Here is this week’s round up of new tunes. We have nine tracks for you from the kaleidoscopic pop of Ezra Furman to the fuzzy shambling pop of Fireworks by way of the infectious hooks of Dogbreth and the Mercury Rev inspired psych of Avers. Enjoy. Cass McCombs – Run Sister Run Ezra Furman – Teddy I’m Ready Tacocat – I Live For The Sun (Sunrays … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Singer-songwriter Daniel Pearson will release his new single titled 4th July on June 17th. The immediately infectious track is a freewheeling slice of Americana that welds driving guitars, Johnny n’ June vocal harmonies and raucous harmonica into an ironic tale of love gone sour that fizzes by in under three minutes. Spin it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 854: Daniel Pearson
Well, on this gloomiest of weeks a little ray of sunshine perhaps with some new music gathered up from the best of the last seven days (oh the irony). So while Johnson and Gove revel in the toxic slime of their own making and the Labour Party implodes, hit play on nine new songs from the likes of Devendra Banhart, ShitKid, Wymond Miles, The Wind-Up Birds and covers … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Today is a sad day. A day I am sad to say I feel embarrassed to be “English”. A day I feel impotent rage at the Tory party’s supreme arrogance that constant austerity measures and cuts after cuts after cuts aimed at the poorest and the weakest wouldn’t leave people feeling ever more disenfranchised and disconnected from the world. A day I feel impotent rage … Continue reading WTF!
Oxford, MS-based Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster – the singer/guitarist for long standing MM faves Water Liars – will release his debut solo album Constant Stranger on the 30th September via Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum. With evocative imagery of the natural world, Constant Stranger seamlessly blends deeply personal ruminations on family, lovers, a musician’s transient life, and the frequently confounding nature of existence – and creates a … Continue reading Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster of Water Liars Announces Solo Album
We were delighted to hear of the return of singer-songwriter Adam Torres and have already shared the lovely High Lonesome from his forthcoming album Pearls to Swine, which is out on the 9th September. Now we have another track for you – sprawling in scope and devastating in content, this time it is the hauntingly eerie and moving six minutes of Outlands. Listen below. Continue reading Another From Adam Torres
Husband and wife duo Shovels & Rope write literate, Southern Gothic infused songs of a uniformly high quality – one that sets them apart from the vast majority of their contemporaries. They will release their new album Little Seeds on their new label New West Records on 7th October. With song titles such as Botched Execution, Mourning Song, The Last Hawk and subject matters ranging from Alzheimer’s … Continue reading Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds
Drive-By Truckers will celebrate twenty years together with the release of a new album American Band. They have shared Surrender Under Protest from it and Patterson Hood has had some pretty powerful stuff to say about the inspiration behind the record. “These are crazy times and we have made a record steeped in this moment of history that we’re all trying to live through. We’ve always considered … Continue reading Drive-By Truckers Announce New Album
You know the score – a sweep up of some of the week’s best new releases, new tunes and new artists. This week we have no less than eleven tracks for you including The Avett Brothers, Left Lane Cruiser, The Devil Makes Three, Deerhoof and plenty more. Dive in… The Avett Brothers – Satan Pulls The Strings Band Of Horses – Barrel House Holly Miranda … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here is the twentieth instalment of our Nickel In The Jukebox series, collecting ten new (and sometimes not quite so new) tunes from our inbox and sharing them for you to decide – hot or miss? Cheena – Car [RIYL: NY Punk, Gun Club, Lou Reed ] King Courgette – Courgette Boys [RIYL: Hoedown folk, Earl Scruggs, Holy Modal Rounders] Twin River – … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 20)
The Mad Mackerel 