A perfect ten (count ’em) rounded up for you this week, all fresh and emerging blinking into the daylight. Or something like that… Menace Beach – Holidays Are Heavy The Big Pink – High Times So Pitted – Rot In Hell The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Hell Pretty Vicious – Are You Ready For Me Rare Monk – California Sunflower Bean – … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The weekend is imminent, the working week thankfully drawing to a close and here are some nice new videos of some nice new songs to kick off the break… Continue reading Video Round Up
Our eighth collection of ten tunes for the virtual jukebox – give them a spin and decide hit… or miss. Passport To Stockholm – Let Me Know [RIYL: Indie-folk, Lanterns on the Lake, Loch Lomond] Ripper – On The Curb [RIYL: Punk, Germs, Dead Kennedys] Trotting Bear – Hesitate [RIYL: Folk, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine] Bad Sounds – Avalanche [RIYL: Indie-pop, … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 8)
The Quiet Hollers self-titled album has been one of our favourite discoveries of the year, and now the band have just shared a stunningly good version of Madonna’s Material Girl. It came about as a fan chosen cover as part of their crowd-funding for the new album and lead singer/songwriter Chadwick Wilde describes it thus, “My first reaction was horror… as I instinctively recoil from so-called “pop” … Continue reading Quiet Hollers Cover Madonna
Over the weekend we were fortunate to catch Titus Andronicus live for the first time at the excellent and intimate Bullingdon pub in Oxford. They did not disappoint. However, before the main event Barry-Sean and I were thoroughly impressed by support band Washington Irving, who hail from Scotland, and who delivered a spirited set of anthemic indie rock with nods to folk (including traditional foot-stomping sea-shanty instrumentals) through … Continue reading New Single From Washington Irving
Our regular collection of the best of this week’s new releases for you including a couple of tasty cover versions. Freakwater – The Asp And The Albatross Quilt – Eliot St. The Brainstems – Simple Joys Freedom Fry – 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins cover) Coves – Stormy Coke Weed – Malocchio Noun – Loveblood Little May – Skeletons (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover) Kite Base – Miracle … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Ten more new tunes on the virtual jukebox for you to investigate and consider. The Lonely Wild – Hunted [RIYL: Folk-rock, Lord Huron, The Lone Bellow] Expert Alterations – You Can’t Always Be Liked [RIYL: Indie-pop, The June Brides, The Headlights] Honeymilk (feat. De Montevert) – Psychrocker [RIYL: Baggy-Indie, The Charlatans, Primal Scream] Kharlos – Dawn [RIYL: Garage Rock, Ty Segall, Thee Oh … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 7)
Matt Kivel will be releasing, Janus his third studio album on February 5th next year via Driftless Recordings. The title track is a gorgeous broken folk hymnal, almost six minutes of typically beautiful, softly plucked acoustic Americana that carries you away like mist disappearing in the morning sun. Sink in. Continue reading Matt Kivel – Janus
Seems like we’ve not done one for a little while. Here are a collection of tasty musical films to accompany some top notch tunes. Our selection includes Hinds, Sundara Karma, Alex Bleeker And The Freaks, Brooke Annibale, Spray Paint, Idles and Gold Class. Continue reading Video Round Up
Fear Is The Devil is the first foot-stomping single from the new EP of the same name from the Tall Pines. Coming out on November 10th. Shot in North Florida, among the reeds and standing water where snakes and alligators play, the production is a homemade, lo-fi homage to found footage and damaged goods. Watch it here. Continue reading New Video: The Tall Pines – Fear Is The Devil
The Mad Mackerel 