Experimental punk magpies Fat White Family have announced details of the release of the first single on their new label, Without Consent – the wonderfully titled I Am Mark E Smith is released on Monday October 27th and it is an absolute cracker. . Continue reading MM Shorts 605: Fat White Family
Flying Ant Day, will be the first full-length from the Brighton five-piece Tyrannosaurus Dead. The first track to air from it is Local Bullies, a charming indie pop-meets-scuzzy punk hit in the making – distorted guitars break out, followed shortly by beautiful layered vocals, flitting from crazy to calm and back again. The album is out on Odd Box Records on 3rd November. Order here. . Continue reading Tyrannosaurus Dead – Local Bullies
Brighton’s Abattoir Blues feature on Beech Coma Vol. 2, a Leeds based label’s compilation of new acts that they describe as “negotiating a sun-bleached and apathetic world with a lazy-day quality and an old-fashioned frustration“. This track, Blinded, is firmly in the latter camp – a raw, seething explosion of bilious anger, beneath which a melody fights furiously to breathe. Cracking stuff. Download the full compilation for … Continue reading MM Shorts 604: Abattoir Blues
The marvellous Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs are now just The Voyeurs, which seems like an eminently sensible move in the band-name stakes. Having released the much underrated Clarietta album last year, they return with a new album Rhubarb Rhubarb which will see the light of day in November. Drawing on classic influences such as The Doors, the Jesus & Mary Chain and adjusting the … Continue reading The Voyeurs – England Sings Rhubarb Rhubarb
1. Terry Malts – Don’t 2. Grass House – All I Have To Do Is Dream (Everly Brothers cover) 3. We Were Promised Jetpacks – I Keep It Composed 4. Vashti Bunyan – Holy Smoke 5. Ming City Rockers – Get Outta Your Head 6. Real Estate – Paper Dolls (Nerves cover) 7. Blood Sister – Paralysis . . . . . . . . … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
To mark their upcoming tour together, Cass McCombs and Meat Puppets have announced the release of a split 7-inch single. Comprising of four tracks – two originals by McCombs and two covers from Meat Puppets who take on Cathy’s Clown by the Everly Brothers and Texas Tornados’ (Hey Baby) Que Paso. Listen to the brilliant funky folk of McCombs’ Night Of The World and the rollicking Meat Puppets … Continue reading Split 7″ from Cass McCombs And Meat Puppets
Pink Mountaintops’ brilliant Get Back is one of our favourite records of the year and the band have released a new video for album track Shakedown. It tells the story of a not-so-typical commute through Los Angeles. The video floats through a headphone fueled dreamland full of arcade video games, roller skating, mixed drinks and kiddie pools. It stars Mandy-Lyn Antoniou and features a guest … Continue reading New Video: Pink Mountaintops – Shakedown
Taking influences as disparate as Bad Brains, Neu, The Birthday Party and minimal techno, the visceral Girl Band were one of the best live shows from our trip to The Great Escape. We’ve already posted their new single De Bom Bom, and now we have the B-side for you, a crushing cover of Beat Happening’s I Love You. Released on 7″ by Dublin’s Any Other City Records, … Continue reading Girl Band Stream I Love You (Beat Happening Cover)
We’re loving the punk-pop of Hot 97 Summer Jam, the lead track from a new EP from Chumped called That’s The Thing Is Like. It precedes a debut full length, Teenage Retirement later in the autumn. Describing themselves as “bummer punk”, the track has an opening salvo which just about sums up their expectations of the classic girl-meets-boy scenario. “We’re reading books We’re drinking coffee I’m looking … Continue reading Introducing >>> Chumped
Having already posted Cinnamon, the lead track from the Dirty Nil’s latest single, we now have the B side for your aural delight. Check out the equally raw and bruising Guided By Vices. Visit their Bandcamp page here, or order the vinyl from Fat Wreck Records here. . Continue reading The Dirty Nil – Guided By Vices
The Mad Mackerel 