The mighty Meatbodies are back with a new 7″ single via Famous Class / LAMC. On the A side they’ve given us the brilliantly weird, psych masterpiece Valley Girl, and on the flip side they channel their inner Numanoid on the equally excellent Hibernation. Listen below. Continue reading Meatbodies – Valley Girl
Having posted about them in our 100 Posts in 100 Hours feature, we now have the debut single by London quartet Tangerines for your listening pleasure. You Look Like Something I Killed will be released on 7″ vinyl and digitally on March 18th and is another fine example of their boisterously raw and infectious indie rock. Listen below. Continue reading MM Shorts 822: Tangerines
London’s Virgin Kids were fully formed in late 2014, playing frenetically energised rock‘n’roll that draws from sources such as post-punk and the ’70s West Coast. Following on from their self-titled EP, the garage-punk three-piece are now gearing up to release their debut LP Greasewheel on Burger Records/Fluffer Records on the 26th March. Listen to frenetic opener Bruised Knees, which sets out the record’s punch-drunk mix of Gun Club swagger … Continue reading Another From Virgin Kids
Just home from a lovely week with family in the Arctic circle, and already pining for the fjords, here are this week’s collection of top tunes neatly gathered up solely for your listening edification. Julian Casablancas – Run Run Run (Velvet Underground cover) Bat For Lashes – I Do Mind Spiders – Running Hooded Fang – Tunnel Vision Wintersleep – Territory Frightened Rabbit – Death … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The Coathangers who release their fifth LP, Nosebleed Weekend, on 15th April via Suicide Squeeze Records have shared the excellent title track and also announced a one-off London show at the Moth Club on the 5th May before heading off on a string of European dates. Stream it here. Continue reading Coathangers Share Nosebleed Weekend
It has been far too long since we posted any videos. We’re righting that wrong today with an excellent collection culled from our in-box – some old(er), some new, some borrowed and some blue(s). So sit back, relax and enjoy musical films from Big Thief, Great American Canyon Band, Fidlar, M.Ward, On Dead Waves, All Them Witches, Impulsive Hearts, Bleached, Traams, and Holly Miranda. … Continue reading Video Round-Up
Rising from the smoking embers of several leading Merseyside acts, newcomers Pure Joy serve up hot, psych-heavy, filthy garage-rock candy tinged with patches of late-60s American psychedelia, buzzy Motor City riffage, and decades of pop, ranging from the pastoral sounds of Ray Davies to the vivid expansiveness of Kurt Vile and the Antipodean warmth of Tame Impala. Their debut album, Bang Flower is released on the 1st … Continue reading Introducing >>> Pure Joy
Long standing MM faves The Limiñanas have announced a new album and shared a new single, the dreamily hypnotic Garden of Love, featuring Peter Hook. Malamore is the title of the French duo’s new album, and it is is rooted in garage-punk, the Nuggets compilations and early Stooges and Suicide albums meets the Sixties film genres of Commedia All’italiana and French Nouveau Vague, while still sounding only like The … Continue reading The Limiñanas Announce New Album
Here is the selection from the Mad Mackerel jury for our choice cuts from the past seven days. Enjoy. Black Mountain – Mothers Of The Sun Rogue Wave – What Is Left To Solve The Castillians – Come What May Witching Waves – Pitiless La Sera – I Need An Angel Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Astonished Man Purling Hiss – My … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Apologies for the uninspiring heading. However, with time against us and a plethora of new tracks from some of our favourite artists piling up in our in-box we’ve decided to lump them all together and share five new tracks in one go. So without further ado, enjoy new music from Future of the Left, William Fitzsimmons, Teleman, September Girls and Eskimeaux. How good is that? … Continue reading Five New Songs
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