We’re not usually ones for premieres and all that stuff, but when the song is this good then we can sometimes be persuaded to rouse our lazy carcass off the sofa and head for the keyboard. Trance Farmers (great name) specialise in psychobilly blues. Six track release Garbage Night is out April 28 on LEAVING Records with Stones Throw. You can also buy from Bandcamp here. … Continue reading Video Premiere: Trance Farmers – Garbage Night
Ranchus is a four piece indie rock band from the Faroe Islands, formed more or less by accident in the fall of 2013. Rather bizarrely named after the king of goldfish, Ranchus still seems to be a fitting name for a band hailing from a fisher-nation. Their sound ranges from raw, slightly lo-fi angular rock to something softer and more melancholic – imagine something between The Violent Femmes and the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Ranchus
Another day, another week, another collection of ten excellent tunes from the past seven days collected for your listening pleasure and gratification. 1. Torres – Cowboy Guilt 2. Creepoid – Dried Out 3. Loop – Precession 4. Sweet Spirit & Britt Daniel – Have Mercy 5. Left Lane Cruiser – Tres Borrachos 6. Little Wings – Where 7. Thee Oh Sees – Withered Hand 8. … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The Pop Group and Sleaford Mods will release a split 7” on Monday June 18th through Freaks R Us. The single features Face To Faces a raw alternate version of a vitriolic track featured on the forthcoming Sleaford Mods new album, and Nations, a track taken from Citizen Zombie, The Pop Group’s recently acclaimed album. Listen to both here. . . Continue reading Sleaford Mods & The Pop Group Announce Split 7″
It can’t be anything other than a good day when a new indie-guitar band turns up in your in-box with just enough bravado and swagger matched with the necessary grit and urgency to carry things off. So it is with The Doctorates, a Kent three-piece boasting influences from The Ramones to The Vaccines, and their new single Make For An Exit which boasts plenty of ’70s punk influences … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Doctorates
This coming week Negative Fun Records will release No Jerks Allowed, the latest cassette EP from Pretty Greens. Full of melodic punk-pop, surf-rock, and garage swagger, Pretty Greens like to play it fast and loose. Listen to Tiny Locket below and pre-order from the label here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 698: Pretty Greens
Fehm craft thunderous songs channelling the best of post punk and hardcore. They are songs about desperation, unemployment, anxiety and the urban decay of 21st century Britain, all perfectly displayed on their forthcoming debut EP Animal Skin, released this April on cassette and digital download. Listen to Hand to Mouth below and order the EP from Bandcamp here. . Btw that reminded me that Urban Decay were … Continue reading MM Shorts 697: Fehm
You know the drill. Our weekly gathering of new songs released this week. 1. Best Coast – Feeling OK 2. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Gloria 3. Rose Windows – Strip Mall Babylon 4. Wolf Alice – Bros 5. Susanna – Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen cover) 6. Spray Paint – Day Of The Rope 7. Iron & Wine / Ben Bridwell – Bulletproof Soul (Sade … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Time for our ad-hoc Friday collection of excellent new (and some not quite so new) videos. From the beautiful and poignant (Courtney Barnett, Chris Staples, Wilder Daze) to the pulsing animation of Slaves pummelling punk, via the humour of Weird Womb and Abjects. And plenty more besides… . . . . . . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up
Ah Vomitface, let us count the ways we love your name. And your new EP Another Bad Year, too – from which we have Never Make It, another satisfyingly sludgey slab of seething punk rock that manages to blast your eardrums into submission without losing any accessibility whatsoever. Have a listen. . Continue reading MM Shorts 696: Vomitface
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