New Videos: Sufjan Stevens, Jen Cloher, Kevin Devine, Julien Baker
Four new videos from four of our favourite songwriters… Continue reading New Videos: Sufjan Stevens, Jen Cloher, Kevin Devine, Julien Baker
Category: Americana
India Ramey – Snake Handler
Blasting twin barrels of Americana noir and southern-gothic songwriting, India Ramey fires on all cylinders with her new long player, Snake Handler. Pentecostal churches, broken households, crooked family trees, forgotten pockets of the Deep South, and domestic violence all fill the album’s ten songs, whose autobiographical lyrics pull from Ramey’s experience as a young girl in rural Georgia. Her family home was a violent one, the … Continue reading India Ramey – Snake Handler
Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Mountain Goats – Shirtless In Hamburg OCS – The Fool U.S. Girls – Mad As Hell Patsy – Tommy, Bobby, Johnny Gun Outfit – Landscape Painter Nots – Anxious Trend Evan Stephens Hall – Burnout (Green Day cover) Adults – MSN Silver Torches – Bartender SaveSave Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Sharon Van Etten Remasters and Reissues Debut Album
Sharon Van Etten originally released her excellent debut Because I Was In Love in 2009. Now she is reissuing a remastered version of it with two additional bonus tracks, entitled (it was) because i was in love. It will be released on the 17th November. Ahead of the reissue release, she has shared a new version of opening track I Wish I Knew, which you … Continue reading Sharon Van Etten Remasters and Reissues Debut Album
Eight Songs You Should Have Heard… Last Week
Well, better late than never! And some great new tunes. Ty Segall – Alta The Limiñanas featuring Anton Newcombe – Istanbul Is Sleepy Who Is She? – Seattle Freeze Langhorne Slim – Life Is Confusing A. Savage – Phantom Limbo Whitney – Light Upon The Lake Joint Effort – Blue Lightning Nervous Dater – Don’t Be A Stranger … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard… Last Week
First Aid Kit – It’s A Shame
There isn’t much that sounds better than the gorgeous harmonies created by Swedish sisters First Aid Kit. New single It’s A Shame is a perfect case in point. Simply lovely. Continue reading First Aid Kit – It’s A Shame
Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Angel Olsen – Special Screaming Females – Black Moon Hiss Golden Messenger – John The Gun The Cornshed Sisters – Running Torres – Helen In The Woods Deep Dark Woods – Fallen Leaves Weaves featuring Tanya Tagaq – Scream Kevin Devine featuring Half Waif – I Was Alive Back Then Laura Baird – Pretty Polly … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
More From Joseph Childress
We’ve already posted a couple of tracks from Joseph Childress’ new self-titled record, and Leaving The Barren Ground is the latest, and final, song to be shared from it ahead of its official release on the 6th October. It is another really fine example of his organic songwriting and pithy Americana with just the right amount of gentle twang. It is easy to how the … Continue reading More From Joseph Childress
Shannon Lay – Recording 15
On the evidence of Recording 15 (below) and the previously posted The Moons Detriment, we are greatly looking forward to Shannon Lay’s new long player Living Water (out as the inaugural release on Kevin Morby’s new Mare Records imprint). It is a sweetly plucked folky campfire love song. Gorgeous. You can pre-order the album here. Continue reading Shannon Lay – Recording 15
Mad Mackerel Recommends… Lenore
The debut album from Portland witch-folk duo Lenore. is out now. The album has a lush sound that contrasts with the stark intimacy of the lyrics, and the open-gazed sense of place that comes from the beautiful sweeping vistas of the Pacific Northwest. But really the core of the sound is their beautiful voices intertwining in harmony – have a listen to Ether’s Arms below. Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Lenore
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