The gorgeous Running From Zombies is being released as part of a three track digital EP titled Today Is A Bright New Day, which is out next week, unfortunately only in the USA. This previously unreleased track is taken from the sessions that produced Tom Brosseau’s recent excellent long-player Grass Punks. Notable for its prominent use of classical guitar, it is sweetly judged pastoral folk … Continue reading Tom Brosseau – Running From Zombies
1. First Aid Kit – Cedar Lane 2. Rose Windows – There Is A Light 3. The Antlers – Hotel 4. Hamilton Leithauser – In The Shallows 5. Vomitface – Sloppy Joes . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Today, Chris T Popper and I are heading south to Brighton and our first visit to the Great Escape festival. There are a whole host of bands we’re looking forward to seeing, from the South American punk-pop of Las Kellies, the angst of Gambles, the spectral folk of Mirel Wagner and the junkyard blues of the Amazing Snakeheads, to the stoned slacker indie of Dune Rats and the … Continue reading We’re Heading to the Great Escape…A Playlist
Max Jury’s three track Something In The Air EP will see a release on Monday. It is a sublime set of soulful Americana that genuinely recalls Gram Parsons, as he binds together timeless themes of the struggles of being young, drinking the bottle dry and love lost and found with a small town perspective. And it is all topped off an airy croon that is destined … Continue reading Max Jury – Something In The Air EP
The lush, dreamy, retro folk soundscapes of the Honey Ants might seems a strange stablemate for the raw, visceral power of Nirvana. However, confounding all expectations, the aforesaid duo imbue the latter’s Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle with a sparse melancholy that gives the track a whole new dimension. The cover is the B-Side to their new single Lies (See You Again). … Continue reading The Honey Ants Cover Nirvana
We are kicking off Easter with a massive Round-Up of lots of new music and bands that have been sat in our in-box patiently waiting to be heard. Some of these have been released already, some are about to be, but either way we have fifteen artists that are all well worth checking out. . Let us begin with Josh Matthews whose work has been compared … Continue reading It’s An Easter Round Up
Grand lake Islands six track EP Wake of Waking is a collection of thoughtful indie-folk that ranges from warm and lush organic instrumentation to thin guitar lines and shaky vocals. Fans of Phosphorescent, A.A. Bondy and Jason Molina will find much to enjoy here. Listen to the EP’s opening track, Flood. And buy from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 549: Grand Lake Islands
We had an e-mail from a reader recommending we check out Ryley Walker. So we did. Turns out he is a little bit special. While only 24 years old, on his debut album (released this very day) All Kinds Of You, he delves much further back than that to the fingerpicked style of classic British folk artists, American primitive guitar and classic pastoral psychedelia. The results are … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Ryley Walker
Farmer’s Corner, the new album from Wooden Wand promises to be a rawer, more personal affair than the brilliant Blood Oaths Of The New Blues and we have already shared the wonderful Dambuilding with you here. Now we have Alpha Dawn for your listening pleasure, another sublime cut of relaxed, informal, wandering folk that evokes all those classic intimate campfire and back-porch scenarios, as acoustic strings meander sweetly beneath … Continue reading Another From Wooden Wand’s Farmer’s Corner
So many tunes to share – time for another Round Up just in time for the weekend. All pre-screened for your guaranteed listening pleasure. So away we go… Easing us in gently is some ethereal folk from Owls of the Swamp and the gentle Shapeshifter is a perfect introduction to forthcoming album Atlas. . At the other end of the noise spectrum we have aggressive … Continue reading Friday Round Up
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