Most folks know how we like a decent murder ballad on MM, and have we got a gem for you today. Along the lines of Ween’s Buenos Tardes Amigos or Weddings Parties Anything’s A Tale They Won’t Believe, Billy Vincent’s Ballad of Billy Vincent is a seven minute London-based epic of brutal murder full of plot twists and turns, and delivering a stunning final denouement … Continue reading Introducing >>> Billy Vincent
The Grand Prospect are a six-piece band out of NYC. All MM’s favourite ingredients are in place: three singers, banjo, guitar, keys, harmonies, an attitude of a little less talk, a little more rock and a singular objective of a damn good time. The result is a self-titled, debut release on the 11th December that will be as good a slice of alt-country / Americana … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Grand Prospect
One of our favourite labels, Audio Antihero have put together an EP of rarities and exclusives to raise money for the Hear It For New York Pop-Up Shop. You can read up on the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the independent music scene out there (radio stations, record stores, rehearsal/art spaces) via the Hear It For New York tumblr/Facebook. Their release is entitled The Hüsker … Continue reading Audio Antihero’s Hüsker Doo-wop EP For Hear It For New York
Through the Noise, is the debut single from Megan Wyler – a stripped back and raw folk inspired song that floats over deep analogue synth bass. An album will follow in 2013. a Continue reading MM Shorts 272: Megan Wyler
Record label Post-Consumer is making its entire catalog (or catalogue if you’re in the UK) available throughout December on a name-your-price basis via Bandcamp. There is no minimum payment, and releases include the excellent fractured pop fairytales and melancholia of The Hand To Man Band and their album You Are Always On Our Minds (get it here), the acid-folk of Death Songs self-titled EP (get … Continue reading Post-Consumer Records Offer “Name-Your-Price” December
Bay Area band Fat Opie released Victoryville back in the summer, their first full-length since 2003. The unfortunate hiatus was due to a debilitating illness that bandleader Scott Mickelson suffered with for several years. In 2009, they released their first new single New Orleans, and signed a international distribution deal to re-release the entire catalogue. Soon after, three of the four original bandmembers (Scott Mickelson, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Fat Opie
Algernon Doll’s debut album of off-kilter, deeply personal folk, Camomile, is out today via Newtown Products. We posted about the record last month – a cathartic journey through a difficult year dealing with the mentally debilitating toils of extreme anxiety disorder and bipolar. The album documents the struggles Ewan Grant endured in his own mind and his own world, a world confined very much to the four … Continue reading Algernon Doll Debut Album Out Today
