Since 2011, Black River Bell (aka Sydney singer-songwriter Timothy Bray) has been writing dark folk songs that explore the mystery and melancholy of love, loneliness and the indefinable strangeness of the human condition. His songs cover a wide range of subjects including: the tale of the spirit of a boy trapped in limbo, impending apocalypse, the Salem witch trials, wayward friends, a breakup and a wedding. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Black River Bell
Surfin’ Mutants Pizza Party is the one-man bedroom punk project of 21 year old Quebecker, Julien Maltais. After fronting various black metal bands, Maltais decided to lock himself up in a bedroom and create music inspired by his love of DIY punk, California surf punk, horror, sci-fi flicks, comics, video games, and skateboarding. The end result is a colorful blend of throaty pop vocals, gritty … Continue reading Introducing >>> Surfin’ Mutants Pizza Party
Time for a collection of some of the great videos and songs we’ve had through lately. They range from the Cheatah’s excellent Murasaki video and Heater’s brilliant Mean Green through to the raw, fizzing noise rock of Reporters’ stripped back video by way of the tripped out campfire haze of Zuli’s Better All The Time. . . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up Time
Courtney Barnett’s new single is Dead Fox, ostensibly one of the brightest and poppiest tracks on her brilliant recent long player Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, but also one of the most politically weighted. With this track, she uses vivid, nightmarish imagery of trucks criss-crossing the country, taxidermied kangaroos and “a possum Jackson Pollock…painted in the tar” as a powerful argument against … Continue reading New Video: Courtney Barnett – Dead Fox
1. Sharon Van Etten – Just Like Blood 2. Kid Wave – Best Friend 3. Ducktails – Headbanging In The Mirror 4. Giant Sand – Transponder 5. Moses Sumney – Seeds 6. Jason Isbell – 24 Frames 7. Kenny Knight – America . . . . . . Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Family Friends are an Aussie / British brother-sister led psych-pop band, currently based in East London. On Your Mind is the first track to be taken from their debut EP Across The Water, and is well worth a spin if you like chiming guitar lines and hazy, aching vocals. We do… . Continue reading MM Shorts 708: Family Friends
Meredith Graves, formidable front-woman of Perfect Pussy, has released Took The Ghost To The Movies, her first ever song as a solo artist. It will be released as a split single with Kevin Devine. Sonically and emotionally powerful, the song lets beautifully crafted words ring quietly behind a noisy, anxious pulse and reveals a surprisingly intimate side filled with echoing, heart-heavy vocals. The single is out … Continue reading MM Shorts 707: Meredith Graves
We were big fans of four-piece Beach Baby’s debut single Blackbird and the band have now announced a new single, No Mind No Money, which will be released on June 22nd. The new track is an atmospheric blend of summery, 60s-inspired American pop with the altogether moodier, alternative British new wave movement, driven by languid, harmonic shared lead-vocals. Give it a spin. . Catch them live: May … Continue reading New Beach Baby Single
Now there’s a song title! And the song lives up to its name. It is the title track from hard rocking’, punk blues veterans Left Lane Cruiser’s new album, and all we can say is that they’re in fine, fine form. Blast it here. . Continue reading Left Lane Cruiser – Dirty Spliff Blues
Happyness have just announced a brand new double A-side single release in the form of long-time fan favourites Montreal Rock Band backed with the contrastingly upbeat It’s On You. The former is the track that won the band an NME Award for Best Lyric back in February. “I’m wearing Win Butler’s hair / There’s a scalpless singer in a Montreal rock band somewhere”. Awesome! Stream the … Continue reading New Single From Happyness
The Mad Mackerel 