Heart Of Oak is the first single from Richard Hawley’s new album Hollow Meadows. Built around an instantaneous, driving riff, Heart Of Oak is one of the album’s unbridled rock’n’roll moments, as well as a heartfelt tribute to all the people who’ve influenced and nurtured Hawley throughout his life. The video was filmed in Hope Valley near Sheffield. It’s inspired by Murad Ossman who did … Continue reading New Video: Richard Hawley – Heart Of Oak
Buffalo-based psychedelic indie art rock band Aircraft make catchy pop tunes with lush vocal harmonies, swirling guitars, melodic bass lines and powerful drumming that create the perfect atmosphere for fragile vocals to float in and out of. The band is set to release their new EP 7 Gems From The Sparkling Void later this summer, seven songs that find these sonic astral adventurers setting the controls … Continue reading MM Shorts 757: Aircraft
Time once again for the weekly collection of new releases in one convenient package for you. This week it is lucky eleven… . 1. Ezra Furman – I Can Change (LCD Soundsystem cover) 2. Potty Mouth – Cherry Picking 3. Israel Nash – Strangers 4. Beach Slang – Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas 5. Widowspeak – Dead Love (so Still) 6. The Ukiah Drag – … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Austin’s Shivery Shakes play jangly indie pop with a reverb laden nod to the classic bands of the 60s and a hint of lo-fi garage rock. Here is their surreal and darkly comic video to accompany the song Swimming, the next single off of their LP Three Waves and a Shake. . . . Continue reading New Video: Shivery Shakes – Swimming
Ali and Billy Strange are cousins from Glasgow’s East End. Together they are Acting Strange, making raw lo-fi guitar music but never deviating too far from their pop sensibilities – the pair embody the spark of a young Lee Mavers and the more playful (less heroin-y) Velvets tracks. First single Rumble evokes the classic songwriting of the 1960s, jangly rhythm and blues reminiscent of Merseybeat … Continue reading MM Shorts 754: Acting Strange
Brisbane collective Golden Age of Ballooning have announced the release of their sophomore EP We Will Never Let You Go, the follow up to debut release Don The Winter Coats. Narrative vocals, lush harmonies and evocative arrangements drive through bursts of tempo and psychedelia. Duelling ebow solos, sea-sick guitars, pitch shifted drums and swirling organs recall influences such as My Bloody Valentine and Broken Social Scene whilst adding … Continue reading Introducing >>> Golden Age Of Ballooning
You know the score. Seven new songs rounded up from the best of the week’s releases… Enjoy. 1. Melissa Nadler – Solitude (Black Sabbath cover) 2. Wavves – Flamezesz 3. Hazel English – It’s Not Real 4. Ought – Men For Miles 5. Patty Griffin – Rider Of Days 6. Doubting Thomas Cruise Control – Lenny Bruce 7. Good Field – Business . . . . . … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
When writing the follow up to 2012’s The Crow Mother and 2013’s The Westering, Wickerbird (aka Blake Cowan) secluded himself in a trailer on Washington’s Mount Rainier and found inspiration in the forest and even recorded some of nature’s own notes, recording them and featuring them on his new album, The Leaf Maker, out September 18th. Have a listen to the lead track, Bugbear, a … Continue reading New Album From Wickerbird
Time for one of our sporadic video round up posts. Lots of new musical films and songs to enjoy – here are a selection of some of our favourites from Fidlar and the Sewer Rats to Samantha Crain and Ruby The Rabbitfoot via Du Blonde and all stops inbetween. . . . . . . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up
Back in February we posted Cornish three-piece Lost Dawn’s excellent track Count On Me and now the band are back with another excellent single, Electrify – a slice of scuzzy, psych-rock that melds an experimental flavour with classic pop sensibilities and a soupçon of glam-rock. Stream it here. . Continue reading More From Lost Dawn
The Mad Mackerel 