Category: Blues

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New Video: The Tall Pines – Mexico

The Tall Pines are a shack-shakin’, foot–stompin’, sometimes folk-rock band fronted by singer Connie Lynn Petruk, playing drums on her alligator-skin suitcase and shaking her tambourine, and her guitar-slinging partner Christmas Davis, who writes the songs and howls along. The duo revel in the spirits of the late 1960s and early 1970s country, soul, and swamp-rock scenes, while working hard to take the sounds they … Continue reading New Video: The Tall Pines – Mexico

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Alternative, Blues, Folk, Garage, Music, Punk, Rock

Guadalupe Plata Announce New Album

Guadalupe Plata could easily claim the title of most deathly delta blues outfit to ever emerge from Andalusia. Channelling red hot passion for the blues into Hispanic roots, theirs is a sound that lingers in the sunset like a voodoo curse. Using flamenco terms, they describe their process as straining to be podrío; to be rotten, and talk of “involution,” “duende,” and “hechizo” – supernatural terms … Continue reading Guadalupe Plata Announce New Album

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Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Seven days, nine new songs, all winners. Courtney Barnett – Boxing Days Blues Revisited JEFF The Brotherhood – Radiating Fiber Plane Besnard Lakes – Golden Lion Cass McCombs – Evangeline William Elliott Whitmore – Civilisations Hiccup – Whatevs, Its Cool Powderburns – Not Right (Stooges cover) Cheatahs – Su-Pra Mothers – It Hurts Until It Doesn’t                     Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Mad Mackerel Recommends… Get Your Gun

Taking in elements of dark psychedelia, hazy folk, stoner rock and post-metal – without relying on stereotypical tropes normally associated with heavy music – Denmark’s Get Your Gun create a deliciously dark world of their own. They will release their full-length The Worrying Kind in the UK on November 20th via Louder Than War / Empty Tape. Watch the video below for the bluesy, Americana inspired … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Get Your Gun

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Songhoy Blues Re-version the Clash…

Songhoy Blues have announced their biggest UK headline show to date, a new EP and a deluxe version of their brilliant debut album, Music In Exile. They will play The Roundhouse in London on Saturday 21st May next year, and the deluxe version of the album is out on Friday November 6th. It features three extra tracks, all re-interpretations of tracks by some of the group’s key influences, … Continue reading Songhoy Blues Re-version the Clash…

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Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 2)

Our second collection of ten new tunes for you to spin and decide… hit or miss? The Yawpers – Deacon Brodie (RIYL: Biker blues, MC5, Blue Cheer) . Tedo Stone – By Your Side (RIYL: Fuzzy guitar rock, T Rex, Dinosaur Jr) . Alberta Cross – Ghost Of Santa Fe (RIYL: Southern rock, My Morning Jacket, Crazy Horse) . Flora Cash – This Breeze (RIYL: Folk, … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 2)

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Blues, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Nickel In The Jukebox…

New regular feature (maybe). Ten tunes. Hit or miss? You choose… Animal Omen – Dirty Air (RIYL: Psych-rock, Blue Oyster Cult, Modest Mouse) . Pony Time – Really Nice Guys (RIYL: Garage rock, Fleetwood Mac) . Gun Outfit – Gotta Wanna (RIYL: Desert blues, Giant Sand, Other Lives) . The Folk Today Project – The Reason For Living (RIYL: Protest songs, Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell) . Art … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox…

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The Return Of ⅔ Goat

It has been nearly four years since we featured New York farm based band ⅔ Goat and their eclectic fusion of folk, blues, rock, and country that summoned the likes of vintage era Cash & Carter with a contemporary spin. This time they are engaged in a unique recording project – digitally releasing two songs every two months until the full album Let It Rise is completed at the … Continue reading The Return Of ⅔ Goat

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