Los Angeles’s The Dream Syndicate have announced the release of These Times, their second album of new music since their 2012 reunion nearly thirty years after they first influenced California’s Paisley Underground scene. We’re (sadly) old enough to have known and loved them the first time round and so we’re happy to share the first single from the record. It is the kaleidoscopic late night psychedelics … Continue reading The Dream Syndicate – Black Light
Pet Shimmers – Feels Hz (featuring Goat Girl) Sleaford Mods – O.B.C.T. William The Conqueror – Thank Me Later Wye Oak – Evergreen The Regrettes – Pumpkin Weyes Blood – Everyday Sparrow Steeple – Roll Baby Tacocoat – Grains Of Salt Bench Press – Respite Hand Habits – what lovers do Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The Cactus Blossoms are a Minneapolis-based brother duo and will release their forthcoming album Easy Way (out 1st March via Walkie Talkie Records). This track is a co-write with Dan Auerbach and it is a gorgeous, mellow trip, tinged with a retro vibes and just about perfect for Valentine’s Day. Stream it here. Continue reading Cactus Blossoms – Got A Lotta Love
We’re a sucker for some outlaw country and southern gothic and Renee Wahl delivers in spades on her new album Cut To The Bone, which is out on the 15th March. We have a couple of tracks to share from it – To The Bone is a swampy, swaggering rocker that almost has a touch of Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus about it, and the bittersweet From Here … Continue reading Renee Wahl – Cut To The Bone
We’ve already posted a couple of tracks from Lonesome Shack’s upcoming long player Desert Dreams. Our advance copy is already becoming one of our most played records of the year so far, and the Seattle formed, but now London based, trio have shared another excellent tune from the record. Too Bad is one of our favourites from the album, it is deceptively simple desert blues, … Continue reading Lonesome Shack – Too Bad
Quite literally just last week I was talking to someone about what had happened to A.A.Bondy who was last heard of (musically at least) back in 2011 when he released the outstanding Believers, itself a follow-up to 2009’s equally brilliant When The Devil’s Loose album. Two fabulous records from a brilliant songwriter who then just seemed to disappear without trace. I was excited for a … Continue reading After Eight Long Years… A.A. Bondy Returns
For more than two decades, Damien Jurado has sung folk songs brimming with prophetic imagination. Whether singing ballads about killers, wounded lovers, UFO cults, or the phantoms of departed friends, he’s populated his work with eerie foretelling, the sense that he’s divining something just on the verge of happening. He wrote his last record, 2018’s The Horizon Just Laughed as a goodbye letter to his … Continue reading Damien Jurado Announces New Album, Shares South
Flat Worms – Surreal New Year The Uranium Club – Man Is The Loneliest Animal Ånge Teenage Angst – Ånge Teenage Angst A Merge Group Plays “Heroes” – V-2 Schneider (David Bowie cover) Esther Rose – Don’t Blame It On The Moon W.H. Lung – Simpatico People MELTS – Echoes Wand – Scarecrow Sharon Van Etten – Never Grow Old (James Cleveland Moore, Sr cover) Laura … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The day just keeps on getting better. No sooner did we have the details of the new Felice Brothers album, than we discover a new single release from another long, long standing MM favourite, Dr. Dog in our Soundcloud feed. Titled Critical, it consists of two tracks, Can’t Catch Me and Can She Dance. The former is an uptempo country tinged psych rocker that they are … Continue reading Dr. Dog – Critical Single
Happy days! After three long years, we have an announcement of a new album from the Felice Brothers. Undress was recorded in the late summer of 2018 in Germantown, New York. “Many of the songs on the new album are motivated by a shift from private to public concerns,” says songwriter Ian Felice. “It isn’t hard to find worthwhile things to write about these days, there … Continue reading The Felice Brothers Announce Undress
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