We couldn’t think of a better band to follow on from our Sex Beet post earlier. In the words of Michael, our doyen of good taste at Crash-Avenue, “Guadalupe Plata are Spanish dudes doing screamin’, amplified Delta blues by way of chunky, nasty Memphis and Detroit punk.” Think of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion duelling with The Dirtbombs in the Castilla La Mancha…and, er, you’ll not even … Continue reading Introducing…Guadalupe Plata
Sex Beet are a band from London who have spent the past year touring Europe and America with bands such as Best Coast, Strange Boys, Thee Oh See’s, Wavves, and The Black Lips. They’re due to be recording their debut album with King Khan in the next couple of months. They are shortly going back out on tour and have sent round this track, Dreams, a demo from … Continue reading New Song From Sex Beet
A while ago we posted the debut single, Cigarette Smuggling, from the marvellously named Mummy Short Arms, an off-kilter, woozy slice of surreal indie rock. The Glasgow based band have announced the release of their second single, a maverick slice of melody entitled Change. The influences remain, spanning Captain Beefheart, the Velvet Underground and Tom Waits. It is out on the 14th November on limited … Continue reading New Single From Mummy Short Arms
Colossal Gospel hail from Alabama and spent six months recording their debut album Circles. The band is made up of just Chris Johnson & Stephen Weibelt, and yet throughout the album they are able to create a gorgeous, warm intimacy that somehow sounds bigger than just a duo. Theirs is a traditional folk sound, but one that benefits from carefully constructed lyrics and smooth, choral harmonies that … Continue reading Introducing…Colossal Gospel
On September 13th, the 21 year-old singer/guitarist Lydia Loveless will be releasing her Bloodshot debut, Indestructible Machine. Lydia grew up on a farm in Coshocton OH, a small weird town with nothing to do but make music. So she did, starting off by playing bass in her sister’s band at age 14. She cites Hank Sr, Hank III, Richard Hell, Charles Bukowski, Loretta Lynn, Britney … Continue reading Introducing…Lydia Loveless
The tunes are coming thick and fast again at the moment and keeping up is proving almost impossible. Here are a few of the tracks from the web and our inbox that have caught our ears over the past few days. First up Okkervil River who are riding high on the critical acclaim for the release of their latest full-length album I Am Very Far. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Regular Round Up
Sissy & The Blisters specialise in melding the sounds of lo-fi beat groups and vintage garage bands into turbo charged, thrilling short sharp shocks. We were very taken with recent single We Are The Others and new EP Let Her Go builds on that promise to give five tracks (all of less than three minutes), of post-punk blasts that recall The Cramps jamming with Black Lips. The … Continue reading Introducing…Sissy & The Blisters
Deer Tick are one of those bands that are right at the zenith of MM’s affections, and it is true to say that a new record from them is as eagerly anticipated as just about any band’s could be. And so it was that we were very happy to discover that Deer Tick’s new album Divine Providence (their fourth in five years) will be released … Continue reading New Album From Deer Tick – Give Away Miss K.
Without doubt this is our favourite video of the year so far. It came to us via Radar Music Videos and it is simply a work of sheer genius as far as we are concerned – crows with arms. Brilliant. We didn’t know of Fulton Lights until we saw this, but the tune, an upbeat folk rocker has a lot to recommend it even without … Continue reading Brilliant Video From Fulton Lights
Few survivors from the golden age of British folk-rock have kept their reputations intact. Of the generation of troubadours who came of age in the folk clubs of London in the mid-1960s, there is one figure whose body of work, comprising 23 studio LPs and almost as many live and compilation releases, has come to stand for a particularly single-minded form of integrity. That man is … Continue reading Listen To Two Tracks From Roy Harper Retrospective
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