The six minute Cute Thing is the latest track to be shared from Car Seat Headrest’s upcoming release of his reworked Twin Fantasy album. It is an ecstatic multi-part epic of unbridled yearning, flirtation, and abandon, pairing masterfully layered production with a combustible house-party reverie – basically the stuff he does so very, very well. Stream it below. The album is out on the 6th … Continue reading Car Seat Headrest – Cute Thing
Originally together from 1981-1983, self-proclaimed micro-legendary weirdoz The Prefab Messiahs followed a unique post-punk musical trajectory through the burgeoning-yet-insular Wormtown (Worcester, MA) underground. Aside from the 1983 cassette Flex Your Mind, though, no recorded material was available from them until 1998’s Devolver CD-R – an anthology of their recordings from the early ’80s. Fast-forward three decades later to the official remastered release of Devolver via Burger Records, followed by … Continue reading The Prefab Messiahs – Psychsploitation Today
This is a perfectly timed song to receive in our in-box, fresh as we are from celebrating the mighty Eagles dismantling of the Vikings in last night’s NFC Championship game. Fly Eagles Fly! Appropriate then to share this adrenaline fueled, sports track Superbowl, the new single from raucous rockers Towers Of London, it is a rap/rock crossover in the spirt of the classic Walk This Way. The … Continue reading Towers Of London – Superbowl
Manchester trio The Longcut will release their new album Arrows on the 6th April. Musically sitting somewhere between utopia and dystopia, the band have constructed their own monolithic world as bittersweet as it is bleak. Behemoth of a lead single Deathmask is the perfect case in point – energetic, menacing and mesmerising, it is six minutes of urgent, brutalist experimental synth rock. And you should … Continue reading MM Shorts 995: The Longcut
Already members of Car Seat Headrest’s newly expanded 7-piece live band, Naked Giants have signed to New West Records and are set to release their debut album SLUFF on March 30th. With 1960s harmonies sharing space with 1970s riffs, while at the same time battling an undercurrent of punk rock and modern indie influences, the first taste from the album, TV, is a kaleidoscope of … Continue reading Naked Giants – TV
There’s a name to conjure with! Jonny Shitbag & The Smokes are releasing a run of 50 transparent tapes titled You Could Not Have Given The Slightest Of Fucks, via French label Hidden Bay Records. There is not much to be gleaned about the band, and whether they actually still exist or not following the apparent disappearance of Jonny Shitbag himself. Anyway, here is The Song … Continue reading MM Shorts 994: Jonny Shitbag & The Smokes
Eels – The Deconstruction The Decemberists – Severed No Age – Send Me Haley Heynderickx – Untitled God Song Hot Snakes – Six Wave Hold-Down Bonny Doon – I Am here (I Am Alive) Radkey – Not Smart Micah P. Hinson – Beneath The Rose ((Marc Riley BBC 6 Music Session 06/11/2012) Jack Cooper – Fat Old Sun (Pink Floyd cover) The Soft Moon – Choke … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Ba Da Bing are releasing Daydream Time Machine, the first EP from Brooklyn’s Wooing. Led by Rachel Trachtenburg (of Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Supercute!) the trio play a rough hewn stripped down rock that evokes the charisma of The Breeders by way of Syd Barrett. Lead single, In Colour, displays the vintage influences that come into play: the urgency of underground 90s rock meets the psychedelic sounds … Continue reading MM Shorts 993: Wooing
A love letter of sorts to her native Richmond, here is the video for the anthemic and horn-accented upbeat new single Addictions, from Lucy Dacus. It comes from her upcoming new album Historian, which is out on the 2nd March. Continue reading Lucy Dacus – Addictions
Montreal quartet Ought have shared the bright guitar sound and ultimately noisy percussion and spaced-out synths of Disgraced in America, the second preview from their third LP Room Inside the World, out February 16th on Merge Records. The song is accompanied by this excellent animated video directed by Heather Rappard, involving glycerine as paint thinner and painstakingly shot in 15-second increments over the course of three weeks. Watch … Continue reading Ought – Disgraced In America
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