Time to turn things up a notch with disaffected grunge vigilantes Hobart W. Fink’s scathing White Christmas. A commentary on race, class, ownership, and contentment. Enjoy! Continue reading Festive Fayre (12): Hobart W. Fink
Award-winning Americana trio Red Sky July are releasing an atmospheric, beautifully orchestrated single for Christmas featuring Beth Nielsen Chapman. Save Christmas Day For Me is a hazy blend of Americana and alt-country, a stripped back set-up of acoustic guitar and vocals allowing lush melodies and rich harmonies to come to the fore. Watch it here. Continue reading Festive Fayre (11): Red Sky July
And so begins the second quarter of our annual countdown of our favourite tracks of the year. 75 Joe Ely – Wounded Creek 74 Great American Canyon Band – Crash 73 Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle 72 The Quite Hollers – Mont Blanc 71 Heaters – Mean Green 70 Tough Age – New Orleans Square 69 Chris Staples – Dark Side … Continue reading MM’S BEST TRACKS OF 2015: 75-51
The Castillians first formed in 2010, and a year later self-released their debut album, Show Your Teeth, just on a small run of CD-Rs under the ColdRice Records banner before being picked up by the excellent PNKSLM label earlier this year who re-released it digitally worldwide. The label have announced that the band’s long awaited second album You & Me, will now be released on vinyl and digital … Continue reading New Single From The Castillians
Time for the MM countdown of our favourite tracks of the year to begin. Over the next few days we’ll be revealing our top 100 tracks and top 30 albums of 2015, with contributions from Mrs Mackerel, Chris T Popper, Polly Pocket and Franca. We’ll also share their personal choices with you next week. So without further ado, here are numbers 100 through to 76. … Continue reading MM’s BEST TRACKS OF 2015: 100 – 76
Our favourite indie-popsters, Freedom Fry have shared a Christmas song. Oh Santa (Bad World) brings a few darker clouds to their usual blend of sunshine melodies, and is a very welcome addition to our musical advent of festively themed tracks. Enjoy… Continue reading Festive Fayre (10): Freedom Fry
Just in time for the holidays, the Cave Singers have shared another cracking song off of their upcoming album Banshee, entitled Christmas Night. It is an uptempo, almost jaunty slice of twangy Americana, but juxtaposed with lyrics that follow a darker path and pattern, Pete Quirk proclaiming, “walking through life with a knife in your back.” Have a listen. Continue reading Another From The Cave Singers
Nova Scotian folk/Americana crooner David Myles made his official US debut in September with the release of his new album So Far, a collection of his songs over the years re-recorded and re-imagined in an acoustic stripped-down format. Now, just a couple months later, he follows his debut with an holiday album It’s Christmas. The album’s single Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo is available as … Continue reading Festive Fayre (9): David Myles
After releasing his well received third album The Boombox Ballads earlier this year, Sweet Baboo has announced a new EP, alongside a UK tour for 2016. Entitled Dennis, the six track EP will be released on Feb 26th through Moshi Moshi. It includes a Christmas song, three covers (Daniel Johnston, The Exciters, The Beach Boys) and two previously unreleased tracks from his TBB album sessions. You can … Continue reading Festive Fayre (8): Sweet Baboo
We have a new track from Liverpool’s proto-garage-punkers Spares – a band sat somewhere between the Hives, Stooges, and Fidlar. The brilliantly named Ciggy Stump is a bratty number that echoes the Buzzcocks’ What Do I Get in feel. Give it a blast below. Continue reading New From Spares
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