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
Stripping down their garage rock abandon and jangly oeuvre even further for new album Sinking Ships (out early 2016), Portland based trio Hey Lover hones in on a pop-punk realm on a set of highly addictive tracks like opener I Wanna Be With You, the barebones rhythm-driven Ahhh, and the raucous Problem. Want proof? Watch the video for peppy road-punk opus I’ve Got A Car below. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hey Lover
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
Stolen Body Records have announced the third in their split series of releases, this one featuring the glam-garage rock of the brilliantly named Peace And Love Barbershop Muhammad Ali, and the reverb drenched raw garage of the equally excellently monikered Druggy Pizza. Check out the former’s Lord, and the latter’s I Wanna Eat Until I’m Dead below. You can pre-order your copy of one of 250 half … Continue reading New Split From Peace And Love Barbershop Muhammad Ali & Druggy Pizza
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)
Like a feral Allah-Las, the Atlantic Thrills combine scuzzy surf licks with classic sounds of the lysergic 60s to create a sonic stew all of their own making. On new album Vices their electric howl will ring in the ears of sinners and Sodomites hungry for the sound of true American psychedelic rock and roll. Listen to the title track here. Continue reading MM Shorts 790: Atlantic Thrills
You know the routine… Wreckless Eric – Days Of My Life The Chills – Silver Bullets The Gloomies – Groves The Underground Youth – Juliette Fuzz Ghost – Sandy Bum Eleanor Friedberger – He Didn’t Mention His Mother PWRHAUS – How I Feel About You The Duchess & The Fox – St Vitus Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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
A couple of years ago or so we featured Shaky Shrines, comparing them favourably with Black Angels and Wooden Ships, and now they are back with a new album Shaky At Best. Mixing gnarly psych-rock and full on garage riffs to excellent effect, listen to the excellent opener Close Call (Adderall Anxiety) below, and buy from Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Shorts 788: Shaky Shrines
Our regular weekend collection… this week seven new releases gathered for your edification and listening pleasure. Enjoy. Beach House – Elegy To The Void The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Laid (James cover) Soldiers of Fortune – Campus Swagger Coromandelles – New Ordain Palm Honey – Bewitched Sea Pinks – Depth Of Field Sune Rose Wagner – Donna (Richie Valens cover) … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The Mad Mackerel 