Picked this gem up from the ever reliable Rollo & Grady blog – No Valley hail from New York and Charlie Don’t Surf is as infectious a slice of garagey rock as you’re likely to come across and definitely worth a re-post. Download it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 453: No Valley
Blistering garage-punk-blues duo Drenge recently Arcade Fire’s Ready To Start for Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1. Have a listen below – it captures the pulsating drive of the original, yet the brothers still manage to manipulate it into a more grunge based endeavour. On Tour now Wednesday 2rd October, Brickyard, Carlisle Thursday 3rd October, The Cluny, Newcastle Friday 4th October, King Tut’s, Glasgow Saturday … Continue reading Drenge Cover Arcade Fire
We recently were sent The Last Hydronaut, a new six track EP by Chicago three-piece Nonagon – it is out on the 22nd October via Controlled Burn Records. Whist firmly rooted in modern day punk rock, the band also throw knowing glances backward to the halcyon post-hardcore days of the American underground of the late 80s and early 90s. Try hard enough and you can probably … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends >>> Nonagon
LA based punk band Fim has recently released a 7 song EP called Alien Beach Party. Check out the first single, the brilliant Fast Cars all choppy, needling guitars, jerky percussion and and WTF vocals. Then try the equally good, though more frantic and tenser Shit God Damn. Highly recommended. Buy the EP from Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Shorts 451: Fim
Too many good songs, too little time to do them justice. Accept this offering as the best compromise we can muster, but explore these tunes – they are well worth it – even if we are a bit slow getting some of them to your attention! Kicking us off are indie duo Big Deal and a new single from their much acclaimed album of dark, intoxicating, … Continue reading Monday’s Mega Round-up
Start the week with a clutch of excellent videos from psych-rockers Gringo Star (and their animated film for new track Find A Love), from Keaton Henson for You (taken from his excellent album Birthdays), and from explosive punk rockers Radkey, more top notch animation to accompany Romance Dawn. We have even more brilliant animation, or to be precise claymation, for Gentleman Hall’s Every Morning, and lastly London … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Gringo Star || Keaton Henson || Radkey || Gentleman Hall || Telegram
The very marvellous Coathangers return to our speakers with a brilliant split 7″ single with Audacity on Suicide Squeeze Records. Their contribution is a track called Adderall, a propulsive, jittery, slice of post-punk agitation, borne in on the back of tribal drums and a perfect match for a commonly abused drug used to stimulate the central nervous system! Continue reading The Coathangers – Adderall
For men of a certain age, Altered Images’ Claire Grogan will always hold a special place in that area of the heart reserved for teenage crushes…and if there has ever been a finer Top of the Pops performance than for their Happy Birthday single then I’ve never seen it. So, what an unexpected pleasure to find San Francisco’s scuzzy punk rockers Terry Malts (who have … Continue reading Terry Malts Cover Altered Images
We’ve not posted any videos for a few days, so to make up for it we have a bumper crop for you from Mazzy Star and their video for standout new track California to PINS and their girl-gang mentality for their film for Girls Like Us. We have an appropriately pugilistic video for Mutts excellent track Prizefighter, and lastly along the same lines we the first … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Mazzy Star || PINS || Mutts || Scott & Charlene’s Wedding
Having already posted the excellent Push It from Washington DC’s Sunwolf, we can now share a second track from their imminent Angel Eyes EP. This is Fire Breathing Tiger, it lives up to its name, being a steamroller of catchy needlepoint riffage and scuzzy, lo-fi distortion. Apparently it was inspired by the “shit talking phase” of a courtship… Listen below. Continue reading More From Sunwolf
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