Following their incendiary appearance on Later with Jools Holland last week, The Orwells have announced their new single Dirty Sheets, alongside a full UK tour in February next year. Full tour dates below – London shows will be announced imminently. The band have also made their Other Voices EP available for free download from their website. Watch the TV performance of Who Needs You, and … Continue reading The Orwells New Single & UK Tour
Audioscope is an organisation committed to raising money through music for the national homelessness charity Shelter. Since 2001, they have raised more than £23,000 for the charity, presenting the best in local, national and international independent music in the process. Chicago experimental folk legends Califone will headline this year’s Audioscope charity festival in Oxford on Saturday 23rd November. The day-long festival at The Jericho in Oxford … Continue reading Audioscope’s Compilation to Benefit Shelter
The Brooklyn-based punk band Cerebral Ballzy have announced they have signed to Julian Casablancas’ label Cult Records. The band’s new album, produced by TV on The Radio’s Dave Sitek will be out in early 2014. Until then we have the band’s new track Better In Leather, which premiered as Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’ yesterday on his show on BBC Radio 1. Catch them live: … Continue reading New Cerebral Ballzy Single
After releasing their excellent debut LP of ferocious, thrash party anthems Bloodstreams last year, Australia’s DZ Deathrays have literally spent the last eighteen months touring the world. Now the duo have offered up the first taste of their forthcoming sophomore LP (scheduled for the first half of 2014) in the form of a crushing new single entitled Northern Lights. Continue reading New From DZ Deathrays
Time for another big round up of just a few of the many quality tunes that have found their way into our in-box and into our ears. We have not had enough time over the past few weeks to do them proper justice, but we promise all are worth some of your time to get to know them better. Enjoy. First up are Banded Stilts, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Massive Monday Round-Up
Over a year ago we included Brooklyn’s Beach Arabs in a big round up post. At the time they were hoping to get a follow up to their self-released debut, Under The Whale out that side of Christmas, but it turns out it is only recently that Wild Movement has seen the light of day. Mixing indie rock with surf pop and a dash of … Continue reading Beach Arabs – Wild Movement
Here is our traditional free Halloween Mix for 2013 – twenty five great tunes and the fourth year we’ve provided a soundtrack for one of the best nights of the year. Download a perfect mix of ghouls, ghosts, spooks, and all manner of assorted monsters…from all genres and the past 40 years. No trick, all treat! Download Gene Vincent – Race With The Devil mp3 … Continue reading Free Halloween Mix 2013
Radioactivity consists of Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan from Marked Men. The first of two albums from the band is due next week on Dirtnap Records. Radioactivity is a continuation of The Novice, Jeff Burke’s band while living in Japan. Jeff has since moved back to Texas, and out of respect to the Japanese lineup of the band, has changed the name to Radioactivity. Some … Continue reading Radioactivity: Locked In My Head
Recently we posted Eagulls excellent cover version of the early Killing Joke nihilistic classic Requiem, and now the raucous slacker-punks have taken on another classic tune from the era with the Mekon’s seminal 1978 single Where Were You? With the potential to go horribly wrong, it could have been a dangerous choice, but as with Requiem, the Leeds five piece have absolutely nailed it…they’re rapidly … Continue reading Now Eagulls Cover The Mekons
Vancouver punk rockers White Lung will release a new 7″, Blow It South backed with Down With You. The A side is a full-on, high octane shredder hewn from the classic vein of short, sharp punk shocks, whilst the B side somehow ratchets up the needle a little more and is, if anything, even more assertive! It is out on the 28th October (digital) with a … Continue reading MM Shorts 463: White Lung 7″
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