The National – The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness Monks – I’m Watching You Chastity Belt – 5am This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze Elf Power – Watery Shreds Terror Watts – Time Bomb Milk – Lord, Don’t Take Me To Prison Neils Children – I Am Not Anchor Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Quiet Hollers have announced a new album Amen Breaks, a record that draws parallels with the cultural crossovers and the anxieties of the 1970s, a decade marred by division, political corruption, and terrorism. Long standing MM faves (they delivered our second favourite tune of 2015), the band have expanded their shape-shifting palate to include vintage drum machines and samples. On Amen Breaks, Quiet Hollers raise questions … Continue reading New Album From Quiet Hollers
With their frenetic, snotty, psych-surf rock ‘n’ roll sound in the vein of Ty Segall or The Cramps, Brighton’s Strange Cages have made big strides in their short existence. We featured them back in 2015, and now the trio are now set to release a new 6-track EP The Cracks on Vallence Records this June. First track to surface is Leader Of A Cult combining elements of krautrock and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Strange Cages
Quicksilver Daydream is the gothic folk alias of singer-songwriter Adam Lytle. Already known for his work with Wild Leaves, his new project presents a pure distillation of his DIY ethic and his message of standing up for who you are and what you believe in. The result is Echoing Halls, ten songs of longing draped in the murky arrangements of Mellotron strings, fuzz guitars and … Continue reading MM Shorts 944: Quicksilver Daydream
Offa Rex – The Queen of Hearts Lydia Loveless – Desire The Deslondes – Muddy Water Black Lips – Occidental Front Hunx & His Punx – Baby Of The Band Left Lane Cruiser – The Point Is Over Flowing The Geraldine Fibbers – Thank You For Giving Me Life Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
London quintet Chemtrails have shared the third and final single from their upcoming second EP Headless Pin Up Girl. Forever Watching The Skies is a gem of hazy, hypnotic indie-psych that adds a contemporary twist to the halcyon days of bands like The Jesus & Mary Chain and Primal Scream. Listen below and buy the EP via Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Shorts 939: Chemtrails
San Francisco’s Cool Ghouls have shared their new single Gord’s Horse, the title track from their upcoming tour only cassette, on CLRVYNT. It is another cracking slab of their twangy, harmony filled, vintage tinged rock’n’roll. Have a listen. Continue reading Cool Ghoul’s Share Gord’s Horse
Wooden Wand has shared another single off his upcoming album, Clipper Ship. Of School’s Out, James Jackson Toth says it “uses summer vacation as a metaphor for a lifetime spent on Earth: existence as a brief event occurring between one unknown darkness (the end of one school year, birth) and another (the beginning of a new school year, death). Present throughout are the themes that run … Continue reading Wooden Wand – School’s Out
Australian pysch-rockers Stonefield, who recently wrapped up a US tour with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, have released their new LP, As Above So Below, via Rebel Union Recordings/Mushroom. The band also has a new 7″ out on Greenway Records, which features confrontational single Changes backed with the gloomier Sister. Stream them both below. Continue reading MM Shorts 938: Stonefield
Hailing from Los Angeles, and evoking the spirits of the canyons, beaches, hills, valleys and alleys, Dream Club are a group of friends who celebrate the spirit of their hometown and it’s rich musical history by playing California Rock thick with three-part harmonies, sun drenched melodies, psychedelic jams and haunting lyrics. Check out California Dreams Or The Head Trip Scene, the first track released off of the … Continue reading MM Shorts 937: Dream Club
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