Despite already sharing some great new songs this week from Deer Tick, Quiet Hollers, She Keeps Bees, Waxahatchee, Happyness and Alvvays this week, we’ve also rounded up a collection of eight more cracking new tunes for you too. Enjoy. PJ Harvey & Ramy Essam – The Camp Diet Cig – Together We Can Conquer Whatever Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Nathan Salsburg – Fare You Well, My … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
She Keeps Bees have dropped a new track, the grungy, heavy-slow strum of Head Of Steak, which takes on Donald Trump’s self-interest and climate change denial. “The lyrics are quite explicit, which is fitting because I find the current administration to be completely vulgar.” says Jessica Larrabee. All profit from the first year of sales will be donated to organisation Earth Justice. The song is … Continue reading She Keeps Bees – Head Of Steak
Following on from Medicine, the first track from Quiet Hollers’ forthcoming new album Amen Breaks, we now have the reflective St. Valentine’s Boys for your undoubted listening pleasure. Watch the video below which features lead singer Shadwick Wilde breaking into some mean calisthenics and DIY dance moves, lending to the whimsical nature of the video. He describes the narrator in the song, a type of enforcer working for a … Continue reading More From Quiet Hollers
For the first time in four years much loved MM faves Deer Tick have announced the September 15 release of a long-awaited new album…actually, two. Never a group to stand by conventional protocol, the Providence, RI quartet will release two separate albums of original material, Deer Tick Vol. 1 and Deer Tick Vol. 2. Deer Tick Vol. 1 showcases the folk-driven, roots/rock style with just the … Continue reading The Return Of Deer Tick
Creating an intriguing mishmash of musical styles – soundtrack surf, weird pop and Americana, Surfing Magazines are a new garage-rock group consisting of two thirds of The Wave Pictures and one half of Slow Club. Declaring that they intend to ‘rock out and blow your mind, and then mellow out and soothe your mind, then rock out again’, they have more than lived up to their promise … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Surfing Magazines
Waxahatchee’s forthcoming album is titled Out In The Storm and this track Never Been Wrong opens the record. Powerful stuff too, built on a grungey 90s guitar riff and full on percussion, it tells the tale of a disintegrating relationship with unflinching, unsparing lyrics. A break-up anthem par excellence. Stream it below. Continue reading New From Waxahatchee
The lush, melancholy world of Monk Parker is located in the dark, hidden places of America. Empty midday honky-tonks, fogbound north-woods diners, and the shadowy, aging cinemas, libraries & museums wherein Saul Leiter, David Lynch, Bruno Schulz, Anselm Kiefer, Dennis Johnson and Wong Kar Wei yet reside… these are his natural home. Parker’s sophomore effort Crown of Sparrows is due to be released August 4th … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Monk Parker
We’ve already posted a couple of cracking tunes from Swedish indie band Mount Song that absorb some lovely touches of psychedelia, folk and even on this latest track Rocket Ride a soupçon of classic 90s grunge. Fans of bands from the Flaming Lips to Grandaddy will definitely find something to like here. It comes from their self-titled debut which dropped last Friday via Suncave Recordings. Continue reading Mount Song – Rocket Ride
We’ve become big fans of Big Thief and the latest track to be shared from upcoming album Capacity (out June 9th on Saddle Creek), is Mary. It is one of the most beautiful songs drawn from their forthcoming record. Simply gorgeous. mom and dad and violins somber country silence the needle stopped the kicking the clothes pins on the floor and my heart is playing hide and … Continue reading Big Thief – Mary
Mutual Benefit, the folk project led by songwriter Jordan Lee, will release a full album cover of Vashti Bunyan’s storied 1970 debut album Just Another Diamond Day on 23rd June exclusively via Turntable Kitchen’s SOUNDS DELICIOUS vinyl subscription series. You can listen to two tracks, Jog Along Bess and Glow Worms, both of which have a wonderfully understated and reverential feel that give them a real … Continue reading Mutual Benefit Cover Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day
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