1. The Amazing Snakeheads – Can’t Let You Go 2. Angel Olsen – All Right Now 3. Hookworms – On Leaving 4. Ultimate Painting – Ten Street 5. Chumped – Songs About Boats , . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Lonesome Shack’s More Primitive album is about as good a set of boogie-blues and countrified rock as you’re likely to hear this year. Here is a “letting off steam on a golf-course” inspired video for the title track. . . Continue reading New Video: Lonesome Shack – More Primitive
The excellent Kings Of Lowertown have made a new track available for a name-your-price download via Bandcamp. Swamp King is slower, a gritty and gravelly blues number that pulses with restrained longing. . Continue reading MM Shorts 616: Kings Of Lowertown
Miraculous Mule are releasing a brand new mini album Blues Uzi on November 3rd. It comes pretty close on the heels of their excellent debut long player Deep Fried. The title track is a righteous fury of junkyard hip-hop influenced blues and can be streamed below… . Continue reading Miraculous Mule – Blues Uzi
Here are a couple of tracks from Quiet Life’s recent, excellent EP Housebroken Man. The first, the title track, features a rollicking cameo from Cary Ann Hearst from Shovels & Rope, and the second, a mesmerising and poignant cover of Townes Van Zandt’s Waiting Around To Die features Jim James of My Morning Jacket. Buy it here. . . Continue reading Quiet Life – Housebroken Man
A few tasty new videos have come our way in the past few days. Here are five of the best of them from The Pack A.D., Tom Williams & The Boat, Teleman, Beechwood, and Imogen Heap. . . . . . . Continue reading Some New Videos
The Ghost Wolves are inspired by delta blues, loud garage rock, and American roots music – a genre they call ‘stomp and roll.’ Their excellent new LP Man, Woman, Beast was released a few weeks ago and we’ve already posted the video for Gonna Live from the record. Now watch the video for the equally ferocious Attack Attack Attack. Buy the album here. . . Continue reading Video: The Ghost Wolves – Attack Attack Attack
The Pine Hill Haints are a group of troubadours and kindred spirits that mix elements of folk, rockabilly, bluegrass and Americana, with just a hint of punk. With the help of a rotating cast of friends and storytellers, the band has travelled the world, sporadically releasing records that have mostly been self-recorded and sold from the back of their van. Their sound has grown and … Continue reading New Album From The Pine Hill Haints
Canadian folkies, The Barr Brothers have unveiled another new track from their forthcoming album as well as details of a UK tour for the Autumn. The new track is Half-Crazy, also taken from their new album Sleeping Operator, released on the 6th October through Secret City Records. The band describe the song as “the tenacious offspring of the North African desert music of Mali/Morocco, and the sweat … Continue reading More From The Barr Brothers
The longest day has come and gone, and halfway through the year we are. It seemed a good point to reflect and share thirty of our favourite albums of 2014 so far, and so here they are, in strictly alphabetical order of course… . The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads . Amen Dunes – Love . Avers – Empty Light . Dan Baker – Pistol In … Continue reading Favourite Albums of 2014 (So Far)
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