Paper Bag Records have given up a free sampler of tracks titled The 2012 Loss Leader. It features Cuff The Duke’s beautiful new single Side By Side (feat. Basia Bulat) off their upcoming release, Union, out in October, and also includes new singles from The Luyas and Slim Twig as well as the debut single from Luke Lalonde of Born Ruffians. One of our own favourites, … Continue reading Free Sampler From Paper Bag Records
Gap Dream equates to mystical, stoned-to-the-bone one-man garage rock recorded on a laptop in his bedroom. And not shit. The Ali Baba 7″ will be released through Suicide Squeeze Records on a limited edition 7″ + download code (250 copies on lavender vinyl, 500 on black) and digital worldwide on 2nd October. a Continue reading MM Shorts 225: Gap Dream
We have been longstanding fans of Murder By Death’s parched, dusty, and often desolate outlaw country-folk and so it was the cause of much excitement to hear the first taste from forthcoming album Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon. The brooding and cinematic Lost River is a song they describe as being “about a lover who drowned in the river calling out and beckoning the living to join … Continue reading New Album From Murder By Death
This evening, I’m off to take a waltz down to the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford East. It promises to be modern affair after the more traditional soiree with the Russians earlier in the week. Better find my ruby red shoes… Sadly, I shall miss the egg throwing competition tonight that kicks off the annual Street Fair, which will be undoubtedly punctuated by the annual … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (14th September)
Here are a whole bunch of appetising new releases all ready for you to try a pick and mix approach to soundtracking your weekend. Kicking us off, hypnotic indie experimentalists, The Soft Moon have another track from new album Zeros available for download. This is Insides. a The Inner Mansions, the new album from Teen Daze has been picking up lots of positive reviews and will be … Continue reading New Release Round Up
The marvellously named Murder Barn are back with a new single which is available for free download from their Bandcamp page. The also marvellously titled, In Every Sea We Drown precedes their debut EP Gotta Good Man out on 5th November. Although this track will not feature on the EP, the band are giving it away as a little freebie taster and a hint of what’s to … Continue reading MM Shorts 224: New From The Murder Barn
When a band generates comparisons with such luminaries as Spacemen 3, Echo & The Bunnymen and Deerhunter amongst others then it has to be worth further investigation. And in most cases, it turns out those comparisons are spurious at best, so it is always a real treat to come across the real deal. So it is with The Veda Rays who conjure up their own … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Veda Rays
