It is more than two years since we’ve posted about Dead Stars, and I have to confess we somehow missed their debut album Slumber last summer. Calm Punk is the band’s first new release since then and is a welcome return and reminder of the Brooklyn-based trio’s fuzzy, hook-filled brand of indie-rock. Stream it here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 718: Dead Stars
Lady Bones have shared 24 Hour Party Girl, the second single from the Boston trio’s upcoming full length debut Dying. If follows lead single Botch and takes the band on another rollercoaster ride through rough edged grunge, twisted Americana, and pounding post-punk. The album is one of dark hardcore-edged indie rock haunted by a backwoods twang that sounds more like the product of a band living near the Floridian … Continue reading Lady Bones – 24 Hour Party Girl
Acoustic punk duo Girlpool have shared Cherry Picking, a relationship lament, and the latest single from the band’s much anticipated debut album, Before The World Was Big. Stream it below. . Continue reading Girlpool – Cherry Picking
It’s tempting to simply categorise Georgia’s Pinecones alongside their punk, hardcore, and metal roots. Really, though, it’s no use: no genre can claim them as one of its own. This is music that’s too melodic for the conventions of punk, but with vocals that are often shouted with hardcore’s guttural ferocity. It’s doom laden, meandering, punch-to-the-gut stuff that is as defiant as it is manic and as compelling as … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Pinecones
Asylums know intimately the tiny pleasures that can be found despite walking the poverty line. Their new single Joy In A Small Wage may as well be the band’s manifesto – a fierce DIY ethic with homemade videos and self-released records. The single comes across like Orange Juice gene-spliced with Mudhoney, all pop hooks wrapped in barbed wire and wry social commentary. Listen here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 715: Asylums
Nine new, and excellent, songs from the past seven days neatly packaged for your listening pleasure. 1. Jeffrey Lewis – Train Song 2. The Sandwitches – Our Toast 3. Ultimate Painting – Break The Chain 4. John Vanderslice – Midnight Blue 5. Destroyer – Dream Lover 6. Heather Woods Broderick – Wyoming 7. DRINKS – Hermits On Holiday 8. Spoon – TV Set (Cramps cover) … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Danish band Yung will release their new single, Blanket on Tough Love Records in July. It is a great slice of bratty, yet melodic Nordic punk, with an almost Replacements, Jay Reatard and Ice Age edge. Give it a listen. . Continue reading MM Shorts 710: Yung
Our weekly round up for you of some of the best songs shared in the past seven days… 1. Barna Howard – Bitter Side Of Blue 2. Theo Verney – Brain Disease 3. Spray Paint – Country Singer 4. The Wooden Sky – Our Hearts Were Young 5. Jacco Gardner – Find Yourself 6. White Reaper – I Don’t Think She Cares 7. Telegram – … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Vomitface, the Jersey City/Brooklyn punk trio have offered up their new music video for Never Make It. The video captures the band playing to a yoga class, offering their own “meditative” expertise in the form of destructive, noisy sludge-pop. The track comes from their just released sophomore EP, Another Bad Year, out via Boxing Clever Records. . . . Continue reading New Video: Vomitface – Never Make It
Night Dials manage to take squalid, sexy pyschedelia and combine it with rock and garage to create a heady stew of primitive beats and pop hooks, all infused with the tripped out vibrations of the 60s West Coast scene. They will shortly release a new double A Side Single I’ve Done More Things and I’ll Sleep When I Die. Give it a spin. . Continue reading MM Shorts 709: Night Dials
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