A day late, but none the worse for all that. Here is this week’s jukebox jury selection for your listening edification. Hit or miss? You pick… . Jake McMullen – Always Single [RIYL: Singer-songwriters, James Vincent McMorrow, Ryan Adams] . Grassfight – Breaking Up Pigeons [RIYL: Psych-rock, Spacemen 3, Spoon] . Boys – Believe Anything [RIYL: Garage pop, The Strokes, The Legends] . PROM – Touch Me … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 5)
Still riding the sonic wave of the electric 60s, four-piece band The Tailbreakers formed in 2014 in Toronto. With a mission to deliver to their audience the pioneering sounds of underground rock and roll, garage-beat and psychedelia, their self-titled album is just out and recalls the vintage days of analog, live-off-the-floor recording techniques and reintroduces the listener to familiar tape hiss, slap-back echoes and reel to reel’s … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Tailbreakers
This weekend, why not relax with our regular pick of the best new releases and tunes of the past seven days. Father John Misty – The Memo Israel Nash – The Fire & The Flood Joanna Newsom – Leaving The City Bruising – Emo Friends Mount Moriah – Calvander Wytches – Darker Waters – Up Up Up Jacuzzi Boys – Wildflower Hazel English – Fix … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
It is Wednesday, so that means it is time for ten new tunes from the virtual jukebox and for you to decide on their merits…or otherwise! Holy Esque – Strange (RIYL: Post-punk, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit) . Mainland – Not As Cool As Me (RIYL: Surf-rock, Weezer, The Clash) . Debris Of Titan – What’s In My Cocoon (RIYL: Psych-rock, Tame Impala, Mac … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 4)
We’re loving this track, and this video, from Memphis psych-punk outfit NOTS. Reactor is not a new song per se having previously seen a release on Goner Records last year, but as recent signings to the excellent Heavenly Records, their album We Are Nots will now be released in the UK too, coming out on November 20th. A brilliant slice of simmering, freaked out, lo-fi … Continue reading New Video: NOTS – Reactor
We’ve long championed the raucous, incendiary garage-punk of the Dirty Nil and it is good to see them back with a new single on Dine Alone Records and with plans for a debut album early next year. Out on the 6th November, the single, No Weaknesses backed with Provisional, features the double edge sword of breakneck violent fuzz and pure anthemic catharsis; a combination of unhinged punk rock … Continue reading New Single From The Dirty Nil
A few years ago we were very taken by an EP called Four Small Bodies by a band called Blood of the Bull, and in particular a song called American Movies. Since then many, many thousands of tracks have been added to our iTunes, and we kind of forgot about the EP until the other day when we got an e-mail that mentioned the band … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Holy Motors
Our third week of ten new tunes for you to test drive and decide…hit or miss? Honey Moon – Waiting (RIYL: Hazy pop, Mac DeMarco, Real Estate) . Seratones – Necromancer (RIYL: Garage soul, Detroit Cobras, Alabama Shakes) . Trudy – Behave (RIYL: Trash pop, Jonathan Richman, The Beach Boys) . Primitive Parts – Troubles (RIYL: Indie rock, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Swell Maps) . … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 3)
Marvellous garage rock and poppers The Black Lips are back with a limited edition split single with another fave MM band The Coathangers. The Black Lips track is called Freedom Fries and is as typically exuberant and pithy as you could wish for…listen for yourself. The single is out via Suicide Squeeze on the 13th November – you can order it here. . Continue reading The Black Lips Are Back
Pony are a foursome out of Toronto, Ontario that make sugary, sweet garage pop. They describe it as the love child of Brian Wilson and Kurt Cobain – it is easy to hear why if you listen to their new EP Crushed, packed as it is with fuzzed up romance, and which is available now on a pay-what-you-want deal on Bandcamp. Check out Don’t Go below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 775: Pony
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