Here is our regular gathering up of some of this week’s best new releases for you. Enjoy. 1. Daughn Gibson – Shatter You Through 2. Laura Marling – Strange 3. This Is The Kit – Silver John 4. Bully – I Remember 5. Tame Impala – Let It Happen 6. Adam Torres – Dusty Wing Spirit 7. Lower Dens – Ondine 8. Mikal Cronin – ii) … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Leeds trio, Dinosaur Pile-Up are back and streaming the almost-title-track from their forthcoming third album Eleven Eleven. Titled 11:11, the single will be released via SO Recordings on 18th May and is undoubtedly their biggest and heaviest offering to date. Listen to some bone-splintering riffage here. . Continue reading New Single From Dinosaur Pile-Up
Karen Meat & the Players, a garage/roots-punk trio from Des Moines, Iowa, have just released their self-titled, five-track, debut EP, on cassette and digital formats from Red Nude Tapes. An EP of disarming frankness and vulnerability throughout, even when the subject at hand is pizza and beer, as on our favourite track on the collection.“ You want me to be the girl of your dreams But I’d rather … Continue reading Introducing >>> Karen Meat & The Players
Here is our regular weekend feature highlighting the songs that you really should have made time to hear this week. Enjoy offerings from Laura Marling through to Thee Oh Sees by way of Vetiver and Joanna Gruesome amongst others, as well as the very welcome return of Holly Miranda. 1. Laura Marling – I Feel Your Love 2. Mexican Slang – Fever 3. Chastity Belt … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We love the primal, raw, proto-punk of Factotum’s Snake Charmer and here is the video to accompany it. It comes from a forthcoming 12 track split release on Stolen Body Records with Black Fruit, another two piece garage ‘n’ psych rock band. Watch the video and stream another couple of tracks from both parties. Order the vinyl here. . . Continue reading New Video: Factotum – Snake Charmer (& Split Release With Black Fruit)
Manchester four-piece PINS have announced the release of their new album Wild Nights on 8th June via Bella Union. The first 7″ single from the album, Too Little Too Late, will precede it on 30th March. The perfect taster for the album, it opens with a fearless drumbeat and heavy bassline before slowing into a sparse momentary instrumental. The track then reverts back to Faith … Continue reading New Video: PINS – Too Little Too Late
Grace Vonderkuhn is a musician and songwriter based out of Wilmington, Delaware. She sings, plays the guitar, bass, keys, and drums. Her musical style often combines elements from garage, psychedelic, punk, classic, and glam rock genres. Her self-titled five track EP is available on Bandcamp now, and for your immediate listening pleasure we have the proto-garage rock of Saints With Death Wishes and the visceral, slow … Continue reading MM Shorts 671: Grace Vonderkuhn
From a foundation of dirt-level garage punk, Lamont “Bim” Thomas aka Obnox sculpts deep cuts out of blown-out beats, redline guitar damage, and soulful singing, as if your local gospel choir had been raised on a steady diet of The Pagans and Back From the Grave compilations. Know America, Obnox’s fifth full-length, is already the second of three albums to come out in 2015. Listen to the … Continue reading MM Shorts 670: Obnox
Time for some more entertainment in the form of musical films. Here are ten of the more entertaining tunes and videos that have landed in our in-box over the past couple of weeks. They come from the likes of Protomartyr, Dogheart, Split Screens, Mind Brains, Colleen Green, Gaz Coombes, Slaves, …And The Hangnails, Jamie T, and Tom Williams. . . . [Click through for free download] . … Continue reading Mega Video Round Up
There is something undeniably great about a new band playing their guitars really, really fast and really, really loud. This is exactly what you get on Hyena’s debut single Mental Home, three minutes of pure, pissed-off aggression and adrenalin – it will see a release on the legendary Stiff Records label on 9th March. Watch the new video for it below. . . . Continue reading New Video: Hyena – Mental Home
The Mad Mackerel 