Today, Chris T Popper and I are heading south to Brighton and our first visit to the Great Escape festival. There are a whole host of bands we’re looking forward to seeing, from the South American punk-pop of Las Kellies, the angst of Gambles, the spectral folk of Mirel Wagner and the junkyard blues of the Amazing Snakeheads, to the stoned slacker indie of Dune Rats and the … Continue reading We’re Heading to the Great Escape…A Playlist
A collection of very fine musical films for you to peruse. From the hip guitars and indie insouciance of Made Violent (and one of the best lyric videos we’ve seen) to the punchy folk-rock of Sean Grant & The Wolfgang. From the ominous menace and brandy-warm baritone of John Joseph Brill’s Muscle and Bone (inspired by his recent diagnosis with multiple sclerosis) to the danceable psychedelia … Continue reading Videos Round Up
The Wytches have shared their new video for Robe For Juda. The trio had a £200 budget for the video, so they rented the local town hall in their Peterborough hometown and shot it on a VHS camera with their mates. The results – a kind of middle-school-talent-show-meets-Clockwork-Orange tone somehow works for their raucous and unruly sound, decorated with vivid wordplay and Egyptian-esque harmonic-minor scales. . Continue reading Video: Wytches – Robe For Juda
Here are a couple of tracks from Those Mockingbirds who are a rock band consisting of all kinds of sounds like drums, guitars, more guitars, keyboards and violin. At times dirty and heavy, or ambient and unresolved. A Ballad From Hell is about Ouija boards being used to talk to dead prostitutes while Destroy My Love ploughs a rockier, more anthemic furrow… Have a listen. . … Continue reading Those Mockingbirds – A Ballad From Hell
MM faves Grass House have a brand new video for their track A Thousand Generators, taken from last year’s excellent debut long player A Sun Full And Drowning. . . Continue reading Video: Grass House – A Thousand Generators
Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
It is a pleasure to welcome back the twisted, noir-pop of the Shamefaced Sparrows. The marvellously titled Music For The Thick is a new song that channels the spirit of the Cramps through ominous death-march percussion, macabre lyrics and werewolf style howls. Imagine cruising a 50’s beach boardwalk unstoppably headed towards the end of the world, and accompanied by the Addams Family… Stream it here. … Continue reading The Shamefaced Sparrows – Music For The Thick
We have been delighted to see the continuing rise of the excellent Bridie Jackson And The Arbour who first featured on MM in January last year and went on to become the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Winners giving them the opportunity to play the main stage. The four piece take traditional folk, baroque pop, a dash of southern gothic and even some gospel amongst other things … Continue reading New Single From Bridie Jackson And The Arbour
Last September we ran an “Introducing” post on The Ukiah Drag. We described their cassette release Jazz Mama Is Cryin as four tracks of brilliantly bleak, desolate, and warped blues and acid-rock – taut, tense, hypnotic and all consuming – like the evil offspring of Giant Sand and the Birthday Party. Now they have a new 7″ primed for release. The Dirt Trip is the band’s first studio output … Continue reading New From Ukiah Drag
The Smoke Fairies will release their new self-titled album on the 14th April via Full Time Hobby. As evidenced by first single, Eclipse Them All, it heralds something of a new direction for the duo – less harmonies and more two distinct voices, less intricate and more direct, less organic and more experimental. Thankfully, they have sacrificed none of the undercurrent of foreboding and disquiet … Continue reading Smoke Fairies – Eclipse Them All
The Mad Mackerel 