We are delighted to bring you the premiere of Skye Steele’s video for his outstanding track Growing Song that comes from his recently released album Up From The Bitterroot. Written in response to a poem his friend Katie Ludwick, who goes by the artist name Ladypajama, wrote on the impending birth of her son Jorge Danger. The video depicts Ladypajama writing the song on the … Continue reading Video Premiere: Skye Steele – Growing Song
Much like yesterday’s Monday morning round-up post, we’ve now selected just a few of the excellent videos that have arrived in our in-box over the past few days and weeks for your viewing (and listening) pleasure. So without further ado start with the wonderful old time banjo of Willie Watson at Pickathon, and by way of Andy Shauf, Darren Hayman, The Asylums, Streets Of Laredo, The April … Continue reading Tuesday Morning Video Round Up
We’ve been clearing up (or down, or out, or whatever the term is) our in-box over the weekend and from the plethora of remixes, ‘bangers’, and electro-pop that went straight into the trash we have picked these gems for you to set your working week off on the right foot… . Goldishack’s Devil Can Dance is a dark, fuzzed-out dirge, a tale of moral conflict … Continue reading Monday Morning Round Up
Anielle Reid is an American singer-songwriter and banjoist fusing beautiful vocals, pop melodies, modern beats and banjo to create her own take on classic folk and Americana. Listen to Someday, taken from her solo EP Ain’t Like ‘Em. . Continue reading MM Shorts 660: Anielle Reid
Wilderness Blues is the second EP from Oxford-based indie-rock / Americana outfit, Toliesel,which takes it’s cues from Wilco at their loudest and Crazy Horse at their most melodic. There is nothing fashionable or flimsy to be found on this release, instead Toliesel give it all they’ve got with a dense and richly textured sound underpinning songs filled with disillusionment, fear and solitude. Lead single Bones is … Continue reading Introducing >>> Toliesel
2:54’s cover of a Doors classic, No Ages’s cover of a Black Flag classic and the welcome return of Other Lives heads our biggest ever weekly round up of the songs you really should have found some time to listen to already. But if not, here they are in one neat package for you. 1. 2:54 – Take It As It Comes (Doors cover) 2. WATERS … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
New York’s The Hunting Party’s new EP Sirens and Lights is released this month, and we are delighted to bring you the premiere of the latest track to be shared from it. Blue Star more than makes good on the promise of the earlier tracks the band have shared. It is a classic slice of indie-folk, beginning with Erica Lane’s sweet vocals over a sparsely plucked banjo refrain … Continue reading Premiere: The Hunting Party – Blue Star
We’ve posted about the gorgeous banjo led folk of the Lowest Pair a few times on Mad Mackerel, but the latest track to be shared, In The During Of A Moment, might well be their finest yet. A sublime, simply picked folk tune with haunting vocals that are as tender as they are poignant. Give it a spin. The album, The Sacred Heart Sessions, is out on … Continue reading More From The Lowest Pair
Here is another track from Kings Of Lowertown, this time they have slowed the pace to a more sedate rolling blues with vocals that Tom Waits would be proud of… Listen to 6 Shots Of Orphan Barrel To My Black Heart below, and download for a pay-what-you-want deal from Bandcamp. . Continue reading More From Kings Of Lowertown
The warped and rather wonderful Newfoundland’s new EP Good News Is Too True is out now. With sonic nods to the Skygreen Leopards, Vetiver and Bob Dylan the EP’s sounds and textures twist and turn around you before spiralling off into a dizzying parade. Have a listen to Eserkiel. Buy from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 659: Newfoundland
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