Here’s another excellent track of cosmic American music from Rosy Street. Downtown Queen is dedicated to the disastrous divas and finest femme fatales of New York city. . See our previous Rosy Street posts here. Continue reading MM Shorts 501: Rosy Street
TURCHI describe their sound as “kudzu boogie” which seems an entirely appropriate description to us – blending as it does an Americana style narrative with some swamp blues, plenty of slide guitar and more than a dash of relentless southern-fried groove. Their most recent release – a 10″ vinyl EP titled My Time Ain’t Now includes this gem of a cover of Josh Ritter’s Mind’s … Continue reading Turchi – My Time Ain’t Now
We are carrying on catching up on our backlog of excellent music videos. Today we have selections for you encompassing the brilliant bar-room croon of Mark Pickerel, bluesy folk-noir from The Woodwards, cosmic jazz inflected psychedelia from Syd Arthur and Borrowed Beams Of Lights breezy experimental power-pop. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Mark Pickerel || The Woodwards || Syd Arthur || Borrowed Beams Of Light
We posted an excellent track from Running Red Lights back in November and the Toronto folkies have now released a two-track sampler on Bandcamp from their forthcoming long-player, There’s A Bluebird In My Heart. It can be grabbed for a name-your-price deal here. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 500: Running Red Lights
Gretchen Lohse is a native Philadelphia singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She comes from a family with deep music roots and was classically trained on violin, which is evident on her recordings. As the front woman of Philadelphia psychedelic folk rock band Yellow Humphrey, she dreamt up rich, strange musical tapestries; Part memoir and part tall tale, heavily influenced by folklore and silent films. Primal Rumble, her … Continue reading Introducing >>> Gretchen Lohse
We’re catching up with a backlog of excellent videos to accompany excellent songs. Today watch Radical Face, Drowners, Mona & Maria’s pretty and epic pastoral ode to 60s/70s psych, Reverend Horton Heat’s octane-fueled pyschobilly with a little help from burlesque star Michelle L’Amour, and finally Twin Rivers story of a praying mantis living in the perils of a modern world. The praying mantis in the film is called … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Radical Face || Drowners || Mona & Maria || Reverend Horton Heat || Twin Rivers
Headwater Songs is the solo album from Devin James Fry – a regular contributor to many MM playlists through his work with Salesman and Lord Buffalo. Headwater Songs is a psychedelic country and clawhammer guitar reflection on the fires and flooding that tore through the Arkansas River Headwaters region of Colorado during the summer of 2013. Neighbours who banded together to cut fire breaks in … Continue reading Devin James Fry – Headwater Songs
As you might expect, December is a quiet month for new releases, especially non-festive ones, but we’ve still managed to come up with a mix of 16 top-notch downloads for you from our monthly postings. As always, we have a couple of new tracks too, and you can also check out our new monthly mix page here, that has every single monthly mix we’ve posted available … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: December 2013
Kick back and enjoy this collection of fine musical films from Steady Sun, July Talk, Victory and Steel Cranes. . . . [Click through for free download] . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Steady Sun || July Talk || Victory || Steel Cranes
Georgia three-piece The Woodgrains delightfully mix an easygoing Americana sound (think CSNY or the Band) with dream-drifting psychedelia. The results are a lysergic brand of folk-rock anchored by three part harmonies and an instinctive feel for classic songwriting. They will release their self-titled album later this month, but until then move and groove to Nobody Too, the first taste from the record. Continue reading MM Shorts 497: The Woodgrains
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