Artists starting with M

Another Perfect Day

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Mötörhead, “Another Perfect Day” (Bronze, 1982)
Their sole set with ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson is unique among their works, and one of their very best. Eerie melodies take it almost into the territory of looming, autumnal psychedelia, but without sacrificing an iota of metallic weight and velocity. This is often their closest to anticipating speed-metal with its relentless, dark and crystalline drive to oblivion.
Try 1/1, 1/ 3, 2/ 3.
7/11/18

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Out Of The Tunnel

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MX-80 Sound, “Out Of The Tunnel” (Ship To Shore; original release 1980)
Their second release finds them at their summit of brilliance. The most immaculately chrome-sheened Blue Oyster Cult hard rock drives Television-like soar-and-scrape lead-guitar-as-paintbrush cityscapes into frantic incandescent soundbursts.
Try 1/ 1, 1/ 2, 1/ 5
7/11/18

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Hard Attack

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MX-80 Sound, “Hard Attack” (Superior Viaduct, 2012; original release 1977)
Like Pere Ubu, Midwest isolation p;roduced a sound parallel/preceding punk. Stooges/MC5-inflected hard rock shading into avant-garde structure-trickery. These guys also had a wacky smart-aleck sense of humor and an almost Beach Boys-like melodic drive.
Try 1/1, 1/ 4, 1/5, 1/ 6, 2/ 2
6/18/18

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Crowd Control

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MX-80 Sound, “Crowd Control” (Ship to Shore, 2015; original release 1981)
Third and final LP from these guys, and their heaviest and jazziest, parallel in all the above respects to their big influence, the MC5. In fact, this album could be said to take the Five’s metal-dynamism through a dimension-warp into chrome-sheened post-new-wave-quirky disorientation.
Try 1/ 1, 1/ 4, 2/ 4
7/16/18

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Space Homestead

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MV/EE, “Space Homestead” (Woodsist, 2012)
Man, what a perfect album title for this label, and it really lives up to it. Folk-based, often drumless music with guy/gal vocals, it can wander into a passage of weird clatter or ominous electro-buzz, yet always with an intimate, domestic vibe.
Try 6, 9
7/12/12

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Whoop Dee Do

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Muffs, “Whoop Dee Do” (Burger, 2014)
One of my favorite new labels puts out one of my favorite old bands, who sound restored to their old glory. This is blazing, hard-edged melodic punk with mid-60’s embellishments and enough attitude to flatten Pasadena. L. A. punk lives.
Try 1, 7
10/4/14

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Superfuzz Bigmuff

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Mudhoney, “Superfuzz Bigmuff” (SubPop 1988)
Unlike a lot of their contemporaries, they assimilated ‘70s hard rock to punk on punk’s terms. This is their most full-throttle/excessive take on that combo, wall-rattling drums and queasy guitar-crud-tornados driving Mark Arna’s valedictory yodel-yowls of generational doom.
Try 1/1, 1/ 2, 1/ 3
7/6/18

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Mourn

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Mourn, “Mourn” (Captured Tracks, 2015)
Mostly female Spanish act, compared (justifiably for once) with Sleater-Kinney, though a version of Elastica if they’d leaned more to the Adverts than Wire might also fit. Distinctively Iberian minor-key melodrama drives wall-rattling mid-tempo crash-punk with hollerable hooks. Excellent work.
Try 1, 5, 7
8/16/15

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Moby Grape

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Moby Grape, “Moby Grape” (Columbia, 1967)
To complement our new copy of Skip Spence’s “Oar,” here’s the album Spence played on right before he went nuts (and made “Oar”) – one of the great San Francisco classics, folk-rock with wild, lashing, acid-fueled power, the sound of a band with way too much talent crammed in one place, bouncing off each other and ultimately spiraling into total burnout.
Try 1/ 1, 1/6, 2/5, 2/6
9/6/13

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Meltdown

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Mind Spiders, “Meltdown” (Dirtnap, 2012)
Good garage-punk, a bit generic, but with solid songwriting, a clean, dynamic Detroit-’68-like edge, and some fun psychedelic freakouts.
Try 3, 10
5/5/12

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