We’re throughly enjoying this EP from NYC’s Falling Birds, whose fuzzed up garage rock recalls the The Black Lips, but with a dash of Bright Eyes’ folky storytelling sensibilities and a smattering of classic rock’n’roll thrown in for good measure. The five track EP is called Native America and can be grabbed from Bandcamp here on a name-your-price offer. We suggest you head there right away, … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Falling Birds
Perfectly complimenting our previous post about White Lung are New York City’s premier psychedelic swamp rock unit DeGreaser. Words In Your Mouth is the pulverising first track from their forthcoming long-player Rougher Squalor. . Continue reading MM Shorts 553: DeGreaser
Uncompromising and confrontational punk rockers White Lung have offered up Snake Jaw, the b-side to forthcoming 7″ single Drown With The Monster. It will also appear on their forthcoming third album Deep Fantasy (which you can pre-order here from Domino Records). It is a typically provocative offering, as hard hitting and as hardcore as ever, but with a nod to a more melodic approach that we … Continue reading White Lung – Snake Jaw
One of our favourite battle-scarred trailblazers and songwriting powerhouses Mary Gauthier returns with a new album, her first in four years, Trouble & Love, and a new Canadian label home, the excellent Six Shooter Records. The pain and ache in Gauthier’s music comes from her own life’s jagged edges and gutting experiences. As a chronicler of bad luck and hard times, she has carved out a particular place … Continue reading Mary Gauthier To Release Trouble & Love
Based in Brooklyn, The Bones of J.R. Jones (aka Jonathon Linaberry) has made a musical descent from the hardcore punk scene to roots and blues after being gifted a collection of albums entitled American Roots Music by his father. He dove in head first, never looked back and developed a deep seeded love for classic folk and blues, by early torch bearers like Blind Lemon Jefferson … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Bones Of J.R. Jones
How good it is to have Jolie Holland back with a new record, and especially when the first taste is as good as this…Watch the video for Dark Days, a stunning song of blistering rock and roll, and taken from forthcoming long player Wine Dark Sea, out on the 20th May via Anti-. . . Continue reading Video: Jolie Holland – Dark Days
Lola Colt are back with a new single Vacant Hearts, out on June 2nd. It is another powerfully intoxicating slab of psych-inspired rock’n’roll that is guaranteed to bruise your speakers. Play this baby loud! . Continue reading New Single From Lola Colt
Described as “stories of desolation and commitment from a singlewide trailer on seventeen acres in Tennessee“, Americana artist Joseph LeMay’s debut full length release Seventeen Acres, is out on May 20th. Filled with tales dissecting the nuances of tenderness and uncertainty, Seventeen Acres aches with missed expectations and hope, yet is driven by love and all the desperation, fear and commitment that comes with it. He has also made … Continue reading Joseph LeMay – Seventeen Acres
God, drugs and lizard aliens: rising Country star, Sturgill Simpson’s excellent new video for recent single Turtles All The Way Down has all these and more… “Every time I take a look inside that old and fabled book/I’m blinded and reminded of the pain caused by some old man in the sky/Marijuana, LSD, psilocybin, DMT, they all changed the way I see/But love’s the only thing that’s ever … Continue reading Video: Sturgill Simpson – Turtles All The Way Down
Love this. Real rock’n’roll…Violent Shiver is the A side of a new 7″ from Benjamin Booker whilst the B side is the intriguingly titled Spoon Out My Eyeballs. Watch the video here. . . Continue reading Video: Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
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