Fresh after taking a year off, Australian duo DZ Deathrays have returned with a new single. Shred For Summer sees them mark their return in typically ferocious style, crafting one of their most visceral yet catchy songs to date. Listen below. The single is out today via Alcopop! Continue reading DZ Deathrays – Shred For Summer
On their first single, Existential Midlife Crimes, Portland post-folk duo Small Souls have penned a personal dispatch that examines the existential worldview that feeds a potential midlife crisis. Beneath the honest songwriting and sullen tones of plucked guitar are rich strings and a densely layered outro that bears repeated listens. For fans of Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco and David Bazan. Continue reading MM Shorts 963: Small Souls
Just came across this on our Soundcloud feed – the woozily marvellous Coke Weed covering The Band’s Tears Of Rage from the 1967 classic Basement Tapes. Enjoy. Good article about the song here as well. Continue reading Coke Weed Cover The Band
Ty Segall – Big Man Jessica Lea Mayfield – Sorry Is Gone Hamilton Leithauser – The Song With No Name (Shane MacGowan & The Popes cover) Hinds – Holograma (Los Nastys cover) Beaches – When You’re Gone Alvvays – Dreams Tonite The Districts – Violet Elliott Brood – Til The Sun Comes Up Again Shannon Lay – The Moons Detriment Jack Cooper – Gynn Square … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Wolf Parade will return with their first proper album in seven years, Cry Cry Cry, which lands on the 6th October on their long-time home of Sub Pop. The soaring choruses, rousing anthems, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys that make up Wolf Parade are all on proud display on the album’s anthemic lead single, the boisterous Valley Boy. Stream it below. Continue reading Wolf Parade – Valley Boy
Ryan Wong of the Cool Ghouls is releasing a six track cassette of his own on 4th August via Empty Cellar Records (order here). With nods to the Velvets, the Grateful Dead and Brendan Benson, the first track is the infectiously catchy Good Lovin’ which at 2.59 just about ticks every box for a classic pop single. Have a listen. Continue reading MM Shorts 962: Ryan Wong
Technical issues have meant we’ve been quieter than usual this week, but hopefully with all those resolved we can get back to normal service. It is a shame as we spent the weekend with middle sprat wallowing ankle, and sometimes knee, deep in swampy mud at Truck Festival. Truck has been a bit of a Mackerel family institution for a few years now, a small(ish) … Continue reading Truck Festival 2017
We shared Void, the new single from Beaches, at the weekend in our regular round-up post and what a cracking tune it is – a sonic blast of motorik mayhem that we are loving. Now the Aussie quintet have shared an excellent new video for the song. Directed by Beaches’ own Ali McCann with help from filmmaker Joel Roche, it takes inspiration from Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 … Continue reading New Video: Beaches – Void
Mermaidens are a three-piece outfit from Wellington, New Zealand, who are defined by intricate and unique songwriting, and a hypnotic live synergy. Drawing inspiration from bands like Warpaint, Fugazi, Exploded View and Sleater-Kinney, Mermaidens’ sound offers a mesmerising dip into the realms of post-punk and psych where warm harmonies and dreamy, hypnotic lyrics, entwine with dark and moody riff-based melodies. Taken from the forthcoming album Perfect … Continue reading MM Shorts 961: Mermaidens
With Dream Dream Secret Colours continues to craft a sound that reaches far beyond the city limits of their hometown of Chicago, taking its musical cues from indie, pop, psychedelia, and garage rock, and offering listeners a myriad of melodies that make up the band’s signature sound. Check out Feed the Machine, which delivers a pounding vibe of bass with an attitude of 70s London and the … Continue reading New Album From Secret Colours
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