Waxahatchee returns with the follow up to the outstanding Cerulean Salt on April 7th. Ivy Tripp will be released via Wichita Recordings and Merge Records in the USA. Listen to Air, the first cut from the new album, Pre-order the album from Wichita Recordings here or Merge Records here. . European Tour Dates (full band): Sat 23 May Dresden Beatpol Mon 1 June Münster Gleis 22 Wed 3 … Continue reading New Waxahatchee Album & European Tour
Django Django delivered an excellent debut album in 2012 that brilliantly mixed a glam rock stomp with funky electronica and smothered it all in a glistening, infectious psych-pop sheen. They are back with a new track and First Light is as slinky, as sinewy, and as effortlessly catchy as you’d expect. Dive in. . Continue reading Django Django – First Light
Our regular weekend feature highlighting some of the tunes you really ought to have heard already this week is back. First one of 2015 kicks off with no less than nine new tunes and some real corkers too. 1. Iron & Wine – Everyone’s Summer of ’95 2. Stornoway – The Road You Didn’t Take 3. Sonny & The Sunsets – Happy Carrot Health Store … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here is the acoustic led Mr Face, a new song from psych-garage rocker extraordinaire Ty Segall, and the title track from a new four track EP of the same name. It is available via Famous Class Records on Bandcamp. . Continue reading New From Ty Segall
NY-based garage-psych rockers Sun Voyager are celebrating the release of their split EP with King Pizza labelmates Greasy Hearts, Grease Voyage, by offering fuzzy lo-fi single God Is Dead up as a free download. Grab it below. . Continue reading Sun Voyager Offer Free Download Of Single God Is Dead
Have a listen to Denver trio Shady Elders’ new single The Night Air, combining elements of dark-wave, dream pop, doo-wop and shoegaze, all on top of vocalist Fox Rodemich’s inimitable, singular voice. Buy the EP from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 647: Shady Elders
Just before Christmas we received an e-mail from Lord Buffalo with details of a new four track cassette EP called Castle Tapes. They explained it was a limited release to get a few songs out into the world before heading back into the studio to record a full length album. Amongst them is this folked-out, and truly excellent cover of the Roky Erickson classic Two … Continue reading New EP From Lord Buffalo
Last month, arch experimentalists Vision Fortune announced a new album, misleadlingly titled Country Music (out 9th February on ATP Recordings), and released the excellent, haunting first single, Dry Mouth. Now they have shared a creepy video which is a perfect compliment to the eerie, droning track. Watch it here. . . Continue reading New Video: Vision Fortunes – Dry Mouth
Pink Mountaintops has partnered with French lifestyle site APRIL 77 for a limited-edition 7″ titled Asleep With An Angel. It features two exclusive songs, and only 250 copies of the pink splattered vinyl are available for purchase through April 77’s store. The tracks are also available digitally now via iTunes. Listen to the excellent A side below. . Continue reading Pink Mountaintops – Asleep With An Angel
Here is a selection of eight new music videos that have caught our eye, and ears, recently. There’s some creepy and weird stuff in there too – freaky clowns, burning dolls houses, epileptic horses, sacrifices… So dig in to offerings from Circa Waves, Maryleigh Roohan, Alex G, Whistlejacket, Sean Grant & The Wolfgang, Guts Club, Steel Trees, and Green Gerry. . . . . . … Continue reading Video Round-Up
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