MM faves, Manchester four-piece PINS have released their latest 7″ Too Little Too Late on Bella Union. They’ve shared its b-side, a cover of Misfits’ Hybrid Moments, complete with some typical PINS style choir girl harmonies and all in 90 seconds… Have a listen – its a cracker. . Continue reading PINS cover the Misfits
New York City’s Wilful Boys are old-school from the start, as mainman and singer Steven Fisher isn’t out front of the band, prancing and preening. The man is behind the drumkit, his heavy-as-a-sack-of-bricks pounding driving these relentless songs forward with a bruising, methodical force. Their debut 7″ release kicks off with the mid-tempo assault and beer-guzzling chunks of riff of Anybody There? On the reverse is Flat Out, … Continue reading The Wilful Boys – Anybody There? 7″
LA’s Gateway Drugs rather intriguingly comprise of three siblings (all children of the Knack’s Prescott Niles) and another non-family musician. Rather than giving us an updated My Sharona, instead the band delivers dark, heavy rock that borders on noisy and psychedelic with obvious reference points being the Jesus & Mary Chain, Sonic Youth and Brian Jonestown Massacre. Try the fuzzy melodies and swirling guitars of Fridays Are … Continue reading Introducing >>> Gateway Drugs
Susan is a three piece band from Los Angeles playing twee-garage-punk-pop. Drawing on their mutual love of Shop Assistants, The Darling Buds and The Go Betweens they crafted three effervescent, fizzing slices of power-pop that make up their debut 7″ EP Just Call It. Listen to the whole EP here. Order from Bandcamp here. . . . Continue reading MM Shorts 684: Susan
It is the weekend and time for our regular round up of the songs from the past week that are well worth some listening time… 1. Torres – Sprinter 2. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Step Brother City 3. Nai Harvest – All The Time 4. Uniform – Perfect World 5. Shadow Age – Silaluk 6. Fight Like Apes – Pretty Keen On … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
It’s Saturday, time for our mop up of some of the tunes released this week that are well worth giving a whirl too. 1. Girlpool – Ideal World 2. Houndstooth – Borderlands 3. Death Cab For Cutie – Little Wanderer 4. Aquarian Blood – Savage Mind 5. Sheer Mag – Button Up 6. Wolf Alice – I Saw You (In A Corridor) 7. Teleman – … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
It’s Friday and a trawl through the overloaded MM in-box has been well overdue. So here are a few tunes, new and not quite so new, that are well worth giving some ear-time to0… And your starter for ten: Inspired by 70s Punk and 90s Brit Pop, NYC band Public Access T.V. have announced the release of their debut EP in the US on Terrible Records. … Continue reading Friday Afternoon Round Up
So with a name like that, you can be pretty confident you know what’s in store. And you’d be right. We don’t know much about Fuck Tornadoes after they popped up in our Soundcloud feed, but a quick visit to their Facebook page seems to suggest that they’re a Swedish punk band with LA connections and have just released a single called Hey Y’all backed with … Continue reading Introducing >>> Fuck Tornadoes
Drenge’s first single from forthcoming album Undertow, the brutally catchy We Can Do What We Want was undoubtedly the best thing we’d heard from them to date. Follow up single is the equally bruising Never Awake and whets the appetite for the new release (out 17th April) even further. Try it on for size… . Continue reading Drenge – Never Awake
Taking their name from a combination of literary references and Spanish that when combined roughly translates to ‘silver tongued devils,’ Kingston, New York’s Galanos music is darkly seductive and coldly aloof at the same time. Wait For It is the debut single off of their LP Vacation Cannons, steeped in the solo sounds of Stiv Bators and early Lords of the New Church, the cinematic … Continue reading MM Shorts 677: Galanos
The Mad Mackerel 