Following the release of their debut album, We Are NOTS, back in November, the Memphis band shared Shelf Life, which served as the B side to a bonus 7” single Virgin Mary. Both are non album tracks and both are as primitive, thrilling and visceral as you could wish for. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 34 – NOTS
Words are inadequate when the world loses someone like David Bowie. A visionary, icon, innovator and musical genius. Even this past summer he soundtracked our holiday drives around the orange groves of Valencia, the whole car singing along to Space Oddity and the Jean Genie… Here then, in no particular order, are twenty of our favourite David Bowie songs. … Continue reading RiP: David Bowie
Formed in 2014, Copperhead expertly blend dark, throaty motown, swaggering rock ‘n’ roll and folk with a rusty edge. Check out Waiting from their recently released six track, self-titled EP. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 32 – Copperhead
This is Alohaha’s new track Nausea. It is a hazy pop song of sorts, a slow-burning track that layers wistful guitars with tranquil yet forlorn vocals. Good for a Sunday afternoon or a rainy day. Check out this lovely slice of easy-going, folkish indie-pop below. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 31 – Alohaha
Hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden, Animal Daydream are a duo offering songs that are reminiscent of later Teenage Fanclub and Fleet Foxes, but also borrow liberally from the sound of ’70s soft rock, particularly Fleetwood Mac and CSNY, with their strong vocal harmonies and overall smooth, almost slick production. New EP, Citrus is released at the end of this month and this is the excellent title track. … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 30 – Animal Daydream
Filled with tape echo, spring reverb, fuzz guitar and organ the new Summertime Psychosis EP from Long Beach trio Hollow Fortyfives has roots firmly embedded in 60s garage, surf and psychedelic rock. Listen to the charming rumble and jangle of the title track. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 29 – Hollow Fortyfives
As the legend goes, halfsour started out as a Guided By Voices cover band but now boast a much harder edge to their sound. Later this month they will release their debut album titled tuesday night live. it is an album where the songs are generally short and punchy – only a few times do they pass the three-minute mark – blasting you with catchy … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 28 – Halfsour
Taking their cues from bands such as The Black Lips and Fidlar, London-based garage-punk three-piece Virgin Kids play frenetically energised rock‘n’roll that draws from sources such as post-punk and the ’70s West Coast. Their debut album Greasewheel is due in March, and the lead single from it is the scrappy swagger of Cracks In A Colour. Stream it here. 100 Posts in 100 Hours … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 27 – Virgin Kids
The Casket Girls is a three-piece band hailing from Savannah, GA. Comprised of Ryan Graveface (Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Dreamend), who writes and plays all the song structures and Elsa and Phaedra Greene, who write and perform all of the vocals. The Casket Girls happened – as most things do – by accident. Ryan was visiting his future home, and in walking … Continue reading 100 Songs in 100 Hours: 26 – Casket Girls
North Texas musician Jacob Metcalf will be releasing his first full-length solo effort, Fjord, later this month. And while fans of his two longtime groups, Fox and the Bird and Dallas Family Band, might expect a similar rootsy update on rural American music, the sparsely orchestrated cinematic folk that sweeps through the eleven tracks on the record provide an often-breathtaking collection of compositions that range from … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 25: Jacob Metcalf
The Mad Mackerel 