Flamingo Bay have just released Steak & Eggs, a ten track album of punky power-pop flecked with garage, grunge and even dare we say it some 80s hair-metal. Luckily a strong sense of the irreverent is also present as is a willingness to experiment and step outside the typical genre boxes and see what else might be fun to play with. Watch the video for Killer … Continue reading Introducing >>> Flamingo Bay
Chorusgirl are a noise pop four-piece from London that formed last year, mixing a whole hosts of influences and sounds like Lush, the Cure, the Breeders, Pulp, the Bangles, surf rock, girl groups, melodies, jangle and noise. Released today via the 100 Club series, stream the excellent, and infectious, No Moon below. Order it here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 703: Chorusgirl
We’re not usually ones for premieres and all that stuff, but when the song is this good then we can sometimes be persuaded to rouse our lazy carcass off the sofa and head for the keyboard. Trance Farmers (great name) specialise in psychobilly blues. Six track release Garbage Night is out April 28 on LEAVING Records with Stones Throw. You can also buy from Bandcamp here. … Continue reading Video Premiere: Trance Farmers – Garbage Night
Ranchus is a four piece indie rock band from the Faroe Islands, formed more or less by accident in the fall of 2013. Rather bizarrely named after the king of goldfish, Ranchus still seems to be a fitting name for a band hailing from a fisher-nation. Their sound ranges from raw, slightly lo-fi angular rock to something softer and more melancholic – imagine something between The Violent Femmes and the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Ranchus
Like moonshine made from intrusive pop decadence and dark distant echoes from space, Stockholm’s Presolar Sands draw their influences from bands like The Stooges, Spacemen 3, Asteroid #4, to name a few. The band have released a digital single called Voodoo Ritual, on the newly started label Lazy Octopus. It is six minutes of pulsating psych-groove – get your freak on… . Continue reading MM Shorts 702: The Presolar Sands
Another day, another week, another collection of ten excellent tunes from the past seven days collected for your listening pleasure and gratification. 1. Torres – Cowboy Guilt 2. Creepoid – Dried Out 3. Loop – Precession 4. Sweet Spirit & Britt Daniel – Have Mercy 5. Left Lane Cruiser – Tres Borrachos 6. Little Wings – Where 7. Thee Oh Sees – Withered Hand 8. … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
It has been nearly four years since we posted about Total Babes, who were formed in Medina, Ohio, by Jayson Gerycz of Cloud Nothings and his friend Christopher Brown as an outlet for pop songs that could not be played in their noise-rock band Swindlella. Now their sophomore album, Heydays, is set for release on May 18th through Wichita Recordings worldwide. Blurred Time is the most … Continue reading MM Shorts 701: Total Babes
Until recently, we were unaware of the lo-fi bedroom charms of Elvis Depressedly, that was until we heard the brilliant Bruises (Amethyst) (taken from forthcoming long player New Alhambra), which has become a firm fave here at MM Towers. The duo have now released a beautiful new video for latest single, and album opener, Thou Shalt Not Murder. It showcases perfectly their brightly melancholic noise-pop inspired by heroes … Continue reading New Video: Elvis Depressedly – Thou Shalt Not Murder
It has been more than a couple of years since we featured London based garage-popsters Love L.U.V. They have shared a new track, a cover of Buddy Holly’s Maybe Baby, released exclusively for Record Store Day as part of the Don’t Try compilation (a title borrowed from Bukowski’s headstone) for American indie label Worker Bee Records. Borrowing their name from the immortal spoken word intro to … Continue reading Love L.U.V. Cover Buddy Holly
The Pop Group and Sleaford Mods will release a split 7” on Monday June 18th through Freaks R Us. The single features Face To Faces a raw alternate version of a vitriolic track featured on the forthcoming Sleaford Mods new album, and Nations, a track taken from Citizen Zombie, The Pop Group’s recently acclaimed album. Listen to both here. . . Continue reading Sleaford Mods & The Pop Group Announce Split 7″
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