It’s Friday and a trawl through the overloaded MM in-box has been well overdue. So here are a few tunes, new and not quite so new, that are well worth giving some ear-time to0… And your starter for ten: Inspired by 70s Punk and 90s Brit Pop, NYC band Public Access T.V. have announced the release of their debut EP in the US on Terrible Records. … Continue reading Friday Afternoon Round Up
The Venus Lyx is a trinity of sorts. Three brothers, all alike under a certain kind of light. The brothers Traylen. Formed a little under a year ago, the trio has since been creating and fashioning their own distinct brand of jagged freak-folk. Now they have their debut single available for your listening pleasure, however uncomfortable that might be… Keep Your Hands Off My Familiar is … Continue reading MM Shorts 680: The Venus Lyx
Philadelphia, PA heavy psych quartet Ecstatic Vision have recently completed work on their forthcoming full-length debut album. It is an acid-tinged mix of trance inducing, primitive African tribal and heavy psych a la Hawkwind, Goat and Amon Düül II. Listen and groove to Astral Plane here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 679: Ecstatic Vision
Moon Mirage is the new album from Trans Van Santos, the latest incarnation of acid gospel visionary Mark Matos and his transcendent tunes. Formerly head of rambling San Francisco psych-folk collective the Family Folk Explosion, psychedelic anti-band Os Beaches, and dusty desert rockers Campo Bravo —Matos has spent decades chasing his muse. Weary eyed and ragged on the old road he had a vision and was … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Trans Van Santos
Duke Garwood’s soulful, stripped-bare sound has been receiving much acclaim for his fifth album Heavy Love, his first for Heavenly Recordings. The word looks set to continue to spread with new single Disco Lights, which has had an appropriately psychedelic treatment for the video. Watch it here. . Continue reading New Video: Duke Garwood – Disco Lights
Taking their name from a combination of literary references and Spanish that when combined roughly translates to ‘silver tongued devils,’ Kingston, New York’s Galanos music is darkly seductive and coldly aloof at the same time. Wait For It is the debut single off of their LP Vacation Cannons, steeped in the solo sounds of Stiv Bators and early Lords of the New Church, the cinematic … Continue reading MM Shorts 677: Galanos
Happyness has just released the video for their new single, the live favourite, A Whole New Shape, in anticipation of their first US tour within the coming weeks. The single is out on the 30th March. Watch it here. . . Continue reading New Video: Happyness – A Whole New Shape
Giant Sand, the iconic and influential band fronted by luminary Howe Gelb, celebrates 30 years of freewheeling and ever-evolving music making on new album, Heartbreak Pass, out on the 5th May via New West Records. The album spans founder Gelb’s far-reaching career and mixes the rollicking nature of the band’s 1985 debut, Valley of Rain, with the dusty alt-folk, desert-rock and jazzy lounge-piano explorations of his … Continue reading New Giant Sand Album
Aside from hitting the skins for Quilt and playing keys for Woods, John Andrews also has his hand in a whole host of other creative projects from story animation to releasing home recordings via tape. Bit By The Fang is his debut solo release via Woodsist (the Yawns are an imaginary backing band), and if the evidence of I’ll Go To Your Funeral (If You Go … Continue reading John Andrews & The Yawns – I’ll Go To Your Funeral (If You Go To Mine)
Here is our regular gathering up of some of this week’s best new releases for you. Enjoy. 1. Daughn Gibson – Shatter You Through 2. Laura Marling – Strange 3. This Is The Kit – Silver John 4. Bully – I Remember 5. Tame Impala – Let It Happen 6. Adam Torres – Dusty Wing Spirit 7. Lower Dens – Ondine 8. Mikal Cronin – ii) … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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