Contrary to expectations Jimmy Tait is an Australian band, and not a tortured singer-songwriter, who have just released their second album, Golden. It is going to be well worth checking out if this taster from it is anything to go by. All My Friends is a excellent example of their pleasingly unconventional, somewhat desolate, goth-tinged post-rock that can be grabbed on a pay-what-you-want basis from … Continue reading MM Shorts 510: Jimmy Tait
It’s Friday. Time for videos featuring a gently heartfelt confrontation of a friend’s heroin addiction from Deer Tick, gorgeous baroque folk from rising star Jordan Lee aka Mutual Benefit, the reverb drenched sound of the excellent new single from September Girls, and to finish a mournful tear-jerker with spine-chilling lyrics from Carousels & Limousines. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Deer Tick || Mutual Benefit || September Girls || Carousels & Limousines
Make The Best Choices is a completely free compilation from the Good Choices Music Collective that is available from Bandcamp here. It follows on from last year’s excellent Make Better Choices compilation, and features our good friend D.B. Rouse alongside a whole host of top notch folk and Americana artists. Check out a couple of choice cuts below and then do what you probably should … Continue reading Make The Best Choices (Free Compilation)
Videos from the Americana, folk and singer-songwriter stables this morning – kick back and enjoy the lovely sounds and sweet melancholia of Tom Brosseau, Agnes Obel and Kevin Devine, and Turchi’s footage from one of the trippiest, most reviled/beloved cult films of all time, The Terror of Tiny Town – an ideal fit for their fuzzy, gritty, black and white lensed take on Americana. . . . … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Tom Brosseau || Agnes Obel || TURCHI || Kevin Devine
Here is the second track to surface from Tacocat’s forthcoming full length release NVM. We’ve already given you the breezy summer-punk of Bridge To Hawaii, and Crimson Wave picks up where that left off – being (apparently) an ode to dealing with periods (gives the title a whole different meaning). Thankfully it is done in a celebratory manner which means riding a surf-pop wave of … Continue reading Tacocat – Crimson Wave
Suck My Shirt is the rather intriguing title of the scheduled new album from The Coathangers who featured prominently in our Best Tracks of 2013 lists with their excellent single Adderall. For this latest record (their fourth long-player), the quartet have reduced to a trio and lost their keyboards. However, the sassy, infectious attitude remains the same as demonstrated by the first taste, and album … Continue reading The Coathangers – Suck My Shirt
The wonderful Eagulls return with their first single of 2014, Possessed, in advance of their self-titled debut album, which is slated for release on March 4. Having been enthusiastic supporters of their single releases in 2013 we are looking forward to discovering if the band have made good on the PR promise of a long player that “Finesses the incensed spirit of their early tracks and … Continue reading Eagulls Are Possessed
Despite the slightly suspect name, Tweens sit just the right side of precocious with their bratty, lo-fi garage rock jams that swirl the Ramones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bay Area punks The Donnas, The Trashwomen and the Bobbyteens into one righteous slab of thrash-tinged trash-pop. Check out Be Mean below, they will release their self-titled debut in early April. . Continue reading MM Shorts 509: Tweens
We’re loving the slow pace and unsettling, woozy Americana of Stone Jack Jones’ State I’m In and Black Coal, both brilliant tasters from his third album Ancestor. The descendent of four generations of coalminers and rejected from seeing service in Vietnam, he became a wandering musician and by the time he eventually put down some roots in Nashville he had had worked as a carny, an escape … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Stone Jack Jones
The excellent Crockpot is the first single on Slothrust’s new record, Of Course You Do, which is out on Ba Da Bing! Records this February 18. When a comment on the Soundcloud describes it as a cross between Total Eclipse Of The Heart and Smells Like Teen Spirit it has to be worth a listen doesn’t it? And it is a lot more the latter … Continue reading Introducing >>> Slothrust
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