Kurt Vile has shared a video for Loading Zones, which collaborations apart, it is the first new music to surface from him since 2015. The video is a paean to his City of Brotherly Love, and a farcical tribute to the song’s lyrics, themselves an account of Vile’s peculiar parking strategy. “I park for free!” he proclaims, as he goes about his day moving his … Continue reading New From Kurt Vile
Ahead of a visit to European shores next month, Perth rockers Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have shared their brilliantly bombastic and eccentric new single Social Candy. It is a hazy, dense offering of swirling guitars, heavy percussion and hypnotic vocals… give it a spin below. Catch them live 11 Sept – Blondies Bar, London (tickets here) 12 Sept – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (tickets here) 13 Sept … Continue reading New Single From Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Dolls have shared the lead track from their forthcoming EP Pop The Bubble. Set for release in September the EP is four garage-pop anthems with as much sass as they have bite. For now, check out Sugar Free, a riotous example of their infectious grunge-punk inspired by “the use-and-throwaway society around us today, how superficial people’s lives can be, and how rapidly people’s values and what’s on-trend can change”. … Continue reading Dolls – Pop The Bubble EP
Untitled (LA) is the second taste from Swearin’s upcoming full length Fall into the Sun, their first for five years. It is another cracking track. Opening on the back of a great riff, the song sets off in a hurry and doesn’t look back – melodic, garage punk at its best. Listen below – pre-order from Bandcamp here. Continue reading Swearin’ – Untitled (LA)
Terry – Oh Helen The Dodos – Forum Colleen Green – Let Go Marissa Nadler – Blue Vapor Art Brut – Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out Tiny Ruins – How Much Dilly Dally – Sober Motel DeVotchKa – Angels Mitski – Two Slow Dancers Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Having shared David Nance’s cracked, nerve shredding cover of Merle Haggard’s Silver Wings last year, we now have the anthemic Poison, taken from his latest full-length, Peaced and Slightly Pulverized coming out on Chicago’s excellent Trouble in Mind Records on the 5th October. The album is credited to the David Nance Group and features Nance alongside his recent live band of fellow Omaha musicians; guitarist Jim Schroeder, bassist Tom … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The David Nance Group
Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe will release their second full length album on 12th October. The nine track eponymous album was recorded in Anton Newcombe’s Cobra Studios in Berlin last year and was mostly co-written by the duo. Watch the video for Right On, a sultry excursion into psychedelic dream pop… See them live: 8th Dec – Dublin – The Grand Social 9th Dec – … Continue reading New Album From Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe
Yowler, the solo project of Maryn Jones, has announced a new album titled Black Dog In My Path, the follow-up to her much praised 2015 debut The Offer. The introspective and heavy WTFK is the first taste from it, a song that packs an emotional punch, she describes it as “about sin, self-harm, being truly human, and a person’s connection with themselves“. Listen to it here. … Continue reading Yowler – WTFK
Australia’s punk-partying DZ Deathrays have shared their brand new video for Feeling Good, Feeling Great, the latest single to come from their recently-released album Bloody Lovely which is out now via Alcopop! Records. See them live… Aug 22nd | Borderline, London Aug 23rd | Headrow House, Leeds Aug 24th | Band on the Wall, Manchester Aug 25th | Hug and Pint, Glasgow Continue reading New Video: DZ Deathrays – Feeling Good, Feeling Great
Brooklyn, NY’s Human People, have announced their upcoming debut full-length, Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears, due out September 21st from Exploding In Sound Records. The first single is the excellent and snottily infectious California – a quick blast of spiky indie punk, which sardonically explores the anxiety that’s often lurking beneath care-free people and places. Have a listen. Continue reading Human People – California
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