Welcome to Episode 56 of the Fresh Sounds Podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan have a new basket of great tunes, beginning with a spooky new single from Blood Moon--a collaboration between Kurt Ballou's Converge with Chelsea Wolfe. Next, a slinky new dance tune from the British DJ/producer who goes as Ross From Friends. Up next, a new single from Mitski is featured, followed by a great new song from Toronto's Ducks Ltd.

Brendan twiddles the knobs of the Fresh Sounds Archive this week, focusing on a song from The The, which featured on Infected back in 1986. (What a record that is!)

As is our usual policy, we have six more bonus tracks to recommend, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for our newsletter right here. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)

Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week! 

Mark and Brendan are back with a fresh episode of the show, featuring new music from Lyon France, and Dowdelin, next to Dulth, Minnesota for a new song from Low, then over to Oxford, England for the debut single from Noah Yorke--Thom Yorke's son. Then, off to Melbourne from a rip-roaring rocker from Amyl and the Sniffers.

For this week's Archive Track, Mark digs up a lost gem from Kitchens of Distinction, from their 1989 album, Love is Hell. This is proto shoegaze with a touch of Cocteau Twins to the guitars, and deserves not to be a band lost to time.

Fully half the number of our new songs qualify as bonus tracks, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for that newsletter right here. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)

Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week! 

Mark and Brendan are back with a fresh episode of the show, featuring new music from London's Saint Etienne, Dorset's Skinshape, Cairo's Hassan Abou Alam, and Phoenix's Kareem Ali. Then Brendan borrows a lost gem from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, pulling from 1968's Fugi album entitled Mary, Don’t Take Me On No Bad Trip. (Could there be a more 1968 album title?)(Nah.)

And as usual, we are keeping it tight. Running time this week is a slightly tubby 15:56. That's right, you get bits of ten new songs plus a dab of music history in a package that doesn't even take up sixteen minutes of your time. How cool is that?!

Fully half that number of new songs qualify as bonus tracks, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for that newsletter right here. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan.)

Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week! 

Mark and Brendan are back with your weekly dose of indie goodness! This week, we start off with a new track from Ontario's Caribou, and then shift to an indie rock track from New York City's Lightning Bug. Then, off we go to Chicago for a new song from Circuit des Yeux, and our last new tune of the week comes from Ibiza-based Nightmares on Wax.

And as usual, we are keeping it tight. Running time this week is a compact 14:34. That's right, you get bits of ten new songs plus a dab of music history in a package that doesn't even take up fifteen minutes of your time. How cool is that?!

Fully half that number of new songs qualify as bonus tracks, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for that newsletter right here.

Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week! (And Happy Labor Day weekend to all of our American listeners.) 

This week, on the pod, Mark and Brendan has some sizzling new tunes for your playlists, and of course a tribute to the late Charlie Watts, of the Rolling Stones! To preview the content of the podcast episode, let's note Brendan began with a Metallica cover from none other than Chris Stapleton. Mark followed with a new single from Angus & Julia Stone. Up next, B. features a new, non-album single from Baltimore's Future Islands, while Mark previews a new song from New Zealand guitarist Roy Montgomery, with Brooklyn's Katie Von Schmeichler on vocals.

The archive track this week is a 30-second snippet "Street Fighting Man," recorded in Brussels, Belgium, in 1973, perhaps featuring the Rolling Stones at the peak of their powers. If you don't know of The Brussels Affair bootleg, well, it has been remixed by Bob Clearmountain for a deluxe edition of Goat's Head Soup that is easily found on Spotify. (It came out last year. Scroll down and look for the word "Live.")

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Have a great week! 
---Mark and Brendan

Welcome to Episode 51 of the Fresh Sounds podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan feature new tunes from London's TSHA, from Croydon's Joy Orbison (with Léa Sen handling vocals) plus Brighton's Kit Sebastian and a new single from Dean Wareham (of Galaxie 500 fame.)

The archive track this week is the title track from Supergrass's 1997 masterpiece (in Brendan's opinion) in a fresh mix.

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Episode 50! (Yes, you read that correctly.) This week, Mark and Brendan feature the usual blend of melody, rhythm, and weirdness that you have come to expect.

We start with a indie track from Laura Stevenson, from her new self-titled album. Next, to London for a solo single from Anna Prior, the drummer for the English pop band Metronomy. Next, a crunchy new tune from Hollywood super-composer Danny Elfman that pairs him up with Trent Reznor, on Nine Inch Nails fame. The final new track of the week is from New Zealand, and the artist Reb Fountain. Then, Brendan digs up some math rock from a decade ago with a wonderful tune from Battles, with vocals from the DJ and producer Matias Aguayo.

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As we slide into the dog days of summer (here in the Northern Hemisphere) Mark and Brendan are keeping the tunes fresh and hot. In the pod this week, we have new music from Dundee, Scotland's Andrew Wasylyk, Seoul, South Korea's Didi Han, London's Joel Culpepper and Detroit's Robert Hood. The archive track this week is a track drawn from the sessions for George Harrison's solo masterpiece, All Things Must Pass.

The bonus tracks in preview cover a number of styles, and breeze by in preview form, but you can also catch the whole list over on our Spotify page.

Have a great week! Oh, and if you have the urge to contact us, our email is [email protected]. 

Mark and Brendan are back with perhaps their edgiest collection of tunes in a few months. Luckily, they are still drawn from all around the music world. (Lotta masked performers in this batch, for some reason.) Anyway, they start with a blast of London jazz from Emma-Jean Thackray. Next, a new single from the Snapped Ankles, as well as a singer-songwriter from Oakland who goes as Boy Scouts. The archive throwback is from 1999, and the Welsh psychedelic rockers Super Furry Animals. 

We also have the usual batch of bonus tracks, previewed in brief. You have to go to our email newsletter for our capsule reviews of those tunes. 

Have a great week, and stay tuned for the next episode of the Fresh Sounds Podcast! 

Mark and Brendan are back with another wild mix of fresh sounds, hailing from all around the globe! (At least, as much as you can do that in five songs.) The geography lays out thusly: New York City, then Bamako, Mali, followed by Stockholm, Sweden and Melbourne, Australia. Find me a radio show that does that! 

Artists this week include Caroline Polachek, Gaspa and his pal Lil Boula, Swedish House Mafia, and 30/70, a band from Mebourne, remixed by the pair of Kiwi brothers who do remix work as Chaos In the CBD! Archive track is drawn from the distant past, specifically 1997, with the second single from Daft Punk's Homework album. Yep, their artistic debut. 

You'll also get quick tasted of six more bonus tracks that together make a killer playlist. Here is a link for those of you with Spotify accounts: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BeKt7sNr61BaPtjD1ADIt?si=edbfd16e909242af

Have a great week!