Category: Pop

Alternative, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Videos of the Day: Saintseneca || Foxygen || Eyes For Gertrude || Temple Songs

Our video selections today include Saintseneca’s first, beautifully impressionistic video for a brand new track – the post-punk folk anthem Uppercutter, which will appear on their new long player Dark Arc out in March next year. We also have Foxygen’s new psychedelic video for the title track of their excellent album We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic. We have a playful and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Saintseneca || Foxygen || Eyes For Gertrude || Temple Songs

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

Introducing >>> Mini Dresses

Mini Dresses, are a Boston-via-Austin dream pop band who we briefly featured back in October 2012, and who have recently released not one, but two new singles – Everywhere I Go and Watching You. The duo describe the tunes as finding a space between a lot of today’s shoegazey dream pop bands (Blouse, Ringo Deathstarr, Tamaryn), jangly Flying Nun bands (think Look Blue Go Purple, The Chills, … Continue reading Introducing >>> Mini Dresses

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

Stream Shinies Tangle EP

Shinies deal in classic, melody driven guitar pop with a pleasing tendency to tip it over in to something more distorted with a warped noisy edge. Their latest EP Tangle, which came out last month, consists of four tracks that kick off with the full on riffing of Taste and the equally propulsive Salt, both of which most obviously demonstrate their MBV and J&MC influences, before we get … Continue reading Stream Shinies Tangle EP

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Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

MM Shorts 440: High Hazels

Talking of bands creating a buzz (see our Letters To Fiesta post earlier), here is the debut single from Sheffield quartet High Hazels. Debut single Hearts Are Breaking is the kind of gorgeous, swooning, indie pop that fits perfectly in with the traditions of the great northern songwriters and poets, with Morrissey, The Coral, and Richard Hawley being obvious touchpoints. Have a listen – it … Continue reading MM Shorts 440: High Hazels

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Alternative, Electronic, Indie, Music, Pop

Introducing >>> Letters To Fiesta

For those of us of a certain age, Letters To Fiesta is a genius band name! Thankfully, their blend of alternative indie-pop is none too shabby either, and this track Tears Apart is gathering huge amounts of love via the blogosphere. It is easy to see why – it is a pulsating, hook filled track that sounds like the bastard offspring of MGMT and Kate … Continue reading Introducing >>> Letters To Fiesta

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Alternative, Americana, Blues, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Punk

Videos of the Day: Wires In The Walls || Holograms || Jeramiah Red || Bart Van Der Lee

Our videos today include the hypnotic, swirling In The Rain by folk-pop quintet Wires In The Walls, the hazy sepia tones of Holograms pulsating Meditations and the boot-stomping combination of blues guitar, steel-driven harmonica and raucous vocals of Jeramiah Red’s Oh Pardon Me. Lastly, we have the dark, folk-noir of Bart van der Lee and an excellent animation for his track A Mothers Song. . … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Wires In The Walls || Holograms || Jeramiah Red || Bart Van Der Lee

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Mad Mackerel Rounds ‘Em Up

So we have 200+ songs marked for potential posting sat patiently waiting in our in-box, and a whole host more diligently collected from the nooks and crannies of the web. Time then for a round-up of some of the most deserving of your ears. Without further ado, lets set out our stall with Aussie troubadour Owls of the Swamp’s beautiful and sweetly sorrowful Happiness Is A Sad … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Rounds ‘Em Up

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