Here are a couple more free gems via Noisetrade that should be added to your iTunes library posthaste. We discovered the indie-folk of Horse To Water via a FB post from longtime MM fave Wooden Wand. Their album Not Me But The Mountain is described as “a journey through the minds of vivid characters that live on the fringe“, and so it proves as it is filled … Continue reading More Gems From NoiseTrade
Short films of the musical variety today come from Pickwick and their genre bending video for the brilliant Lady Luck, and some classic Americana from Turnstile Junkpile. A European jaunt is the scenic backdrop for one of our new favourite bands Allah-Las and their video for Sacred Sands, which is another brilliant slice of West Coast inspired psych-rock. Lastly, some classic jangle-pop from Ski Lodge and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Pickwick || Turnstile Junkpile || Allah-Las || Ski Lodge
Neal Casal has announced the release of a limited edition 7-inch single (via Royal Potato Family) for Record Store Day, featuring his rendition of The Grateful Dead’s Mountains of the Moon. The B-side is an instrumental acoustic guitar-based piece entitled Grimes’ Surf Story. A passionate record collector and vinyl junkie himself, he has explained the reasons he chose to cover this song, “I love ‘Mountains Of The … Continue reading Neal Casal Covers The Grateful Dead For Record Store Day
Watch videos for Horse Thief’s brilliant track I Am The Bear, a stunning intimate acoustic perfomance from SXSW by Iron & Wine, a gorgeous Phantoms & Friends from Old Man Canyon (free EP download from Bandcamp here), and to finish the jittery, unsettling Want by The Soft Moon gets a video to match… . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Horse Thief || Iron & Wine || Old Man Canyon || The Soft Moon
Since the band’s formation in 2007, Paper Bird has been playing its joyful blend of indie folk, roots, and Americana to delighted audiences nationwide. Paper Bird has released two studio albums, Anything Nameless and Joymaking (2007) and When the River took Flight (2010); as well as Carry On (2011), which was the score to a collaboration with Ballet Nouveau Colorado of the same name. Their … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Paper Bird
We love the story songs that abound in folk and country music and when you add in a dash of bluegrass you have a surefire winner in our book. So it is with Angela Perley’s nostalgic and high-energy music, which tells stories of love, death, railroads, and everything in-between. Her songs are rooted in small town Ohio where she spent much of her childhood wandering … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons
Start your weekend with videos from MM fave Turner Cody, then move on to the fuzzed out psych-garage of Halfrican and Lightouts, and finish up with the sonic soundscapes of Tape Deck Mountain. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Turner Cody || Halfrican || Lightouts || Tape Deck Mountain
Anyone who read our review of our last visit to the End of the Road Festival in 2011 will have seen how much we were taken with Lightning Dust who opened proceedings on the Sunday and were one of the very best things we saw (amongst a whole line-up of very best things). This is the official audio video (always a strange concept) for Diamond, … Continue reading New From Lightning Dust
Watch our selection of excellent music videos from the deep blues of GravelRoad’s brain melting Monkey With A Wig, to the psychedelic desert-folk of decker’s live take on their track Cotton, Jane Doe and all by way of the Treetop Flyers sun-drenched Laurel Canyon vibe of Things Will Change and the wonderful Pack A.D.’s fiercely grisly video for Positronic. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: GravelRoad || Treetop Flyers || The Pack A.D. || decker
Woods will release a new 7″ single in July, and the b-side will have a cover of the Kinks God’s Children, which originally appeared on the soundtrack to the 1971 film Percy. Have a listen… Continue reading MM Shorts 353: Woods Cover The Kinks
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