MM Shorts 665: Young Romance
London based Noise-Pop duo Young Romance will release their EP Wild on the 9th March. The first offering from the EP is the rather tasty single Wasting Time. . Continue reading MM Shorts 665: Young Romance
Category: Rock
Video Premiere: Hideous Sun Demon – Flex
Hailing from way Down Under, Perth to be precise, the excellently named punk band Hideous Sun Demon have just shared with us their video for latest single Flex, which is taken from their debut LP Sweat. To call the video nightmarish would be an understatement…slime oozes, dribbles and is vomited, faces are eaten, blood and gore abounds and all in a colour scheme that would give … Continue reading Video Premiere: Hideous Sun Demon – Flex
Father John Misty Covers Nirvana
As a Valentine’s Day gift Father John Misty has offered a sparse, slow moving cover of Nirvana’s desperate love song Heart Shaped Box. It is just as good as you would imagine it would be. Have a listen. . Continue reading Father John Misty Covers Nirvana
New Video: H. Hawkline – Spooky Dog
H. Hawkline (aka Huw Gwynfryn Evans) releases his excellent off-kilter new single, Spooky Dog, on Heavenly Recordings on Monday 23rd March. Watch the curious video – a smorgasbord of psychedelic imagery, disgusting eating, and oddball animation. Marvellous stuff! . . Continue reading New Video: H. Hawkline – Spooky Dog
Rathborne – SOFT
Tomorrow sees the release of SOFT, the new album from Rathborne, a band centred on songwriter Luke Rathborne. At times bouncy-Ramones, with splashes of Dylan, Pavement, The Strokes and Lou Reed, SOFT feels concise and poppy, with plenty of darkness lying under the surface, dusting its cotton candy melodies with a fine layer of grit. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than on the latest track to be … Continue reading Rathborne – SOFT
New Album From Idlewild
Chris T Popper mentioned over the weekend how much he was liking the new single from Scottish indie rockers Idlewild, and although it has been around for a while, as we found it still lurking in our in-box we thought we’d give it a spin and share it with you. So listen to muscular new single Come On Ghost, and the equally powerful previous one Collect … Continue reading New Album From Idlewild
Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
That’s right, title says it all. But if you’ve not wrapped your ears round these yet this week, now’s your chance. 1. Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers – Trailways Ramble 2. Wire – Joust & Jostle 3. Marika Hackman – Monday Afternoon 4. Speedy Ortiz – Raising The Skate 5. Yowler – The Offer 6. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love 7. Low Low Low … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
New Video: Yak – Hungry Heart
Something akin to Led Zep crossed with Spacemen 3, watch London trio Yak’s first official video for Hungry Heart. The video documents a recent psychedelic (road) trip to Wales which involved an impromptu midnight gig on a beach, interspersed with footage from some of the band’s unpredictable recent live shows for which they are becoming well known. . . Continue reading New Video: Yak – Hungry Heart
Introducing >>> Hidden Charms
As an almost perfect companion post to our earlier sharing of Early Ghost’s excellent excursion into vintage 60s psychedelia we now have Hidden Charms for your listening pleasure. Indisputably drawing from the same era, but with an emphasis on the sharper mod sounds of The Kinks, The Who and their ilk, It’s Time is a modern, vibrant, and wholly infectious take on a classic era that sounds … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hidden Charms
Mad Mackerel Recommends… Early Ghost
In much the same way as the Allah-Las brilliantly (and effortlessly) appropriated the long past psychedelia of the West Coast and blended it with a contemporary twist, the new single from Early Ghost, Devil’s Got Me Now does exactly the same from a British perspective. They take a vintage sixties summer-of-love vibe that sounds like a long-lost classic of pastoral psych-folk and give it just enough of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Early Ghost
