New York trio, Cold Sweats’ latest single Hater Failure is an infectiously deranged noise punk anthem, driven by bustling guitar lines and scathing lyrics. It comes from their upcoming debut album, Social Coma, set to be released on November 6th via Six 3 Collective. The record is an eclectic beast of punk that ranges from drunken noise rock blasts and surf punk fuzz to walls of corrosive hardcore and … Continue reading Introducing >>> Cold Sweats
Seems like we’ve not done one for a little while. Here are a collection of tasty musical films to accompany some top notch tunes. Our selection includes Hinds, Sundara Karma, Alex Bleeker And The Freaks, Brooke Annibale, Spray Paint, Idles and Gold Class. Continue reading Video Round Up
Denver’s In The Whale are a high energy two-piece rock band making no-nonsense, balls-to-the-wall rock songs since forming the band in 2011. Today they release Neighbor, their two-song digital single out via Red Bull Sound Select. Listen to both tracks below – we’re particularly loving the heavy, hard hitting Pray for the Prey. Continue reading Introducing >>> In The Whale
After a bit of a gap due to too much life interrupting, we’re back with instalment 6 of Nickel In The Jukebox. Ten new songs, you decide how good they are… Miners – Better Instincts [RIYL: Folk-rock, Lord Huron, The Head And The Heart] Futurekids – White Girl In A Wu-Tang Shirt [RIYL: Indie-rock, Wilco, Jenny Lewis] . PROM – I’ll Teach You [RIYL: … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 6)
Seven days, nine new songs, all winners. Courtney Barnett – Boxing Days Blues Revisited JEFF The Brotherhood – Radiating Fiber Plane Besnard Lakes – Golden Lion Cass McCombs – Evangeline William Elliott Whitmore – Civilisations Hiccup – Whatevs, Its Cool Powderburns – Not Right (Stooges cover) Cheatahs – Su-Pra Mothers – It Hurts Until It Doesn’t Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Finish off the working week and welcome in the weekend with Spares. Hailing from Liverpool they offer up a one line biog “Do what you want. When you want. How you want….there is no point in wasting away!” Sounds like a plan! Listen to Not Enough a frantic, bristling slab of proto-punk with massive choruses. . Continue reading MM Shorts 784: Spares
The consistently marvellous METZ return with a new 7″ single, Eraser backed with Pure Auto. Distortion. Check. Feedback. Check. Full on riffing. Check. Pummelling percussion. Check. Shredding vocals. Check. Do yourself a favour and turn this one up to eleven…. . Continue reading METZ – Eraser
London-based garage rock trio King Korea will unleash their debut single Zoo Generation on 23rd October. Creating furious, thoroughly modern rock and roll which calls to mind the best of The Cramps, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and The Black Keys, it is a taut, three-minute explosion of blistering guitars, fuzzed-out bass and psychotic vocals. In fact it is an angry, pounding beast of a single … Continue reading MM Shorts 783: King Korea
A day late, but no matter. A collection of nine brand spanking new tunes rounded up from the past week – just for you. Laura Stevenson – Claustrophobe Woozy – Painted White Eleanor Friedberger – False Alphabet City Long Beard – Turkeys Surf Rock Is Dead – Never Be The Same Dirty Nil – Provisional (Fugazi cover) Vandaveer – Jealous Guy (John Lennon cover) Ex-Hex … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We have already given you Freedom Fries, the Black Lips side of their forthcoming split single with The Coathangers. Now we have Watch Your Back, the buzzing, indignant anthem that makes up the other side from the aforementioned Coathangers. Marvellous stuff – stream it below. Continue reading The Coathangers – Watch Your Back
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