Here is the title track from Parquet Courts’ upcoming new album, out on 18th May via Rough Trade. Wide Awake! is a shout along anthem propelled on something akin to tropical percussion and a sparse, funky and naggingly insistent guitar refrain. Watch the video. Continue reading Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
The unfailingly reliable Art Is Hard record label have a bunch of tasty looking releases coming up in the next few weeks or so, and amongst them is a new self-titled four-track EP by Birdskulls. Why not listen to the grungy, hook-filled Sleep Walking below, and order the EP via Bandcamp here. Continue reading New EP From Birdskulls
It is fair to say that Cabbage’s ‘proper’ debut album, the upcoming, marvellously titled Nihilistic Glamour Shots is high on our most anticipated releases list. We’ve already shared first single Arms Of Pleonexia and now we have the sneering, urgent, and, quite frankly, queasily brilliant album opener Preach To The Converted for your listening pleasure. Roll on the album… Continue reading Cabbage – Preach To The Converted
Dead Meadow have shared Nobody Home, a new track from their forthcoming album, The Nothing They Need. It is a classic, riffed up, behemoth of fuzzed up psych rock. Stream it here. Continue reading Dead Meadow – Nobody Home
The Moondoggies – Sick In Bed Margaret Glaspy – Before We Were Together Spielbergs – We Are All Going To Die Yo La Tengo – For You Too Iceage – Pain Killer (feat. Sky Ferreira) Wand – The Gift Laura Veirs – Watch Fire (feat. Sufjan Stevens) The Voidz – All Words Are Made Up A Place To Bury Strangers – There’s Only One Of Us … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
New Jersey maverick four-piece The Nectars have landed with their brand new single I Want It. It’s a sub-two minute succulent slice of indie-punk, topped with a heavy dose of rock attitude and sweet pop sass. Give it a whirl… Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Nectars
We’re big fans of Table Scraps’ fuzzed-up, scuzzy rock’n’roll that draws as much from Dinosaur Jr as it does the Cramps or even Suicide. Excellent new single I’m A Failure (from just released, and also excellent long player Autonomy), comes with a top notch sock-puppet video. And frankly anyone who doesn’t love a sock puppet doesn’t have a soul. Watch it here. Continue reading New Video: Table Scraps – I’m A Failure
The Holy Knives is the sonic vision of brothers Kyle and Kody Valentine, a band that infuses the sultry sounds of rock’n’roll with a tinge of desert psychedelia. To Be Me is a first taste from the duo’s upcoming debut EP, due later this spring, and provides a tantalising glimpse into their sonic possibilities. Drawing inspiration from acts like Morphine, The Afghan Whigs, and Sun Kil Moon, the band hones a … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Holy Knives
Time for a quick and dirty round-up from our unkempt and overflowing in-box, looking back over the past month or so. We have fuzzy art-rock from Sego who mix together warped psych rock and indie pop to create bleak pop songs that soar into big hooks and brilliant melodic noise. Opting for a slower tempo on Cigarette Kids, their most recent single is less skronk and more … Continue reading Round Up Time
Fontaines DC are undoubtedly our favourite discovery of 2018 so far. Taking the best bits of the bands like The Stooges, The Fall, Girl Band and Idles, we’ve already shared the outstanding Chequeless Reckless, and the other side to that single, Boys In The Better Land is another absolute crackerjack of a tune. If you’re a rock star, porn star, superstar, Doesn’t matter what you are Get … Continue reading Fontaines DC – Boys In The Better Land
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