Let’s hope the next 365 days are a vast improvement on 2016. Fingers crossed Trump gets impeached, we somehow find a way back into the EU, Sunderland don’t get relegated, Yorkshire reach the T20 finals again, there are new albums from Wooden Wand, Deer Tick and Phosphorescent, and Neil Young and Bob Dylan manage to stay alive. That would do nicely for starters. Let us kick … Continue reading HAPPY NEW YEAR
Here is another taste from Yucky Duster’s forthcoming EP Duster’s Lament, the first release of 2017 from Infinity Cat. The Ropes is a sublime two minute of off-kilter jangle pop – a sweetly judged mix of 60s harmonies, twee indie and psych-pop, with just the right amount of woozy haziness beneath the bubblegum surface. Listen below. It is out on 13th January – pre-order here. Continue reading Another From Yucky Duster
Purveyors of mighty fine 60s influenced garage punk and jangly power pop, LA’s Cigarette Bums will release their new, self-titled album in March. With influences ranging from The Stooges, Stones, and The Black Lips to name a few, we’re looking forward to getting acquainted with the full record, but for now have a listen to the rather good Death In Texas and order from Bandcamp here. Continue reading New Album From The Cigarette Bums
Jesse Gilmore is an indie musician out of Texas who fuses dark psychedelic ballads of cosmic gloom with reggae, classical, electronica, folk, and the blues. A couple of weeks ago he released his debut LP, Heartbreak, on the indie label, Santa Rosa Records. Have a listen to The Horror from it below. Buy the album here. Continue reading MM Shorts 903: Jesse Gilmore
Listen to Satisfaction, the fizzing new single from Kent garage punk trio The Bay Rays, which is also the title track from their debut EP, out on their own label imprint, East Wing Records, this March. Continue reading New Single From The Bay Rays
Thirty Pounds of Bone’a annual Christmas sing-a-long this year is In The Bleak Midwinter, which according to his Twitter was recorded “in a little cottage on an island on a lake in Ireland”. Have a listen. Continue reading Christmas Is Coming… Here Are Thirty Pounds Of Bone
Our final Best of post of 2016 is MM’s own selections. You can also listen via Spotify here. 20 TRAAMS – A House On Fire I always think I don’t really like long songs and yet they always seem to end up in my favourite tracks of the year. This TRAAMS song is nearly nine minutes long yet hurtles along in a blur of krautrock … Continue reading MM’s BEST OF 2016: MAD MACKEREL
Our third Best Of listing comes from the ever lovely Mrs Mackerel. Listen on Spotify here. 2016 turned out to be fairly music-light by my standards in that I didn’t listen to nearly as much as I usually do, partly in response to spending so much time driving up and down the country. For this, I need the spoken word rather than the sung one, … Continue reading MM’s BEST OF 2016: MRS MACKEREL
Our second individual listing comes from long-standing contributor Chris T Popper, he of the creaking joints and club foot (and yet still the second-best footballer in his family). Another cracking collection of tunes, and you can always listen on Spotify here. 20 Big Thief – Paul 19 Mind Spiders – Running 18 Hooded Fang – Dead Battery 17 Van William – Revolution … Continue reading MM’s BEST OF 2016: CHRIS T POPPER
We’re interrupting out Best of Countdown and festive tune postings to share the news that Scott H. Biram will release a new album, his tenth overall, entitled The Bad Testament, via Bloodshot Records on 24th February 24. It his first release since 2014’s Nothin’ But Blood and lands somewhere west of the Old Testament and south of the AA handbook, straddling the chasm between sin and redemption. It’s … Continue reading New Album From Scott H. Biram
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