We’re big fans of Table Scraps’ fuzzed-up, scuzzy rock’n’roll that draws as much from Dinosaur Jr as it does the Cramps or even Suicide. Excellent new single I’m A Failure (from just released, and also excellent long player Autonomy), comes with a top notch sock-puppet video. And frankly anyone who doesn’t love a sock puppet doesn’t have a soul. Watch it here. Continue reading New Video: Table Scraps – I’m A Failure
The final entry in our MM Shorts series (which started with Bleached back in September 2011) comes in the shape of the wonderful Cold Spell, the first taste from RF Shannon’s upcoming long player Trickster Blues. It is an exquisite blend of dusky Western and spectral psychedelia and you can stream it below. You can also order the album here. Continue reading MM Shorts 1000: RF Shannon
Time for a quick and dirty round-up from our unkempt and overflowing in-box, looking back over the past month or so. We have fuzzy art-rock from Sego who mix together warped psych rock and indie pop to create bleak pop songs that soar into big hooks and brilliant melodic noise. Opting for a slower tempo on Cigarette Kids, their most recent single is less skronk and more … Continue reading Round Up Time
Screaming Females – I’ll Make You Sorry Car Seat Headrest – Fallen Horses (Smash Mouth cover) Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo Wavves & Culture Abuse – Big Cloud Mount Eerie – Tintin In Tibet Speedy Ortiz – Lucky 88 Wye Oak – It Was Not Natural Rixe – La Cle Melvins – Stop Moving To Florida Table Scraps – Lyin’ Thru Yer Teeth Father John Misty … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Ah, how we’ve missed the marvellous Parquet Courts… They’re back with a new album, Wide Awake!, and a track of two halves, Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience. The first typically frenetic and jerky, the second half a classic Courts’ indie-punk anthem. Watch the lyric video below. Continue reading Parquet Courts Are Back
Dr Dog – Go Out Fighting Simone Felice – The Projector Vintage Crop – Gerald Part 2 Drinks – Real Outside The Low Anthem – Give My Body Back Bonny Doon – A Lotta Things Dan Michaelson – Sand Beach House – Lemon Glow Swampmeat Family Band – Needle & Thread Eleanor Friedberger – In Between Stars Holly Miranda – To Be Loved … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Courtney Barnett will release her follow-up to her acclaimed debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit on the 18th May. Titled Tell Me How You Feel, the first single from it, Nameless, Faceless is an infectious indie anthem that simmers with indignation and sarcasm. It examines the phenomenon of incessant and anonymous internet trolls, and every lyric is memorable as Barnett quotes … Continue reading New Single & Album From Courtney Barnett
If, like us, you have a thing for dystopian folk, abstract poeticism and motorik rhythms then Olden Yolk can happily tick those boxes for you. The New York-based group led by songwriters, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists Shane Butler (of Quilt) and Caity Shaffer, are set to release their self-titled debut album on 23rd February via Trouble In Mind. We previously shared tracks Takes One To Know One and Vital Sign, and now we have latest … Continue reading Olden Yolk – Cut To The Quick
Amen Dunes (aka the project of New York-based Damon McMahon) has shared the video for his new single Blue Rose, taken from upcoming long player Freedom which is out on the 30th March. The song is a teenage clarion call born from McMahon’s growing up with an unpredictable father, his fighting back with music, drugs and fantasy, and his eventual escape from it all via one of … Continue reading More From Amen Dunes
We’re absolutely loving the new single from Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. Channelling past masters like the Modern Lovers, The Fall and Iggy Pop, as well as contemporaries like Idles and Shame, Chequeless Reckless is built on a great hypnotic, kraut-rock infused cyclical riff, and some scalpel sharp lyrics. We’re pretty damn sure it is going to end up in our end of year best of lists… A sellout … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Fontaines D.C.
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