Once again some cracking tuneage for you today in Part 1 of our regular weekly round-up of some of the best new releases. We are ultra excited by the return of Justin Townes Earle and Champagne Corolla, which comes from forthcoming album Kids In The Street, T. Hardy Morris who has shared a new track NY and Sharon Van Etten who reimagines the Skeeter Davis track End … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
Here we are again, but with lighter nights, spring flowers beginning to bloom and eight songs from the past week rounded up for your listening pleasure. From a new benefit single for the Southern Poverty Law Center, we have wonderfully spectral folk from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and some equally wonderful psych-folk from a re-issue of a long-lost 70s classic by Philip Lewin. There is a … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Through Windows is the excellent new single from Happyness’ second album Write In. With a chorus that started out as kind of a purposeful mishearing of the Velvet Underground’s Ride Into The Sun, the single has a undercurrent of psych-infused, blissful euphoria that reminds us of prime-time Pink Floyd. Have a listen and check out UK tour dates below. April Tour Dates: 11 Fulford Arms, York … Continue reading New Happyness Single
After last week’s bonanza of new tunes, we’re back with eleven more tracks gathered up from the past seven days. No reduction in quality either with another (and the best yet) taste from Laura Marling’s new record Semper Femina, a brand new instrumental track from pastoral psych rockers Allah Las and another ominous slice of brooding Americana from Timber Timbre. We also have new singles from … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Sun Abduction surfaced in 2015 in Brooklyn with the release of their autonomous self titled EP. Heavily involved in the NYC underground psychedelic scene, the band are back with two new singles Acid Pyramid / Pale Rider ahead of a nine date US tour and to introduce their debut LP. Watch / stream the excellent Acid Pyramid below. Continue reading MM Shorts 921: Sun Abduction
Back in November we enjoyed the Vulgarians playing in support of an excellent TRAAMS gig in Oxford. The Hull based band have announced details of a new EP, the Philip Larkin referencing Almost-Instinct, Almost True (due out May 5th), and have shared the first single from the EP, Hands Around The Waste. The single finds the humour in a taxi drivers’ dark stories, incongruously mixing monumental choruses with sparse verses, … Continue reading Vulgarians – Almost-Instinct, Almost True EP
Here is Part 2 of our round up of the best of the week’s releases. In this batch of gems we have a new single from prolific garage-punk Ty Segall, another taster from the Jesus & Mary Chain’s long awaited new record and a brilliant track from Mark Lanegan’s recently announced album Gargoyle. The Tablets offer up an excellent new wave inspired single and there is … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)
Here is volume 27 of Nickel in the Jukebox – a semi regular roundup of new (and some not so new) tunes for your listening pleasure. Within these ten tunes we have frantic noise punk, classic country, slow-burning folk, indie guitars and fuzzy pastoral psychedelia and plenty more besides. Listen and decide… hit or miss? Tangerines – Peckham Boys [RIYL: Art-punk, Television, Modern Lovers] … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 27)
Since we began MM on Google’s chronic Blogspot, we’ve been posting music by muscular psych-rockers Black Angels, which means getting on nine or ten years now. After a too-long four year hiatus, the band have confirmed details for their upcoming album, Death Song, out on the 21st April. Stream the scorching opening track Currency below. It is a cracker. Continue reading New Album From The Black Angels
Brian Jonestown Massacre have announced details of a new double album Don’t Get Lost, which will be released on 24th February, just a mere four months after the release of their last album Third World Pyramid. The new record mixes their shoegaze/psychedelic sound with more experimental twists and nods to the likes of PIL (Metalbox), Primal Scream and even Ornette Coleman. The first taste comes … Continue reading New Album From Brian Jonestown Massacre
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