As well as the anticipation, there is always a slight sense of trepidation when an artist or band that you have a particular affinity with releases something new. More than anything you want that special sense of rapport and harmony that you feel to be prolonged and enhanced, and not to be spoiled – for your personal love affair with said artist’s music to continue. So this … Continue reading The Cave Singers Are Back, MM Rejoices
With sonic touchstones like The Go-Betweens (particularly Robert Forster’s melancholic bite), The Only Ones, Lou Reed, Nikki Sudden, and Bedhead, Canada’s Nap Eyes will release their new album, Thought Rock Fish Scale, on the 5th February via Paradise of Bachelors. The first taste comes via the taut opening track, Mixer, which uses the space between ringing chords to deconstruct a party episode into an analytical out-of-body experience, charting a path … Continue reading MM Shorts 792: Nap Eyes
The Fat White Family have announced details of the release of Whitest Boy On The Beach, the first track from their forthcoming second album. The single is released on Friday 15th January on the band’s own Without Consent label. It is already a contender for grooviest song of the year – another brilliant slice of sleazy, pulsating psychedelia and mutant funk. The band release their second … Continue reading New From The Fat White Family
A perfect ten (count ’em) rounded up for you this week, all fresh and emerging blinking into the daylight. Or something like that… Menace Beach – Holidays Are Heavy The Big Pink – High Times So Pitted – Rot In Hell The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Hell Pretty Vicious – Are You Ready For Me Rare Monk – California Sunflower Bean – … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The weekend is imminent, the working week thankfully drawing to a close and here are some nice new videos of some nice new songs to kick off the break… Continue reading Video Round Up
Our eighth collection of ten tunes for the virtual jukebox – give them a spin and decide hit… or miss. Passport To Stockholm – Let Me Know [RIYL: Indie-folk, Lanterns on the Lake, Loch Lomond] Ripper – On The Curb [RIYL: Punk, Germs, Dead Kennedys] Trotting Bear – Hesitate [RIYL: Folk, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine] Bad Sounds – Avalanche [RIYL: Indie-pop, … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 8)
The Quiet Hollers self-titled album has been one of our favourite discoveries of the year, and now the band have just shared a stunningly good version of Madonna’s Material Girl. It came about as a fan chosen cover as part of their crowd-funding for the new album and lead singer/songwriter Chadwick Wilde describes it thus, “My first reaction was horror… as I instinctively recoil from so-called “pop” … Continue reading Quiet Hollers Cover Madonna
Sievehead come straight out of Sheffield’s The Lughole, a DIY space “run by the punks, for the punks”. With nods towards UK post-punk forefathers Joy Division, Echo and The Bunnymen and The Cure, whilst also sounding straight out of the Salad Days’ soundtrack alongside bands like Fugazi and Minor Threat, Sievehead have carved out their own sound – energetic, raw and powerful with more than … Continue reading Debut Album From Sievehead
Over the weekend we were fortunate to catch Titus Andronicus live for the first time at the excellent and intimate Bullingdon pub in Oxford. They did not disappoint. However, before the main event Barry-Sean and I were thoroughly impressed by support band Washington Irving, who hail from Scotland, and who delivered a spirited set of anthemic indie rock with nods to folk (including traditional foot-stomping sea-shanty instrumentals) through … Continue reading New Single From Washington Irving
Stripping down their garage rock abandon and jangly oeuvre even further for new album Sinking Ships (out early 2016), Portland based trio Hey Lover hones in on a pop-punk realm on a set of highly addictive tracks like opener I Wanna Be With You, the barebones rhythm-driven Ahhh, and the raucous Problem. Want proof? Watch the video for peppy road-punk opus I’ve Got A Car below. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hey Lover
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