Here is Silver Timothy the first taste of Damien Jurado’s forthcoming album Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, due out on the 20th January. One listen and we were hooked. . Continue reading Damien Jurado – Silver Timothy
Dead Professional (aka VA-based singer-songwriter John Harouff) strips classic rock and roll and new wave pop down to their barest elements using rudimentary drum loops and a pair of vocal processors. The concise song-craft walks the line between cool revivalism and warm bittersweet pop. Check out both sides of his coin with the unhurried yet sweetly insistent ballad Pillow Talk and the upbeat, infectiously jittery Downtown At … Continue reading MM Shorts 476: Dead Professional
We’ve been desperately trying to clear our backlog of e-mails before the start of the festive period proper and all those end of year Best Of posts start. Vienna Ditto have sat, undiscovered by us, for the best part of two months – until now. Their recent 3-track EP, Ugly, blends their country blues and gospel influences with primitive ‘voodoo electronics’ and clattering junk percussion … Continue reading Introducing >>> Vienna Ditto
We’re perhaps a little late to the party with this one, and that’s probably a way out band party in some apartment, deep within the Massachusetts DIY scene. Never mind, we’ll wait on the fringes and try and catch a glimpse of the full-on indie punk rockers Mod Gun who can pummel a riff and shred a guitar with the very best of them. This is Party … Continue reading Introducing >>> Mod Gun
We first posted about Sharkmuffin almost exactly a year ago, and in that time their star has risen considerably and the buzz shows no sign of abating with their latest EP 1097. We’ve already given you Foul Play from it, and the second single is Quarter Machine – and it is a 90 second slab of noisy swagger, punk attitude and some mean musicianship. Continue reading Sharkmuffin – Quarter Machine
Forgiven/Forgotten is the first taste of Angel Olsen’s forthcoming album Burn Your Fire For No Witness. Compared with the sparse folk of her debut, Half Way Home this baby rocks out big time. . Continue reading Angel Olsen – Forgiven/Forgotten
The Rebel Light is getting set to release their new single Jukebox Dream on November 19th. It is a carefree and fun excursion into indie-pop and rock that has a classic vintage surf vibe to it and which, frankly, is impossible not to like. It is deceptively simple (much easier said than done), and all the more charming for it – the musical equivalent of … Continue reading MM Shorts 474: The Rebel Light
It is has been over 18 months since we’ve heard anything from New York’s Tyburn Saints, so it is good to discover they have brought their own particular brand of gothic-tinged ‘death-indie’ back to life with the release of a new two track offering, Live on The B-Sides 91.5. You And I In Heaven shows the five-piece have lost none of their miserabilist tendencies as, barely … Continue reading Tyburn Saints Return
We’re loving this track Come Over from Scottish four-piece Vladimir. It is thrilling, sonic mayhem – distorted, savage, bleak, nihilistic. Vladimir is appropriate, because in less than four minutes they’ve rammed a stake through the heart of paint-by-numbers indie rock, and then stubbed their fags out on its still twitching carcass. Listen here. Like Interpol being buried alive. Best of all, Come Over will be released on the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Vladimir
We have no less than six excellent videos and songs to help you begin to welcome in the weekend. First up is Beachwood Sparks and their 70s inspired home footage homage is a perfect fit for track Make It Together. By way of contrast, the video for fuzzed-up indie rockers, September Girls new single Heartbeats, draws on influences of old Hammer Horrors and photographers such Ryan McGinley and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Beachwood Sparks || September Girls || Talmud Beach || DZ Deathrays || Wild Ones || Caravan Of Thieves
The Mad Mackerel 