Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
Favorite Waitress will be released by the Felice Brothers on June 9th in the UK and Europe and June 18th in North America. Here is a video trailer with song clips from our most anticipated record of the year… . Here they are covering Harvest Moon…any excuse to post something! Continue reading Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress Album Trailer
The sweeping grandeur of Ryne Warner’s Ohioan are back with a new split EP with fellow desert nomads Young Hunter that can be purchased from Bandcamp. It will also see a release on cassette in a limited edition run of 200. You can listen to all four tracks of atmospheric psych-infused weird Americana below, or just check out the wonderfully titled Dogshit In Plastic Bags from it, … Continue reading New From Ohioan
We were fortunate enough to receive our advance copy of Simone Felice’s new album Strangers in the mail this week and it has been in pretty constant play ever since. We’d already posted a couple of outstanding tracks from the record and happily the rest of it is just as good, if not better. It is a mix of the tender, the forlorn, the beautiful … Continue reading Simone Felice – UK Tour & Posters
Secretly Canadian have announced the release of a deluxe box set of rare recordings from Jason Molina’s Songs: Ohia, for Record Store Day in April. Gathered within Journey On: Collected Singles are many of the charming, haunting and elegantly disparate moments lost in the void of limited pressings and merch tables across Songs: Ohia’s six year course. Have a listen to Soul below. . Continue reading Songs: Ohia Singles Box Set For Record Store Day
It has been a while since we heard from Canadian folkies Dark Mean, but now after more than two years away, they are back with a new four track EP called Samuel, The Phoenix. The title track is a sweetly melancholic acoustic track that already sounds like a campfire classic. I’m fading that’s all. I’m fading so slow, with the sun in my lungs My … Continue reading Dark Mean – Samuel, The Phoenix
Markus Svensson is a 28 year old singer-songwriter (although that is not a term he is particularly fond of) hailing from Stockholm, and the man behind the Tarantula Waltz moniker. He will release his third full-length album, Tinder Stick Neck, on the 23rd April The record revolves around intertwined themes of hypochondria, death anxiety and atheism. It is weighty stuff, sombre in parts, but handled … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Tarantula Waltz
Returning with a new album, Ride The Black Wave, on a new label, Easy Sound Recording Co., and a new track, Scissor Me Cigs, for us to listen to are The Donkeys. Tho’ many try, it is really difficult to do laid back, easy-going, breezy country tinged rock, without sounding formulaic, tired or clichéd, but these guys are naturals. Wonderful stuff. The album is out … Continue reading The Donkeys Are Back
We have posted before about Matthew Payne, aka The River Has Many Voices who lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country around Austin, TX. A Southern Appalachian musician by birth, his influences range from Raymond Carver, T.S. Eliot, J.D. Salinger via Vincent Van Gogh and Jackson Pollock to Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan and the great American blues artists. Appropriate then that he should offer … Continue reading The River Has Many Voices Covers Bonnie “Prince” Billy
It’s been a little while since we’ve had a Videos of the Day post, so we’re putting that right with some excellent musical films and tunes from Those Darlins, Eliza And The Bear, We Are Hex, and Suburban Living. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Those Darlins || Eliza And The Bear || We are Hex || Suburban Living
The Mad Mackerel 