METZ’s second album II is out via Sub Pop on the 4th May. The latest track to get an airing from it is the titanic Spit You Out. Brutal and beautiful, seismic and irresistible, and at it’s snarling core is an unstoppable barbed wire hook… Stream it below. Pre-order the album here. . Continue reading Metz – Spit You Out
Bonding over the films of Kenneth Anger, the guitar work of Lou Reed and William Reid, the writing of Jean Genet, and the shirtless figures of David Hockney paintings, San Francisco trio Flesh World slowly built songs filled with brooding post-punk darkness and outsider pop – all in between hanging out at drag bars and punk shows. Just To Tear Me Down comes from new album The Wild … Continue reading MM Shorts 691: Flesh World
We are loving The Magic Gang’s forthcoming debut single No Fun, backed with Alright, which is released on the 16th April via Telharmonium Records. With a ominous, hypnotic opening it calls to mind the best of the Fat White Family’s grimy, post-punk bump and grind before morphing into an effortlessly slack slice of sunshine soaked guitar pop, full of dawdling chord changes and hazy vocal harmonies … Continue reading The Magic Gang – No Fun 7″
Borrowing the name of the building they lived in, and guided by a deep appreciation for the folk and psychedelic pop of the sixties and seventies, Elstow draw on the sounds of bands like Jefferson Airplane, Jimmie Spheeris, and early Pink Floyd, coupled with an infatuation with nineties alt-psych idols Brian Jonestown Massacre and Mazzy Star. New single Evil Dreams matches dreamlike psychedelic overtones with a breezy … Continue reading Elstow – Evil Dreams
The Cathode Ray’s new single Resist is a sort of crazy punk rock/krautrock oompah hybrid – all spiky dischords and an infectious melody underpinning a vocal that’s both urgent yet oddly unhurried. Have a listen… . Continue reading MM Shorts 688: The Cathode Ray
Forget the eggs and celebrate Easter with a selection box of musical videos that are all pre-screened to ensure the equivalent of the orange creme hasn’t sneaked through…instead take your pick from folk, indie, psychedelia, punk, Americana…. . . . . . . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up
Following yesterday’s posting of Riverbed from Jamie T’s upcoming EP Magnolia Melancholia, you can now listen to the title track below. Once again, brilliant. . Continue reading Jamie T – Magnolia Melancholia
Easter weekend, and a bumper collection of ten songs for you to dip into that were released this week. 1. The National – Sunshine On My Back 2. Southern – Lone Driver 3. Cheatahs – Murasaki 4. Heartless Bastards – Gates Of Dawn 5. Woodpigeon – When You Look For Trouble, Trouble Comes 6. Radkey – Parade It 7. Allo Darlin’ – Half Heart Necklace … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
New additions to the marvellous Audio Antihero roster, New York duo Frog’s offering Judy Garland (with artwork from regular MM fave Benjamin Shaw no less) is a brilliant lo-fi romp through vocal gymnastics, uptempo, infectious banjo rhythms, and a fabulous falsetto chorus. Pre-order the album Kind of Blah here. . And as a bonus here is the b side for you, the non-album track Rainbow Road. . Continue reading Introducing >>> Frog
Girls With Headaches was one of our favourite tunes of last year and now six piece rock n rollers Avers have just shared a new tune titled Vampire. Listen below – it is a tripped out, psychedelic jam that comes from their forthcoming LP. Continue reading MM Shorts 687: Avers
The Mad Mackerel 