It has been more than three years since we posted anything by brooding Brooklyn four-piece Grassfight. Drawing on influences such as Spacemen 3, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Spoon, they’re back with a new single Please Don’t Tell, a dense, dark piece of post-punk gloom (driven by heavy bass and melancholic vocals) that tells the story of a miserable suburban couple who insist on staying together to protect their … Continue reading New From Grassfight
Here we are, a day late, but no compromise on quality. Nine new tunes from the past week for your listening consumption. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Paper Mache Dream Balloon Elyse Weinberg – Houses Destruction Unit – The Upper Hand Avers – Come To Me Now Shannon & The Clams – It’s Too Late Childbirth – Let’s Be Bad Saintseneca – Sleeper … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Life In Hell is the latest track from the Woolen Men’s forthcoming long player Temporary Monument. It is propulsive, jerky punk rock that soundtracks a tale of urban gentrification and the smothering advance of the newly rich. It somehow manages to pack being tense, fatalistic and compelling into two short, clattering minutes. Listen here. . Continue reading Woolen Men – Life In Hell
Cheatahs have announced news of their second album Mythologies, due for release through Wichita Recordings on October 30th. The title takes its name from Roland Barthes’ 1957 collection of essays on semiotics and myth, which influenced the record. Listen to Seven Sisters an appropriately seismic and glistening excursion into their world of shimmering, hazy rock’n’roll. Pre-order here. . Catch them live: Tue November 17 – SHEFFIELD Picture House Social Wed … Continue reading Cheatahs Announce New Album
We’re pleased to share another track from Chicago trio Meat Wave, this time it is the venomous, driving Cosmic Zoo, from forthcoming album Delusion Moon (out Sept 18th on the SideOneDummy label). This one will give your speakers blisters…see UK tour dates below too. . Catch Them Live: Monday November 23 – Brighton – The Hope & Ruin Tuesday November 24 – Bristol – Louisiana Wednesday November … Continue reading Meat Wave – Cosmic Zoo
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
Three of our favourite bands have, by happy coincidence, all offered up new tracks so we thought we’d stick them altogether in one neat package for you. First up are indie legends and slowcore stalwarts Low with another excellent tune from their forthcoming album Ones and Sixes, which is out in September. What Part Of Me, is a beauty of sparse harmonies and slightly fuzzy melody … Continue reading Three’s Company: New Tunes From Low, Coke Weed & Traams
It is always good to come across a local band with imagination and promise in equal measure. And so it is with Oxford’s four-piece Orange Vision, who take the best of classic 90s indie and shoegaze and twist it around post punk, glam rock and a touch of psychedelia to produce reverb drenched, melodic pop anthems with a new wave edge. Their upcoming release is double A-sided single, … Continue reading MM Shorts 751: Orange Vision
The Bulls, Anna Bulbrook of The Airborne Toxic Event (and sometimes Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes) and Marc Sallis of The Duke Spirit, have shared Small Problems, the title track off their new record Small Problems, in advance of a full EP on August 28th (via Diet Pink Records). Born from a shared love of the subversive albums of the 80s new wave scene, and … Continue reading MM Shorts 749: The Bulls
Firstly that is hands down the best band name we’ve heard in ages! Rotterdam’s Rats On Rafts are new signings to the marvellous Fire Records label. Known for their incendiary and ferocious live shows, Fire will release the band’s second album Tape Hiss on the 16th October and we have the seven and a half minute brilliance of album opener Sleep Little Child for your … Continue reading MM Shorts 746: Rats On Rafts
The Mad Mackerel 