Here is our traditional free Halloween Mix for 2013 – twenty five great tunes and the fourth year we’ve provided a soundtrack for one of the best nights of the year. Download a perfect mix of ghouls, ghosts, spooks, and all manner of assorted monsters…from all genres and the past 40 years. No trick, all treat! Download Gene Vincent – Race With The Devil mp3 … Continue reading Free Halloween Mix 2013
Sydney garage/psych band The Jones Rival mix clever riffs, solid bass hooks, howling vocals and a good old drive to create a sound which traverses the decades and lands at something fresh and contemporary. The band have just finished recording their debut self-titled five track EP, which is out on the 1st of November. Listen to the opening two tracks, Cults and Busted. Continue reading Introducing >>> The Jones Rival
Videos for Sunday morning come with some Dangerous Blues from Miraculous Mule, and from a excellent collaboration by Less Love and Wondernaut we have the video for their track Like Shaking Hands. We also have orchestral indie pop from The Cabin Project and some classic Americana from Brandy Zdan who used to be one half of the the brilliant and sadly defunct Twilight Hotel and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Miraculous Mule || Less Love & Wondernaut || The Cabin Project || Brandy Zdan
Radioactivity consists of Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan from Marked Men. The first of two albums from the band is due next week on Dirtnap Records. Radioactivity is a continuation of The Novice, Jeff Burke’s band while living in Japan. Jeff has since moved back to Texas, and out of respect to the Japanese lineup of the band, has changed the name to Radioactivity. Some … Continue reading Radioactivity: Locked In My Head
Having recently waxed lyrical about Sleepy Sun’s 7″ single of gargantuan, heavy, garage psych 11.32, which saw a release last week, we now have a stream of the equally good, if more melodic and less pulverising b-side, The Lane. Have a listen below. Buy the single here. Continue reading Stream Sleepy Sun’s The Lane
We are pleased to report the spirit of rock ‘n roll is exhumed, drenched in heavy blues riffs, and smeared with earthy grit by Brooklyn trio Graveyard Lovers. On latest release Dreamers, essences of Jack White, The Black Keys and Band of Skulls can be heard, but the whole is closer to a Louisiana-blues-infused grunge-rock for a modern age. Mighty fine it is too – we have three … Continue reading Introducing >>> Graveyard Lovers
Brighten the start of the working week by watching these excellent videos from Upset, from singer – songwriter Teitur, from As Elephants Are with the nagging melody and barbed wire rhythm of new single Crystal, and some excellent fuzzy garage rock from Aussie band New Regulars. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Upset || Teitur || As Elephants Are || New Regulars
Time to round up a few more of the releases that have tickled our ears from the inbox and round the web. Ali Koehler has hitherto been best known as the drummer of the pop group Best Coast and the noisy girl punk trio Vivian Girls. After her departure from Best Coast, Koehler decided to step up from behind the kit to front a band … Continue reading Rounding Them Up Again
We’ve posted about Plateaus a few times on MM. Their latest release will be a one-sided limited run 10″ called Wasting Time. So if hazy guitar tones, pounding drums, fuzzed out bass, and blown out vocals that deliver a sonic soundscape your ears will be thrilled to hear is your thing then you can order the vinyl here. In the meantime have a listen to … Continue reading MM Shorts 460: Plateaus
This weekend sees the annual Gathering festival in Oxford – a brilliant event that takes in seven venues around the city and runs from the afternoon into the wee small hours. This year the line up includes such MM luminaries as Local Natives, Drenge, Waxahatchee, Temples, Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs, Pyyramids, Port Isla, Wolf Alice, To Kill A King, Cheatahs and a whole host more. … Continue reading The Gathering – A Playlist
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