Likes Of Me is the latest track from T. Hardy Morris’ forthcoming album Drowning On A Mountaintop. It is another mighty fine slab of country rock infused with a grunge mentality and searing guitars. Dive in! . Continue reading T. Hardy Morris – Likes Of Me
Following some lineup changes, Canada’s futurekids are now a female-fronted, MOOG-driven indie rock outfit, and working on the follow up to last year’s Say Goodnight to the Machines EP. With a smooth blend of subtle twang and layered choral vocals, appropriately named new track Americana is a porch sittin’ love letter to roots music featuring new vocalist Kaeleigh Ayre. Listen/download it here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 720: Futurekids
It’s that time again…our collection of newly minted tunes from the past seven days that are worth some serious listening. 1. Creepoid – Shaking 2. Zachary Cale – Sundowner 3. The Catenary Wires – Throw Another Love Song On The Fire 4. Jessie Jones – Sugar Coated 5. PINS – Molly 6. Trembling Bells – Killing Time In London Fields . . . . . … Continue reading Six Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We first became aware of Meg Baird as co-founder of the mysterious psych-folk band Espers who released three excellent studio albums. She then went on to form the moody and thunderous Heron Oblivion and has also found time to release two solo records of her own and now has a new solo album Don’t Weigh Down The Light due for release on the 22nd June … Continue reading Meg Baird – Don’t Weigh Down The Light
Lady Bones have shared 24 Hour Party Girl, the second single from the Boston trio’s upcoming full length debut Dying. If follows lead single Botch and takes the band on another rollercoaster ride through rough edged grunge, twisted Americana, and pounding post-punk. The album is one of dark hardcore-edged indie rock haunted by a backwoods twang that sounds more like the product of a band living near the Floridian … Continue reading Lady Bones – 24 Hour Party Girl
Following on from Kyle Cox’s Rolling Stones cover yesterday, we now have a cover of the Velvet Underground’s classic Femme Fatale for you by Chicago indie-folksters Ratboys. It is lovely stuff. Give it a spin and grab from NoiseTrade here. . Continue reading Ratboys Cover The Velvet Underground
Nashville based singer-songwriter Kyle Cox has shared this understated, even downbeat cover of the Rolling Stones’ classic Sympathy For The Devil. His take suits the song and is on heavy rotation at Mackerel Towers. . Continue reading MM Shorts 717: Kyle Cox
Hands is the first single from singer-songwriter Jackson Emmer’s forthcoming solo album. It’s a dram of gentle twang, drenched in fiddle that rolls along on the back of his warm, yet weary voice. This is classic back porch Americana and we love it. Check out his Bandcamp page here too. . Continue reading MM Shorts 716: Jackson Emmer
With one half of the band influenced by the sounds and lyrics of Alt-Country, and the other half deeply rooted in a more modern folk, The Deer Run Drifters have quickly carved themselves out a perfect spot in Americana music. Their latest album Restless Youth continues what the band is known for: themes of life, heartbreak, and of course drunken mishaps. Utilising their trademark weathered and often … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Deer Run Drifters
With his beautifully offbeat, gloriously sun-baked debut LP Slow Gum hurtling our way just in time for summer, rapidly ascendant Australian troubadour Fraser A. Gorman has shared new single Shiny Gun. Distilling the best elements of folk, blues and vintage Americana, with Shiny Gun Gorman delivers a warmly rousing anthem in waiting. His distinctly oddball wit and wry poetry courses through the song’s veins, culminating in … Continue reading Video: Fraser A. Gorman – Shiny Gun
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