Brooklyn band Monograms is the project of Ian Jacobs, who has been releasing music under the moniker for the past couple of years. What started out as a solo bedroom project has since grown into a four-piece live band, and they now have two upcoming releases: a split 7″ with Pink Mexico, due out tomorrow, and a new EP, Silencer, due out April 21st. Both feature … Continue reading Monograms – OK Promises
Mountain Man – Love Hurts (Nazareth cover) Dan Auerbach – Shine On Me Mountain Goats – Etruscans Whitney – Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can) (Dolly Parton cover) Los Angeles Police Department – If I Lied Moon Duo – Sevens Peacers – Jurgen’s Layout Sam Amidon – Juma Mountain Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else – Wrong Turn The Wooden Sky – Black Gold … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Take It Slow is the new single lifted from Fazerdaze’s (a.k.a. Amelia Murray’s) forthcoming debut album Morningside, due out on New Zealand’s esteemed Flying Nun label on 5th May. Languid and alluring, the song is bursting with dreamy, bedroom-pop charms, layered with just the right hint of melancholia. Stream it / watch it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 933: Fazerdaze
A couple of weeks ago, DUMB saw the proper release of their debut album Live Fast Die Dumb, which had previously been released on cassette only. Now the band have announced their new album Less will see the light of day on Friday 31st March through Axis Mundi Records (order here). The Austin, TX guitar trio create a pretty tasty and unique blend of rock’n’roll, … Continue reading MM Shorts 932: DUMB
From the depths of Melbourne’s rock pool, Shrimpwitch have emerged from the waves with their debut Eggs Eggs Eggs EP, a ferocious mix of high energy garage punk and rock’n’roll. The duo going under the monikers Georgi Goonsack and Kim Prawn, are the first release from the Hysterical Records label. Listen to Lust For A Kick below, a lustful, boozy, hedonistic tale of pleasure and pain. You can pre-order the EP … Continue reading Introducing >>> Shrimpwitch
Started in conjunction with Secretly Group and 30 Songs, 30 Days, Our First 100 Days aims to raise funds for organizations supporting causes that are currently under threat by the Trump administration. We’ve already featured a few songs from the project, which has raised over $80,000 so far. For their contribution, Courtney Marie Andrews and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy have collaborated on a cover of I … Continue reading Courtney Marie Andrews & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Here is the title track from Left Lane Cruiser’s new full-length studio effort, Claw Machine Wizard. The duo are still putting out some of the gnarliest, primordial, gut-bucket blues-punk imaginable… Praise be for that! Stream it below. Continue reading Left Lane Cruiser – Claw Machine Wizard
Here is a second track from Portland folk-rockers the Builders & The Butchers upcoming long player The Spark. Singer Ryan Sollee describes it as “…a pretty simple call and response folk tune about desperation. On its face its a old story song, but a lot of the themes can be related to today. The inspiration for this came from my Leadbelly library of congress recordings” … Continue reading Another From The Builders & The Butchers
Julien Baker – Good News (Piano Version) Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Hope The High Road BNQT – Unlikely Force Bonnie Prince Billy & Nathan Salsburg – Wallin Creek Girls Kevin Morby – Come To Me Now Diet Cig – Link In Bio The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions Marissa Nadler – Rosemary W.H. Lung – Nothing Is Soccer Mommy – Be Seeing … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
With comparisons to the likes of Fleet Foxes, Bombay Bicycle Club and Villagers, Devon-based outfit folk outfit Tors have announced latest EP Merry Go Round. Fronted by Matt and Theo Weedon, grandsons of the legendary guitarist Bert Weedon, the new release features their harmony-rich singles Now We Fall and Hold Me as well as the title track which you can stream below. Continue reading MM Shorts 931: Tors
The Mad Mackerel 