Here are ten new tunes all nicely collected up for you in one easy post – from the righteous fury of IDLES and Honey Lung to the traditional folk of Bonny Light Horseman and Devendra Banhart. We also have new songs from the likes of the Lumineers, Parsnip, New Pornographers, Sleater-Kinney, Angel Olsen and The Growlers. Whatever floats your boat, there is something here to enjoy. … Continue reading Round Up Time Again
London based country-infused rock quintet Sleep Eaters will unveil their debut EP Holy Days next week, on 9th August, via Stockholm’s PNKSLM Recordings. With their country-infused take on garage rock, we’ve been looking forward to this one a lot – we’ve already shared a couple of tracks from it and now we have the psych-tinged darkness of Life of Sin to brighten up your Friday. It … Continue reading Sleep Eaters – Holy Days EP
Elvis Depressedly, the wonderfully enigmatic project of prolific songwriter, Mathew Lee Cothran, has announced Depressedelica, a brand new full-length due out October 4th from Run For Cover Records. Depressedelica marks the North Carolina based musician’s first new album as Elvis Depressedly in four long years, and it finds him writing and recording more adventurously than ever before, tipping its cap to artists as varied as … Continue reading Elvis Depressedly – Jane, Don’t You Know Me?
Following a few rough years of touring, relationships beginning and ending, and writer’s block, Mikal Cronin decided to make a change. He packed up and retreated to Idyllwild, a small town in the mountains of southern California, where he spent a month in the cabin, alone. The solitude proved fruitful, with the bulk of forthcoming long player Seeker being written and demoed during this time … Continue reading Mikal Cronin – Show Me
Just discovered The BV’s via a random Soundcloud stream – these aren’t new songs, but they are about as perfect a slice of dreamy, catchy indie pop as you could possibly hope to find. A duo hailing from Falmouth in Cornwall and Augsberg in Germany, listen to Charlie, I Don’t Know Who You Are! (from their Cartography album released back in March) which is jaunty … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The BV’s
Last Saturday Mrs M and I were happy guests at the wedding of our lovely friend Carrie to equally lovely Carl. In a beautiful festival like setting, there was music throughout the day – happily it wasn’t your usual wedding fare that’s for sure as evidenced by Carl’s own excellent set of hypnotically instrumental psych rock that was like Spacemen 3 jamming with Hawkwind. The … Continue reading Introducing >>> Waterfools
Young seven-piece Black Country, New Road have cut their teeth playing their first shows alongside the likes of Fat White Family, Black Midi and more. Back in January we shared their labyrinthine six minute single Athen’s, France and now the septet have announced a new single, Sunglasses, this time clocking in at eight minutes. It was released digitally on 26th July on BC,NR / Speedy Wunderground and … Continue reading Black Country, New Road – Sunglasses
Australia’s marvellous King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are soon to release their fifteenth studio album – Infest The Rats’ Nest – on August 16 (ATO Records). Released just six months after the uplifting blues-rock boogie of Fishing For Fishes, and drawing on the mid/late 1980s golden period of thrash metal – Metallica and Slayer, certainly, but also lesser-cited bands such as Exodus, Kreator and Overkill … Continue reading King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Organ Farmer Video
Tummyache is the rather good name for the new project from Soren Bryce. Compared to artists like Sharon Van Etten and Julien Baker, she recently shared her new single Median which is out tomorrow, and is taken from upcoming Hump Day EP (out soon on Poor Man Records). We’re liking this a lot. Have a listen…and to the equally good previous single In Between too. … Continue reading Tummyache – Median
So the day after the UK decide to follow the US and put a monumental idiot in charge of the country we definitely need some feel-good sunshine vibes from somewhere. Happily the Allah-Las are back with a new album Lahs, and a new track In The Air that ticks all the right boxes from its persistent shuffle to the way electric guitar and mellotron trade … Continue reading Allah-Las – In The Air
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