Roadkill Ghost Choir are a (excellently named) 6 piece band from Deland, Florida and play spacey folk rock. Influences range from Radiohead to Gram Parsons. Their debut album called Quiet Light is in the final stages of completion and should see the light of day in May. In The Lion’s Mouth is the first taste. a Continue reading MM Shorts 119: Roadkill Ghost Choir
And so it was to Birmingham and the HMV Institute to see the rescheduled, and still hotly anticipated, Felice Brothers gig with the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn as support replacing the previously scheduled AA Bondy. We parked in a back street, bathed in the blue neon of a tired looking Adult shop with its tatty handwritten sign, “No drugs. No hats.“. Headed off, Popper, Barry-Sean, Analyse this … Continue reading Live Review: The Felice Brothers / Craig Finn
We were turned on to this by the excellent Slowcoustic blog. We figured that, as it features MM fave, Wooden Wand then a re-post of sorts was in order. The marvellous Mr Wand has lent his talents to Good Saints who have recorded a split 7″ with Kill County. Take a listen to the wonderful Texas Moan. Order it here. a Continue reading Wooden Wand Again…In Good Saints
The short film Elsewhere, by Mathy & Fran, is formed around a collection of songs by Kurt Vile, Lucky Dragons, High Places and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. Set in London, two lovers-on-the-run head into the middle of nowhere, armed only with strange trinkets and a silver boom box. It is a story of love, destruction and the act of letting go, starring Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife, The Woman In Black) and Aneurin Barnard (We’ll … Continue reading Elsewhere – Short Film
We seem to be getting overwhelmed by high quality videos at the moment so it would be churlish and not a little selfish of us not to share some of the best with you. Kicking off is the wonderful video for the delicately beautiful Tuck The Darkness In from the Bowerbirds new album The Clearing. a Next we have Cheyenne Marie Mize and a video for her … Continue reading More Videos For Your Perusal And Enjoyment
Josh & Mer (aka Josh Schroeder & Meredith Adelaide) featured in a couple of the End-of Year Top Tens we posted back in December and so we are pleased to be able to offer you up a new tune and video from them. This is Mind Control, which has an altogether more unsettling and eerie vibe to it than we’ve previously been used to and the … Continue reading Josh & Mer Unleash The Freaks…
Review: Chris T Popper It was with some excitement Banner, Boney B (shouldn’t that be M?), Dr Roddy and myself made our way to the Jericho Tavern in Oxford to catch Dennis Hopper Choppers playing live in our own backyard Opening with MM fave Good To Me we stood transfixed as he delivered a near perfect rendition of what we already consider a classic. In … Continue reading Live Review: Dennis Hopper Choppers
Fish on a Friday – there’s a novelty for me. Just a small dose of lightly grilled mackerel this week… So it is away I go to Wembley for a weekend of undoubtedly strenuous exercise by day (aerobics), followed by two evenings of hard drinking (take your pick really, but alcoholic I suspect). I expect that one will have an unduly detrimental effect on the … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (9th March)
We’ve got good stuff coming out of our ears – quite literally at the moment. So here is the latest in our somewhat ad-hoc “of the best” feature comprising a trawl of the in-box and favourite blogs to bring you eight corking tunes to help get your Friday night off to a suitably energetic start. We have Swedish punks Holograms and the clattering b-side to … Continue reading Friday Means Eight Of The Best
It seems a happy coincidence that having just eulogised about our discovery of Finnish lo-fi Americana artist Einar Lind, posted earlier today with copious references to dark Finnish chantreuse Mirel Wagner that she in turn should make another track available from her own remarkable self-titled debut album. Here then is The Road, another cheery tale of death, sparsely plucked and whispered and coming across like a … Continue reading Another From Mirel Wagner
The Mad Mackerel 