MM Shorts 781: Daddy Issues

Here is another new track from provocative (in a wholly charming way) Infinity Cat new signings Daddy Issues. Their excellent new digital single, Shitty World further showcases their mixing pot of garage-surf-pop-punk and also features label owner and JEFF The Brotherhood guitarist Jake Orrall. Dive in to their world… . Continue reading MM Shorts 781: Daddy Issues

Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Our collection extends to no less than ten sweet new tracks for you this week, lovingly gathered up from the past seven days like shells from a beach. Or something like that… Torres – Special (Garbage cover) Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – Bennie And The Jets Julien Baker – Brittle Boned Beach Baby – Limousine Death Valley Girls – Death Valley Boogie Hamilton Leithauser & … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 5)

A day late, but none the worse for all that. Here is this week’s jukebox jury selection for your listening edification. Hit or miss? You pick… . Jake McMullen – Always Single  [RIYL: Singer-songwriters, James Vincent McMorrow, Ryan Adams] . Grassfight – Breaking Up Pigeons  [RIYL: Psych-rock, Spacemen 3, Spoon] . Boys – Believe Anything  [RIYL: Garage pop, The Strokes, The Legends] . PROM – Touch Me … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 5)

Spray Paint – Signal Master

Here is a new single from Spray Paint, the second taken from forthcoming new album Dopers. Signal Master is a slower, relentlessly ominous slab of brooding punk rock that is built around a discordant refrain of “it’s time to put the dog down“. Make of it what you will, but it is another intensely brilliant track that calls to mind the best of Jesus Lizard and … Continue reading Spray Paint – Signal Master

New Video: The Spook School – Binary

Binary is the excellent new single from DIY-punk-pop quartet The Spook School, taken from their brand new album, Try To Be Hopeful (out on 9 October via Fortuna POP!). A triumphant queer pop song, exploring gender and identity, Binary bursts with noisy energy and a maddeningly catchy tune that blends together influences ranging from Buzzcocks, to T-Rex and the noisier end of C86. Here is the … Continue reading New Video: The Spook School – Binary

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

This weekend, why not relax with our regular pick of the best new releases and tunes of the past seven days. Father John Misty – The Memo Israel Nash – The Fire & The Flood Joanna Newsom – Leaving The City Bruising – Emo Friends Mount Moriah – Calvander Wytches – Darker Waters – Up Up Up Jacuzzi Boys – Wildflower Hazel English – Fix   … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

New Video: NOTS – Reactor

We’re loving this track, and this video, from Memphis psych-punk outfit NOTS. Reactor is not a new song per se having previously seen a release on Goner Records last year, but as recent signings to the excellent Heavenly Records, their album We Are Nots will now be released in the UK too, coming out on November 20th. A brilliant slice of simmering, freaked out, lo-fi … Continue reading New Video: NOTS – Reactor