Here is our regular weekend feature highlighting the songs that you really should have made time to hear this week. Enjoy offerings from Laura Marling through to Thee Oh Sees by way of Vetiver and Joanna Gruesome amongst others, as well as the very welcome return of Holly Miranda. 1. Laura Marling – I Feel Your Love 2. Mexican Slang – Fever 3. Chastity Belt … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Through haunted lyrics and haunting melodies, Nature Thief steal inspiration from the corners of the earth. Melodic fingerpicking often gives way to heavy guitar riffs; ambient synth pads are replaced by driving bass lines and enchanting harmonies, and the result is a sound that ranges from ethereal and dreamy to psychedelic and crunchy. Watch their cover of Pixies classic Gouge Away, and stream a couple of … Continue reading Introducing >>> Nature Thief
Philadelphia singer-songwriter Emmett Drueding has finished a six song EP entitled Strange Bruise and is sharing the first single as a free download. Twilight is a superb example of his unique storytelling style – lyrically engaging, thought provoking and with a sweet vocal delivery that in combination delivers a wonderful and slightly off-kilter slice of folky Americana. Listen/download it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 672: Emmett Drueding
Delta Spirit have released a new video for Language Of The Dead, the new single from their 2014 album Into the Wide. Front man Matt Vasquez directed and edited the tongue-in-cheek video himself, using a green screen in his home to create a trippy, space-traveling, time-warped reality inspired by Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs and History of the World: Part 1, that finds Agamemnon, Robert E. Lee … Continue reading New Video: Delta Spirit – Language Of The Dead
Alt-country, folk-rocker Lee Miles, aka Chief Ghoul, is gearing up to release his 13-track third album, III, this Spring. Hailing from Chicago, the current home of the the USA’s most prominent garage scene, he cooks up a most satisfying retro-vibe that echos Woody Guthrie’s storytelling with some righteous garage blues guitar. We have a couple of tracks of distorted, spooky Americana for you to spin that are … Continue reading Introducing >>> Chief Ghoul
As per usual, here is our weekly round up of the tunes and tracks you need to have heard by now… 1. Simon Joyner – Nostalgia Blues 2. Ryley Walker – Sweet Satisfaction 3. Weed – Stay In The Summer 4. Pale Honey – Youth 5. Death Cab For Cutie – No Room In Frame 6. Calexico – Falling From The Sky 7. Little Wings … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Bluejay Cedar is another track of easygoing, rolling Americana taken from Matthew O’Neill’s new album Campfire Cook, which got a release this week. You can also check out previous releases on his Bandcamp page here. Continue reading Matthew O’Neill – Bluejay Cedar
Diamond Rugs have released their second record, Cosmetics into the big wide world. A joyfully rowdy follow-up to their equally rowdy 2012 self-titled debut (which we loved), and which still features the incomparable collaboration of John McCauley (Deer Tick), Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pé (ex-Black Lips guitarist), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), T. Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate) and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Satellite). So a supergroup … Continue reading Diamond Rugs Are Back
We just received news of a new album release from Moses Luster and the Hollywood Lights, titled The Hangman’s Door. Purveyors of very fine, melancholic and sometimes dark, Americana, with this their third release, the band has focused on honing their sound while exploring some new diversions. For sure, the album continues along the path of previous releases of exploring the drudgery of everyday lives of drunks, … Continue reading New Album From Moses Luster
Hot on the heels of details of a new album from The Tallest Man On Earth comes similar news for another MM singer-songwriter fave with the announcement of a new album from William Elliott Whitmore. Titled Radium Death, it signals somewhat of a departure from his previous sparse and haunting solo recordings. He describes it thus, “I purposefully went into it wanting to make a little bit … Continue reading New Album From William Elliott Whitmore
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