The wonderful Felice Brothers will release their new album Life In The Dark on the 24th June via Yep Roc Records. The first taste from it is the brilliant, accordion led Aerosol Ball accompanied by a suitably vintage, suitably carnivalesque, suitably sleazy video for its stream of consciousness style rhyming couplets that takes in much of the geography of the United States. Watch below. Continue reading New Song From The Felice Brothers
Leeds grunge-pop duo Night Owls will release their debut EP Informaldehyde on London independent label Till Deaf Do Us Party on 10th June. Taking their influences from the weirder end of the grunge spectrum, citing the likes of Nirvana, Pixies and Queens Of a The Stone Age as their main loves, with Savages and Warpaint also getting a nod. Listen to lead track Why Me? from it … Continue reading MM Shorts 838: Night Owls
Blessed’s upcoming self titled EP will be self released on May 20th. The experimental Vancouver based punk band’s debut is filled with knotted riffs and crushing dynamics, as evident on lead single, Waving Hand. Listen below. Continue reading MM Shorts 837: Blessed
Here we are again! Ten more new songs gathered and presented for your listening edification. Parquet Courts – Human Performance Ashley Shadow – In Shadows Honey Radar – Caterpillar King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – People – Vultures Future Of The Left – 50 Days Before The Hun Brian Jonestown Massacre – Fingertips Spice Boys – It’s Coming The Parrots – Let’s Do It … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
What a week for covers it is proving to be. Hot on the heels of yesterdays collection, we have the brilliant Austin punks Institute sharing a cover they recorded of the classic Doors track Touch Me. It appears on the upcoming Todo Muere Volume 5 Record Store Day 12″ that will be released by Sacred Bones. They’ll be in the company of Lust For Youth & Croatian … Continue reading Institute cover the Doors
Here are no less than five fabulous, wildly different covers for you to sink your teeth, or ears, into. We have Night Beats taking on the Beach Boys’ classic Sloop John B and giving it the full psych treatment (it comes from the upcoming A Tribute to Pet Sounds compilation). Next up is Julien Baker’s striking cover of Elliott Smith’s Ballad Of Big Nothing which can be found (alongside 15 others), on … Continue reading Covers & Tributes Galore
Grieving are a new band from Cambridge, playing direct, twisting indie-punk. In debt to the likes of Dismemberment Plan, Jets To Brazil, Drive Like Jehu and elsewhere the lo-fi pop of Guided By Voices or Bob Mould, you can hear the anxious, anthemic indie-punk of No Sleep below. Continue reading MM Shorts 836: Grieving
Great American Canyon Band’s stunning debut album Only You Remain is released this Friday on Six Degrees Records. The gorgeous psych-tinged Americana of Undertow is already one of our favourite tracks of the year so far, while Crash made our end of year Best Of lists in 2015. You can stream both, along with the rest of the album, below. You can also order from their Bandcamp … Continue reading Stream Great American Canyon Band’s Only You Remain
After Protomartyr featured heavily in our end of the year Best of lists, it was a no brainer to make the trip down with Chris T Popper to the 100 Club to catch the London date of their short UK tour. First up though was The Rebel, aka Ben Wallers erstwhile frontman, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the band Country Teasers. It was our first experience of his … Continue reading Live Review: Protomartyr (100 Club, London)
Last year Goat released the single It’s Time for Fun, which saw the band experimenting with drum machines, and brought a different pulse to their tribal psych. This desire to explore new sounds continues with their new single I Sing in Silence. But instead of ‘plugging in’ new instruments the band have ‘unplugged’ and created an addictive groove with mostly un-amped, acoustic instruments. Elastic guitar … Continue reading New Single From Goat
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