We love the primal, raw, proto-punk of Factotum’s Snake Charmer and here is the video to accompany it. It comes from a forthcoming 12 track split release on Stolen Body Records with Black Fruit, another two piece garage ‘n’ psych rock band. Watch the video and stream another couple of tracks from both parties. Order the vinyl here. . . Continue reading New Video: Factotum – Snake Charmer (& Split Release With Black Fruit)
Grace Vonderkuhn is a musician and songwriter based out of Wilmington, Delaware. She sings, plays the guitar, bass, keys, and drums. Her musical style often combines elements from garage, psychedelic, punk, classic, and glam rock genres. Her self-titled five track EP is available on Bandcamp now, and for your immediate listening pleasure we have the proto-garage rock of Saints With Death Wishes and the visceral, slow … Continue reading MM Shorts 671: Grace Vonderkuhn
From a foundation of dirt-level garage punk, Lamont “Bim” Thomas aka Obnox sculpts deep cuts out of blown-out beats, redline guitar damage, and soulful singing, as if your local gospel choir had been raised on a steady diet of The Pagans and Back From the Grave compilations. Know America, Obnox’s fifth full-length, is already the second of three albums to come out in 2015. Listen to the … Continue reading MM Shorts 670: Obnox
Alt-country, folk-rocker Lee Miles, aka Chief Ghoul, is gearing up to release his 13-track third album, III, this Spring. Hailing from Chicago, the current home of the the USA’s most prominent garage scene, he cooks up a most satisfying retro-vibe that echos Woody Guthrie’s storytelling with some righteous garage blues guitar. We have a couple of tracks of distorted, spooky Americana for you to spin that are … Continue reading Introducing >>> Chief Ghoul
New Zealand psychgazers Surf City return with an album of sticky summer jams and fuzzy swirls and out and out dream pop blasts. Harnessing the explorations of 2013’s We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This into more focused packages, the group still delivers reverb-soaked joy at every turn in their endeavours to deliver the perfect jittery motorik pop song, Check out Hollow Veins … Continue reading MM Shorts 669: Surf City
Time for some more entertainment in the form of musical films. Here are ten of the more entertaining tunes and videos that have landed in our in-box over the past couple of weeks. They come from the likes of Protomartyr, Dogheart, Split Screens, Mind Brains, Colleen Green, Gaz Coombes, Slaves, …And The Hangnails, Jamie T, and Tom Williams. . . . [Click through for free download] . … Continue reading Mega Video Round Up
Surf influenced garage rock four-piece Daddy Issues (but not the same Daddy Issues we posted about late last year!) have just released their debut EP Double Loser. Confused? Don’t be! The EP opens with Sex On The Beach with its fabulous harmonies and thumping percussion, and then swerves into a risqué love song of sorts with the infectious and irrepressible So Hard (love the fact they’ve added the … Continue reading Debut EP From Daddy Issues
1955’s new EP is called The French Had A Name For It and was released earlier this month. A copy just arrived at MM Towers… It’s raw rock and roll without any processed shellacking – lean, tight songs with a stripped back garage rock feel and with a lovely, simplistic clarity to them. Lead single is Upside Down. Watch the video for it and download … Continue reading MM Shorts 667: 1955
Here, a little later than usual, is our collection of the tunes that, by rights, you should have already heard this week. They include the return of Sufjan Stevens and Crocodiles and new songs from together PANGEA and Eula. Enjoy. 1. Waxahatchee – Under A Rock 2. Sufjan Stevens – No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross 3. Crocodiles – Crybaby Demon 4. Jacco … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Obviously, we needed the right kind of track for our six hundredth and sixty sixth post in our “Shorts” series, and Bay Area quintet Culture Abuse’s delivery of scuzzy post-punk at it’s most primal seemed nigh on perfect, especially with Nicotine, the lead track to the band’s upcoming Spray Paint The Dog 7″. So if chaotic noise rock, deviant garage punk, and elements of hardcore are … Continue reading MM Shorts 666: Culture Abuse
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