Nashville trio The Bad Signs are vocalist Samantha Harlow and brothers Nat and Rob Rufus. Rob is also the author of the book Die Young With Me (Simon & Schuster) about his own battle with cancer. Together they create a wonderfully seedy tribute to the fringe culture of 1960s America – the beatniks, the beehives, the bikers, the whole scene. New EP, Black Magic Moments, will be an … Continue reading MM Shorts 936: The Bad Signs
This week has seen a few MM faves all share some top-notch new tunes via YouTube, and so here is a quick video collection from garage rockers Black Lips, psych-juggernauts Black Angels, psych-freaks King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, hazy troubadour Mac DeMArco, some classic old-time Americana from The Deslondes and some amphetamine filled blues boogie from Left Lane Cruiser. … Continue reading Videos: Black Lips / Black Angels / King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard / Mac DeMarco / Deslondes / Left Lane Cruiser
The Right Stuff is the new single to be released by latest signings to the marvellous Loose label, The Americans. Hailing from Los Angeles, the quartet blend country and blues with a fiery blue collar rock’n’roll attitude, absorbing and reconfiguring the history of American music from Chuck Berry and Tom Waits to Bruce Springsteen. The band named themselves after the controversial photo series by Robert Frank, which was … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Americans
Started in conjunction with Secretly Group and 30 Songs, 30 Days, Our First 100 Days aims to raise funds for organizations supporting causes that are currently under threat by the Trump administration. We’ve already featured a few songs from the project, which has raised over $80,000 so far. For their contribution, Courtney Marie Andrews and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy have collaborated on a cover of I … Continue reading Courtney Marie Andrews & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Here is the title track from Left Lane Cruiser’s new full-length studio effort, Claw Machine Wizard. The duo are still putting out some of the gnarliest, primordial, gut-bucket blues-punk imaginable… Praise be for that! Stream it below. Continue reading Left Lane Cruiser – Claw Machine Wizard
So many good new tunes released this week – fourteen and counting – that we’ve had to split them into two posts. Here are the first seven including a brilliant new single from the UK’s new saviour of indie guitar rock, Cabbage. Like a cross between Fat White Family, The Fall, and the Amazing Snakeheads. We have the new single from Samantha Crain’s upcoming album … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
Guitarist, singer, harmonica player, and songwriter Mark Porkchop Holder is a founding member of the seminal Tennessee punk-rock/blues band The Black Diamond Heavies. Holder plays the blues, and after more than a decade of struggling with depression and addiction, he has finally come back home, in Chattanooga TN, and his debut solo studio effort Let It Slide (out on 10th February via Alive Naturalsound Records) is … Continue reading MM Shorts 911: Mark Porkchop Holder
Welcome to our first Nickel in the Jukebox feature of 2017. Ten recent, and not-so-recent, tunes scooped up over the past couple of months from our bulging in-box. We have everything from noisy punk to swamp-blues and mellow folk and all points in-between. Something for everyone as the cliche goes – and you decide hit or miss! EAT FAST – Sand Drone [RIYL: Fuzz … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 26)
Old Nobodaddy is a New Orleans based songsmith and his latest single Gun is Coming is brooding, gospel-noir of the highest order. Swampy blues with a stomping revivalist rhythm that leans towards the dark – think Nick Cave meets a dust covered Father John Misty – it is a fabulous taster for his soon-to-be-released, The Pretty Plea’s EP. Listen here. Get it for a pay-what-you-want deal here. Continue reading MM Shorts 905: Old Nobodaddy
Let’s hope the next 365 days are a vast improvement on 2016. Fingers crossed Trump gets impeached, we somehow find a way back into the EU, Sunderland don’t get relegated, Yorkshire reach the T20 finals again, there are new albums from Wooden Wand, Deer Tick and Phosphorescent, and Neil Young and Bob Dylan manage to stay alive. That would do nicely for starters. Let us kick … Continue reading HAPPY NEW YEAR
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