We love Protomartyr! Their new record The Agent Intellect is due on 9th October via Hardly Art and they’ve shared the brilliant Dope Cloud, a new song from the full-length. The almost-anthem deals in a currency of lost ownership and the futility of creature comforts, as Joe Casey’s lyrics paint mental images of a “saltmine racist gang” and the “spoils of a pizza king“. Download it here, … Continue reading Protomartyr – Dope Cloud
Although they have been around a little while, Spray Paint are pretty new to us and their pulsating brand of hypnotic, full-on punk rock has been one of our favourite discoveries. Having already released one album this year, now they are readying another one, Dopers, for release in October. It was recorded last August in the middle of 87 shows in 66 cities and in 12 different … Continue reading New From Spray Paint
More delicious, demented, fuzzed out freakery has come our way via Love Buzzard. Download/stream the psyched-out garage punk of latest track Wild below. It comes from debut album Antifistamines. . Continue reading Love Buzzard – Wild
Odd Rival have just released their debut five track EP Keep Repeating, and after a couple of listens it is easy to see where the comparisons to Ride, Slaves and Ty Segall come from. Watch the video for Out Alive and stream our favourite track Paper Tiger below. . . . Continue reading MM Shorts 766: Odd Rival
Here we are, a day late, but no compromise on quality. Nine new tunes from the past week for your listening consumption. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Paper Mache Dream Balloon Elyse Weinberg – Houses Destruction Unit – The Upper Hand Avers – Come To Me Now Shannon & The Clams – It’s Too Late Childbirth – Let’s Be Bad Saintseneca – Sleeper … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Barely a year old, and yet Table Scraps have already developed a sizeable reputation for their fuzz and tape-echo drenched punk noise, built over a stand-up drum set and a single guitar fed through four amps. Latest single is the excellent Motorcycle, taken from their recent debut album More Time For Strangers. Give it a spin. . Continue reading MM Shorts 763: Table Scraps
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing have long been renowned for their mix of anarchy and anachrony and marinating it in gin-soaked steampunk, with emphasis on the punk. Think a socially conscious punk band channelling the sound of a robot Sid Vicious, hopped up on Crass, covering Slayer in an 1877 East End Music Hall… Their third album Not Your Typical Victorians almost didn’t … Continue reading MM Shorts 762: The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing
NY’s punky power-pop duo Diet Cig have shared the second song from their double A-side Sleep Talk/Dinner Date 7″. Dinner Date is (maybe) our favourite song of theirs to date – one that continues them along their path of unflinchingly highlighting failures and disenchantments (their own and others). The song is plaintive yet spiky, building to a fuzzy finale of frustration and stinging disappointment. Brilliant. The frosted clear vinyl, … Continue reading Diet Cig – Dinner Date
The Legendary Shack Shakers incendiary interpretations of the blues, punk, rock and country are all-at-once irreverent, revisionist, dangerous, and fun. Built upon a haunting, Southern Gothic theme, new album The Southern Surreal is a 15-track set featuring guest appearances by actor/musician and long-time fan, Billy Bob Thornton, and Jesus Lizard guitarist, Duane Denison. Stream Cold and The One That Got Away below. The album is out … Continue reading New Album From The Legendary Shack Shakers
Boston based folk punk band Absinthe Rose have announced their upcoming full length Black Earth, set to release September 4th via Screech Owl Records and available digitally via Bandcamp. Led by singer-songwriter Kimbo Rose, the album tackles themes of self discovery, social justice, and environmental issues with dense lyrical content matched with ever changing musical stylings. From traditional folk to alternative rock to gypsy jazz, Kimbo’s powerful vocals … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Absinthe Rose
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