Here is Part 2 of our round up of the best of the week’s releases. In this batch of gems we have a new single from prolific garage-punk Ty Segall, another taster from the Jesus & Mary Chain’s long awaited new record and a brilliant track from Mark Lanegan’s recently announced album Gargoyle. The Tablets offer up an excellent new wave inspired single and there is … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)
So many good new tunes released this week – fourteen and counting – that we’ve had to split them into two posts. Here are the first seven including a brilliant new single from the UK’s new saviour of indie guitar rock, Cabbage. Like a cross between Fat White Family, The Fall, and the Amazing Snakeheads. We have the new single from Samantha Crain’s upcoming album … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
Here is volume 27 of Nickel in the Jukebox – a semi regular roundup of new (and some not so new) tunes for your listening pleasure. Within these ten tunes we have frantic noise punk, classic country, slow-burning folk, indie guitars and fuzzy pastoral psychedelia and plenty more besides. Listen and decide… hit or miss? Tangerines – Peckham Boys [RIYL: Art-punk, Television, Modern Lovers] … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 27)
It has been a while since we’ve heard from Americana four-piece Cat Meat and so it was a welcome surprise to get details of a new track, Caught By The Richochet in our in-box. It is a mid-tempo slice of alt-Country with just the right amount of longing and regret. I recalled you in these four walls When pollen swelled my eyes The morning light on ivory … Continue reading MM Shorts 919: Cat Meat
Longtime MM fave, Marika Hackman has announced a brand new single Boyfriend (out 31st March) – and it is quite a departure from her previous offerings. The introspection and self-consciousness have been swept away, and instead we get the sound of liberation, reinvention, spontaneity and collective joy. This is some serious feral female energy at work. Boyfriend is a muscular post-punk call to arms that packs a pretty … Continue reading New Single From Marika Hackman
Evergreen singer-songwriter and Austin resident extraordinaire, Shakey Graves has released The Man From Taured as a pay-what-you-want release on Bandcamp. The eleven tracks are a collection of demos, b-sides and rarities from the past ten years and is well worth getting hold off. Want proof? Listen to a demo of Call It Heaven with Esme Patterson below. Continue reading Shakey Graves Releases The Man From Taured
Springtime Carnivore released the gorgeous visuals for her song Midnight Room today. The title track to her most recent album, the video is the work of animator Kevin Andrews, who created a series of painterly scenes for the song. Watch it here. Continue reading Video: Springtime Carnivore – Midnight Room
Here is a slightly chaotic pop song by Tin Can Telescope about being a tourist in New York. It is inspired by a classic Strokes-esque New Yorker sound and infused with the slacker mentality of Pavement and the psychotic vocals by Black Francis of Pixies. Tin Can Telescope is a Danish garage rock band from Grenaa. Their latest EP is Winding up the Reeling Sensation, released … Continue reading MM Shorts 918: Tin Can Telescope
We are willing to bet that You Can Catch A Lobster With Eggs But Not Egg Salad will be one of the year’s more unusual album titles. It comes from indie folk duo Retail Space and will be self-released this week (order here). Blue Jeans is the second single from it, a charming blend of folk, synth pop, and indie rock that’s as ethereal as it is emotional. Listen … Continue reading MM Shorts 917: Retail Space
Named after a song by The Softies, Spanish trio Me and the Bees are indie-pop aficionados; raised on a diet of charming 60s girl-pop and seminal 90s indie rock greats. The result is Menos Mal, a 15 song-long album of radiant, lo-fi pop hits, due out on 7th April. Listen to new single Spinnin’, a two minute meditation on the bittersweet feeling of heartbreak and new beginnings. … Continue reading MM Shorts 916: Me And The Bees
The Mad Mackerel 