Introducing…Popstrangers
We got a short e-mail from Popstrangers, a three piece from Auckland, New Zealand. It said little other than asking us to listen to this track, Happy Accidents, which comes from a new EP of the same...
View ArticleMM’s Best of the Month: November
Here is the best of our November posts, a perfect mix tape to kick off the festive seasons and a nice reminder before we all get immersed in all those end-of-year top tens/twenties/fifties etc. And as...
View ArticleMega Video Round Up
We’ve been trawling through a whole mass of videos recently and here are some of our favourites assembled for your viewing and listening pleasure. First up is Crybaby’s video for excellent debut I...
View ArticleMM Shorts 191: Popstrangers
In Some Ways sees unusual New Zealand trio Popstrangers, muscle into new sonic territories and deliver another catchy, albeit warped, pop song. Rusty guitar twangs, discordant drones and jarring...
View ArticleVideos of the Day: Popstrangers || Jemez Mountain Hawkz || Sean Bones
Videos today are Popstrangers hard driving Antipodean indie rock, a gorgeous acoustic performance of California Bound by Jemez Mountain Hawkz frontman D. Lee Waggoner and the reverby surf guitars and...
View ArticleFive Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
1. PAWS – Owls Talons Clenching My Heart 2. Popstrangers – Don’t Be Afraid 3. Young Widows – The Money 4. Hamilton Leithauser – 11 O’Clock Friday Night 5. Dub Thompson – No Time . . . . . . Follow...
View ArticlePopstrangers – Distress
New Zealand’s Popstrangers deal in a tripped-out, urgent brand of rock that nods its head to the classic Antipodean guitar bands, as well as having echoes of the halcyon days of the 1980s, when the...
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