This rather good Loch Lomond song appears to be doing the rounds a little bit on the blogs and frankly that’s all the excuse we need to post it here too. For the uninitiated they play a wonderful blend of surreal folk with songs about bears with porcelain plate collections and the like. They were one of the standout bands for us from our visit … Continue reading Any excuse to post Loch Lomond
Pulled Apart By Horses are a four-piece hailing from Leeds and are starting to generate quite a buzz for themselves. They play hard, and fast, and mean and remind us in a good way of the wonderful Mclusky. We first became aware of them via a couple of demos that were floating around the web, and then via some live tracks released as part of … Continue reading Introducing…Pulled Apart By Horses
We may be late in coming across Buffetlibre and Amnesty International Catalunya’s Peace Project, but that’s no reason not to give it a bit more publicity. Basically, for a donation of anything upwards of five Euro’s (that’s about £4 or $6) you get to download 180 tracks from artists all around the world. It covers all the continents and features artists from more than fifty … Continue reading Buffetlibre & Amnesty’s Peace Project – 180 tracks for not very much
Today I ventured down to our local lido in the sunshine with the mackerel sprats for a birthday celebration, and boy, was it busy. I used to swim there in the silence of early summer mornings with a friend who emigrated to Colorado a few years back. Farewells are always hard, particularly when you’re the one who’s staying put. So this TFI Friday, I’m feeling … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
Looks like we’re on a major lo-fi, garage roll this Friday. We’re mighty glad those downloads are fixed! Hopefully, you’ve already picked up the excellent tracks from The Burnt Ones and The Jacuzzi Boys from earlier, and now we have for your aural delight the b-side to the forthcoming Cloud Nothings single Didn’t You. Titled Even If It Worked Out, it is brash, snotty, and … Continue reading Even more lo-fi garage psych-goodness
Following on ever so nicely from our Burnt Ones post, comes the new single from The Jacuzzi Boys via the excellent Mexican Summer label. Titled Bricks & Coconuts, it announces itself with a furious sunshine strum and tribal drums. The song breezes along with a happy-go-lucky attitude and oh-so-catchy chorus that recalls cruising the promenade at sunset before settling down on the beach around a … Continue reading New from The Jacuzzi Boys
We came across The Burnt Ones whilst idly trawling the net. While they fit comfortably in to the garage rock genre, they’ve turned up the sleaze-ometer to eleven and specialise in dirty, hook-laden surf rock and heavy doses of 7os glam. The results are wonderful. First we tracked down fuzzy, wall-of-sound guitar onslaught of Gonna Listen To T Rex (All Night Long) which is the … Continue reading Introducing…The Burnt Ones
We’ve long had a soft spot for David Eugene Edwards and his Wovenhand moniker, rising as it did from the ashes of the highly influential, doom laden Gothic country of 16 Horsepower. New album, their fifth long player, The Threshingfloor, was officially released this week. As with all previous Wovenhand releases, the cover art is stunning. As might be expected, it is an appropriately theatrical album with … Continue reading New album from Wovenhand
You’ll be pleased we’ve fixed our downloading issues when you get to hear this cracker from The Futurebirds. As with the previously posted Johnny Utah, it is from the forthcoming album Hampton’s Lullaby, but this time we get glorious, up-tempo alt-country gem Battle For Rome. It doffs its cap to good ol’ boy Southern Rock, and has a vocal that calls to mind vintage Neil Young … Continue reading More from the Futurebirds
Our downloading issues are fixed! Josh and a few other readers of MM had pointed out some issues with actually downloading the mp3s from the blog. After much investigation and some help from Uncle Mike, we think the problem is solved. Apparently the automatic advertising that WordPress adds to posts can mess up the link access and stop them being found properly. The answer? You … Continue reading Downloading issues fixed I think
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