Wooden Shjips – Staring At The Sun Kevin Morby & Waxahatchee – Farewell Transmission (Songs: Ohia cover) Cool Ghouls – CCR Bootleg Gun Outfit – Life Of Ease Loma – Joy Lord Huron – Ancient Names (Part 1) Oneida – All In Due Time Mind Spiders – Shock And Repeat Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
In the week that we lost the incomparable Mark E Smith, it is perhaps fitting that our current favourite insouciant northerners return with a blistering new single of their own. Arms of Pleonexia comes from Cabbage’s debut album proper, Nihilistic Glamour Shots to be released 30th March on Infectious Music. Blending social comment with mordant black humour and a keen eye for detail, the new single is … Continue reading New Single From Cabbage
One of the greats – punk, post-punk, poet, contrary icon. Genius. Legend. Continue reading RiP: Mark E Smith
Manchester trio The Longcut will release their new album Arrows on the 6th April. Musically sitting somewhere between utopia and dystopia, the band have constructed their own monolithic world as bittersweet as it is bleak. Behemoth of a lead single Deathmask is the perfect case in point – energetic, menacing and mesmerising, it is six minutes of urgent, brutalist experimental synth rock. And you should … Continue reading MM Shorts 995: The Longcut
There’s a name to conjure with! Jonny Shitbag & The Smokes are releasing a run of 50 transparent tapes titled You Could Not Have Given The Slightest Of Fucks, via French label Hidden Bay Records. There is not much to be gleaned about the band, and whether they actually still exist or not following the apparent disappearance of Jonny Shitbag himself. Anyway, here is The Song … Continue reading MM Shorts 994: Jonny Shitbag & The Smokes
Eels – The Deconstruction The Decemberists – Severed No Age – Send Me Haley Heynderickx – Untitled God Song Hot Snakes – Six Wave Hold-Down Bonny Doon – I Am here (I Am Alive) Radkey – Not Smart Micah P. Hinson – Beneath The Rose ((Marc Riley BBC 6 Music Session 06/11/2012) Jack Cooper – Fat Old Sun (Pink Floyd cover) The Soft Moon – Choke … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Montreal quartet Ought have shared the bright guitar sound and ultimately noisy percussion and spaced-out synths of Disgraced in America, the second preview from their third LP Room Inside the World, out February 16th on Merge Records. The song is accompanied by this excellent animated video directed by Heather Rappard, involving glycerine as paint thinner and painstakingly shot in 15-second increments over the course of three weeks. Watch … Continue reading Ought – Disgraced In America
We’ve already shared three cracking tunes with you today, and now we have another in the shape of LA based indie rockers Western Scene’s Strange But True. It is their latest single, released via Grand Jury Music, and is a chugging, exhilarating earworm of a song that we’ve had on repeat for a while. It recalls something of the best of Lord Huron or Wilco, with its irresistible … Continue reading MM Shorts 992: Western Scene
Chicago’s Meat Wave are back in business with the bracing one-two of new single Shame and Dogs at Night, the trio’s first new material since last year’s acclaimed The Incessant LP which arrived in March and made our end-of-year best of lists. Both tracks were recorded during the Incessant sessions and continue to mine the more playful, dexterous elements that the record brought to the band’s sound, all … Continue reading New From Meat Wave
Another of our round-ups of songs we should have posted from the end of 2017. Restless was a stomping single from Brooklyn-based folk rocker Common Jack. It’s anthemic take on Americana draws favourable comparisons to Lumineers, Neil Young and The Avett Brothers. Swedish indie rockers Francobello shared Future Lover, which rises and falls, building to a crescendo of gorgeous harmonies and ferocious guitar runs. LA-based Space-Psych … Continue reading New Year Round Up (Part 4)
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