Category: Americana

Alternative, Americana, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Videos of the Day: Man Man || King Krule || T. Hardy Morris || Brazos

Videos today from Man Man with one of the most imaginative lyric videos we’ve seen for their track Head On, a simple but effective film from King Krule for new track Easy Easy, and T. Hardy Morris’ stark film from Georgia’s decayed Central State Hospital building (once the largest mental hospital in the USA) for his brilliantly bleak track Hard Stuff. Lastly Brazo’s new video … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Man Man || King Krule || T. Hardy Morris || Brazos

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Acoustic, Americana, Folk, Indie, Music

Smoke Fairies Ghosts Collection

Long established MM faves, the London folk duo, Smoke Fairies are doing a special UK tour in October, to celebrate the release of their retrospective double CD, Ghosts. It features long-sold-out / deleted material, plus some never-before released tracks. This is one of those unreleased tracks, Good Man. It is fabulous. Ghosts will see a release on 23rd September. Those October dates (tickets on sale … Continue reading Smoke Fairies Ghosts Collection

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Alternative, Americana, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Thursday Means Eight Of The Best

A sudden plethora of new tunes have hit the web, and here are eight of our favourites for your aural delight. First up is psych-heavyweights White Hills persistently hypnotic In Your Room that comes from the space rockers forthoming album So You Are … So You’ll Be, which is out next month on Thrill Jockey. Regina Spektor has an upbeat new song featuring in new Netflix … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight Of The Best

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Americana, Country, Indie, Music, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Grisly Hand

The Grisly Hand are a melting pot of all things Americana, and their Kansas City home base is a reflection of their sound: rumbling, rollicking and honest. Staying true to the timeless themes of outlaw and alt-country, trouble and affliction are running threads throughout the band’s debut album Country Singles as they spin darkly humorous tales of the American Dream on the skids using guitar, lap steel, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Grisly Hand

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Americana, Country, Music, Rock

New From The Moondoggies

On August 13th, Seattle’s alt-country moonshine rockers The Moondoggies will release Adiós I’m a Ghost, their much anticipated third LP. To whet the appetite the band are sharing a standout new mp3, Midnight Owl, and have also announced they will be joining up-and-coming Sub Pop group Rose Windows (see our recent post on them here) for live dates on what sounds like a pretty perfect tour … Continue reading New From The Moondoggies

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Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Latest American Songwriter Free Mix

The latest American Songwriter Muse sampler for July is up and available for download. Always a top notch compilation the July issue features twelve tracks including Pokey LaFarge, The Generationals, Guy Clarke, Har Mar Superstar and Dead Fingers amongst others. Grab it for free from their Bandcamp page here, or check out a couple of our favourites from Andrew Duhon and the brilliant Torres below. … Continue reading Latest American Songwriter Free Mix

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Americana, Indie, Music, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends Construction & Destruction

Colleen Collins and David Trenaman met in London, Ontario, Canada in about 1994. And Construction & Destruction started in about 2005, or so. Dark Lark is the fifth album they’ve put together together. The record offers ten songs that range from rugged Americana to experimental rock and in topic from rural isolation to the fall of Troy. Trenaman and Collins trade off on vocals, each adding unique characteristics … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends Construction & Destruction

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