Her Name Is Calla play music that you need to immerse yourself in. It is dark, and tense, effortlessly evoking an eerie atmospheric and full of gravity and bombast. The instrumentation accumulates with guitar, cello, mighty percussion and violins, lyrics are as much intoned as sung and do not deal with the lighter side of life that’s for sure. Her Name Is Calla are one … Continue reading Introducing…Her Name Is Calla
When Seagreen Incorruptible got in touch with us, they simply (and rather brilliantly) described their record 10 Things To Do With 90,000 Sequins as “a party record for people with no friends”. Citing influences from MBV to Nirvana to Guided By Voices and old time radio shows, the album is as much psychedelic Americana as it is experimental garage rock, and there is much therein … Continue reading Introducing…The Seagreen Incorruptible
MM faves Phosphorescent have been confirmed as support for the forthcoming huge National tour throughout Europe. Phosphorescent will join The National for the majority of their shows in both mainland Europe, England, and Ireland starting November 11. Dates are below. Download Phosphorescent – Mermaid Parade mp3 (from Here’s To Taking It Easy) Download Phosphorescent – It’s Hard To Be Humble (When You’re From Alabama) mp3 (from … Continue reading Phosphorescent confirmed as support for The National in the UK
Here are a couple of tasty tracks that have caught our ears over the past couple of days. Blank Dogs have more smothered lo-fi dance fuzz for us on this new track which is from forthcoming album Land And Fixed, meanwhile The Soft Pack have slowed the pace and cranked up the tension over six simmering minutes for Gagdad, a limited edition vinyl single of … Continue reading New from The Soft Pack & Blank Dogs
The Lower Dens album Twin Hand Movement has been one of our discoveries of the year, and a record we’ve come back to time and time again. Now in support of a major new tour with Bear In Heaven they have made a new track from the album available for free – it is the rather good, velvety folk haze, of Blue & Silver. Download Lower … Continue reading New from Lower Dens
The free cover CD with the always excellent Uncut magazine is a cracker this month, focusing on Southern rock, new country and some fiery folk and featuring amongst others Caitlin Rose, The Drive-By Truckers, Dead Confederate, Surfer Blood and Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell. We’ve a couple of tasters from it below. Check out Bloodkin’s epic and rather sinister The Viper and Cadillac Sky’s upbeat … Continue reading Uncut’s Cover CD
It was to the very intimate venue of Taylor John’s House in Coventry last night (stupidly without my camera, so the above is nicked for artistic merit and aesthetic pleasure and nothing else) to see Caitlin Rose and MM faves Deer Tick play the latest leg of their short UK tour. Holding barely more than 100 people and feeling more like a front room dropped … Continue reading Live: Caitlin Rose & Deer Tick
Over the last two or three weeks we’ve probably received more tracks to MM than ever before. Not that we’re complaining, especially when the quality has been really high. It does mean we’re struggling to do everything justice though and while (in a perfect MM world) many of these tracks deserve their own post, we’ve decided to round up a bunch in one go for … Continue reading New Releases Round Up
Since their formation, Solar Temple Suicides have slowly been perfecting their own brand of drugged out, spacey haze. They preach long and tall effects-laiden, psychedelic lessons culled from unabashed cosmic rock tendencies and hallucinatory walls of sound. While the obvious influences are all present and correct, Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground and Hawkwind, the band are good enough and confident enough to plough their own … Continue reading Introducing…Solar Temple Suicides
After a brief foray in MM’s territory, recommending Kurran & The Wolfnotes’ Your Four Limbs, and enjoying HUGELY the Pancake Breakfast track, The Ballad of Maynard Noe (and let’s face it, who doesn’t enjoy a pancake breakfast?), it’s back to Friday business. For some unfathomable reason, I was thinking about Level 42 this week (in my defence, only once and rather briefly). It could have … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
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