New York punk three piece Pedico are soon to be releasing their first EP The Days Are Just Packed, from which comes this charmingly titled ditty, You Can’t Get AIDS If You Never Get Tested. It seems somewhat inappropriate to call it infectious… . Continue reading MM Shorts 417: Pedico
Some city themed videos for you today. First from Shark Week shot in Washington DC’s Puerto Rican district, then Chastity Belt take on Seattle from the comfort of a couch in their video for excellent track Seattle Party. Next we have The Secret History’s Brooklyn centered video for Johnny Panic (Forget Everything) and lastly A Grave With No Name’s video for The Steps, made from … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Shark Week || Chastity Belt || The Secret History || A Grave With No Name
Oh boy, you get exactly what you might expect from a band called Ming City Rockers, and we are mighty glad about it. Latest single, Chic and the Motherfuckers, was released a few days ago and the bad boy influences from Eddie Cochran to the Stooges run through the heart of it, setting the song and the band apart like a seam of gold in … Continue reading Introducing >>> Ming City Rockers
The raucous, hard-hitting Burning Condors have featured on MM a couple of times and now they return with their first 7” vinyl, Love on the Rocks backed with a cover of Folsom Prison Blues. The single is set for release on 5th August 2013 through Snakehand Records. Have a listen to the A side, a perfect blend of sleazy, raw punk and classic skiffle beat … Continue reading First 7″ Single From Burning Condors
Here is another single from Drenge. More vicious hooks, infectious melodies and bucketloads of swagger. Listen to the dizzying, adrenalin fuelled Face Like A Skull. Continue reading New Single From Drenge
Enjoy some fine videos from long standing MM favourites Sea Wolf and Lightning Dust as well as fiery Argentinian trio Las Kellies and their film for Golden Love and lastly some lovely acoustic folk from Longfellow. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Sea Wolf || Lightning Dust || Las Kellies || Longfellow
The terrifically monikered Joanna Gruesome from Cardiff are a band brimming with irresistible pop melodies and spiked with dissonant fuzzy jangle, their songs are shot through with loud discordant feedback and super-fast, hardcore punk drumbeats. Debut album Weird Sister will be out via Fortuna POP! (UK) and Slumberland (USA) in September. ‘Til then console yourself with Secret Surprise, a thrilling, visceral anthem about mental illness. Continue reading Joanna Gruesome Announce Album
A sudden plethora of new tunes have hit the web, and here are eight of our favourites for your aural delight. First up is psych-heavyweights White Hills persistently hypnotic In Your Room that comes from the space rockers forthoming album So You Are … So You’ll Be, which is out next month on Thrill Jockey. Regina Spektor has an upbeat new song featuring in new Netflix … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight Of The Best
Loving this coruscating five minute slab of psychedelic mayhem from Arizona’s Destruction Unit that they aptly describe as “morphine boogie“. The World on Drugs comes from forthcoming long player Deep Trip, out on Sacred Bones records on the 19th August. Continue reading MM Shorts 408: Destruction Unit
Washington DC’s Shark Week’s forthcoming AA-side 7″ is being released by Analog Edition Records on July 30th. Hearkening back to the glory days of rock ‘n roll, the band distill the raw energy of punk and infuse it with a hip-shaking garage pop sound. Throw in a gravelly baritone, screeching guitar solos, jangly guitar leads, pulsating bass rhythms and pounding drums, and the results are a ramshackle, … Continue reading Shark Week’s Santurce Single
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