After a bit of a gap due to too much life interrupting, we’re back with instalment 6 of Nickel In The Jukebox. Ten new songs, you decide how good they are… Miners – Better Instincts [RIYL: Folk-rock, Lord Huron, The Head And The Heart] Futurekids – White Girl In A Wu-Tang Shirt [RIYL: Indie-rock, Wilco, Jenny Lewis] . PROM – I’ll Teach You [RIYL: … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 6)
Finding a sweet spot between floor-shaking rhythms, hard-hitting strings, soulful vocals, shimmering synth beats and just a hint of twang, New York’s Imaginary People will release their debut full-length album entitled Dead Letterbox on November 20th. Check out lead track She Is below. Continue reading MM Shorts 785: Imaginary People
Seven days, nine new songs, all winners. Courtney Barnett – Boxing Days Blues Revisited JEFF The Brotherhood – Radiating Fiber Plane Besnard Lakes – Golden Lion Cass McCombs – Evangeline William Elliott Whitmore – Civilisations Hiccup – Whatevs, Its Cool Powderburns – Not Right (Stooges cover) Cheatahs – Su-Pra Mothers – It Hurts Until It Doesn’t Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
London-based garage rock trio King Korea will unleash their debut single Zoo Generation on 23rd October. Creating furious, thoroughly modern rock and roll which calls to mind the best of The Cramps, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and The Black Keys, it is a taut, three-minute explosion of blistering guitars, fuzzed-out bass and psychotic vocals. In fact it is an angry, pounding beast of a single … Continue reading MM Shorts 783: King Korea
A day late, but no matter. A collection of nine brand spanking new tunes rounded up from the past week – just for you. Laura Stevenson – Claustrophobe Woozy – Painted White Eleanor Friedberger – False Alphabet City Long Beard – Turkeys Surf Rock Is Dead – Never Be The Same Dirty Nil – Provisional (Fugazi cover) Vandaveer – Jealous Guy (John Lennon cover) Ex-Hex … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Perpetually oscillating between the irreverent, macabre, hilarious and heartfelt, Brooklyn based garage psych trio Def.GRLS is gearing up to release their debut EP, GRLS. Check out the cheeky second single, FinGRLess Lady, a lo-fi, Bizzaro-Beatles odyssey. Continue reading MM Shorts 782: Def.GRLS
We have already given you Freedom Fries, the Black Lips side of their forthcoming split single with The Coathangers. Now we have Watch Your Back, the buzzing, indignant anthem that makes up the other side from the aforementioned Coathangers. Marvellous stuff – stream it below. Continue reading The Coathangers – Watch Your Back
Chicago garage-glam band The Handcuffs have announced the release of their their first-ever cassette on the East Nashville-based Semi-Pro Records on October 17, to commemorate Cassette Store Day. Inhabiting some of the same musical domain as T-Rex, Spiders from Mars era Bowie, Franz Ferdinand and early Blondie, the tape-only release, All The Way From Chicago, features a “best of” style sampling of songs from their first … Continue reading The Handcuffs cover Mott The Hoople
Here is another new track from provocative (in a wholly charming way) Infinity Cat new signings Daddy Issues. Their excellent new digital single, Shitty World further showcases their mixing pot of garage-surf-pop-punk and also features label owner and JEFF The Brotherhood guitarist Jake Orrall. Dive in to their world… . Continue reading MM Shorts 781: Daddy Issues
Our collection extends to no less than ten sweet new tracks for you this week, lovingly gathered up from the past seven days like shells from a beach. Or something like that… Torres – Special (Garbage cover) Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – Bennie And The Jets Julien Baker – Brittle Boned Beach Baby – Limousine Death Valley Girls – Death Valley Boogie Hamilton Leithauser & … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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