You know the score by now. The latest free Insound Vinyl Digital mix is up for the next week or so and contains tracks from Alex Calder, Beach Beach, Beat Radio, Black Bug, Fol Chen, Heavy Hawaii, Kurt Vile, Telekinesis, and Test House. You can get it for a tweet, FB like or signing up for their e-newsletter. Check out a couple of picks from it … Continue reading MM Shorts 343: Latest Free Insound Vinyl News Mix
Here is another collection of just some of the notable new tunes that have come our way recently…we’re still catching up, so expect some more posts like this over the next few days. Kicking off with Nightingale Floors which will be the fifth album from indie duo Rogue Wave. This is the first taste from it, a mighty fine track titled College. . We also … Continue reading Another Round Up
We missed Dirty Fences at SXSW and we’re kicking ourselves… The band refer to themselves as a gang and that mentality is evident in every razor sharp riff and perfectly executed harmony on Too High To Kross, an album that evokes early American rock and punk acts such as Red Kross, MC5, Johnny Thunders, The Ramones and The Stooges. However those names are just reference points … Continue reading New Album From Dirty Fences
Just over the past few days some of the big hitters and up and coming stars have dropped new tracks from much anticipated new albums. We have Primal Scream’s It’s Alright, It’s OK from More Light, all bongos, gospel choirs and Rolling Stones style funky rock ‘n’roll, Kurt Vile’s hazy Never Run Away from Wakin On A Pretty Daze and SXSW conquering Savages with their … Continue reading New From Kurt Vile, Primal Scream and Savages
The murder of a close friend of the band led Sonny Smith to think a lot about death and life after death. Shortly after, a visit to a medium brought Smith into contact with another friend who had died. It was this encounter with the afterworld that inspired many of the lyrics on Sonny & the Sunsets’ new record, Antenna to the Afterworld. And the … Continue reading Sonny & The Sunsets Announce New LP
Our selection today comes from indie-poppers Ace Reporter and their video for Untouched and Arrived featuring the exaggerated reality and dreams of a young boy. We also have two minutes of dark, brash, and violent film from the Thermals for new single Born To Kill and the neo-shoegaze of Splashh and their video for Need It. Lastly enjoy New York based psychedelic spacerock band White Hills’ … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Ace Reporter || The Thermals || Splashh || White Hills
Today’s videos are from our favourite southern fried country rockers The Futurebirds, Colleen Green as a cabbie in her new video for Taxi Driver, indie psych-rockers TOY’s video for latest single Heart Skips A Beat, and a 1990s VHS inspired video from The Men for I Saw Her Face, one of the moodier tracks from excellent new album New Moon. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Futurebirds || Colleen Green || TOY || The Men
Having now learnt from the previous two days of SXSW (fully creamed up for a start) and the seemingly vastly increased numbers from 2009, I headed straight for The Red Eyed Fly determined at the third attempt to get into a Phosphorescent show…only to be greeted by more lines that stretched way, way into the distance. Having no further wish to baste in the midday … Continue reading SXSW Day 4: Ladies Day In Texas
My first trip back to Austin since 2009, and compared with then the town is hectic even before any music is officially due to start. Streets are teeming with folk whereas previously four years ago, the day before the event, Chris T Popper and I had strolled around empty streets and then casually into the marvellous Waterloo Records and bought wristbands for the coming evenings … Continue reading SXSW Day 1: You’ve Got To Be A Ninja About It – Pissing With Thurston Moore
Pairs are a punk rock duo from Shanghai who brilliantly manage to sound just like they came from the King’s Road in 1977. Part Songs clocks in at just over 2 minutes of buzzsaw guitars, machine gun percussion and lyrics about dead shipmates, date-rape and all manner of other sordid topics. Of course we love it. Order from their Bandcamp page here. Download Pairs – … Continue reading MM Shorts 330: Pairs
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