Born from the ashes of Leeds noiseniks Stilts, Black Pudding are a punked-up, garage rock band with a twisted sense of humour. Check out the lead track from new double A side single – Sci-fi Si/Tillagio via Loner Noise records. There is a touch of the Ty Segall/Thee Oh Sees thickness to their riffs, some of The Wytches’ foreboding gloom and a (un)healthy dose of The … Continue reading MM Shorts 972: Black Pudding
Wood Chickens come barrelling out of the roadhouse with a frazzled collection of lo-fi, country-punk that nods to everything from the Cramps to the Minutemen to Gun Club – deranged don’t come close. Countrycide is their first ‘proper’ album – thirteen songs, twenty seven minutes or so – and you can check out a couple of tracks below, and click through to buy. … Continue reading MM Shorts 971: Wood Chickens
Spray Paint with Ben Mackie – Friendly Moving Man Wavves – The Lung Destroyer – Tinseltown Swimming In Blood Nervous Dater – Bad Spanish Holiday Ghosts – Can’t Bear To Be Boring The Lemon Twigs – Why Didn’t You Say That Joana Serrat – Trapped In The Fog Pansies – Feels Like Yesterday SaveSave Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Some musical films and lyric videos. They’re good. Offa My Hands is the third song unveiled from Jessica Lea Mayfield’s anticipated new album, Sorry Is Gone. Phoebe Bridgers has shared Funeral, another haunting and introspective track from her upcoming debut album Stranger In The Alps. Norwegian chanteuse Ane Brun’s new record consists of fourteen covers of tracks by Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan … Continue reading New Videos Round Up
We were big fans of the countrified punk of Those Darlins and they graced the virtual pages of MM on many an occasion. So, we were very sad to hear of the passing of singer Jessi Zazu on Tuesday at just 28 years old, after a long struggle with cervical cancer. Those Darlins’ first EP Wild One was released in 2008 followed by their self-titled … Continue reading RiP Jessi Zazu
The excellent Leeds based post-punk doom and gloom merchants Autobahn have shared their new single Future, which comes from their upcoming second album The Moral Crossing. Listen below as they embrace their inner pop selves, and also check out the first single from the record, the title track. The Moral Crossing is out on 3rd November on Tough Love Records Continue reading New Album From Autobahn
Ten new songs for you collected from the week’s new releases. Lots to discover including two stunning covers by The Tallest Man On Earth and Marie Danielle, snotty punk done to perfection by Amyl & The Sniffers, tracks from Americana heavyweights Deer Tick and Blitzen Trapper and classic country from Margo Price. Plenty more besides… enjoy. The Tallest Man On Earth – Both Sides Now … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
A couple of interesting releases coming up, both from longstanding MM faves, on the excellent Mexican Summer label. The first recorded Weyes Blood music since her 2016 breakthrough album Front Row Seat To Earth, Natalie Mering will release a 7″ of cover songs that have helped define her sound over the years. It contains versions of Soft Machines’ A Certain Kind b/w Fred Neil’s Everybody’s Talkin’, as … Continue reading New Covers From Weyes Blood & Allah Las
Surfer Blood are releasing a Covers EP as a one-time vinyl pressing, covering some wildly disparate artists like Outkast, Pavement, Cream, Mudhoney, Breeders, and even Hey Sandy by Polaris (aka, the theme-song from The Adventures of Pete & Pete). You can stream their take on Mudhoney’s Good Enough below. Unavailable in record stores, the nine track EP is limited to 1,000 foil-numbered copies on amber vinyl with black … Continue reading Surfer Blood Covers EP
Pretty much figure we’ve all been waiting to hear this… Over Everything is the first fruits of the collaboration between Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile and is taken from the forthcoming album Lotta Sea Lice. Enjoy those dovetailing vocal lines and intricate, shimmering guitar! We are… Continue reading Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Over Everything
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