Here is our latest collection of musical films for you. A regular pot pourri of musical styles from Girl Skin’s gorgeously fragile chamber folk to Sit Down’s oozing amalgam of doom metal and sludgy punk by way of The Cavemen’s amphetamine-fueled rhythms and scorching guitar, coupled with drunk and disorderly vocal tirades, and First Aid Kit’s ever perfect vocal harmonies. There is Steve Mason’s soulful new … Continue reading Video Round Up
Fancy some raw, lo-fi, blues-punk and garage rock ratcheted up way past eleven on the dial? Thought so… You Gonna Burn is the latest visceral, sleaze-ridden heavy-duty offering from London’s Suicide Generation – featuring guitars that could fell trees. Have a listen. Continue reading Suicide Generation – You Gonna Burn
Flat Worms are back. And just like that a shit day just got transformed. The new 7″ single from the LA based threesome is titled The Apparition / Melt The Arms. The B side can be streamed below – it is furious, buzzing, magnificent, garage-punk that will put hairs on your chest and then melt them off again – all in just over two minutes. Just … Continue reading New Single From Flat Worms
With an album cover like that, and a name like Rude Dude and the Creek Freaks, one would be entitled to expect some high octane, garage-psych of the highest order. Thankfully, this first release from the Savannah record shop, Graveface Records & Curiosities, delivers on all counts. Top banana as we like to say. Stream the marvellously named Dan Halen here, and preorder the vinyl or digital … Continue reading Introducing >>> Rude Dude and the Creek Freaks
IDLES – Great Death Valley Girls – Disaster (Is What We’re After) Fucked Up – Normal People Cat Power (feat. Lana Del Rey) – Woman Low – Disarray Spain – Maya In The Summer Iron & Wine – Waves Of Galveston Les Big Byrd – I Fucked Up I Was A Child Whitney Ballen – Fucking Sudakistan – Last Love Supreme Fidlar – Are You … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Dolls have shared the lead track from their forthcoming EP Pop The Bubble. Set for release in September the EP is four garage-pop anthems with as much sass as they have bite. For now, check out Sugar Free, a riotous example of their infectious grunge-punk inspired by “the use-and-throwaway society around us today, how superficial people’s lives can be, and how rapidly people’s values and what’s on-trend can change”. … Continue reading Dolls – Pop The Bubble EP
Untitled (LA) is the second taste from Swearin’s upcoming full length Fall into the Sun, their first for five years. It is another cracking track. Opening on the back of a great riff, the song sets off in a hurry and doesn’t look back – melodic, garage punk at its best. Listen below – pre-order from Bandcamp here. Continue reading Swearin’ – Untitled (LA)
Terry – Oh Helen The Dodos – Forum Colleen Green – Let Go Marissa Nadler – Blue Vapor Art Brut – Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out Tiny Ruins – How Much Dilly Dally – Sober Motel DeVotchKa – Angels Mitski – Two Slow Dancers Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Having shared David Nance’s cracked, nerve shredding cover of Merle Haggard’s Silver Wings last year, we now have the anthemic Poison, taken from his latest full-length, Peaced and Slightly Pulverized coming out on Chicago’s excellent Trouble in Mind Records on the 5th October. The album is credited to the David Nance Group and features Nance alongside his recent live band of fellow Omaha musicians; guitarist Jim Schroeder, bassist Tom … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The David Nance Group
Slaves – Chokehold Sleaford Mods – Stick In A Five And Go Spiritualized – Here It Comes (The Road) Let’s Go Interpol – Number 10 All The Witches – Fishbelly 86 Onions Mutual Benefit – Come To Pass Ron Gallo – It’s All Gonna Be OK Dirty Lungs – Dumps Like A Truck Maxband – Means To An End Muncie Girls – Locked Up … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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