Finish off the working week and welcome in the weekend with Spares. Hailing from Liverpool they offer up a one line biog “Do what you want. When you want. How you want….there is no point in wasting away!” Sounds like a plan! Listen to Not Enough a frantic, bristling slab of proto-punk with massive choruses. . Continue reading MM Shorts 784: Spares
together PANGEA have released Blue Mirror, the second single off of upcoming new release The Phage EP – produced by Tommy Stinson from The Replacements – which is out on 12″ EP, cassette and digital tomorrow via Burger Records. Listen here to a brilliantly plaintive slab of post-punk inspired indie rock. . Continue reading together PANGEA – Blue Mirror
The consistently marvellous METZ return with a new 7″ single, Eraser backed with Pure Auto. Distortion. Check. Feedback. Check. Full on riffing. Check. Pummelling percussion. Check. Shredding vocals. Check. Do yourself a favour and turn this one up to eleven…. . Continue reading METZ – Eraser
London-based garage rock trio King Korea will unleash their debut single Zoo Generation on 23rd October. Creating furious, thoroughly modern rock and roll which calls to mind the best of The Cramps, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and The Black Keys, it is a taut, three-minute explosion of blistering guitars, fuzzed-out bass and psychotic vocals. In fact it is an angry, pounding beast of a single … Continue reading MM Shorts 783: King Korea
Ethereal Liverpool space-rockers The Vryll Society have revealed the second track from their debut EP Pangea, ahead of the record’s official release on 26th October. Coshh sees the band following up on the success of lead single Air (listen here), with its hazy psychedelic twist and more of their mesmerising groove-laden sound. This is bound sure to add to the buzz already building around the band. Give it a … Continue reading More From The Vryll Society
A day late, but no matter. A collection of nine brand spanking new tunes rounded up from the past week – just for you. Laura Stevenson – Claustrophobe Woozy – Painted White Eleanor Friedberger – False Alphabet City Long Beard – Turkeys Surf Rock Is Dead – Never Be The Same Dirty Nil – Provisional (Fugazi cover) Vandaveer – Jealous Guy (John Lennon cover) Ex-Hex … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Perpetually oscillating between the irreverent, macabre, hilarious and heartfelt, Brooklyn based garage psych trio Def.GRLS is gearing up to release their debut EP, GRLS. Check out the cheeky second single, FinGRLess Lady, a lo-fi, Bizzaro-Beatles odyssey. Continue reading MM Shorts 782: Def.GRLS
We have already given you Freedom Fries, the Black Lips side of their forthcoming split single with The Coathangers. Now we have Watch Your Back, the buzzing, indignant anthem that makes up the other side from the aforementioned Coathangers. Marvellous stuff – stream it below. Continue reading The Coathangers – Watch Your Back
Hot on the heels of the news of a repackaging of her breakthrough debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett will also be releasing a special brand new 7″ single produced by Jack White for this Third Man label. The single is part of Third Man’s “Blue Series”, in which artists passing through Nashville are invited to stop … Continue reading New From Courtney Barnett
Taking in elements of dark psychedelia, hazy folk, stoner rock and post-metal – without relying on stereotypical tropes normally associated with heavy music – Denmark’s Get Your Gun create a deliciously dark world of their own. They will release their full-length The Worrying Kind in the UK on November 20th via Louder Than War / Empty Tape. Watch the video below for the bluesy, Americana inspired … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Get Your Gun
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