Top notch videos to round off, and round up, the working week from Beach Fossils (trippy lo-fi), Such Hounds (ramshackle, punky Americana), Dark Bells (ethereal psychedelia), and The Head And The Heart (indie folk). . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Beach Fossils || Such Hounds || Dark Bells || The Head And The Heart
No less than four new videos for you to immerse yourself in this morning. We have Besnard Lakes depicting the life of a man struggling to retain his grip on reality in Colour Yr Lights In and from Swearin’ we have their bedroom rehearsal video for Dust In The Gold Sack. Fuzzy, blissed out indie rockers Forest have released a new video for lead single Coaster … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Besnard Lakes || Swearin’ || Forest || Pyyramids
This weekend sees the annual Gathering festival in Oxford – a brilliant event that takes in seven venues around the city and runs from the afternoon into the wee small hours. This year the line up includes such MM luminaries as Local Natives, Drenge, Waxahatchee, Temples, Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs, Pyyramids, Port Isla, Wolf Alice, To Kill A King, Cheatahs and a whole host more. … Continue reading The Gathering – A Playlist
It seems to be a day for covers! Following on from the Eagulls taking on Killing Joke, you can now download Fucked Up Life, the second single from Shearwater’s Fellow Travelers album, a new collection of reinventions and collaborations with artists they’ve toured with over the years. Fucked Up Life is Shearwater’s rendering of the song written by beloved Denton, TX band (and labelmates) The Baptist … Continue reading More From Shearwater
Videos to enjoy today from Public Service Broadcasting, The Visibles, Whales In Cubicles and Wolf Alice. Public Service Broadcasting’s Night Mail takes its subject matter from the eponymous film of 1936, a pioneering documentary film produced by the General Post Office and the Royal Mail Group. Setting the original words of the documentary – including the much loved Night Mail poem – to a song … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Public Service Broadcasting || The Visibles || Whales In Cubicles || Wolf Alice
Elizabeth Fey caused a bit of a stir in the Foxygen camp earlier this year with a tumblr post about some of the trials and tribulations within the band that she was a touring member of… She has released some tracks of her own under the Globelamp moniker, the most recent of which Controversial/Confrontational is a lovely excursion into dreamy lo-fi psychedelia and dream pop. … Continue reading MM Shorts 452: Globelamp
Start the week with a clutch of excellent videos from psych-rockers Gringo Star (and their animated film for new track Find A Love), from Keaton Henson for You (taken from his excellent album Birthdays), and from explosive punk rockers Radkey, more top notch animation to accompany Romance Dawn. We have even more brilliant animation, or to be precise claymation, for Gentleman Hall’s Every Morning, and lastly London … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Gringo Star || Keaton Henson || Radkey || Gentleman Hall || Telegram
We’ve posted one taste from the forthcoming Young Knives album Sick Octave, which is due for release in November, and now we have another in the shape of new single We Could Be Blood (out on 28th October). They will also be on tour throughout most of November (dates below). They are perhaps our most natural successors to that great line of observational, and opinionated, … Continue reading Young Knives Tour and New Single
Friday’s films come from Gambles and a emotionally powerful and cinematic video for So I Cry Out, we have deep-rooted Americana from Slow Leaves and their video for new single Life Of A Better Man, and we have Filligar’s stomping new video for their huge anthem New Local. Lastly we have the trippy, psychedelic meltdown of Los Waves showcased in all its glory in the video for … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Gambles || Slow Leaves || Filligar || Los Waves
For those of us of a certain age, Letters To Fiesta is a genius band name! Thankfully, their blend of alternative indie-pop is none too shabby either, and this track Tears Apart is gathering huge amounts of love via the blogosphere. It is easy to see why – it is a pulsating, hook filled track that sounds like the bastard offspring of MGMT and Kate … Continue reading Introducing >>> Letters To Fiesta
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