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Videos of the Day: Clinic || Steady Hills || Roadkill Ghost Choir || Garrett Pierce

Today’s videos come from Clinic, with an appropriately shattered and psychedelic offering of broken images and  cascading colours accompanying Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC 10pm (rpt), from Steady Hills we have the folky Long Grey Roads and from the excellently monikered Roadkill Ghost Choir some nine months work of animation for Bird In My Window. Finally, watch Garrett Pierce’s spaghetti western themed video for the haunting Why, … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Clinic || Steady Hills || Roadkill Ghost Choir || Garrett Pierce

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Alternative, Folk, Indie, Music, Punk, Rock

Song By Toad’s 2013 Sampler

As with previous years Song By Toad Records have made a free eleven song sampler available on Bandcamp of some of the releases they have planned for 2013 (and a couple of late ones from 2012). They include new signings Sparrow & The Workshop (see our post earlier today) and Adam Stafford as well as established favourites such as Meursault, Rob St. John, Lil Daggers … Continue reading Song By Toad’s 2013 Sampler

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Insound’s February Digital Mixtape

It’s that time again, a brand new free digital mixtape for all Insound newsletter subscribers. The  latest sampler has tracks from Airstrip, California X, Darwin Deez, Fantasmas, Hands, HRVRD, Matmos, and PYYRAMIDS amongst others. A couple of our favourites from the mix are below from The Bronx and Pissed Jeans (the brilliant Bathroom Laughter from the forthcoming Honeys). As always, the sampler’s only available for the next week … Continue reading Insound’s February Digital Mixtape

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New Sparrow & The Workshop Single

The brilliant Sparrow & The Workshop are happily back on the radar with a new single on Song By Toad Records. Out on March 11th, it is titled Shock Shock and will precede a new long player. The band have seemingly undergone a bit of a transformation – look at the sleeve for a start, all dark and menacing and brooding – and boy, do … Continue reading New Sparrow & The Workshop Single

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Whitehorse: The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss

We are long standing admirers of husband and wife duo Whitehorse ever since we discovered their self-titled debut of 2011 – eight songs of blues-stomp and seedy ballads. Somehow we missed their latest album, when it was originally released last summer, but have caught up now as it is seemingly getting a second push with another ‘release’ last month. It takes its title from a … Continue reading Whitehorse: The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Blank Realm’s New Album: Go Easy

We love Fire Records. Hot on the heels of a number of notable recent releases (Wooden Wand, Lower Plenty, Tom Morgan to name but three) comes yet another in the shape of Australia’s psych-popsters Blank Realm and their excellent forthcoming new album Go Easy. Sitting somewhere between the melancholic churn and burn of Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips and the noisy squall of Sonic Youth, the four-piece … Continue reading Blank Realm’s New Album: Go Easy

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Easy Way From The Cave Singers

Metaphorically speaking we have a huge red ring round March 5 on our calendar because that is when the new Cave Singers album Naomi gets a release. They have made a second track from it available for your listening pleasure and Easy Way certainly more than meets our (high) expectations as it drives along on the back of another trademark riff from Derek Fudesco and even … Continue reading Easy Way From The Cave Singers

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…Stephen Fearing

Between Hurricanes is Stephen Fearing’s first solo album in seven years. The follow-up to 2006’s acclaimed Yellowjacket, the album is available today via Lowden Proud Records Ltd. Born out of several life-changing events, the album is both the document and result of many significant changes for Fearing including divorce, a change of record label and an amicable parting of the ways with his manager – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Stephen Fearing

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MM Shorts 308: Wolf Alice – White Leather

We were very taken with Wolf Alice’s debut single Fluffy back in early January which sees an official release next week. We now have a stream of the single’s b-side, White Leather for you. Where Fluffy’s ironically balls-out tale of cheap thrills in small towns peaked, White Leather is its perfect counteractive soliloquy. Ellie Rowsell’s vocal takes centre stage, as a tranquil sonic path echoing … Continue reading MM Shorts 308: Wolf Alice – White Leather

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