We’re big Mind Spiders fans here at MM, and frankly they seem one of the most underrated bands out there. Evolving from lo-fi garage punk beginnings to a mix of post-punk and art-rock that recalls Devo, Talking Heads and Bowie, they consistently deliver with a raison d’être that is built around delivering music that is relentlessly aggressive, melodic and downright catchy. They have announced a … Continue reading Mind Spiders – Outside
We’ve long been admirers of Grass House – in fact we named them as one of our favourite new bands of 2010. They’re back after somewhat of a hiatus with a new track on Soundcloud. Tumble In The Wind is a resigned, evocative return – the kind of thing they do so well. The low-key half spoken half whispered vocals intoned over a slow moving … Continue reading Grass House – Tumble In The Wind
Birmingham trio Table Scraps create black-hearted garage punk which fully embraces the good, the bad and the ugly of rock’n’roll’s twisted lineage and various mutations. They were in our 2015 best of lists and have announced their new album Autonomy and shared a brand new track from it, Sick Of Me. Of the song, Scott Vincent Abbott of the band has said “‘Sick of Me’ is about when … Continue reading New Single and Album From Table Scraps
Screaming Females – Deeply Dan Michaelson – Careless King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland Blitzen Trapper – Joanna Camp Cope – The Opener Palehound – Sea Of Blood Loma – Black Willow Saintseneca – Moon Barks At The Dog S. Carey – Fools Gold Spice Boys – I Don’t Get Around Pansies – Green Apple Eyes … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’ve been remiss in sharing details of Wooden Wand’s Toth’s Law recordings. Volume 1 came out back in June, which we did cover, but Volumes 2 and 3 have followed since then. They are collections of outtakes, demos and songs that never, for one reason or another, made it onto his other recording output. Nevertheless the collection contains songs that frankly, other singer-songwriters would be … Continue reading Wooden Wand – Toth’s Law Vols 2 & 3
Widowspeak – Harvest Moon (Neil Young cover) Wilco – Dynamite My Soul Kal Marks – Adventure The Staves & yMusic – The Way Is Read Ty Segall – My Lady’s On Fire Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night Johanna Warren – Here To Tell Angel Olsen – Sans Dama Scout – Toothache The Liminanas – Shadow People (featuring Emmanuelle Seigner) … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’ve previously shared Kicks and now we’re thoroughly enjoying cranking out this new track from lo-fi garage punks Gestures. Nervous is also taken from the Stockholm band’s new EP Bad Taste that is due out a week today, and if anything is even better than the previous single. Enjoy… Continue reading Gestures – Nervous
London band Calva Louise gleefully mix squalling guitars with the sweetest of pop melodies to create quirky, outsider punk rock that has nods to Pere Ubu, Talking Heads and the Sugarcubes. Listen to their blistering new track Getting Closer below. Continue reading MM Shorts 986: Calva Louise
Kentucky based newcomer Willie Breeding will release his debut album of beguiling, off-kilter Americana Big Sky in early 2018. With influences ranging from Lee Hazlewood to The Strokes, Marty Robbins to A Tribe Called Quest, Big Sky is first and foremost an album of well-crafted tunes. The melodies are rich and wavy, complementing well the lyrics of someone torn between their years in New York City, and their … Continue reading Introducing >>> Willie Breeding
East London fourpiece SHINERS have announced the release of their debut EP Now with lead single Generation Y, both released via AWAL on 24thNovember. The upbeat single has a chorus reminiscent of 90s Supergrass and a spacey alt outro which could easily be from Zenyatta Mondatta era Police. Lyrically it reflects the disquiet felt by the band’s peers in 2017; a tale of festival-going youths watching the same … Continue reading MM Shorts 985: SHINERS
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