Heaters will release their debut LP, Holy Water Pool, on 25th September via Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records. It is fair to say it is one of our most anticipated releases of the autumn, and comes as a follow-up to a handful of self-released EPs and the band’s recent Mean Green 7″(one of our favourite tracks of the year so far). It features more of the trio’s … Continue reading Heaters – Holy Water Pool
Here we go again, another collection of eight handpicked tunes released this week, including the return of the wonderful Mercury Rev, that are more than worth a few minutes of your time. 1. Mercury Rev – The Queen Of Swans 2. Wolf Alice – Freazy 3. Shannon And The Clams – Corvette 4. Weaves – Tick 5. No Age – It’s Oh So Quiet (Bjork … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Somewhat by happy accident we’ve focused on vintage 60s psych and surf rock today with Jackie Zealous and Best Behaviour, and to prove good things do come in threes, here is another… A couple of years ago we did a short post on San Diego’s Soft Lions, whose own mix of 60s San Francisco pop with noisy garage-guitar driven tracks, gave their songs a definitive West Coast vibe. … Continue reading Soft Lions – Spellbreaker
A perfect companion piece to our Jackie Zealous post earlier, Best Behavior have also crafted their own mix of surf and garage-rock with a playful ’60s vibe. Inspired by heartbreak and a not-so-sunny prediction made by an astrologer, frontman Alex Gruenburg wrote the band’s debut LP in under a month, and went on to play and sing every part himself. The album, Good Luck Bad … Continue reading Introducing >>> Best Behavior
Fine Points is a new project featuring members of San Francisco psych band Sleepy Sun. They mix crystalline guitars with hazy, psych-tinged melodies, and their new video for single Astral Season features the same mellow, dreamy West Coast vibes as the song, with kaleidoscopic shots of the band exploring California’s landscapes. Watch it here. . . Continue reading New Video: Fine Points – Astral Season
Norway’s explosive duo Burning Motherfuckers have revealed their first new tracks since their debut EP release back in 2012, after the duo spent a longer period of time writing and recording across Oslo, London and in the Swedish forest. Listen to I’m Your Lion slowly building up to a monumentally explosive climax. Listen here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 728: Burning Motherfuckers
Via their Bandcamp page, Turchi (who have featured a few times on MM) have announced a final EP We Spoke In Song that marks the the final collaboration between Cameron Weeks, Andrew Hamlet, and Reed Turchi – the lineup that was active from November 2012 to October 2014, and recorded the albums Live in Lafayette, My Time Ain’t Now, and Can’t Bury Your Past together. We … Continue reading Farewell EP From Turchi
Suburban Birds are a new band from Salt Lake City. Their debut self-titled release is up on Bandcamp and is an intriguing mix of psychedelia, experimental pop and indie rock. Check out our favourite track from the EP, Eat You Alive below. Ones to keep a close eye on! . Continue reading MM Shorts 727: Suburban Birds
Stiff Cats are a psych-rock band with one foot firmly, and unapologetically set in the more acid-fried end of the swinging sixties. Thankfully the other is embedded in more contemporary times allowing them to pay their dues to their influences without slipping into pastiche or parody. Watch the videos for Electric Velvet (the title taken from a quote from Tom Wolfe’s counter-culture classic The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test. The … Continue reading Introducing >>> Stiff Cats
On the day that we lost screen legend Sir Christopher Lee it seems fitting to share this new video from Scots Trembling Bells for Sweet Death Polka, imbued as it is with a real undercurrent of bucolic menace that resembles Lee’s own favourite film, the 1971 pagan horror classic The Wicker Man. It is nothing less than you’d expect from a band that delight in feverish … Continue reading New Video: Trembling Bells – Sweet Death Polka
The Mad Mackerel 