again with another collection of ten top notch new tunes picked from the past seven days, purely for your edification and enjoyment. Father John Misty – Maybe, Sweet One, You Won’t Have Nightmares Tonight Rats On Rafts – Some Velvet Morning (Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood cover) The Raveonettes – The World Is Empty (Without You) Frankie Cosmos – Sinister Summer … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Art Is Hard Singles Club – Two White Cranes

Art Is Hard, one of our favourite labels have announced their 2016 singles club – the pin pal club. Each month for the rest of 2016 they will be releasing a new and exclusive single from the likes of Two White Cranes, Dirtygirl, Small Wonder and many more. Each single will be released as a 1″ enamel pin badge complete with backing card and download code. You … Continue reading Art Is Hard Singles Club – Two White Cranes

MM Shorts 813: New Cowboy Builders

New Cowboy Builders are a Bristol based band originally from South Wales that have put out a couple of EPs in the last few years independently, and have an album coming out soon on Bath’s Killing Moon Records. The first track released from it is the intriguingly titled Top Jokes Only A Receptionist Would Get, which is a satisfyingly brutal slab of noisy, confrontational punk rock. … Continue reading MM Shorts 813: New Cowboy Builders

Mind Spiders Announce New Album

Prosthesis is the fourth album in five years from Mark Ryan’s shadowy, shape-shifting “solo” band Mind Spiders. Based in Ft. Worth, TX, Mind Spiders launched pretty much immediately after his last project, the well-loved, highly-influential Marked Men went on indefinite hiatus at the beginning of 2009. Incorporating garage rock, post-punk, bedroom pop, krautrock, and tons of other obscure references throughout the eight song LP, everything blends seamlessly … Continue reading Mind Spiders Announce New Album

More From Sennen

After four years away, Sennen returned with details of a new album, First Light, and a new track of dream-pop inspired shoegaze in the form of the ear-phone friendly Autopilot. Now the four-piece have given us Still Dark, a brisk metronomic and chorus-less single confirming their existence in the outer reaches – of both sound and music. Stream it below.   twitter-follow screen_name=’madmackerel’] Continue reading More From Sennen

Miranda Lee Richards – First Light Of Winter

Echoes Of The Dreamtime is Miranda Lee Richards’ third studio album and first release in more than six years. We have already shared the atmospheric psych-folk of 7th Ray in our 100 in 100 series of posts, and the follow up First Light Of Winter is no less enthralling. Clocking in at just under seven minutes it swirls with an undercurrent of tension and menace … Continue reading Miranda Lee Richards – First Light Of Winter

Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 11)

The songs keep piling up in the in-box – too many to do justice to – but here are ten choice picks for you to decide… hit or miss? Claire Cronin – Sister And Devil  [RIYL: Experimental folk, Karen Dalton, Jason Molina]   Stranded Horse – Monde  [RIYL: Orchestral folk, Loch Lemond, Horse Feathers]   Heck – Good As Dead  [RIYL: Noise-rock, Pulled Apart By Horses, … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 11)

Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Here we are again, and another fine selection of new tunes from the past week for you to savour… Matthew E. White – Cool Out (Featuring Natalie Prass) Spookyland – God’s Eyes DIIV – Is The Is Are Adia Victoria – Dead Eyes Laura Gibson – The Cause Audacity – Dirty Boy Public Access T.V. – On Location Naps – Social Skills       … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

MM Shorts 812: Margaret Glaspy

We’re loving the sounds from this two track EP, taken from the upcoming album from Margaret Glaspy. It might not seem a very rock’n’roll name, but don’t judge a book by its cover! Guitars crunch, vocals spit, snarl and snap and it is clear that this is someone who is not to be taken lightly. These are tunes that are pragmatic, unsentimental, independent, and a damn … Continue reading MM Shorts 812: Margaret Glaspy