Toronto based musician Shallow Waves, is releasing his debut album Situations on January 15th. Weaving in and out of various genres, involving alternative rock, surf, garage rock and influenced by shoegaze of the early 90s, it is a creatively thought out, melodically noisy and relentlessly loud. Try Tired on for size… 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 39 – Shallow Waves
Tangerines are a London-based quartet who deal in chugging guitar lines straight from 77 era Talking Heads, accompanied by frontman Gareth Hoskins’ signature drawl of direct and often intrusive lyricisms. Skin Dives is a brilliantly uncomplicated and catchy example of what they are capable of… 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 20 – Tangerines
Combining the scratchy guitars of Gang Of Four with the danceable indie-rock of Franz Ferdinand, Shiners single Pressure rides a melody that David Bowie would be proud of. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 14 – Shiners
Deleter is a Minneapolis based four-piece taking influences from bands like Wire, The Fall and The Psychedelic Furs. They released their full length debut Oblique Sessions in December, featuring eleven lean, angular, insistent post-punk songs, starting with this track and first single, Seclusion. Dive in below. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 13 – Deleter
Here is Copenhagen’s Baby In Vain’s latest song Worthwhile. Sinister and sleazy, it is a creeping and unsuspecting track which explodes into action with guitars as riotous as they are sultry and effortlessly cool vocal harmonies from Lola Hammerich and Andrea Thuesen. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 7 – Baby In Vain
Daydreaming is the recently released full-length debut from Minneapolis based indie rock band, Murder Shoes. The album features eleven compelling tracks of dark, reverb-heavy guitar and sultry female vocals. None more so than this track, Girls Named Benji. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 5 – Murder Shoes
Here we go, a new year and no less than nine new songs including welcome returns for Dr. Dog, Richmond Fontaine, The Dandy Warhols, Wintersleep, Steve Mason, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy amongst others. Dr.Dog – Bring My Baby Back Richmond Fontaine – Wake Up Ray Savages – Adore Wintersleep – Amerika The Dandy Warhols – You Are Killing Me Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Rich Wife … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2016 with Chris T Popper’s first recommendation of the year for you. The excellently named Meatraffle are new to us, but on the evidence of Nice Young Couple, a brilliantly lo-fi, ramshackle tale of drug dealing in the local community, we will be checking out their debut album Hi Fi Classics immediately. Watch the video for it here. Continue reading New Video: Meatraffle – Nice Young Couple
Swedish post punk, new wave band The Litsos recently released their first single Vultures from their upcoming long player. The track revolves around the feeling of desperately wanting to create while you are constantly being told to just produce. It is about any business that turns regular people’s blood, sweat and tears into money, without even a sign of gratitude. With the haunting voice of … Continue reading MM Shorts 805: The Litsos
And so here is the final personal Top Twenty of the year. This time it is my turn! Another twelve months neatly wrapped up and delivered for your listening pleasure and here’s to 2016… 20. Quiet Hollers – Mont Blanc An apocalyptic, “end-is-nigh” rolling, country rock anthem. Pure poetry with the best coda to a song I heard all year, “shed a tear for the books … Continue reading MM’S BEST OF THE YEAR: MAD MACKEREL’S TOP TWENTY SONGS
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