Brooklyn based indie-rockers Bird Of Youth have shared Dad, a track from their forthcoming album Get Off (out on May 20). Frontwoman Beth Wawerna chronicles her father’s passing on the song with heartrending candor: “When I fed my father / When I poured his water / He looked to his daughter / ‘Til he couldn’t see,” she sings. Listen below. Continue reading MM Shorts 844: Bird Of Youth
After a week away, we’re back with eight tracks selected from the past week and covering everything from hardcore to goth-pop by way of some shoegaze and a classic cover. Enjoy. Hooded Fang – Dead Battery M. Ward – Time Won’t Wait Bonnie Prince Billy & Friends – Rubin & Cherise (Grateful Dead cover) Joana Serrat featuring Neil Halstead – Cloudy Heart The Don Darlings … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
It’s Friday, and I’m bored waiting for my working week to finish. So instead of what I should be doing, here are a selection of videos that have caught my ears and eyes recently…kicking off with The Manimals and their Game of Thrones inspired musical film for Talk. Continue reading Some Friday Videos
It is always extra pleasing when a local band demands some attention. And so it is with Oxford’s excellently named Little Brother Eli, a five piece offering up their own take on bluesy garage rock combined with powerful, soulful vocals and appropriately growling guitars. Our very good friends at Nightshift describes them thus, “These boys have got the blues, and dirt under their fingernails, like White … Continue reading Introducing >>> Little Brother Eli
Pittsburgh four-piece The Gotobeds have shared Brash Not Rash, the second track from their forthcoming album Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic, out June 10th via Sub Pop. It is a completely riotous explosion of guitars and drums that doesn’t let up from the first moment to the last. Wake up your day below… Continue reading The Gotobeds – Brash Not Rash
The spectacularly badly named TERRY manage to contrast the quality of their moniker with Don’t Say Sorry – a jerky, hectic slab of art-punk that skitters and writhes and eventually turns in on itself, collapsing into a sonic self-implosion. Rather good. Stream it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 843: TERRY
On 10th June Death Valley Girls will release their debut album Glow In The Dark via Burger Records. It’ll be worth the wait if the title track – an instant classic of feral, spiky, punked-up garage rock – is anything to go by. Stream it below and feel the sweat drip down the walls… Continue reading MM Shorts 842: Death Valley Girls
Our favourite, scrappy indie noiseniks in the shape of Scott & Charlene’s Wedding return with a new EP, Delivered in early June. The title track doesn’t disappoint, a propulsive slice of infectious garage rock with pleasingly primal percussion and a typically plaintive yet anthemic chorus. Throughly enjoyable. Listen below and order via Bandcamp here. Continue reading Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – Delivered
Elvis Depressedly is a duo holed up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. They will release the Holo Pleasures / California Dreamin’ LP on Run For Cover Records on 3rd June. It is both a re-issue of their 2013 Holo Pleasures EP and a new EP of unreleased material on the B-side, California Dreamin’. Slip is a wonderfully woozy slice of two minute psych-pop … Continue reading Elvis Depressedly – Slip
The story goes Arbor Labor Union was born from a peach tree in Georgia in the American south, and on that tree they heard a bird singing, a calling. The four members have reinterpreted that birdsong into a psychedelic, repetitious and joyful rock ‘n’ roll call for arms just for you. It’s called Mr Birdsong and it’s the brilliant, opening chugging juggernaut of a track … Continue reading Arbor Labor Union – Mr. Birdsong
The Mad Mackerel 