Screaming Females – I’ll Make You Sorry Car Seat Headrest – Fallen Horses (Smash Mouth cover) Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo Wavves & Culture Abuse – Big Cloud Mount Eerie – Tintin In Tibet Speedy Ortiz – Lucky 88 Wye Oak – It Was Not Natural Rixe – La Cle Melvins – Stop Moving To Florida Table Scraps – Lyin’ Thru Yer Teeth Father John Misty … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Ah, how we’ve missed the marvellous Parquet Courts… They’re back with a new album, Wide Awake!, and a track of two halves, Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience. The first typically frenetic and jerky, the second half a classic Courts’ indie-punk anthem. Watch the lyric video below. Continue reading Parquet Courts Are Back
March 16th will see the release of San Diego based Hot Snakes’ Jericho Sirens, the band’s fourth album, and their first in 14 long years. It will be out on Sub Pop Records. We’ve already shared Six Wave Hold Down and now we have the equally good second offering from the new record, entitled, Death Camp Fantasy, it is another doozy of snarling garage punk. Stream it here. Continue reading Hot Snakes – Death Camp Fantasy
Hull’s Black Delta Movement are a raucous psych-rock band that trip over into garage and punk, and who will release their debut album Preservation on the 30th March. First taste comes with the propulsive, throbbing King Mosquito – two and a half minutes of MC5 and Sonics inspired goodness, that we’re loving here at MM. Stream it below, loudly. Black Delta Movement Continue reading MM Shorts 999: The Black Delta Movement
The Men are sharing the final single from their upcoming LP, Drift before its release on March 2. Killed Someone harks back to the Leave Home or Open Your Heart era of the band with a breakneck pace and the huge fuzzed-out riffs that put that band on the map to begin with. Really looking forward to this album… Continue reading The Men – Killed Someone
Dr Dog – Go Out Fighting Simone Felice – The Projector Vintage Crop – Gerald Part 2 Drinks – Real Outside The Low Anthem – Give My Body Back Bonny Doon – A Lotta Things Dan Michaelson – Sand Beach House – Lemon Glow Swampmeat Family Band – Needle & Thread Eleanor Friedberger – In Between Stars Holly Miranda – To Be Loved … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Courtney Barnett will release her follow-up to her acclaimed debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit on the 18th May. Titled Tell Me How You Feel, the first single from it, Nameless, Faceless is an infectious indie anthem that simmers with indignation and sarcasm. It examines the phenomenon of incessant and anonymous internet trolls, and every lyric is memorable as Barnett quotes … Continue reading New Single & Album From Courtney Barnett
We’re absolutely loving the new single from Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. Channelling past masters like the Modern Lovers, The Fall and Iggy Pop, as well as contemporaries like Idles and Shame, Chequeless Reckless is built on a great hypnotic, kraut-rock infused cyclical riff, and some scalpel sharp lyrics. We’re pretty damn sure it is going to end up in our end of year best of lists… A sellout … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Fontaines D.C.
Catch It is Iceage’s first new material since 2014’s Plowing Into The Field of Love. Recalling the Bad Seeds or a more brutal version of the Cure, the song thrums with barely restrained tension, teetering on the verge of collapse for the first three and a half minutes while Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s lyrics plumb the deepest corners of human emotion – intimacy, betrayal, and contemplation, before exploding into … Continue reading Iceage – Catch It
We recently shared Russian Baths’ excellent What’s Your Basement, a marvellously queasy slab of noise rock, and now we have the follow-up for your listening pleasure. Poolhouse is a slightly more restrained affair, with a woozily elegant yet sweetly off-kilter middle bookended by rushes of swelling, noisy guitars and thunderous percussion. Good stuff. Dive in here. Continue reading More From Russian Baths
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