Category: Americana

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Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

This week our round up includes a brilliantly angry and frustrated single from Swedish sisters First Aid Kit for International Women’s Day, another track from the prolific Ty Segall’s upcoming EP, the first taste from Bonnie Prince Billy’s Merle Haggard covers record with a version of the classic Mama Tried. This week’s offering from the Our First 100 Days Project comes from Self Esteem (none other … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

The Builders And The Butchers Announce New Album

Happy days! After too many years of silence, Portland, Oregon folk-rockers The Builders and the Butchers are back with a new record, Spark. Name checking influences for the new album as later Tom Waits and White Blood Cells era White Stripes, they’ve shared Older Than Sin, a singalong rush of rumbling guitars and anthemic vocals. Listen below and check out that album art too – always fabulous.   Continue reading The Builders And The Butchers Announce New Album

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Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)

Once again some cracking tuneage for you today in Part 1 of our regular weekly round-up of some of the best new releases. We are ultra excited by the return of Justin Townes Earle and Champagne Corolla, which comes from forthcoming album Kids In The Street,  T. Hardy Morris who has shared a new track NY and Sharon Van Etten who reimagines the Skeeter Davis track End … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)

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MM Shorts 925: The Venisons

Hailing from Santa Ana, California, The Venisons play a woozy, desert parched style of Americana that combines the grittiness of old-school country with some indie rock vibes. They have a self-titled four track EP out (available for free from Bandcamp) which is well worth getting – listen to Heart from it below, which reminds us a lot of another MM favourite Coke Weed.   Continue reading MM Shorts 925: The Venisons

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Blitzen Trapper Announce Musical & Share Love Live On

Wild & Reckless is the title of a new musical from Americana stalwarts Blitzen Trapper that debuts in their hometown of Portland next month (opens 24th March at The Armory). Frontman Eric Early told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s the story of a kid that comes to the city looking to play music, [but] instead he meets and falls for this girl; she turns out to be … Continue reading Blitzen Trapper Announce Musical & Share Love Live On

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Alternative, Americana, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Here we are again, but with lighter nights, spring flowers beginning to bloom and eight songs from the past week rounded up for your listening pleasure. From a new benefit single for the Southern Poverty Law Center, we have wonderfully spectral folk from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and some equally wonderful psych-folk from a re-issue of a long-lost 70s classic by Philip Lewin. There is a … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Introducing >>> Beth // James

The upcoming debut release from Austin duo Beth // James, All In Life, combines a shimmering mix of modern folk, mindful pop, and Americana charm. We’re loving the first single Lion Eyes, a dark ballad spun from moody tumbleweed electric guitar and iridescent organ, and driven home with a raise-your-bourbon-to-the-sky chorus, lambasting “her lion eyes“, a rally cry against anyone who’s careless with other peoples’ hearts. Stream … Continue reading Introducing >>> Beth // James

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Alternative, Americana, Folk, Gothic, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Punk, Rap, Rock

Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

After last week’s bonanza of new tunes, we’re back with eleven more tracks gathered up from the past seven days. No reduction in quality either with another (and the best yet) taste from Laura Marling’s new record Semper Femina, a brand new instrumental track from pastoral psych rockers Allah Las and another ominous slice of brooding Americana from Timber Timbre. We also have new singles from … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Song By Toad’s Split 12″ Series Vol 6

Song By Toad Records have shared details of Volume 6 in their series of split 12″ releases, and this is a cracker, featuring no lesser lights than Willard Grant Conspiracy and Micah P. Hinson from over the water and Scotland’s own Tissø Lake and Kitchen Cynics. It is a fabulous 12 track collection and will be released on the 6th March on limited edition clear orange vinyl. … Continue reading Song By Toad’s Split 12″ Series Vol 6

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