Time for the MM countdown of our favourite tracks of the year to begin. Over the next few days we’ll be revealing our top 100 tracks and top 30 albums of 2015, with contributions from Mrs Mackerel, Chris T Popper, Polly Pocket and Franca. We’ll also share their personal choices with you next week. So without further ado, here are numbers 100 through to 76. … Continue reading MM’s BEST TRACKS OF 2015: 100 – 76
Just in time for the holidays, the Cave Singers have shared another cracking song off of their upcoming album Banshee, entitled Christmas Night. It is an uptempo, almost jaunty slice of twangy Americana, but juxtaposed with lyrics that follow a darker path and pattern, Pete Quirk proclaiming, “walking through life with a knife in your back.” Have a listen. Continue reading Another From The Cave Singers
We have a new track from Liverpool’s proto-garage-punkers Spares – a band sat somewhere between the Hives, Stooges, and Fidlar. The brilliantly named Ciggy Stump is a bratty number that echoes the Buzzcocks’ What Do I Get in feel. Give it a blast below. Continue reading New From Spares
Boston Blues Punk outfit Dead Trains have shared County Road Bound / Mean Town Blues from their forthcoming release County Road Bound (due in February). Inspired by the sounds and lyricism of traditional Delta Blues, County Road Bound tackles themes of displacement, self-deprecation, and fatalism. Even the album title derives from traditional blues repertoire. To be “county road bound” suggests that you’re bound to be … Continue reading Introducing >>> Dead Trains
Nashville psych crew All Them Witches have offered up the first taste of their new album Dying Surfer Meets His Maker with the track Dirt Preachers. Heavy, heady and hypnotic, within each build-up, breakdown, riff and groove lays an iconoclastic blend of rock music’s furthest reaches. Watch the excellent video made by Chad VanGaalen. The album is due February 19th via New West Records. Continue reading New Video: All Them Witches – Dirt Preachers
Nottingham’s D.I.D are set here to relieve us with their own gently strummed and smoothly produced Christmas anthem, TV Christmas, which is set for release on December 25th. A gorgeous slice of melancholia, the track is a dark-humoured take on the force-fed joy of the holiday period. Have a listen… Continue reading Festive Fayre (7): D.I.D
NYC band Dead Heart Bloom have shared their latest digital single release Motion backed with Gather Up. The tracks were recorded with producer Anthony Molina (Mercury Rev) and have been described as “taking the dreamy psychedelia Dead Heart Bloom has been known for and plonking a great big glam rock stomp on top of it“. We’re not arguing with that, and as the song gallops out … Continue reading Dead Heart Bloom – Motion
Seattle band Deep Sea Diver have shared a brand new Holiday EP, It’s Christmas Time, via a pay-what-you-want deal on Bandcamp. It comes ahead of a new album, Secrets, due in February, The EP features three traditional Christmas carols and one original song It’s Christmas Time (and I am still alive). Try a couple on for size below. Continue reading Festive Fayre (6): Deep Sea Diver
The Karma Repair Kit are a Bristol based four piece drawing influence from a wide range of alternative rock. The band combines the washed out noise of Ride and The Jesus & Mary Chain with the ethereal ambience of Slowdive and Radiohead along with the dissonant, dynamic grunge of The Pixies and Sonic Youth. On latest single Your Restless Spirit backed with Watch Me Walk, … Continue reading MM Shorts 802: The Karma Repair Kit
Our penultimate round up of the year of the best of the week’s new releases. This week eight tracks from indie rock to honky tonk to folk to psych rock. Margo Price – Hurtin’ (On The Bottle) Nada Surf – Believe You’re Mine La Sera – High Notes Matt Kivel – Jamie’s M. Ward – Girl From Conejo Valley Cheatahs – Freak Waves Dan Sartain … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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