Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Eels – The Deconstruction The Decemberists – Severed No Age – Send Me Haley Heynderickx – Untitled God Song Hot Snakes – Six Wave Hold-Down Bonny Doon – I Am here (I Am Alive) Radkey – Not Smart Micah P. Hinson – Beneath The Rose ((Marc Riley BBC 6 Music Session 06/11/2012) Jack Cooper – Fat Old Sun  (Pink Floyd cover) The Soft Moon – Choke … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Twenty Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)

Following yesterday’s collection of ten excellent new tracks from the past week, here are another ten for your listening pleasure including three more cracking cover versions. Kurt Vile – Life Like This Holly Miranda – Fourth Of July (Sufjan Stevens cover) White Fang – Bong Rip The Dead Weather – Cop And Go Wavves – My Head Hurts Radkey – Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode cover) … Continue reading Twenty Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)

Fifteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part One)

Despite it being the summer months, the quality and quantity of new releases coming our way shows no signs of slowing – quite the opposite in fact. Here then is part one of our round up of fifteen picks from the past seven days. 1. Mac DeMarco – I’ve Been Waiting For Her 2. Lowest Pair – Shortning Bread 3. Rayland Baxter – Mr. Rodriguez … Continue reading Fifteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part One)

Radkey Announce Debut Album

After nearly five years of playing together, hundreds of sweat-drenched, high-octane live shows and two excellent EP’s under their belts, Missouri punk brothers Radkey have announced the release of their hugely-anticipated debut album, Dark Black Makeup (out 21st August). Check out the album’s title track below, a high-decibel wake up call for young people to take ownership of their own lives, a punch in the face for teen angst … Continue reading Radkey Announce Debut Album

Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Easter weekend, and a bumper collection of ten songs for you to dip into that were released this week. 1. The National – Sunshine On My Back 2. Southern – Lone Driver 3. Cheatahs – Murasaki 4. Heartless Bastards – Gates Of Dawn 5. Woodpigeon – When You Look For Trouble, Trouble Comes 6. Radkey – Parade It 7. Allo Darlin’ – Half Heart Necklace … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

MM Shorts 457: New EP From Radkey

We were very taken with Radkey on Later With Jools Holland a couple of weeks ago and the punked-up brothers from America’s mid-West will release their second EP, Devil Fruit on the 14th October. Listen to the excellent Little Man from it below, and try and catch them on the tail end of their UK tour (dates below too). October Tour Dates 14th Portland Arms, Cambridge … Continue reading MM Shorts 457: New EP From Radkey

Videos of the Day: Gringo Star || Keaton Henson || Radkey || Gentleman Hall || Telegram

Start the week with a clutch of excellent videos from psych-rockers Gringo Star (and their animated film for new track Find A Love), from Keaton Henson for You (taken from his excellent album Birthdays), and from explosive punk rockers Radkey, more top notch animation to accompany Romance Dawn. We have even more brilliant animation, or to be precise claymation, for Gentleman Hall’s Every Morning, and lastly London … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Gringo Star || Keaton Henson || Radkey || Gentleman Hall || Telegram

Videos of the Day: T. Hardy Morris || Fist City || Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros || Radkey

Videos to start the week from the acoustic Americana of the places in peril initiative of T. Hardy Morris to the weird party freaks of Fist City’s Boring Kids, and the visual gymnastics of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros film for Better Days. Lastly we have the speed and fury of Radkey perfectly captured in this performance of Cat & Mouse. . . . … Continue reading Videos of the Day: T. Hardy Morris || Fist City || Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros || Radkey