Influenced by bands like Blondie, Modern Lovers, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Alvvays, San Diego’s Soft Lions love blending vintage sounds together with jangly guitars and propulsive percussion to create something fresh. A case in point is the excellent, effervescent psych-pop of Freeway, which is taken from forthcoming album XOXO (out on 28th October). Listen here. Continue reading MM Shorts 880: Soft Lions
We posted Forth Wanderers’ excellent track Slop a couple of months ago. It was the title track from their new EP (due 11th November) and with its confident nods to influences like Mac DeMarco, Built to Spill and Liz Phair, it received a lot of love from around the blogosphere. Now we have a second one for you with the bittersweet indie-pop of Know Better. Have a listen … Continue reading More From Forth Wanderers
Time for our irregular, but still brilliant, instalment of Nickel in the Jukebox. A collection of ten tunes of varying guises and ages for your listening pleasure. So whatever your particular pleasure there will be something for you here. Your job is simply to sift through and find your own personal hits and misses. Port Juvee – Double Vision [RIYL: Post-punk, The Hives, The Strokes] … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 24)
Check out our selection of the best of the new releases from this week. New songs from Slaves, Wytches and a rocking’ cover of a Led Zeppelin classic from La Sera should blast the weekend cobwebs away while Hiss Golden Messenger, Jess Williamson and Moses Sumney offer up altogether more gentle and fragile fare. Enjoy. Slaves – Consume Or Be Consumed La Sera – Whole Lotta … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Hello Shark began when a teenage Lincoln Halloran moved from his home of Massachusetts to Vermont in 2006. He quickly recorded an amateur but heartfelt debut called Book Lungs and began touring the Northeast, slowly building a community web that would stretch to include Owen Ashworth (of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Advance Base), Rochester’s Attic Abasement, and the members of Brooklyn collective the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hello Shark
With Small Town Water Tower (out 4th November via Tin Angel Records) mercurial singer-songwriter John Southworth has countered previous album Niagara’s much-lauded melancholia with a revitalizing, eerily deceptive pop album. Expressing an unsettled, dreamlike vision of lives in crisis, amidst species and eras fast disappearing, the album sounds like nothing in Southworth’s previous canon, it is dizzying, cinematic and beautifully crafted. Watch the video for Second Childhood from it below. … Continue reading New Album From John Southworth
Writing songs that proudly bear a brazen and unabashed attitude in the vein of acts Courtney Barnett or Karen O – but with a pop aesthetic reminiscent of 50s and 60s acts a la the Temptations or Buddy Holly – LA based four piece The Regrettes create infectious, heart-on-your-sleeve, punk driven tracks. We’ve previously shared A Living Human Girl and now you can wrap your … Continue reading The Regrettes Get Hot…
A cracking collection of nine brand new tunes gathered from this week for you. We have the return of Grandaddy, a reverential cover of the Modern Lovers by Sunflower Bean, and tastes from new records by Weyes Blood, Howe Gelb, Marissa Nadler and TOY and, as they always say, much more besides. All yours… Grandaddy – Way We Won’t Allah-Las – Terra Ignota TOY – I’m … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Time for the latest post in our Nickel In The Jukebox series. Ten new tracks, ten decisions to make. Hit or miss… over to you. James Edge & The Mindstep – Four Two Four [RIYL: Mutant folk, Gong, Frank Zappa] John Alcabean – Fire [RIYL: Riotous noise-rock, Drenge, Wolf Alice] Moddi – A Matter Of Habit [RIYL: Protest songs, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez] Palm … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 23)
NOTS – No Novelty Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Commandment 7 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Jesus Alone Las Kellies – I Don’t Care Wovenhand – Golden Blossom Kevin Devine – No History Cherry Glazerr – Told You I’d Be With The Guys Adam Torres – Juniper Arms Devendra Banhart – Saturday Night Public Access T.V. – End Of An Era John Murry … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The Mad Mackerel 