After growing up in Brooklyn, Ben de la Cour set out to see the world as an amateur boxer, bartender, and agricultural worker. Then after a spell as a frontman in a London-based doom-metal band, he gave it up for the simplicity of the bare bones acoustic music he now creates. We first came across him at the tail end of 2012 with his captivating, stripped back long … Continue reading Ben de la Cour – Midnight In Havana
No less than three Nickel in the Jukebox posts this week. Check out ten more songs from all walks of life and decide… hit or miss. Third Sound – Never Catch Her Again [RIYL: Psych-rock, Jesus & Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ] Hot Showers – Boys (Neighborhood) [RIYL: Garage-psych, Smith Westerns, Harlem] Magic Potion – Jelly [RIYL: Slacker-pop, Mac DeMarco, Kurt Vile] Spain – … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 17)
Time for ten more tunes for you to check out and decide if they cut the mustard or not? This time, we’ve kept the selection to a (broadly) Americana feel so kick back and immerse yourself in these – some lovely stuff here… Josiah & The Bonnevilles – Cold Blood [RIYL: Father John Misty, Ryan Adams] J Burn – Moonshine [RIYL: Tom Petty, The … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 14 – the Americana edition)
Time to start the week with a few choice musical films… ten to be exact. So come with us a follow a path from the brilliantly louche, disaffected punk of Dilly Dally to the off-kilter urgency of Velcro Hooks by way of the mediative melancholy of Daniel Martin Moore, the energetic alt-country blues of Alex Culbreth, and the tripped out psychedelics of the Lucid Dream and plenty … Continue reading Video Round Up
Here is another exquisite track of sweetly strummed, gentle Americana from Radical Face. The work of singer-songwriter Ben Cooper (he took the name from an advert for plastic surgery), The Ship In Port is taken from forthcoming album The Leaves (due 25th March). The record is the final one in a trilogy of records dubbed The Family Tree, which began from a desire to write his own … Continue reading More From Radical Face
Cold Weather Company are a folk trio from New Jersey. Wide-Eyed is the first taste from their upcoming second album and is a gorgeously plaintive track full of rich vocal harmonies, and backed by a warm, acoustic strum. Fans of Iron & Wine or the Fleet Foxes should certainly listen below. Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Cold Weather Company
Dreaming Heart is another track from We/Or/Me’s recently released album Everything Behind Us Is A Dream. It is a simply gorgeous slice of gently swirling Americana – dark and serene, this track takes listeners to Chicago’s Rogers Park, on the coast of Lake Michigan, where a weary traveler stares over the water, talking to someone who is no longer there. It is a slow dance … Continue reading More From We/Or/Me
Andy Ferro is the lead guitarist in Nashville’s retro garage outfit Ranch Ghost, but Muirhead is his debut solo album. A wonderful collection of dusty, folk-pop songs which harken back to the golden era of the 1950s and 60s, they have already garnered him comparisons to Syd Barrett, Buddy Holly, and even Sgt. Pepper’s-era Beatles. Listen to the first two singles taken from it below, Sugar and … Continue reading MM Shorts 815: Andy Ferro
The songs keep piling up in the in-box – too many to do justice to – but here are ten choice picks for you to decide… hit or miss? Claire Cronin – Sister And Devil [RIYL: Experimental folk, Karen Dalton, Jason Molina] Stranded Horse – Monde [RIYL: Orchestral folk, Loch Lemond, Horse Feathers] Heck – Good As Dead [RIYL: Noise-rock, Pulled Apart By Horses, … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 11)
Here we are again, and another fine selection of new tunes from the past week for you to savour… Matthew E. White – Cool Out (Featuring Natalie Prass) Spookyland – God’s Eyes DIIV – Is The Is Are Adia Victoria – Dead Eyes Laura Gibson – The Cause Audacity – Dirty Boy Public Access T.V. – On Location Naps – Social Skills … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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