It can’t be anything other than a good day when a new indie-guitar band turns up in your in-box with just enough bravado and swagger matched with the necessary grit and urgency to carry things off. So it is with The Doctorates, a Kent three-piece boasting influences from The Ramones to The Vaccines, and their new single Make For An Exit which boasts plenty of ’70s punk influences … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Doctorates
Scarlet Rascal are a young four piece Bristol based band with influences ranging from Roxy Music to the The Strokes, and from Television to The Fall. Newly signed to Invada Records, their first single is Venus – stream it below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 699: Scarlet Rascal
This coming week Negative Fun Records will release No Jerks Allowed, the latest cassette EP from Pretty Greens. Full of melodic punk-pop, surf-rock, and garage swagger, Pretty Greens like to play it fast and loose. Listen to Tiny Locket below and pre-order from the label here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 698: Pretty Greens
Fehm craft thunderous songs channelling the best of post punk and hardcore. They are songs about desperation, unemployment, anxiety and the urban decay of 21st century Britain, all perfectly displayed on their forthcoming debut EP Animal Skin, released this April on cassette and digital download. Listen to Hand to Mouth below and order the EP from Bandcamp here. . Btw that reminded me that Urban Decay were … Continue reading MM Shorts 697: Fehm
You know the drill. Our weekly gathering of new songs released this week. 1. Best Coast – Feeling OK 2. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Gloria 3. Rose Windows – Strip Mall Babylon 4. Wolf Alice – Bros 5. Susanna – Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen cover) 6. Spray Paint – Day Of The Rope 7. Iron & Wine / Ben Bridwell – Bulletproof Soul (Sade … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Yesterday we shared Protomartyr’s offering from their forthcoming split single with R. Ring. Today we have the flip side for you from the aforesaid R. Ring who feature The Breeders’ Kelley Deal and Ampline’s Mike Montgomery. Loud Underneath, is an abrasive slab of simmering lo-fi garage angst, and we like it a lot. The single, A half of Seven is out on limited vinyl on the 16th June … Continue reading R. Ring – Loud Underneath
Time for our ad-hoc Friday collection of excellent new (and some not quite so new) videos. From the beautiful and poignant (Courtney Barnett, Chris Staples, Wilder Daze) to the pulsing animation of Slaves pummelling punk, via the humour of Weird Womb and Abjects. And plenty more besides… . . . . . . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up
U.S. Girls (aka Meghan Remy) returns with her 4AD debut of more outsider, weirdo pop full of experimental leanings and some pretty uncompromising lyrics. None more so than on the pulsing Damn That Valley, telling the story of a soldier’s widow’s perspective on the pointlessness and crushing loss of war. Watch it here. Continue reading U.S. Girls – Damn That Valley
Ah Vomitface, let us count the ways we love your name. And your new EP Another Bad Year, too – from which we have Never Make It, another satisfyingly sludgey slab of seething punk rock that manages to blast your eardrums into submission without losing any accessibility whatsoever. Have a listen. . Continue reading MM Shorts 696: Vomitface
Protomartyr have shared Blues Festival, their contribution to an upcoming split 7″ with R. Ring, due out from Hardly Art records on June 16th (pre-order here). The track was recorded late last year and features back-up vocals by Kelley Deal. Give it a blast below. . Continue reading Protomartyr – Blues Festival
The Mad Mackerel 