Since 2011, Black River Bell (aka Sydney singer-songwriter Timothy Bray) has been writing dark folk songs that explore the mystery and melancholy of love, loneliness and the indefinable strangeness of the human condition. His songs cover a wide range of subjects including: the tale of the spirit of a boy trapped in limbo, impending apocalypse, the Salem witch trials, wayward friends, a breakup and a wedding. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Black River Bell
Surfin’ Mutants Pizza Party is the one-man bedroom punk project of 21 year old Quebecker, Julien Maltais. After fronting various black metal bands, Maltais decided to lock himself up in a bedroom and create music inspired by his love of DIY punk, California surf punk, horror, sci-fi flicks, comics, video games, and skateboarding. The end result is a colorful blend of throaty pop vocals, gritty … Continue reading Introducing >>> Surfin’ Mutants Pizza Party
Courtney Barnett’s new single is Dead Fox, ostensibly one of the brightest and poppiest tracks on her brilliant recent long player Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, but also one of the most politically weighted. With this track, she uses vivid, nightmarish imagery of trucks criss-crossing the country, taxidermied kangaroos and “a possum Jackson Pollock…painted in the tar” as a powerful argument against … Continue reading New Video: Courtney Barnett – Dead Fox
Family Friends are an Aussie / British brother-sister led psych-pop band, currently based in East London. On Your Mind is the first track to be taken from their debut EP Across The Water, and is well worth a spin if you like chiming guitar lines and hazy, aching vocals. We do… . Continue reading MM Shorts 708: Family Friends
We were big fans of four-piece Beach Baby’s debut single Blackbird and the band have now announced a new single, No Mind No Money, which will be released on June 22nd. The new track is an atmospheric blend of summery, 60s-inspired American pop with the altogether moodier, alternative British new wave movement, driven by languid, harmonic shared lead-vocals. Give it a spin. . Catch them live: May … Continue reading New Beach Baby Single
Happyness have just announced a brand new double A-side single release in the form of long-time fan favourites Montreal Rock Band backed with the contrastingly upbeat It’s On You. The former is the track that won the band an NME Award for Best Lyric back in February. “I’m wearing Win Butler’s hair / There’s a scalpless singer in a Montreal rock band somewhere”. Awesome! Stream the … Continue reading New Single From Happyness
Alberteen make what they describe as “rhythm & noir“, a compelling mix of garage-rock, punk and 60s pop-tones. Their forthcoming album Miss World is out on the 25th May, and a single, A French Connection precedes it by a week. Give it a spin below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 706: Alberteen
A much loved discovery of Mrs M’s, five piece pop folkies The Keston Cobblers Club are set to release their new album Wildfire on Tricolour Records /Absolute via Universal in June. Triggered by teenage obsessions with British power pop and Glaswegian indie dreamers, the twelve track collection is a sonic journey of sounds. Building on the band’s bedrock of urgent anthems, thumped drums, sweet strums and … Continue reading New Video: Keston Cobblers Club – Won’t Look Back
Here is the second part of our weekly round up of cracking new tunes – another nine from a bumper collection from the past seven days! See Part 1 here. 1. Titus Andronicus – Dimed Out 2. Angelic Milk – IDK How 3. Pet Symmetry – Gone Gone Gone (Even Further Gone) 4. God Damn – Vultures 5. Communions – Summer Oath 6. Guantanamo Baywatch – … Continue reading Songs You Should Have Heard This Weekend (Part 2)
You know the drill. SO many songs this week. Dive in. Enjoy. More tomorrow. 1. Chelsea Wolfe – Iron Moon 2. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Trevor Forever 3. Teleman – Strange Combinations 4. Marissa Nadler – Carnival 5. Daughn Gibson – It Wants Everything 6. Rose Windows – The Wanton Song 7. Cayucas – Moony Eyed Walrus 8. Yukon Blonde – Como … Continue reading Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
The Mad Mackerel 