Jessica Lea Mayfield captured our attention with her brilliant, sultry 2008 debut With Blasphemy So Heartfelt (from which Kiss Me Again remains a playlist regular) and then captured our hearts with a fabulous solo set at the End of the Road Festival a couple of years later. She released the excellent Tell Me in 2011 and last year delivered one of the covers of the … Continue reading Jessica Lea Mayfield – Oblivious
We’re pleased as punch to bring you an exclusive first listen of indie-folksters Feldspar’s excellent new single Young & Invincible. Having funded the single through their own efforts via a successful Pledgemusic campaign, the single follows a couple of self-releases at the tail end of 2012, The Flat And Paper Sky (Volumes 1 and 2). Young & Invincible is a record of contrasts. Exploring a theme of … Continue reading MM Exclusive: Feldspar’s Young & Invincible Single
The Orwells have unveiled the video for their fizzing new single The Righteous One, which is taken from their upcoming album due in the summer. Dark. Furious. Frenzied. Watch it / stream it below. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 514: The Orwells
El Terrible is the new recording project from Terry Ashkinos (Fake Your Own Death) and Rob Easson (ex-Rogue Wave). They are releasing their self-titled EP on Breakup Records on February 7th, digitally and on cassette via Bandcamp. Written by Ashkinos after an extended stay in Berlin last year, it’s a beautifully dark and compact collection of shadowy post-punk gems – sparse, direct and urgent. Have … Continue reading Introducing >>> El Terrible
Snowapple are a three piece from Amsterdam that push the boundaries of folk by creating original songs that incorporate three part harmonies and operatic interludes to create an ethereal musical experience ranging from upbeat to macabre. Their eponymous debut album saw a European release last year and a US release last month via Zip Records. Check out Baby Blue and Old Lady below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 513: Snowapple
Rhubarb is a superior fruit and unquestionably makes the best crumble filling. Four-piece The Rhubarb Triangle thankfully live up to the quality inherent in the fruit’s name with their original take on indie rock, psychedelia, garage and R&B. Their self-titled debut three track EP is a most promising mix of 60s Carnaby Street cool, Northern soul style groove and a splash of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Rhubarb Triangle
A little like our own Laura Marling, Alynda Lee Segarra (who is to all intents and purposes Hurray For The Riff Raff) is a supremely talented young songwriter who, with each successive release, seems able to defy expectations and improve yet further on all that she has done before. Her songs possess that undefinable, and all too rare, ability to powerfully connect and stir the emotions … Continue reading Hurray For The Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes
Short Drive with a Kidnapper is the first video from Grandhorse’s Debut LP Portraiturefolio. According to Grandhorse drummer Devon Shirley, “‘Short Drive with A Kidnapper’ is what happens when you put Ben Meyercord, weird friends in costumes, lots of cheap beer, a fog machine, a ginger and a Russian video editor together. Magical.” Portraiturefolio is an album of straight-ahead songs built around venerable pop conventions. The … Continue reading Introducing >>> Grandhorse
Videos to kickstart Sunday from The Silver Palms, Animal Parts, The Family Rain and the pulverising kill-or-cure hangover remedy from The Fire And I’s Double Kamikaze. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Silver Palms || Animal Parts || The Family Rain || The Fire And I
Although he has been round for a good number of years, the ambient tinged, unsettling Americana of Stone Jack Jones and his new album Ancestor has been a new discovery for us, and one of our favourites of the year so far. We’ve already given you a couple of tracks from the album here, and now we have a third in the shape of the mesmerising Red … Continue reading Another From Stone Jack Jones
The Mad Mackerel 