Here are a few more videos that we’ve enjoyed recently. First up is a welcome return for Goldheart Assembly and a song called Linnaeus that comes from their second album due out in spring next year. Also keeping it pretty mellow is Kathleen Edwards with the video for her forthcoming single, Change The Sheets. a The Inspired And The Sleep offer up some sunburnt lo-fi … Continue reading Video Round Up
We have posted about Ryne Warner’s band Ohioan a couple of times in the lifetime of Mad Mackerel and so it was good news indeed to receive an e-mail from him with news of an album provocatively titled Balls Deep In Babylon. Having listened to it a few times, it is one of those records that slowly but surely grips you and then begins to … Continue reading Ohioan – Balls Deep In Babylon
It’s been a long, tiring and sad week. Death is all around, so it seems. And even when you’re viewing it in the third person, it’s hard to watch. It settles over you with a deft hand, weighting its heaviness into your head and inevitably your heart. Yet still the world continues to turn; life does go on for the rest of us, so it … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Saturday (10th December)
The Lost Brothers hail from Ireland and have just released their album So Long John Fante on Bird Dog Records. Boasting one of the sleeves of the year, it is a follow up to debut Trails of the Lonely. Tipping a hat to their literary hero (and one of ours), John Fante, this is an album which effortlessly, and brilliantly, wallows in a gumbo melting … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Lost Brothers
Here is the new, and appropriately creepy video for Feast of Fear by our favourite southern Gothic folk doomsayers Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks. a Continue reading Lonesome Wyatt Video
Only recently we posted the lovely taster track from Damien Jurado’s forthcoming album Maraqopa. He isn’t relaxing though, because now he too has recorded a reverent and devoted cover of Christmas Time Is Here, the Vince Guaraldi classic from A Charlie Brown Christmas. So grab it below, enjoy and compare with the the version we posted by Woods just a few days ago here. Download … Continue reading Christmas Post 6: Damien Jurado
The latest Insound free digital mix for December is up – this time it requires a click through on their Facebook Like button to grab yourself eleven of the latest tracks from Bon Iver, Bowerbirds, Sharon Van Etten, A Place To Bury Strangers and plenty more. As usual, you can grab a couple of our favourites below or click here to go get the whole … Continue reading Insound’s Free December Mix
Diamond Rugs are the latest signing to Partisan Records. The band is a collaboration between John McCauley (Deer Tick), Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pé (The Black Lips), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate) and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Satellite). The debut offering from the new album, Christmas In A Chinese Restaurant is available now for download below. Although not indicative of … Continue reading Christmas Post 4: Diamond Rugs
You Never Come Home For Christmas comes from Caitlin Rose’s Columbia Hotel EP, originally a bonus offering with her wonderful Own Side Now album that was exclusive to Rough Trade. The track features Keegan De Witt and is classic bittersweet country marked as always by her stunning vocal phrasing and crystal clear voice. One to nurse a single malt to after everyone has gone to … Continue reading Christmas Post 3: Caitlin Rose
Last year The Uncles debut album of traditionally inspired folk, Replacing Words With Other Words was an unexpected delight, and in Settler’s Song had one of our favourite tracks of the year. We are delighted to report that they are back, now a quartet and not a duo, with their long awaited (by us at least) sophomore album M4W. They will be releasing two singles from the … Continue reading Sophomore Album From The Uncles
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