Here are this week’s careful selections for you dear reader/listener. No less than ten new tunes, all released, blinking and dewy eyed into the spring sunshine over the past seven days. They include Spray Paint, Flat Worms and Diarrhea Planet for those who like the needle in the red and Money and Andy Shauf for those who prefer the more sedate, maudlin side of life. … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Danish quartet Yung are sharing Uncombed Hair, the second single to be taken from forthcoming debut full-length, A Youthful Dream (out 10/06 on Fat Possum & Tough Love). Musically it may sit in the worlds of Ty Segall, Super Chunk and Jay Reatard, but it is a deceptively tragic song that covers difficult emotional terrain in a very personal way, noticing the burden a friend … Continue reading Yung – Uncombed Hair
Karen Meat & The Computer’s Pizza And Beer featured prominently in Chris T Popper’s favourite tunes of last year. Now the slacker-pop four piece are back with On The Couch, the title track from their forthcoming four track 7″ single out on the 3rd June. Tune in below to another fine example of their mix of catchy hooks, barstool drawl and off-kilter jangle. Continue reading New From Karen Meat & The Computer
The Julie Ruin will release the follow up to 2013’s Run Fast album in July. Titled Hit Reset, the first single from it is this brilliant slice of stomping indie rock, I Decide. It somehow manages to be outrageously catchy while simultaneously sounding like an angry bunch of wasps trapped in a jam jar. Watch the lyric video starring Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee, which was filmed in Austin … Continue reading Julie Ruin – I Decide
Here is a quick round up of a bunch of cracking tunes that have been earmarked for posting in our inbox for too long! Treat it like a musical pick ‘n’ mix and make your selections from the queasy, post-punk drama of Greys, Ladada’s surf-psych, the crisp indie rock of Clean Spill, rustic American from The Convergers, dystopian garage rock from Sans Pareil, gorgeous, ambient … Continue reading Musical Pick ‘n Mix – Quick Round Up
The striking, warped pop of Candy is the latest track to be shared from Weaves’ forthcoming self-titled debut LP. Encapsulating the Canadian band’s high-wire approach to songwriting the track is, according to singer Jasmyn Burke, one of her earliest collaborations with guitarist Morgan Waters and remains one of her favourites. They’ve also announced a massive UK tour for the summer, so check the dates out below, while … Continue reading Weaves – Candy
Leeds grunge-pop duo Night Owls will release their debut EP Informaldehyde on London independent label Till Deaf Do Us Party on 10th June. Taking their influences from the weirder end of the grunge spectrum, citing the likes of Nirvana, Pixies and Queens Of a The Stone Age as their main loves, with Savages and Warpaint also getting a nod. Listen to lead track Why Me? from it … Continue reading MM Shorts 838: Night Owls
Here we are again! Ten more new songs gathered and presented for your listening edification. Parquet Courts – Human Performance Ashley Shadow – In Shadows Honey Radar – Caterpillar King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – People – Vultures Future Of The Left – 50 Days Before The Hun Brian Jonestown Massacre – Fingertips Spice Boys – It’s Coming The Parrots – Let’s Do It … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here are no less than five fabulous, wildly different covers for you to sink your teeth, or ears, into. We have Night Beats taking on the Beach Boys’ classic Sloop John B and giving it the full psych treatment (it comes from the upcoming A Tribute to Pet Sounds compilation). Next up is Julien Baker’s striking cover of Elliott Smith’s Ballad Of Big Nothing which can be found (alongside 15 others), on … Continue reading Covers & Tributes Galore
Grieving are a new band from Cambridge, playing direct, twisting indie-punk. In debt to the likes of Dismemberment Plan, Jets To Brazil, Drive Like Jehu and elsewhere the lo-fi pop of Guided By Voices or Bob Mould, you can hear the anxious, anthemic indie-punk of No Sleep below. Continue reading MM Shorts 836: Grieving
The Mad Mackerel 