A few tasty videos and new songs for you. From the meditative melancholy of The Tallest Man On Earth, the biting psych-pop of She Drew The Gun and Steve Earle’s latest tribute to Guy Clark to the more raucous end of the spectrum and the pummelling post punk of Crows, Taco Mouth’s fiery take down of Trump, some brilliant Stooges style rumblings from Black Futures, experimental electronic … Continue reading Video Round Up
Justin Townes Earle is set to return with The Saint of Lost Causes on May 24th. It is the follow up to his excellent 2017 album Kids In The Street, and spans everything from traditional country, blues and folk to western swing, roots-rock and boogie-woogie. The first taste is Ain’t Got no Money, a pared back, uptempo Country rocker that has a touch of the … Continue reading Justin Townes Earle – Ain’t Got No Money
We’re a sucker for some outlaw country and southern gothic and Renee Wahl delivers in spades on her new album Cut To The Bone, which is out on the 15th March. We have a couple of tracks to share from it – To The Bone is a swampy, swaggering rocker that almost has a touch of Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus about it, and the bittersweet From Here … Continue reading Renee Wahl – Cut To The Bone
Flat Worms – Surreal New Year The Uranium Club – Man Is The Loneliest Animal Ånge Teenage Angst – Ånge Teenage Angst A Merge Group Plays “Heroes” – V-2 Schneider (David Bowie cover) Esther Rose – Don’t Blame It On The Moon W.H. Lung – Simpatico People MELTS – Echoes Wand – Scarecrow Sharon Van Etten – Never Grow Old (James Cleveland Moore, Sr cover) Laura … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The day just keeps on getting better. No sooner did we have the details of the new Felice Brothers album, than we discover a new single release from another long, long standing MM favourite, Dr. Dog in our Soundcloud feed. Titled Critical, it consists of two tracks, Can’t Catch Me and Can She Dance. The former is an uptempo country tinged psych rocker that they are … Continue reading Dr. Dog – Critical Single
Happy days! After three long years, we have an announcement of a new album from the Felice Brothers. Undress was recorded in the late summer of 2018 in Germantown, New York. “Many of the songs on the new album are motivated by a shift from private to public concerns,” says songwriter Ian Felice. “It isn’t hard to find worthwhile things to write about these days, there … Continue reading The Felice Brothers Announce Undress
Deer Tick – White City (Pogues cover) Mekons – Lawrence of California Bear’s Den – Fuel On The Fire Ritual Howls – Alone Together JAWS – Do You Remember The Mountain Goats – Younger Interpol – Fine Mess Lucy Dacus – La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaf cover) Sophie Morgan – Bloodbuzz Ohio (The National cover) Martha – Love Keeps Kicking … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Spiral Stairs – HYP-NO-TIZED Lady Lamb – Even In The Tremor Keston Cobblers’ Club – Esta Mercury Rev featuring Lucinda Williams – Ode To Billie Joe (Bobbie Gentry cover) John Vanderslice – I’ll Wait For You Rat Boy – Don’t Hesitate Frankie & The Witch Fingers – Pleasure BAILEN – I WAs Wrong Ohmme – Give Me back My Man (B52’s cover) Marry Waterson & … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Dark Tea is songwriter Gary Canino who will release a self-titled debut album on 22nd March via Fire Talk. It is a collection of warm, country infused Americana and we’re particularly enjoying the first single, Rolling Back The Dial, which also features a rather tasty guitar solo from Meg Duffy (aka Hand Habits). There is something about it that is reminiscent of Dr. Dog or … Continue reading Introducing >>> Dark Tea
Nearly 13 years since his proper debut as Viking Moses, Baltimore musician Brendon Massei is slated to release his fifth album, Cruel Child. The record offers a dozen dusty and deep and wistful explorations of the soul, and Massei sings with a deep and haunted voice reminiscent of Mark Lanegan, Will Oldham, and David Eugene Edwards, but like those masters, Massei is just as adept … Continue reading Viking Moses – Cruel Child Album
The Mad Mackerel 