100 Songs In 100 Hours: 7 – Baby In Vain

Here is Copenhagen’s Baby In Vain’s latest song Worthwhile. Sinister and sleazy, it is a creeping and unsuspecting track which explodes into action with guitars as riotous as they are sultry and effortlessly cool vocal harmonies from Lola Hammerich and Andrea Thuesen.   100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 7 – Baby In Vain

100 Songs In 100 Hours: 5 – Murder Shoes

Daydreaming is the recently released full-length debut from Minneapolis based indie rock band, Murder Shoes. The album features eleven compelling tracks of dark, reverb-heavy guitar and sultry female vocals. None more so than this track, Girls Named Benji. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 5 – Murder Shoes

100 Songs In 100 Hours: 1 – Roy Peak

We thought we’d start in 2016 with 100 posts in 100 hours, a series of shorts rounding up some of the new, unheard, obscure and other tracks we missed from last year that remain in our inbox, but more than deserve to be heard. We’re kicking off with the brilliant Mean Girl Blues from Roy Peak from his album All Is Well. A visceral and savage slab … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 1 – Roy Peak

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Here we go, a new year and no less than nine new songs including welcome returns for Dr. Dog, Richmond Fontaine, The Dandy Warhols, Wintersleep, Steve Mason, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy amongst others. Dr.Dog – Bring My Baby Back Richmond Fontaine – Wake Up Ray Savages – Adore Wintersleep – Amerika The Dandy Warhols – You Are Killing Me Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Rich Wife … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

New Video: Meatraffle – Nice Young Couple

Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2016 with Chris T Popper’s first recommendation of the year for you. The excellently named Meatraffle are new to us, but on the evidence of Nice Young Couple, a brilliantly lo-fi, ramshackle tale of drug dealing in the local community, we will be checking out their debut album Hi Fi Classics immediately. Watch the video for it here.   Continue reading New Video: Meatraffle – Nice Young Couple

MM Shorts 807: Soft Fangs

It has been more than a year since we featured Soft Fangs, and now the Brooklyn-via Boston singer/songwriter will release his new album The Light on February 19th via Exploding In Sound and Disposable America Records. The first single is The Air, a perfect mixture of the fragile and the muscular as a haunting melody and introspective, poetic vocals collide and combine with crashing drums and … Continue reading MM Shorts 807: Soft Fangs

MM Shorts 805: The Litsos

Swedish post punk, new wave band The Litsos recently released their first single Vultures from their upcoming long player. The track revolves around the feeling of desperately wanting to create while you are constantly being told to just produce. It is about any business that turns regular people’s blood, sweat and tears into money, without even a sign of gratitude. With the haunting voice of … Continue reading MM Shorts 805: The Litsos