Quilt Cover F.J. McMahon

Quilt have shared their version of F.J. McMahon’s Sister Brother, off their forthcoming full album cover of McMahon’s 1969 classic psych-folk record Spirit of the Golden Juice. Limited to 1,000 copies the record will be out later this month via Turntable Kitchen’s Sounds Delicious vinyl series. Listen to the track below and pre-order the album here.   Continue reading Quilt Cover F.J. McMahon

Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Spray Paint with Ben Mackie – Friendly Moving Man Wavves – The Lung Destroyer – Tinseltown Swimming In Blood Nervous Dater – Bad Spanish Holiday Ghosts – Can’t Bear To Be Boring The Lemon Twigs – Why Didn’t You Say That Joana Serrat – Trapped In The Fog Pansies – Feels Like Yesterday                 SaveSave Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

New Videos Round Up

Some musical films and lyric videos. They’re good. Offa My Hands is the third song unveiled from Jessica Lea Mayfield’s anticipated new album, Sorry Is Gone.   Phoebe Bridgers has shared Funeral, another haunting and introspective track from her upcoming debut album Stranger In The Alps.   Norwegian chanteuse Ane Brun’s new record consists of fourteen covers of tracks by Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan … Continue reading New Videos Round Up

Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Ten new songs for you collected from the week’s new releases. Lots to discover including two stunning covers by The Tallest Man On Earth and Marie Danielle, snotty punk done to perfection by Amyl & The Sniffers, tracks from Americana heavyweights Deer Tick and Blitzen Trapper and classic country from Margo Price. Plenty more besides… enjoy. The Tallest Man On Earth – Both Sides Now … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

New Covers From Weyes Blood & Allah Las

A couple of interesting releases coming up, both from longstanding MM faves, on the excellent Mexican Summer label. The first recorded Weyes Blood music since her 2016 breakthrough album Front Row Seat To Earth, Natalie Mering will release a 7″ of cover songs that have helped define her sound over the years. It contains versions of Soft Machines’ A Certain Kind b/w Fred Neil’s Everybody’s Talkin’, as … Continue reading New Covers From Weyes Blood & Allah Las

Silver Torches – Keep The Car Running

Keep The Car Running is the second track to be shared from Silver Torches’ upcoming record Let It Be A Dream. With echoes of Ryan Adams or the pin-sharp observations of Paul Westerberg, it also shares some of the same expansive melancholia of the new War On Drugs record, but without sacrificing anything of the robustness of songwriting that marked out their excellent debut Heatherfield. … Continue reading Silver Torches – Keep The Car Running

MM Shorts 970: Wes Youssi

The upcoming outlaw country album from Wes Youssi, Down Low, is a freight train speeding past an iconic stretch of Americana coastline. It is the product of bar room brawls, unexpected lay-offs, a marriage, raising children, moving across the country, and unknowingly purchasing a police cruiser. The album, due out next January (19th), is being released on Never Lucky Records. The first single, High Time, … Continue reading MM Shorts 970: Wes Youssi

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Over Everything

Pretty much figure we’ve all been waiting to hear this… Over Everything is the first fruits of the collaboration between Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile and is taken from the forthcoming album Lotta Sea Lice. Enjoy those dovetailing vocal lines and intricate, shimmering guitar! We are…   Continue reading Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Over Everything

Elliott BROOD – Dig A Little Hole

Longstanding MM faves, the Hamilton, Ontario-based folk/alt-country trio Elliott BROOD  have shared a new track from their sixth studio album Ghost Gardens, which will see a release on September 15, 2017 via Paper Bag Records. The road to the new album began with the rediscovery of lost demo songs from early in the band’s career, nearly a decade and a half ago. The misplaced hard … Continue reading Elliott BROOD – Dig A Little Hole

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Metz – Mess Of Wires Ornament – It Must Be The Season Jack Cooper – A Net S. Carey – Brassy Sun Weaves – Walkaway together PANGEA – Sippy Cup Public Access T.V. – Feeling It Out Chelsea Wolfe – Offering American Anymen – Flag Burner                     Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week