1. PAWS – Owls Talons Clenching My Heart 2. Popstrangers – Don’t Be Afraid 3. Young Widows – The Money 4. Hamilton Leithauser – 11 O’Clock Friday Night 5. Dub Thompson – No Time . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Lola Colt are back with a new single Vacant Hearts, out on June 2nd. It is another powerfully intoxicating slab of psych-inspired rock’n’roll that is guaranteed to bruise your speakers. Play this baby loud! . Continue reading New Single From Lola Colt
We’re previously featured LA-based experimental indie-pop quartet FIM when we posted a couple of tracks from their excellent seven track EP Alien Beach Party. So here is another, and while the tracks we previously posted were noisy, manic, and infectious recalling the early freakouts of Butthole Surfers, Ween and Frank Zappa, Love Die signals a shift to the more chill, indie pop side of FIM. The track has a … Continue reading FIM – Love Die
Sacred Bones will present the fourth volume of their annual Record Store Day vinyl compilation, Todo Muere. It will be limited to 1,500 copies only. This year’s edition features eight tracks from a wide variety of their artists, each one new or previously unreleased on any physical format. The first track is the brilliant Lonely Richard by Amen Dunes, a hazy cut from the band’s forthcoming LP, Love that … Continue reading Todo Muere Vol. 4
Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
Now in its third year, wiaiwya-7777777 is a seven inch singles club, and a very ambitious seven inch singles club at that – it is a celebration of the format and all things seven… Subscribers to wiaiwya-7777777 2014 will get seven picture discs (released on the 7th of the month) that together form a fully illustrated seven step guide to releasing your own records – … Continue reading WIAIWYA-7777777 Singles Club
It’s been a little while since we’ve had a Videos of the Day post, so we’re putting that right with some excellent musical films and tunes from Those Darlins, Eliza And The Bear, We Are Hex, and Suburban Living. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Those Darlins || Eliza And The Bear || We are Hex || Suburban Living
Physical Emotions is the strutting, stuttering first single from Black Banana’s forthcoming long player Electric Brick Wall, which is out on the 24th June on Drag City. The 7″ will be out on the 22nd April. Listen here. . Continue reading New From Black Bananas
Mercury is the latest track from Conner Youngblood, it is hauntingly beautiful (he himself describes it as perhaps his prettiest yet), but lying beneath the surface is something a little darker… I should paint my face before I go outside I’m gonna bathe in salt till my teeth go numb…devil in disguise Stream/download it below. It comes from an EP Confidence he will be releasing April … Continue reading MM Shorts 536: Conner Youngblood
Lights is the latest single from West Yorkshire excellent progressive psych-rockers Formes. Kicking off like a long-lost Pink Floyd classic, the track builds from a dreamlike, otherworldly introduction until it kicks into gear a minute or so in, ebbing and flowing on the back of a hypnotic guitar riff. Half-way through, the song takes off fully into space rock territory, driven by epic drums, synths … Continue reading Formes – Lights
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