Chicago three-piece Varsity’s EP Thanks For Nothing is out on the 8th April via Jurassic Pop. It is a smorgasbord of styles with the five tracks flitting between BritPop and psych-rock via fuzzy garage pop and chiming synths. Take a listen to the appropriately titled New Wave here. . Continue reading Introducing >>> Varsity
The eastern influenced weirdness of What You Isn’t is the first track taken from the Grandfathers of modern psych Brian Jonestown Massacre’s forthcoming album Revelation, which is to be released on the 20th May. A double vinyl album, CD and special Record Store Day 12″ are scheduled and a full UK tour kicks off in July – dates below. . Tour Dates: 28 June – Concorde 2 … Continue reading Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revelation
Here is the video for the stomping, swooping Where The Wild Are, the title track of the new EP from Belfast-born, Liverpool-based brother and sister band Southern. . . . Continue reading Video: Southern – Where The Wild Are
Damon McMahon’s folk project Amen Dunes will soon release a new album, Love, on the Sacred Bones label in May. Having forsaken their usual approach of spontaneous improvisation and experimental recordings to spend around eighteen months in the studio working on songs that were originally never meant for public release, but which due to their personal nature offer a hitherto unseen intimacy and warmth to them. The first track … Continue reading Amen Dunes – Love
Wolf Solent’s video for Get On comes from their recently released Lifeboat EP, a triumph of laid back hypnotic grooves, spaced-out psych, crunchy distortion and fuzzed-up drones. This is one of the jauntier tracks… Buy the EP here. . . . . Continue reading Video: Wolf Solent – Get On
Seattle duo Iska Dhaaf have spent the past three years writing their debut album Even The Sun Will Burn. In many, many ways it is an album of contrasts – joyful and melancholic, subtle and brutal, uncompromising and welcoming it mixes punk, psychedelia, indie rock and even dream pop into a triumphant whole that manages to be much more than the mere sum of its parts. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Iska Dhaaf
Hobart’s Heart Beach have released their latest single Hours as a name-your-price download from Bandcamp here. Describing themselves as “sad minimal Hobartian skuzz pop drone harmonies”, they are well worth adding to your next playlist… . . Continue reading MM Shorts 539: Heart Beach
Danish psych duo The Wands release their new single, The Dawn, on April 14th – the first from their upcoming debut album. The Dawn is a unashamed throwback to the classic 60s sound of psychedelia with subtle, contemporary touch-ups, and they do it with a degree of expertise and confidence that is mostly missing from many mining the same vein. Dig out the incense and stream the … Continue reading The Wands – The Dawn
Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
The third single to be taken from her third album Mug Museum, and one of our favourite tracks on the record, Sisters explores the female relationships in Cate Le Bon’s life, following the loss of her Grandmother, a running theme throughout the album. Cate comments, “Following the death of my maternal Grandmother I felt a very palpable shift in the roles that we’d all become accustomed … Continue reading New Cate Le Bon Single
