Ahead of the release of their new Murmurations album, Oxford’s premier Americana aficionados The Epstein are releasing Calling Out Your Name as an exclusive single via Bandcamp. It also comes with a remix version by Oli Steadman of Stornoway, and all for a pay-what-you-want deal. There’s a video too – featuring some novel use of gaffer tape… . . Continue reading New Album From The Epstein
Jack Wilson is a singer-songwriter who is a new discovery for us. However, the two tracks he has released from his latest album, Spare Key (out June 18), are both gems – masterpieces of restrained emotion where spare, but powerful vocals weave between gentle strings and harmonies. A real treat of authentic folk storytelling. You can pre-order the album here. [Click through for free download] Continue reading MM Shorts 388: Jack Wilson
Oliver Muto is a London-based folk musician playing under the moniker Wooden Maria. The self produced and self released eight track EP Bonfires & Bells is a lovely collection of pastoral folk that twists and winds around deceptively pretty melodies and unfurls like woodsmoke in the evening sunshine. Have a listen to opening track Harbinger and the more cryptic Dusty Road. More information can be … Continue reading Introducing >>> Wooden Maria
A top-notch compilation of the five DiggUp Tapes Six Pack Sound Series Cassingles sponsored by PBR is now available as a name-your-price deal on Bandcamp. Each cassette was recorded with a limited run of 50 and given away at each Six Pack Sound Series show free of charge. It is an eclectic mix ranging from an epic 23 minute track from Zack Mexico to the … Continue reading Free Digg Up Tapes Six Pound Sound Series
Mystery Drug is the title of the new album from southern California’s psychedelic country rockers I See Hawks In L.A. This is their seventh long player and the latest phase of the Hawks journey – mixing serious country credentials with wild lyricism and surreal story telling. There’s slide guitar and fiddle, there’s twang, there’s honky tonk and there’s cowpunk grooves, but above all there’s a … Continue reading New Album From I See Hawks In L.A.
Danish six-piece Tales of Murder and Dust sound like a band that should be steeped in parched, cowboy town Americana and stories of jealousy, crime and retribution. While there is certainly an element of that in their earlier work with some Morricone inspired twang, even a bit of surf rock, underpinning their neo-psych tendencies, the band have evolved over time into something more hazy and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Tales Of Murder And Dust
Videos to enjoy from Wax Fang’s glam-psych pop to the soothing folk of Fauntella Crow and the surreal Americana of Royal Forest. Finally, the post-punk of BNLX and their video for 1929. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Wax Fang || Fauntella Crow || Royal Forest || BNLX
Taking equal inspiration from Elliott Smith, Wilco, and Pink Floyd; Mason Brothers are a contemporary roots band whose music bridges the gap between rock & roll, 1970s British folk and 21st century Americana. The band began as a partnership between Christian and James Mason, two Virginia-born brothers who grew up in Richmond and attended college at the nearby University of Virginia. Mason Brothers made their … Continue reading The Mason Brothers Release Falling Together Single
We recently received a CD in the mail of Leeroy Stagger’s new release Truth Be Sold, which officially hit stores earlier this week. We have to confess to not being familiar with him previously (despite this being his eighth album), but a couple of spins later we were making up for lost time and checking out this fella’s background. Punk rock roots, ragged country and melancholy … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Leeroy Stagger
With a name like Lipstick Lumberjack, it could only really be folk-pop in the vein of Rilo Kiley or the Fleet Foxes. And so it proves with the release of Desert Balloons, apparently the May release from their Year of Lumberjackery project. Every month of this year they will write, record, and self-produce a new single. Cascading white balloons rained on me While in the air … Continue reading MM Shorts 387: Lipstick Lumberjack
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