We’re loving this track, and this video, from Memphis psych-punk outfit NOTS. Reactor is not a new song per se having previously seen a release on Goner Records last year, but as recent signings to the excellent Heavenly Records, their album We Are Nots will now be released in the UK too, coming out on November 20th. A brilliant slice of simmering, freaked out, lo-fi … Continue reading New Video: NOTS – Reactor
Like many others we were big fans of Bad Art And Weirdo Ideas, the first single from Beach Slang’s forthcoming debut long player The Things We Do To Find People Like Us (out 30th October). Here is the follow-up, check out the equally intense and fiery riffing of Young & Alive, another song that bleeds raw energy from the speakers… Try it. . Continue reading New From Beach Slang
We really don’t post as many videos as we should… so as usual here is our rather feeble attempt to clear the backlog of some of the excellent musical films we’ve seen recently. . . . . . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up Time
After last week’s bonanza collection we’re back to an altogether more manageable collection of nine songs gathered up from the past seven days just for you. Calexico – Tapping On The Line Blitzen Trapper – Love Grow Cold Alex Chilltown – Cwtch Lucero – Can’t You Hear Them Howl Sun Kil Moon – The Weeping Song (live) (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds cover) Avers – Calling … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Beach Fossils side project Laced was formed in Brooklyn in late 2013. Combining moments of dissonance with intricate melodies, Laced draws from the ethos of jazz, hardcore punk and psychedelic music to create an aggressive yet harmonious sound. Listen to the excellent Clear below. Their debut self-titled EP is out on 30th October – order here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 777: Laced
Ease yourself towards the weekend with some spaced out grooves from Liverpool psych-rockers The Vryll Society. The Liverpool band’s debut EP Pangea (derived from ancient Greek for whole of the earth) will be released on 26th October through Deltasonic Records and Air is the first track shared from it. It showcases their ethereal, hypnotic style and occupies territory somewhere from Neu and Air to early Stone … Continue reading MM Shorts 776: The Vryll Society
We’ve long championed the raucous, incendiary garage-punk of the Dirty Nil and it is good to see them back with a new single on Dine Alone Records and with plans for a debut album early next year. Out on the 6th November, the single, No Weaknesses backed with Provisional, features the double edge sword of breakneck violent fuzz and pure anthemic catharsis; a combination of unhinged punk rock … Continue reading New Single From The Dirty Nil
To celebrate the release of their excellent new album All Yours, Widowspeak have shared a cover of 90s rock band Third Eye Blind’s (best) song, How’s It Going To Be. They’ve taken its inherent melancholy and smothered it in a languid, swirling haze giving it a disconnected dreamlike quality that is hard to resist. . Continue reading Widowspeak cover Third Eye Blind
Krautrock inspired post-punk trio TRAAMS recently announced their return with their second album, Modern Dancing. The record, due out in November, is the follow up to their 2013 debut Grin and on the strength of the first track we shared from it, Succulent Thunder Anthem, it became highly anticipated here at MM Towers. Now we have a second track to share from it, the hypnotically propulsive … Continue reading TRAAMS – Silver Lining
A few years ago we were very taken by an EP called Four Small Bodies by a band called Blood of the Bull, and in particular a song called American Movies. Since then many, many thousands of tracks have been added to our iTunes, and we kind of forgot about the EP until the other day when we got an e-mail that mentioned the band … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Holy Motors
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