You know the score by now. This week we have new tunes from Thee Oh Sees, Potty Mouth, Menace Beach, Mutual Benefit, Honeyblood, Crystal Fairy, Jacuzzi Boys, Hazel English, Teen Suicide and some vintage 60s garage rock from Film Jacket 35. Enjoy the weekend. Thee Oh Sees – The Poem Menace Beach – Maybe We’ll Drown Hazel English – Control Potty Mouth – Smash Hit Teen … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Influenced by bands like Blondie, Modern Lovers, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Alvvays, San Diego’s Soft Lions love blending vintage sounds together with jangly guitars and propulsive percussion to create something fresh. A case in point is the excellent, effervescent psych-pop of Freeway, which is taken from forthcoming album XOXO (out on 28th October). Listen here. Continue reading MM Shorts 880: Soft Lions
Alan’s Bed is taken from Rat Motel’s self-titled debut album, which you can get on a pay-what-you-want deal from Bandcamp here. It is a wholly satisfying two and half minutes of rattling, fuzzed-up garage punk that owes as much to Ty Segall as it does to The Strokes. Have a listen. Continue reading MM Shorts 879: Rat Motel
Here is another track from Communist Daughter’s upcoming long player The Cracks That Built the Wall which is out October 21. Balboa Bridge is a beautiful, gently rolling folk song, but one which covers some difficult and troubling topics – primarily the struggles with mental health and the loneliness and isolation that can come with it. Frontman John Solomon told Stereogum, “There’s this gorgeous park in the … Continue reading Communist Daughter – Balboa Bridge
We posted Forth Wanderers’ excellent track Slop a couple of months ago. It was the title track from their new EP (due 11th November) and with its confident nods to influences like Mac DeMarco, Built to Spill and Liz Phair, it received a lot of love from around the blogosphere. Now we have a second one for you with the bittersweet indie-pop of Know Better. Have a listen … Continue reading More From Forth Wanderers
Brighton trio Our Girl have announced the follow up to debut single Sleeper (which we shared here) with details of the release of their debut four-track EP, Normally. It will be released through Cannibal Hymns on Friday 18th November. The first taste is Being Around, another excellent example of their garage rock tropes and love of chunky guitar and rhythmic drums. Have a listen and pre-order … Continue reading Our Girl Announce Debut EP
Time for our irregular, but still brilliant, instalment of Nickel in the Jukebox. A collection of ten tunes of varying guises and ages for your listening pleasure. So whatever your particular pleasure there will be something for you here. Your job is simply to sift through and find your own personal hits and misses. Port Juvee – Double Vision [RIYL: Post-punk, The Hives, The Strokes] … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 24)
Check out our selection of the best of the new releases from this week. New songs from Slaves, Wytches and a rocking’ cover of a Led Zeppelin classic from La Sera should blast the weekend cobwebs away while Hiss Golden Messenger, Jess Williamson and Moses Sumney offer up altogether more gentle and fragile fare. Enjoy. Slaves – Consume Or Be Consumed La Sera – Whole Lotta … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Hello Shark began when a teenage Lincoln Halloran moved from his home of Massachusetts to Vermont in 2006. He quickly recorded an amateur but heartfelt debut called Book Lungs and began touring the Northeast, slowly building a community web that would stretch to include Owen Ashworth (of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Advance Base), Rochester’s Attic Abasement, and the members of Brooklyn collective the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hello Shark
Terry Malts release their third LP, Lost At The Party on the 14th October 14 via Slumberland Records. We’ve already shared Seen Everything, and now you can stream their latest single Used To Be in all its hectic, driving, glory. Continue reading Terry Malts – Used To Be
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