Our regular weekend feature highlighting some of the tunes you really ought to have heard already this week is back. First one of 2015 kicks off with no less than nine new tunes and some real corkers too. 1. Iron & Wine – Everyone’s Summer of ’95 2. Stornoway – The Road You Didn’t Take 3. Sonny & The Sunsets – Happy Carrot Health Store … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We are hugely looking forward to Joe Pug’s new record Windfall and have already shared the brilliant album closer If Still It Can’t Be Found. Now we have another, equally good, track for you to stream. This is Stay And Dance. Have a listen. . Continue reading More From Joe Pug – Stay And Dance
The marvellous Caitlin Rose (who played one of our favourite sets last time we were at SXSW) has shared a demo of a song called Been Thinkin Bout You All The Time via Soundcloud. It was written with Willie Breeding, from a chorus he had been carrying around for a while, and is just as fine a slice of sweet, melancholy country as you’re likely to … Continue reading Caitlin Rose – Been Thinkin Bout You All The Time
As we gallop towards the end of the year it is natural to start looking forward to 2015 and anticipating the new releases that will be coming our way. However, it is an inevitable certainty that, during 2014 we have missed out on a huge number of records that deserved a mention and sharing…so rather than look forward, we’ve looked back and picked out a … Continue reading Some We Missed (Round Up Time Again)
With his upcoming full-length record Windfall, to be released on the 10th March, Joe Pug has shared the debut single from the album. If Still It Can’t Be Found, which features Pat Sansone from Wilco on mellotron, is a yearning, sweetly strummed ballad that perhaps captures some of the hard times and question marks over his future as he struggled with writers block and, as he says, “fell out … Continue reading New Track From Joe Pug
It might almost be Christmas Eve, but this was too good not to tell you about. Cat Meat have released a free EP of country music covers via Bandcamp including their takes on songs by George Jones, Waylon Jennings and Willis Alan Ramsey. Check out their version of If Drinking Don’t Kill Me below or simply click through to get the whole EP for nothing… … Continue reading Cat Meat’s Free Country Covers EP
20) Natural Child – Dancin’ With Wolves . 19) Hamilton Leithauser – 11 O’Clock Friday Night . 18) Faces On Film – Percy . 17) Early Winters – A Thing For You . 16) Sleaford Mods – Routine Dean . 15) Eels – Mistakes of My Youth . 14) Chimes – Total Sunflower . 13) Dust From A 1000 Yrs – Smoke Em Up . … Continue reading Best Of The Year – Chris T Popper’s Top Twenty
As always we round off our best of the year posts with the individual contributions starting with the newly manacled wed Dr Roddy and his personal top ten of 2014. …This year has seemed to fly by, I got married, we had a little boy and we are now in the middle of building works involving having our roof off in mid-winter. So it has been … Continue reading Best of the Year – Dr Roddy’s Top Ten
Here are our favourite twenty albums of 2014. Don’t forget to check out numbers 40 – 21 here. 20 Together PANGEA – Badillac . 19 Meatbodies – Meatbodies . 18 Strand of Oaks – Heal . 17 Jessica Lea Mayfield – Make My Head Sing . 16 Eagulls – Eagulls . 15 Happyness – Weird Little Birthday . 14 Felice Brothers – Favourite Waitress . … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums of 2014: Part 2
Here is a festive offering from The Honey Ants, and their version of In The Bleak Midwinter. . . Continue reading Festive Post No 17: The Honey Ants
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