Pulled Apart By Horses

Leeds indie rock true-believers Menace Beach will release their second album, Lemon Memory, on January 20 via Memphis Industries. Ryan Needham and Liza Violet know how to hit that sweet spot of warm n’ fuzzy, crunchy and catchy and fans of the new LVL Up and Car Seat Headrest LPs should take note…

UK music site Drowned in Sound is kinda the British equivalent of Pitchfork, albeit with a very strong community aspect to it. They just published their 50 Favourite Albums of 2014 list and while it contains many of the LPs we’ve been seeing on a lot of these lists, it’s a distinctly not-American point of view…

Menace Beach are from Leeds, the same English City that that also birthed Hookworms and Eagulls (and Gang of Four and Sisters of Mercy). Named after an old NES game, the band’s sound owes a little to the ’90s too, with sludgy guitar poured over some relentlessly catchy pop with the always-appearling male-female vocal combo courtesy main members Ryan Needham and Liza Violet…

“It is what it is.” I must’ve heard that phrase 30 times during SXSW — be it in reference to alloted set times, equipment, sound or the free food at whatever day party I was at…

After Chris left the BV Loft Party all the way back on Friday, October 22nd, he headed over to Music Hall of Williamsburg for the Blue Flowers-presented CMJ showcase for a lineup of mostly UK bands including Chapel Club, Everything Everything, and Blood Red Shoes (who toured North America with Sky Larkin in October)…