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
To celebrate their undying bromance, as well as their co-headline tour that began last night in Boston, Deer Tick and The Hold Steady have decided to cover each others songs… Deer Tick are covering The Hold Steady’s Constructive Summer (off 2008’s Stay Positive), and The Hold Steady are taking on Deer Tick’s Easy (off 2009’s Born On Flag Day). Have a listen. . . Continue reading Deer Tick & The Hold Steady Cover Each Other
We first posted about Halcyonaire at the end of last year and now the Oakland-based experimental Americana quintet have released a new three-track cassette in a limited run of 100, which can be ordered via their Bandcamp page here. Check out lead track Urban Arson. . Continue reading MM Shorts 550: Halcyonaire
The Toothe share a musical chemistry born of a lifetime of collaboration and experimentation. Raised in the same small Piedmont town, they relocated to the mountains of Asheville to explore and develop their mutual love of song. Their most recent effort is the Talons EP (out on 10th June), a six-song foray into a hook-laden and intensely engaging sound they call Apocalyptic Americana. The EP draws … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Toothe
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
“Maybe I’ll go make love with another man, forget about you for the evening and say I’m just playing pretend, I’ll be someone’s fantasy then maybe you’ll want more of me.” Thin Ice is from 19 year old Liza Anne’s recently released debut album The Colder Months. It fully justifies the haunting, melancholy, and beautiful descriptors that it has been attracting. . Continue reading MM Shorts 547: Liza Anne
The latest effort from Roof Beams, Tectonics EP, though true to the band’s storytelling lyrics and ramshackle Americana roots, comes from a new place. Frontman Nathan Robinson wrote these songs during quiet evenings after work, while his daughter was asleep and his wife was at night school. This led to a more thoughtful, reiterative process resulting in thick layers of harmonies using quieter, lower registers. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Roof Beams
I went to Tijuana for a day once, it was notable for a mouse in a cafe giving up the ghost and simply expiring on the floor whereupon a waitress on her way to deliver my sandwich stopped, picked it up by the tail and expertly threw it into the overflowing trash bin by the door. Thankfully Tijuana Bibles are a more palatable proposition. They … Continue reading Introducing >>> Tijuana Bibles
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