Night Dials manage to take squalid, sexy pyschedelia and combine it with rock and garage to create a heady stew of primitive beats and pop hooks, all infused with the tripped out vibrations of the 60s West Coast scene. They will shortly release a new double A Side Single I’ve Done More Things and I’ll Sleep When I Die. Give it a spin. . Continue reading MM Shorts 709: Night Dials
Time for a collection of some of the great videos and songs we’ve had through lately. They range from the Cheatah’s excellent Murasaki video and Heater’s brilliant Mean Green through to the raw, fizzing noise rock of Reporters’ stripped back video by way of the tripped out campfire haze of Zuli’s Better All The Time. . . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up Time
Courtney Barnett’s new single is Dead Fox, ostensibly one of the brightest and poppiest tracks on her brilliant recent long player Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, but also one of the most politically weighted. With this track, she uses vivid, nightmarish imagery of trucks criss-crossing the country, taxidermied kangaroos and “a possum Jackson Pollock…painted in the tar” as a powerful argument against … Continue reading New Video: Courtney Barnett – Dead Fox
1. Sharon Van Etten – Just Like Blood 2. Kid Wave – Best Friend 3. Ducktails – Headbanging In The Mirror 4. Giant Sand – Transponder 5. Moses Sumney – Seeds 6. Jason Isbell – 24 Frames 7. Kenny Knight – America . . . . . . Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Family Friends are an Aussie / British brother-sister led psych-pop band, currently based in East London. On Your Mind is the first track to be taken from their debut EP Across The Water, and is well worth a spin if you like chiming guitar lines and hazy, aching vocals. We do… . Continue reading MM Shorts 708: Family Friends
Happyness have just announced a brand new double A-side single release in the form of long-time fan favourites Montreal Rock Band backed with the contrastingly upbeat It’s On You. The former is the track that won the band an NME Award for Best Lyric back in February. “I’m wearing Win Butler’s hair / There’s a scalpless singer in a Montreal rock band somewhere”. Awesome! Stream the … Continue reading New Single From Happyness
Mixing up flowery bubblegum fuzz, Nuggets-era garage beat and drugged-out psychedelia, Betrayers take the listener on a hallucinogenic journey across an eerie landscape inspired by late nights, bad behaviour, warped love, and total freedom. The Edmonton based six piece released their debut album Let the Good Times Die early last year, and now they’re back with the feverish rumble and freaked out grooves of the … Continue reading Betrayers – Love Rat 7″
Here is the second part of our weekly round up of cracking new tunes – another nine from a bumper collection from the past seven days! See Part 1 here. 1. Titus Andronicus – Dimed Out 2. Angelic Milk – IDK How 3. Pet Symmetry – Gone Gone Gone (Even Further Gone) 4. God Damn – Vultures 5. Communions – Summer Oath 6. Guantanamo Baywatch – … Continue reading Songs You Should Have Heard This Weekend (Part 2)
You know the drill. SO many songs this week. Dive in. Enjoy. More tomorrow. 1. Chelsea Wolfe – Iron Moon 2. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Trevor Forever 3. Teleman – Strange Combinations 4. Marissa Nadler – Carnival 5. Daughn Gibson – It Wants Everything 6. Rose Windows – The Wanton Song 7. Cayucas – Moony Eyed Walrus 8. Yukon Blonde – Como … Continue reading Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
We’re not usually ones for premieres and all that stuff, but when the song is this good then we can sometimes be persuaded to rouse our lazy carcass off the sofa and head for the keyboard. Trance Farmers (great name) specialise in psychobilly blues. Six track release Garbage Night is out April 28 on LEAVING Records with Stones Throw. You can also buy from Bandcamp here. … Continue reading Video Premiere: Trance Farmers – Garbage Night
The Mad Mackerel 