Since discovering Country Sleaze about a year after everyone else, we’ve eagerly been catching up with all things Goat Girl. Taking their name from a classic Bill Hicks sketch meant they would be pretty much a shoo-in for us here at MM. Out on 7″ in December, their latest single, Cracker Drool is another twangy, hypnotic excursion into the indie underworld. Matching the song perfectly, … Continue reading Goat Girl – Cracker Drool
Hailing outta Brisbane, Dumb Things have released their first self-titled album. It’s a collection of country-burnt pop songs, scruffy enough to get stopped at the door, but charming enough to talk its way in. Listen to the excellent opener Drivin’ Home that offers up more than a nod to Parquet Courts. The cassette can be bought for $5 via Bandcamp or the digital version is … Continue reading MM Shorts 983: Dumb Things
Halloween is one of our favourite times of year. You get the best films for a start and oldest sprat has already digested the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the original Halloween itself in the past few days. So here is a collection of new spooky themed tunes that have found their way into our in-box, and which like a lot of the other stuff we got, … Continue reading It’s Halloween…
In 2014 The Men side-project Dream Police released their excellent debut LP Hypnotized, toured extensively, and ultimately, as side projects tend to work, they returned focus to their primary band. Fortunately, after three years wait, they got together recently and recorded a brand new single. Revenge. Happily too, their signature use of the Roland 707 drum machine, the driving but psychedelic bass line, the droning organ, … Continue reading New Single From Dream Police
Marvellous indie trio Dream Wife, who delivered one of our favourite live sets of the year at Truck Festival have announced details of their much anticipated self-titled debut album. There are plenty of options to buy the record including a very special limited edition transparent vinyl with blood red splatter, a gatefold vinyl edition and CD and various bundles with signed novellas – check the pre-order options … Continue reading Dream Wife Announce Debut Album
Six corking new videos for six corking new (or newish) raucous tracks. Some of our favourite tunes of the year here… Continue reading New Videos: Cabbage | Phobophobes | Good Boy | Lovely Eggs | Dama Scout | Night Owls
Melding layers of blissful shoegazing chaos with the clenched-jaw melodicism of wiry early post-punk, Athens Georgia band Juan de Fuca’s debut album’s explores themes of struggle, nihilism, loss and redemption, watching these troubled feelings fighting to be heard through waves of beautiful noise. Listen to All The Time and Aa below, and order from Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Shorts 981: Juan de Fuca
Ty Segall – Meaning King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Crumbling Castle Destroyer – Cover From The Sun Chris Stapleton – Millionaire Blitzen Trapper – Dance With Me Hans Chew – Give Up The Ghost Trance Farmers – Witches SaveSave Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
A cutting observational slice of fervent grunged-up punk, Complex is a first taste of what’s to come from Slowcoaches on their yet-to-be-finished second album, which will be released at some point in 2018 via Leisure & District. The single will be available this side of the new year on screenprinted 7” vinyl, backed by a venomous cover of Fang’s The Money Will Roll Right In. Listen … Continue reading Slowcoaches – Complex
Just Like Me is the third offering from New York’s no wave/post punk trio The Fluids’ debut album No Kidding! that’s coming out on October 27th via Axis Mundi Records (vinyl pre-order). We have to say we missed the first two tracks but have been back to check them out following a couple of plays of this stormer. Having already drawn apt sonic comparisons to everyone … Continue reading MM Shorts 975: Fluids
The Mad Mackerel 