Here is Hurray For The Riff Raff performing a gorgeous version of album standout The Body Electric on Letterman. . . Continue reading Video: Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Body Electric (On Letterman)
Psych-folk troubadour Jon Allen’s Lady Of The Water is a great Jackson C. Frank / Nick Drake style haunting acoustic ballad, with soulful vocals floating over some sweet finger-picking. The video goes quite psychedelic and was created by Akira The Don. Watch it here. . Continue reading New Video: Jon Allen – Lady Of The Water
1. Peggy Sue (featuring Willy Mason) – Longest Day Of The Year Blues 2. Menace Beach – Tennis Court 3. Brother Dege – Set It Off 4. Shovels & Rope – The Devil Is All Around 5. White Fence – Like That . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The marvellous Owsley Brothers are back with a free download of Flash In The Pan, taken from their forthcoming album TOB, which is the follow up to 2012’s excellent Cobalt. For lovers of heavy garage-blues infused with a healthy dose of experimental psych rock… Listen below and grab it via Bandcamp. . Continue reading The Owsley Brothers – Flash In The Pan
Here is another slab of gritty blues stomp from Ontario’s Kings Of Lowertown. Blues Haul is the flipside to their brilliant Mississippi Flood track (posted here), which will be pressed on vinyl later in 2014 as a double A side release. Stream it here. . Continue reading Kings Of Lowertown – Blues Haul
Our new favourite band have released a new single Nighttime, taken from their outstanding debut album Amphetamine Ballads. Here is a suitably dark, hallucinatory video to accompany it. . Continue reading Video: The Amazing Snakeheads – Nighttime
Courtly Love are merging bluesy tones with psychedelic hazes; a brand-new quintet from East London and one of those rare musical collectives who appear to have arrived fully formed and armed with clutch of quite wonderful tunes. They produce a gorgeous smouldering psych blues fusion, mixing the dark gutter glamour of the Velvets & Nico with the cinematic doomed grandeur of Serge Gainsbourg. Watch the … Continue reading Video: Courtly Love – Mirage
Previously we’ve just offered Best of the Month postings with downloads, but that excludes so many quality songs we’ve decided to just post our favourite tracks – irrespective of whether they are free to download or not. If you like them add them to your Spotify playlists or do the old fashioned thing and download them from iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever. Anyway, with a bit … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Months: March – May (Part 1)
An appropriately sinister video for the raucous garage punk and blues of Well Hung Heart’s Black Lightning. It comes from recently released album Go Forth And Multiply. . . Continue reading Video: Well Hung Heart – Black Lightning
Hiss Golden Messenger have signed to Merge Records and released this new track, the blues inflected, call and response, six minute stunner Brother Do You Know The Road? It is yet another example of M.C. Taylor and collaborator Scott Hirsch’s incredible ability to create some of the most affecting and original Americana out there. Immerse yourself in slide guitar, organ, shuffling percussion and resigned, world-weary vocals below. … Continue reading Hiss Golden Messenger – Brother Do You Know The Road?
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