On the day that we lost screen legend Sir Christopher Lee it seems fitting to share this new video from Scots Trembling Bells for Sweet Death Polka, imbued as it is with a real undercurrent of bucolic menace that resembles Lee’s own favourite film, the 1971 pagan horror classic The Wicker Man. It is nothing less than you’d expect from a band that delight in feverish … Continue reading New Video: Trembling Bells – Sweet Death Polka
Brighton’s Slum Of Legs have released their second single via Tuff Enuff Records. Renowned for their exhilarating live shows, risk taking and uncompromising attitude, Doll Like is a brilliant, pummelling motorik punk track that comes across like some kind of freakish amalgamation of Sons & Daughters rhythms with the joyous sleaze of the Fat White Family – it is a clarion call echoing the vibrant queer DIY scene flourishing around the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Slum Of Legs
Widowspeak are back with a new album of elegant dream-pop and slowcore rock and roll full of easygoing melodies and dusty, snaking guitars. Titled All Yours, it will be released on Captured Tracks on September 4th. They have shared the title track via NPR here, and also shared the first single Girls which you can stream below. . . Continue reading Widowspeak Announce New Album
It is well over a year since we featured Aussie noiseniks Magic Bones, so we were certainly overdue a new track. Frantic new single Danger I Am, is the first taste of their forthcoming album due for release later this year. It is a driving garage punk duet, drowning in desire and urgency and needs to be played real loud. What are you waiting for? . Continue reading MM Shorts 724: Magic Bones
The Cigarette Bums recently finished recording Goofs On The Loose, their follow up LP to debut Holy Smokes. It sees a release in September. With influences ranging from The Stooges to The Black Lips the band is gearing up to showcase their brand of energised 60s garage punk and power pop via their first national US tour. The album includes unique tracks such as Strange in … Continue reading The Cigarette Bums – Goofs On The Loose
Finnish band Black Twig are about fuzzy pop songs, shoegaze, folk and droning rock songs. They are currently hard at work on the follow up to last year’s Heliogram long player, but in the meantime are offering up a rendition of Venom’s In League With Satan,which stamps the band’s own brand of willful energy on the song without losing any of the eerie creepiness of the original. Have … Continue reading Black Twig Cover Venom
Fine Points, a new project featuring members of San Francisco psych band, and regular MM alumni, Sleepy Sun, will release their debut album, Hover, on July 17th via Dine Alone Records. For now, make do with a first taste of the record in the shape of the hazy, psych-tinged, cosmic fuzz of lead single Astral Season. . Continue reading MM Shorts 723: Fine Points
Heavy psych-rockers Sewer Rats hail from Grimsby and will shortly release a vinyl EP, Money Maker via Fluffer Records. The three piece channel a range of the greats from The Doors to Motörhead, and the EP opens with the aptly named Skint, a beat driven, fuzzed up blues dirge complete with doom breakdowns and guitars that rip and roar like muddied chainsaws. Watch the video / stream it … Continue reading Introducing >>> Sewer Rats
It has been a good while since we’ve posted a round up of some of the best videos (and songs) that have found their way into our in box. So we’re righting that wrong this weekend with a Sunday collection for your viewing and listening pleasure. We have the Mynabirds, Dirty Blonde, Vanish Valley, Buffalo Rodeo, The Tarantula Waltz, The Worry Dolls, Phobophobes, Charles Howl, … Continue reading Big Video Round Up
Sydney’s breakneck, yet melodic, punk rockers Royal Headache will return this summer with their second album, High, out August 21st via What’s Your Rupture. It is the follow-up to their much lauded self-titled debut of 2011 which has steadily grown in influence and reputation over the past four years. The title track (which we’ve had on repeat) manages to be catchy as hell while somehow reminding me … Continue reading Royal Headache – High
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