Cleaners from Venus

‘The Jangling Man‘ features rare footage, and interviews with Cleaners From Venus’ Martin Newell, as well as Mac Demarco, The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess, BBC DJ Steve Lamacq, XTC’s Dave Gregory and more.

‘Through the Soil’ comes out on April’s Bandcamp Day and also features Attic Abasement, Bellows, Fog Lake, Hello Shark, Horse Jumper of Love, Hovvdy, Julie Doiron, Little Wings, and over 50 others, and there’s an accompanying livestream today…

METZ’s ‘Atlas Vending’ is out October 9 via Sub Pop and the band tell us about what inspired the album.

Listen to new songs by Lydia Loveless, Matmos, Will Butler, Roosevelt, Dikembe, Maxwell Stern/Laura Stevenson, JeGong (mem MONO), The Ocean, Chynna, RZA/Ghostface, Death Valley Girls, and more…

‘The Jangling Man: The Martin Newell Story’ also features interviews with John Cooper Clarke, Dave Gregory (XTC), BBC’s Steve Lamacq, Kimberley Rew (Soft Boys/Katrina & the Waves) and more.

Jeff talked about life in quarantine, shared some good tour memories, and discussed how his great new album was inspired by The Muffs, Jimmy Cliff, Sicko, The Mr T Experience, The Chinkees, and more…

This week: Portland’s Lithics, Cleaners from Venus frontman Martin Newell, UK duo Virginia Wing, Parisian band En Attendant Ana, and more.

Thanks in part to Captured Tracks’ reissue series (the third and final batch in the series was just released), Martin Newell’s Cleaners from Venus may be at their highest profile in the cult band’s 30+ year career…

Love holiday music but sick of hearing “Christmas Wrapping,” “All I Want for Christmas (is You)” and “Feliz Navidad”? Were you just thinking, “I wish there were more low-fi sleezoid punk and pop Christmas songs that occasionally feature references to weed…

Still underway as I type this, the two-day Captured Tracks Festival happening this Labor Day Weekend at The Well in Bushwick featured a very special set on Sunday by a label supergroup dubbed Shitfather, featuring Cole Smith (Diiv), Dustin Payseur (Beach Fossils), Jack Tatum (Wild Nothing) and Mac DeMarco…