Brooklyn’s The Teen Age released their new two-track digital single earlier this month on Old Flame Records, and now the band has shared a video for title track Low Cunning. What starts out as a typical night in with the essentials quickly turns strange for the foursome, who develop injuries and black eyes over the course of the three-minute track. You can watch the booze-fueled, … Continue reading New Video: The Teen Age – Low Cunning
Chicago’s Meat Wave have unveiled a brand new track, Erased, their first new material since January’s excellent Brother EP. Released on Brace Yourself Records, Erased bristles with spiky, mutant chord sequences, flaming guitars and vocals that stay just about on the good side of snot-nosed. Take it on below. . Continue reading New From Meat Wave
Since 2009, Wartime Blues have hustled their brand of experimental Americana across two albums and three national tours. After a three-year hiatus, the band will release their third album, April, Texas, on June 2nd (pre-order here). It’s a song cycle set in the vast expanse of the Southern Plains. We’ve already shared Build A Sun, now have a listen to the excellent Fredericksburg. Continue reading MM Shorts 704: Wartime Blues
Julie Ann Baenziger aka Sea Of Bees will release her new album Build A Boat To The Sun on June 30th. The record sees her leaving the darkness for brighter horizons, gathering the good things up, leaving the bad behind and moving forward. The music has also moved forward sonically from the previous releases with more tracks having a full band sound after she bought a drum set and … Continue reading New Track From Sea Of Bees
Flamingo Bay have just released Steak & Eggs, a ten track album of punky power-pop flecked with garage, grunge and even dare we say it some 80s hair-metal. Luckily a strong sense of the irreverent is also present as is a willingness to experiment and step outside the typical genre boxes and see what else might be fun to play with. Watch the video for Killer … Continue reading Introducing >>> Flamingo Bay
Chorusgirl are a noise pop four-piece from London that formed last year, mixing a whole hosts of influences and sounds like Lush, the Cure, the Breeders, Pulp, the Bangles, surf rock, girl groups, melodies, jangle and noise. Released today via the 100 Club series, stream the excellent, and infectious, No Moon below. Order it here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 703: Chorusgirl
We’re not usually ones for premieres and all that stuff, but when the song is this good then we can sometimes be persuaded to rouse our lazy carcass off the sofa and head for the keyboard. Trance Farmers (great name) specialise in psychobilly blues. Six track release Garbage Night is out April 28 on LEAVING Records with Stones Throw. You can also buy from Bandcamp here. … Continue reading Video Premiere: Trance Farmers – Garbage Night
Ranchus is a four piece indie rock band from the Faroe Islands, formed more or less by accident in the fall of 2013. Rather bizarrely named after the king of goldfish, Ranchus still seems to be a fitting name for a band hailing from a fisher-nation. Their sound ranges from raw, slightly lo-fi angular rock to something softer and more melancholic – imagine something between The Violent Femmes and the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Ranchus
Like moonshine made from intrusive pop decadence and dark distant echoes from space, Stockholm’s Presolar Sands draw their influences from bands like The Stooges, Spacemen 3, Asteroid #4, to name a few. The band have released a digital single called Voodoo Ritual, on the newly started label Lazy Octopus. It is six minutes of pulsating psych-groove – get your freak on… . Continue reading MM Shorts 702: The Presolar Sands
Roadkill Ghost Choir have put together a four track cover EP of some 80s classics. Chief among them is a brilliantly squally, garage-rockin’ version of Dire Straits’ Walk Of Life. Stream it below together with EP closer, Don Henley’s Boys Of Summer, an altogether more sedate take on the bittersweet original. “Out on the road today, I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac A little … Continue reading Roadkill Ghost Choir Covers EP
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