This week we have collected no less than ten new releases for your listening pleasure. Every one a winner! 1. Ausmuteants – Echo Beach (Martha & The Muffins cover) 2. Bueno – Assed Out 3. Day Wave – Drag 4. The Foetals – Fine 5. Nathaniel Rateliff – S.O.B. 6. The Lighthouse And The Whaler – I Want To Feel Alive 7. The Creeping Ivies – … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Avalanche, the new EP from Canadian songwriter Kalle Mattson, is set for release on the 21st August on HOME Music Co. While still firmly anchored in his folk roots, lead single A Long Time Ago is built around a delayed hip hop beat and features plenty of synths as well as a drum machine, and perfectly encapsulates the EP’s themes of anxiety, nostalgia, the past, and the … Continue reading Kalle Matson – Avalanche EP
On the day that we lost screen legend Sir Christopher Lee it seems fitting to share this new video from Scots Trembling Bells for Sweet Death Polka, imbued as it is with a real undercurrent of bucolic menace that resembles Lee’s own favourite film, the 1971 pagan horror classic The Wicker Man. It is nothing less than you’d expect from a band that delight in feverish … Continue reading New Video: Trembling Bells – Sweet Death Polka
Brighton’s Slum Of Legs have released their second single via Tuff Enuff Records. Renowned for their exhilarating live shows, risk taking and uncompromising attitude, Doll Like is a brilliant, pummelling motorik punk track that comes across like some kind of freakish amalgamation of Sons & Daughters rhythms with the joyous sleaze of the Fat White Family – it is a clarion call echoing the vibrant queer DIY scene flourishing around the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Slum Of Legs
Widowspeak are back with a new album of elegant dream-pop and slowcore rock and roll full of easygoing melodies and dusty, snaking guitars. Titled All Yours, it will be released on Captured Tracks on September 4th. They have shared the title track via NPR here, and also shared the first single Girls which you can stream below. . . Continue reading Widowspeak Announce New Album
DRINKS, the new project from Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley, aka White Fence, will release their debut album Hermits On Holiday on the 21st August. Here is the new, thoroughly enjoyable and engaging music video for the album’s title track. . . . Continue reading New Video: DRINKS – Hermits On Holiday
The Cigarette Bums recently finished recording Goofs On The Loose, their follow up LP to debut Holy Smokes. It sees a release in September. With influences ranging from The Stooges to The Black Lips the band is gearing up to showcase their brand of energised 60s garage punk and power pop via their first national US tour. The album includes unique tracks such as Strange in … Continue reading The Cigarette Bums – Goofs On The Loose
Finnish band Black Twig are about fuzzy pop songs, shoegaze, folk and droning rock songs. They are currently hard at work on the follow up to last year’s Heliogram long player, but in the meantime are offering up a rendition of Venom’s In League With Satan,which stamps the band’s own brand of willful energy on the song without losing any of the eerie creepiness of the original. Have … Continue reading Black Twig Cover Venom
Fine Points, a new project featuring members of San Francisco psych band, and regular MM alumni, Sleepy Sun, will release their debut album, Hover, on July 17th via Dine Alone Records. For now, make do with a first taste of the record in the shape of the hazy, psych-tinged, cosmic fuzz of lead single Astral Season. . Continue reading MM Shorts 723: Fine Points
It has been a good while since we’ve posted a round up of some of the best videos (and songs) that have found their way into our in box. So we’re righting that wrong this weekend with a Sunday collection for your viewing and listening pleasure. We have the Mynabirds, Dirty Blonde, Vanish Valley, Buffalo Rodeo, The Tarantula Waltz, The Worry Dolls, Phobophobes, Charles Howl, … Continue reading Big Video Round Up
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