We have a hopelessly inadequate amount of time to listen to all the new music we receive, even after we automatically filter out the remixes, electro-bangers, and crappy dance tunes we get sent. So here is a hasty pick and mix selection for you of some of the best of recent weeks – just dive in… Rainy Sundays comes from a Tomkins Square reissue … Continue reading Mega Round-up Time
The city of Copenhagen is the home of Future War Bride, who’ve announced their arrival with their debut single Gloves Off set for release on June 24th. It is a synth led, driving psych-pop track with an ejector button chorus and you can stream it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 955: Future War Bride
Despite already sharing some great new songs this week from Deer Tick, Quiet Hollers, She Keeps Bees, Waxahatchee, Happyness and Alvvays this week, we’ve also rounded up a collection of eight more cracking new tunes for you too. Enjoy. PJ Harvey & Ramy Essam – The Camp Diet Cig – Together We Can Conquer Whatever Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Nathan Salsburg – Fare You Well, My … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Lost Balloons are Jeff Burke (Radioactivity, Marked Men) and Yusuke Okada (of Japan’s Suspicious Beasts) and together they make summery, pastoral psych-pop that offers more than a nod to the classic days of hippiedom and flower power.. Listen to the sunny jangle of Paint, which is taken from their upcoming second album, titled appropriately enough Hey Summer. Continue reading MM Shorts 954: Lost Balloons
Woozy psych-poppers Happyness have shared another track from their recently released album Write In. Uptrend / Style Raids is described as “A song mainly about not knowing how to dress. A few years ago we spent a whole day walking around a big sprawling flea market in Paris determined to find something vaguely musical. Eventually as it was getting dark we managed to find an … Continue reading Happyness – Uptrend / Style Raids
Creating an intriguing mishmash of musical styles – soundtrack surf, weird pop and Americana, Surfing Magazines are a new garage-rock group consisting of two thirds of The Wave Pictures and one half of Slow Club. Declaring that they intend to ‘rock out and blow your mind, and then mellow out and soothe your mind, then rock out again’, they have more than lived up to their promise … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Surfing Magazines
Alvvays will release their second full-length, Antisocialites, this September on Polyvinyl. The album is the much-anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut album which received critical accolades at every turn and was a much-loved fave of Mrs Mackerel. On the new record the Toronto-based group dive back into the deep-end of reckless romance and altered dates. Ice cream truck jangle collides with prismatic noise pop while Molly … Continue reading Alvvays Announce Second Album, Share In Undertow
We’re a little late to this one, but having heard The Garden Is Overgrown yesterday on 6 Music decided it was well worth sharing for anyone else that had yet to come across this gem of cascading indie jangle from Isle of Wight based duo Champs. Stream it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 952: Champs
Guantanamo Baywatch – Video Slaid Cleaves – Drunken Barbers Hand The Districts – If Before I Wake Marika Hackman – Cigarette The Orielles – I Only Bought It For The Bottle TOPS – Further Muertos – Spin Tom Williams – Get High Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
TERRY – Take Me To The City Screaming Females – I’ll Make You Sorry Darlia – Beam Me Up Daddy Issues – High Street Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – If We Were Vampires Yowler – Go The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Anymore Whitehorse – Nighthawks Mikah Wilson – Sweet Jules Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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