The Planchettes are a duo from New Orleans and purveyors of some pretty mean electric blues. They have a new four track single out. You can watch the videos for Shackle Me Not and Degenerate Sin from it below and experience first hand what they describe as their very own gritty, dirt-muffled, punch-in-the-face, spider-legged rock’n’roll. Order the single here. Continue reading MM Shorts 875: Planchettes
Good old fashioned suicides, murders, and alcoholic depravity followed by church on Sunday—Welcome to Elouise— an eccentric collaboration of Los Angeles-based musicians who came together to create an ominous, raw and cinematic genre of music they identify as Blackgrass. Debut album Deep Water is a mix of low end drone and virtuosic strings combined with sounds from traditional Bluegrass instrumentation. Listen to a couple of tracks below… … Continue reading MM Shorts 866: Elouise
Here they are, all wrapped and presented in a tidy bow for you. Ten new songs from the past week including Screaming Females, Goat, Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam, of Montreal, a gorgeous new song from Alex Bleeker and an excellent cover of Gun Club’s classic Sex Beat by Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan. Good stuff indeed. Happy weekend. Screaming Females – Skeleton Jeff The Brotherhood – Punishment … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Kings Of Lowertown are from Pembroke, Ontario. Their new single Quebec Roulette is a gritty blues track written in the vein of Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits. The song was inspired by the rough and tumble of Chapeau, Quebec – just across the mighty Ottawa River from Pembroke. Stream it below. Continue reading Kings Of Lowertown – Quebec Roulette
Gun Is Coming is a wonderful slice of swampy folk with radical gospel roots and more than just a whiff of the blues. It is taken from the upcoming debut from Baltimore singer-songwriter Ian Francis and can be grabbed for a pay-what-you-want deal from Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Shorts 858: Ian Francis
You know the score – a sweep up of some of the week’s best new releases, new tunes and new artists. This week we have no less than eleven tracks for you including The Avett Brothers, Left Lane Cruiser, The Devil Makes Three, Deerhoof and plenty more. Dive in… The Avett Brothers – Satan Pulls The Strings Band Of Horses – Barrel House Holly Miranda … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The Black Oil Brothers are one of those bands that effortlessly manage to evoke both classic, authentic Delta blues and rootsy, rolling Americana – combining them in a way that suggest campfire singalong as much as liquor fuelled Mississippi roadhouses. Talk To Me, with its bluesy slide guitar, is the perfect case in point, and comes from forthcoming long player Mean Business which is out on … Continue reading Black Oil Brothers – Talk To Me
Another day, another dollar. Or nickel in this case. Check out Volume 19 of our virtual jukebox with another ten tunes of all shapes and sizes taken from our bulging in-box. The Van T’s – 35mm [RIYL: Surf-rock, Hinds, The B-52s] Wonky Tonk – Suitors [RIYL: Independent Country, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton] NARCS – Bullingdon Boys [RIYL: Post-punk, Future Of The Left, Pulled … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 19)
Still wading through a massive backlog of high calibre new tunes. Here are ten more of all shapes and sizes for you to check up on and decide hit or miss… Mud Howlers – Magic Place [RIYL: Desert-Blues, Led Zeppelin, Richie Valens ] Mark McGowan – Fugazi [RIYL: Soulful country, Johnny Cash, Otis Redding] Casper Skulls – Mink Coats [RIYL: Noise-punk, Screaming Females, … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 18)
We seem to have posted a lot of tunes this week with three Nickel In The Jukebox round ups and here are twelve more – all newly minted this week. From the return of the Stone Roses to the gothic blues of Adia Victoria and the indie rock of Catfish & The Bottlemen and taking in songs about Bob Dylan, God and a cover of the … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The Mad Mackerel 