Earlier this month we shared the excellent Radius from Swedish indie rockers Hater. It was the title track of their forthcoming three track EP and now they’ve given us a second taste with the more subdued and melancholy First Time. Equally good though. Listen below. Continue reading More From Hater
Long standing MM faves, L.A. based Allah-Las will be releasing their new album Calico Review on September 9 via Mexican Summer. The band has also shared a video for the first single Famous Phone Figure. The track cradles character sketches over delicate strains of viola, organ, and Mellotron. Drummer Matthew Correia carefully underlining a three-note theme that casts a phantom sadness over the proceedings, as bassist Spencer … Continue reading New Video: Allah-Lahs – Famous Phone Figure
Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards’ excellent new album Memory is out now through The state51 Conspiracy. It is a record that is concerned with recollection and our ability to twist and warp history, rewriting the past each time we try to retrieve it. The band’s new single Tides (out on 8th July), is appropriately named as it ebbs and flows, telling the story of a person who throws … Continue reading Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards – Tides
Melbourne, Australia’s Chook Race formed in 2010 as a scrappy, garage/surf band, but soon developed a greater pop sensibility, born of their love of Flying Nun bands and other bedroom favorites. New album Around The House will be released in September via the Trouble In Mind label. It is comprised of ten oddly withdrawn, yet highly personal tunes, performed by the band with a desperate urgency creating … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Chook Race
Here are a couple of excellent new videos. The first by indie-pop quintet Night Flowers who have announced a new single, Glow in the Dark, due out on Dirty Bingo Records on 15th July. Filmed during their recent Japanese tour, the video was primarily shot in three continuous takes at 3am in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district – the result is a hazy, vibrant waking Tokyo dream. Psychic … Continue reading New Videos From Psychic Heat And Night Flowers
Staying true to the interwoven nature of the current Los Angeles music scene, Walter is a psych-rock group sewn together from different projects (Meatbodies, SadGirl, Ducktails) bent on staking its own claim on the music that their city is so well known for. The trio utilizes the stripped down format of guitar/bass/drums to blend Southern California heaviness with quieter, more subtle moments serving up its own unique flavor … Continue reading Introducing >>> Walter
You know the score – a sweep up of some of the week’s best new releases, new tunes and new artists. This week we have no less than eleven tracks for you including The Avett Brothers, Left Lane Cruiser, The Devil Makes Three, Deerhoof and plenty more. Dive in… The Avett Brothers – Satan Pulls The Strings Band Of Horses – Barrel House Holly Miranda … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here is the twentieth instalment of our Nickel In The Jukebox series, collecting ten new (and sometimes not quite so new) tunes from our inbox and sharing them for you to decide – hot or miss? Cheena – Car [RIYL: NY Punk, Gun Club, Lou Reed ] King Courgette – Courgette Boys [RIYL: Hoedown folk, Earl Scruggs, Holy Modal Rounders] Twin River – … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 20)
The Black Oil Brothers are one of those bands that effortlessly manage to evoke both classic, authentic Delta blues and rootsy, rolling Americana – combining them in a way that suggest campfire singalong as much as liquor fuelled Mississippi roadhouses. Talk To Me, with its bluesy slide guitar, is the perfect case in point, and comes from forthcoming long player Mean Business which is out on … Continue reading Black Oil Brothers – Talk To Me
2015 saw the release of the wonderful Twisted Arrow, the debut single by Belfast’s Arborist, fronted by Mark McCambridge. A nonchalant and thoughtful piece of Americana, it features the casual yet unmistakeable tones of Kim Deal. It was very well received and was one of our favourite tracks of the year. Arborist’s music is measured and mature while remaining starkly modern. Centred around McCambridge’s soaring vocal and … Continue reading New From Arborist
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