It has to be said that despite one or two hiccups, the second official day of SXSW turned out to be a whole lot more fun. It got off to a good start when we found there was actually a shuttle that came near to our hotel and meant late night night time returns were no longer a problem. We headed off to the Pitchfork … Continue reading SXSW Day 3: In Austin No One Can Hear You Scream
Yesterday was not a great day. It is the little things sometimes. Things like when you wake up and realise that despite knowing I was away for 10 days in total, I had only bought clothes for 8 (except t-shirts which bizarrely could last me for 13) and the suncream tube is actually some kind of foaming face wash. Or all the eggs have gone … Continue reading SXSW Day 2: A Band In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Mohawk
While we bake in the Texas sun, here are some videos to enjoy! Fresh from our 5:1 Interview (click here), Sparrow And The Workshop have given us this new video for the excellent single Shock Shock. Meanwhile Dingus Khan’s insane video for live favourite Knifey Spoony is worth watching for the swan impersonation alone, not to mention being sick in an ashtray and spoon inflicted … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Sparrow And The Workshop || Dingus Khan || Scrimshander || Dan Croll
Taken from Scott & Charlene’s Wedding’s new Two Weeks EP, this is the delightfully titled, and delightfully catchy Gammy Leg. Laconic, slacker pop at its absolute finest, and undoubtedly the best thing we’ve heard from them to date. Grab it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 332: Scott & Charlene’s Wedding Offer Up Gammy Leg
My first trip back to Austin since 2009, and compared with then the town is hectic even before any music is officially due to start. Streets are teeming with folk whereas previously four years ago, the day before the event, Chris T Popper and I had strolled around empty streets and then casually into the marvellous Waterloo Records and bought wristbands for the coming evenings … Continue reading SXSW Day 1: You’ve Got To Be A Ninja About It – Pissing With Thurston Moore
More musical goodies in film form for you today from Wake Owl and their gorgeous track Wild Country, and from Fear of Men with the video to their top tune Seer. Franc Cinelli has a five track EP inspired by Alcatraz and its inhabitants, watch the video for the achingly beautiful Birdman, and lastly the brilliant Do You Think You’re Enough from the Pyyramids gets … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Wake Owl | Fear of Men | Wake Owl | Pyyramids
Enjoy music videos from Mice Parade and their beautiful film for This River Has A Tide and London based folksinger Lucy Cait’s strange and hypnotic Gabriel’s Wharf, the title track from her debut EP. After taking a couple of years off to focus on other projects, Krist Krueger returns to the Southerly moniker and celebrates with a new single and video for Desolation Low. And … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Mice Parade || Lucy Cait || Southerly || Autumn Owls
The first track of woozy, psych-pop we posted by Australian band Blank Realm was an absolute corker. An epic of melancholic churn and burn and noisy guitar squalls. The second track we have for you, and the title track from their forthcoming long player Go Easy is (you guessed it) another absolute corker. This one takes 90s slacker indie and buries it in a heady swirl … Continue reading Another Gem From Blank Realm
Enjoy short films of the musical variety today from Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards showcasing the rich, gorgeous, melancholia of first single Sheets taken from forthcoming album Blindspot. Then there is some leather clad pop cool from Finland’s French Films and some rather fine alt-folk from Scotland’s Woodenbox . And to finish, some lowdown sleazy garage-blues and drag-act inspired footage from Australia’s Delta Riggs for their track … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards || French Films || Woodenbox || The Delta Riggs
Here is a second track from punk-popster Colleen Green’s forthcoming full length, Sock It To Me. It is out later this month on Hardly Art. We’re intending to catch her at SXSW next week. This is Heavy Shit. Enjoy! Download Colleen Green – Heavy Shit mp3 (from Sock it io Me) Download Colleen Green – Time In The World mp3 (from Sock it to Me) Continue reading MM Shorts 329: More From Colleen Green
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