It has been too long since we’ve heard from Jessica Lea Mayfield and so we are glad to report she is back and in fine form on a new tribute album to Country stalwarts Alabama. High Cotton has fourteen tracks reinterpreted by artists such as Old Crow Medicine Show, Lucero, T. Hardy Morris, and Jason Isbell with John Paul White amongst others. However, we’ll happily wager than none … Continue reading Jessica Lea Mayfield Covers Alabama
And so it was Wilderness again (or Wildness if you were the somewhat disconnected and over-excited John Newman) – this year even bigger (an increase in capacity to 15,000) and still sold out. It is surely the premier boutique festival on the circuit in the undeniably stunning setting of Cornbury Park, which happily lies within a short walk of Mackerel Towers. By its nature it … Continue reading Live Review: Wilderness Festival 2013
As concept albums go, this is one of the better ones we’ve come across. It is based upon the true story of the childhood humiliation visited upon Hank Williams, who as a small boy growing up fatherless in a rented shack, lived nearby to the neighbouring (and rich) family of Herman Pride. His fondness for playing with toy guns led him to be nicknamed Two-Gun … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Collisionville
An eclectic mix of videos for you this morning – we have the fragile, gossamer folk of Sarah Johns Music Party and their video for Green Bud, and the surreal video made by kids for the anarchic Lovely Eggs track I Collect Snails. We have the uber cool and trippy video for Bleached’s Dead In Your Head and lastly we have a brilliant amination for … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Sarah Johns Music Party || The Lovely Eggs || Bleached || Lincoln Durham
It is getting to that time when we’re feeling like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland – so many tunes to share, so little time! So at the risk of doing somewhat of a disservice in terms of the prose to describe these, here are a collection of tunes that have landed in our in-box or mailbox and that really deserve some ear-time from … Continue reading New Music Round Up
Having already furnished you with two tracks from Mark Mulcahy’s superb long player Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You, we are naturally made up to provide you with a third. Over the past few weeks the album has seeped into our head and into our heart – it is wry, sometimes slyly malevolent, and often surreal, and has rapidly become a regular spin here … Continue reading More From Mark Mulcahy – Poison Candy Heart
Videos today include another from T. Hardy Morris’ series of The Audition Tapes From Places In Peril, the brilliant Share The Needle was filmed in Georgia’s iconic Paradise Garden. We also have This Frontier Needs Heroes new video for excellent album title track Hooky, and Savoir Adore’s fiery new music film for Regalia. Lastly we have the very promising fuzzy, cinematic English psych of Strangefruit’s … Continue reading Videos of the Day: T. Hardy Morris || This Frontier Needs Heroes || Savoir Adore || Strangefruit
Also out via the Mama Bird Recording Co. WIDOWER’s Fool Moon long-player saw a release at the very end of last month. It is a true, honest to goodness break-up record, borne from heartbreak, pure and simple. So, although we’re a little late getting to it (it happens sometimes), the first single Oh Catherine, My Catherine is very much worth spending some time with. Download it below. … Continue reading MM Shorts 422: WIDOWER
Vikesh Kapoor has announced his debut album, The Ballad of Willy Robbins, to be released October 15th via Mama Bird Recording Co. His first release on the Portland-based label, the record is a concept album that chronicles the brutal, but hopeful journey of a working-class man who slowly loses his ambition, health, family and shelter. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Kapoor witnessed firsthand the hardships … Continue reading Debut Album From Vikesh Kapoor
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