Category: Acoustic

Acoustic, Americana, Country, Music

Mary Gauthier – Rifles & Rosary Beads

Mary Gauthier just has one of those voices. Unmistakeable, mesmerising, and thought-provoking. Everything she does, and says, is worth listening to. She has a new album, Rifles & Rosary Beads, out today via In The Black / Thirty Tigers. Four years in the making, it is a collaborative record in the sense that the eleven songs were co-written with wounded veterans in the SongwritingWith: Soldiers retreats. Just … Continue reading Mary Gauthier – Rifles & Rosary Beads

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Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Wooden Wand – Toth’s Law Vols 2 & 3

We’ve been remiss in sharing details of Wooden Wand’s Toth’s Law recordings. Volume 1 came out back in June, which we did cover, but Volumes 2 and 3 have followed since then. They are collections of outtakes, demos and songs that never, for one reason or another, made it onto his other recording output. Nevertheless the collection contains songs that frankly, other singer-songwriters would be … Continue reading Wooden Wand – Toth’s Law Vols 2 & 3

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Punk, Rock

Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Widowspeak – Harvest Moon  (Neil Young cover) Wilco – Dynamite My Soul Kal Marks – Adventure The Staves & yMusic – The Way Is Read Ty Segall – My Lady’s On Fire Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night Johanna Warren – Here To Tell Angel Olsen – Sans Dama Scout – Toothache The Liminanas – Shadow People (featuring Emmanuelle Seigner)           … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Acoustic, Folk, Music

MM Shorts 973: Tuvaband

Tuvaband are a Norwegian/English duo creating beautiful folk songs reminiscent of oft-featured MM alumni Laura Marling and The Staves. Featuring female Norwegian vocals and English male guitar playing, the band are in London soon to promo their upcoming EP with shows in Rough Trade In-Store gig on 27th Oct, followed by a show at Mirrors Festival on 28th Oct. Listen to the stripped-back sound, vocal layering and … Continue reading MM Shorts 973: Tuvaband

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Blues, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Gothic, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

New Videos Round Up

Some musical films and lyric videos. They’re good. Offa My Hands is the third song unveiled from Jessica Lea Mayfield’s anticipated new album, Sorry Is Gone.   Phoebe Bridgers has shared Funeral, another haunting and introspective track from her upcoming debut album Stranger In The Alps.   Norwegian chanteuse Ane Brun’s new record consists of fourteen covers of tracks by Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan … Continue reading New Videos Round Up

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Country, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Punk, Rock

Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Ten new songs for you collected from the week’s new releases. Lots to discover including two stunning covers by The Tallest Man On Earth and Marie Danielle, snotty punk done to perfection by Amyl & The Sniffers, tracks from Americana heavyweights Deer Tick and Blitzen Trapper and classic country from Margo Price. Plenty more besides… enjoy. The Tallest Man On Earth – Both Sides Now … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Acoustic, Alternative, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Gothic, Indie, Music, Pop, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Welcome To The Videodome

Time for some more musical films… Hull Goth Punk outfit Lumer have released the video for their unhinged new single Gruel on Warren Records.  Reminiscent of Bauhaus, Killing Joke and YAK it is a brutally thrilling cut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OgK1aexTuM&feature=youtu.be   Spirit Valley’s expansive, primal psych-rock falls somewhere between the fuzzed out rock’n’roll of The Black Angels and the warped synths of Moon Duo check out new single Waiting For Real.   Fuzz Club Records’ live … Continue reading Welcome To The Videodome

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Mad Mackerel Recommends… Jack Cooper

Sandgrown is the title of Jack Cooper of Ultimate Painting’s first solo record – it is nine concisely beautiful songs inspired by his hometown of Blackpool and his upbringing on England’s Fylde Coast. Evoking the delicate but often widescreen musicality of Bill Fay and the abstract lyricism of the late 60s Scott Walker records, as well as the more experimental sounds of John Cale and Robert Wyatt, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Jack Cooper

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