Celebrate the middle of the week with videos from The Night Beds for brilliant track Ramona, some epic, tripped out psych rock from The Night Beats and Golden Animals, gritty, grimy blues from The Pack A.D. and infectious, quirky indie rock from The Features. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Night Beds || Night Beats || The Features || The Pack A.D. || Golden Animals
Blessed Feathers delivered one of our favourite sets of SXSW this year, an understated collection of beautiful, rural folk that was breathtaking in its simplicity and authenticity. This is the first track from their forthcoming album and the somewhat oddly titled Ahbinreedis is another example of just how good this duo is – the song is simply lovely. Download it below, and join us in looking … Continue reading New From Blessed Feathers
Five top notch videos today come from Dr. Dog and their reappropriated footage to accompany the excellent Broken Heart, and similarly from Lorelle Meets The Obsolete we have a suitably antiquated experimental video for the superb psych-rock of What’s Holding You?. From Basia Bulat, a stunning live performance of It Can’t Be You, and by contrast from Diarrhea Planet, a spring breakers inspired film for … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Dr. Dog || Lorelle Meets The Obsolete || Basia Bulat || Diarrhea Planet || TV Ghost
Our first visit to the brilliant Green Man Festival. Here are the twenty best things we heard, saw and discovered over the weekend. 1. The Parquet Courts live up to the hype Like the Ramones on speed, the four-piece transcended all the hype with the set of the weekend – a thrilling, occasionally ramshackle, breakneck excursion into punk, slacker pop and moshpit heaven, and in … Continue reading The Twenty Best Things We Heard, Saw, And Discovered At The Green Man Festival
The Muse is the title of the regular free sampler from American Songwriter and the September offering is a cracker – twelve brilliant tracks including such MM faves as Okkervil River, Hurray for the Riff Raff, T Hardy Morris, Duquette Johnston, Golden Suits, Amanda Shires and more. Check out some of our favourites below, or just click here for more details and to grab the whole thing … Continue reading Latest Free American Songwriter Sampler
New country queen, Caitlin Rose is releasing the rollicking ‘done-you-wrong’ single Waitin’ next month, and she has added some extra dates to her current UK tour. Have a listen and check out the tour venues below. Tour Dates Sun 1 Sep End of the Road festival Mon 2 Sep Brighton Proud Cabaret Tue 3 Sep Bristol Fleece Wed 4 Sep Oxford Bullingdon Thu 5 Sep … Continue reading Caitlin Rose: New Single & UK Tour
Start the week in a befitting manner with excellent music videos from the wonderful Dodos (together with the Magik Magik Orchestra), Elephant Stone, Amanda Shires, and the peculiarly named King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard (hazy, stoned psychedelia in case you were wondering…) . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Dodos || Elephant Stone || Amanda Shires || King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
We’ve featured the excellent indie rock of Theatre Royal a few times on MM, and they are releasing a new single Here It Comes to catch the tail end of the summer. Listen below, or purchase from their Bandcamp page here. We are currently away enjoying the delights of the Green Man Festival – we have scheduled a series of short posts to keep your ears warm while … Continue reading MM Shorts 429: Theatre Royal
Promised Land Sound emerged from the fertile Nashville garage scene – members have played with PUJOL, Denney and the Jets, and members of JEFF The Brotherhood and Those Darlins, among others – but have quickly evolved to deploy a more varied, country, soul and pop palette than many of their contemporaries. In fact we’re talking some down and dirty swamp boogie, Creedence style chooglin’ and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Promised Land Sound
If there is any justice in the musical world, Zachary Cale will soon get the acclaim and the rewards his talents deserve. Amid an overcrowded genre, this singer-songwriter seemingly plucks philosophical tunes of love, longing and heartbreak out of the ether and imbues them with the emotional nuances and lyrical poignancy to create something very special indeed. This tune, the wonderful Hold Fast comes from … Continue reading New Album From Zachary Cale
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