Austin’s top notch indie-rockers Whalers are long established MM faves and their forthcoming album Submarine Sun is due out in April – suffice to say it features high on our list of most anticipated releases for 2014. A brilliant blend of influences ranging from surf rock, Americana, rock’n’roll, and the occasional country twang, the five band members create a whole infinitely greater than the sum of … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No. 16: Whalers
Jessica Lea Mayfield captured our attention with her brilliant, sultry 2008 debut With Blasphemy So Heartfelt (from which Kiss Me Again remains a playlist regular) and then captured our hearts with a fabulous solo set at the End of the Road Festival a couple of years later. She released the excellent Tell Me in 2011 and last year delivered one of the covers of the … Continue reading Jessica Lea Mayfield – Oblivious
We’re pleased as punch to bring you an exclusive first listen of indie-folksters Feldspar’s excellent new single Young & Invincible. Having funded the single through their own efforts via a successful Pledgemusic campaign, the single follows a couple of self-releases at the tail end of 2012, The Flat And Paper Sky (Volumes 1 and 2). Young & Invincible is a record of contrasts. Exploring a theme of … Continue reading MM Exclusive: Feldspar’s Young & Invincible Single
El Terrible is the new recording project from Terry Ashkinos (Fake Your Own Death) and Rob Easson (ex-Rogue Wave). They are releasing their self-titled EP on Breakup Records on February 7th, digitally and on cassette via Bandcamp. Written by Ashkinos after an extended stay in Berlin last year, it’s a beautifully dark and compact collection of shadowy post-punk gems – sparse, direct and urgent. Have … Continue reading Introducing >>> El Terrible
Rhubarb is a superior fruit and unquestionably makes the best crumble filling. Four-piece The Rhubarb Triangle thankfully live up to the quality inherent in the fruit’s name with their original take on indie rock, psychedelia, garage and R&B. Their self-titled debut three track EP is a most promising mix of 60s Carnaby Street cool, Northern soul style groove and a splash of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Rhubarb Triangle
Short Drive with a Kidnapper is the first video from Grandhorse’s Debut LP Portraiturefolio. According to Grandhorse drummer Devon Shirley, “‘Short Drive with A Kidnapper’ is what happens when you put Ben Meyercord, weird friends in costumes, lots of cheap beer, a fog machine, a ginger and a Russian video editor together. Magical.” Portraiturefolio is an album of straight-ahead songs built around venerable pop conventions. The … Continue reading Introducing >>> Grandhorse
Videos to kickstart Sunday from The Silver Palms, Animal Parts, The Family Rain and the pulverising kill-or-cure hangover remedy from The Fire And I’s Double Kamikaze. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Silver Palms || Animal Parts || The Family Rain || The Fire And I
MM regulars and psych-rockers par excellence, Secret Colours have a new single to share with you. City Slickers is a brilliant slab of lean, pulsating, hypnotic rock-riffing that begs to be heard…loud. The track comes from the first of two scheduled EPs, Positive Distractions Part I (out on February 4th). Positive Distractions Part II follows towards the end of April. Check out our previous post of … Continue reading Secret Colours – City Slickers Single
We’re rather taken with Let Your Fingers Rule, the forthcoming single from emerging Washington DC folk-rockers The Deadmen. It is taken from their debut EP (out via Eight Gang Switch on 17th March) and paints an American landscape of clattering thunder, gentle rains and shards of light. Have a listen. . Continue reading Introducing >>> The Deadmen
Well, well, well…it seems as though London noiseniks Yuck have discovered a hitherto unknown softer, dare we say it, even dreamier side. That is the evidence presented by new track Athena which heralds a brand new EP due later this spring. It is lush, layered, and rather lovely all in all. Have a listen. . Continue reading New Track From Yuck
