Yesterday we had Flat Worms, today Phosphorescent. Life can’t be all bad can it? Matthew Houck recently announced his new album C’est La Vie (out 5th October via Dead Oceans). We’ve already shared the lead single New Birth In New England. Now he has followed it up with the tranquil beauty of pedal steel-laced, slow burner Christmas Down Under. It’s wonderful. Stream it below. Pre-order … Continue reading More From Phosphorescent
The latest project to involve long standing MM fave James Jackson Toth (aka Wooden Wand), as well as Hans Chew, Nick Mitchell Maiato, Ryan Jewell and Dan Brown, is an album from One Eleven Heavy titled Everything’s Better. It wonderfully evokes the classic 70s cosmic country of Gram Parsons and The Grateful Dead via their own unique take on that era’s psychedelic jams and gnarly roots rock. Check … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… One Eleven Heavy
No less than thirteen corking new tracks this week from the brilliant hypnotic post-punk thrum of FEWS to the infectious indie pop of Hater by way of a Ramones inspired Colleen Green, wiry art-punk from Public Practice, fuzzy urgency from Ron Gallo, raucous arena ready rock from We Were Promised Jetpacks, and sunburnt, pastoral psych from The Smoking Trees. And lots more besides… Do we … Continue reading Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We previously posted Valley Maker’s rambling soulful Light On The Ground from forthcoming album Rhododendron, and now we have the elegiac Americana of the record’s opener for you, A Couple Days. Watch the video here. Continue reading Valley Maker Shares New Song
IDLES – Great Death Valley Girls – Disaster (Is What We’re After) Fucked Up – Normal People Cat Power (feat. Lana Del Rey) – Woman Low – Disarray Spain – Maya In The Summer Iron & Wine – Waves Of Galveston Les Big Byrd – I Fucked Up I Was A Child Whitney Ballen – Fucking Sudakistan – Last Love Supreme Fidlar – Are You … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Ah, the wait is over. After five long years, Phosphorescent (who topped our Best of the Past Ten Years listings earlier this year) are back with details of a new album C’est La Vie (out on Dead Oceans on the 5th October), and a new single New Birth in New England. There will also be three live dates in the UK in October. The record … Continue reading Phosphorescent Return – First New Music For Five Years
A round up of some sweet new videos. Shimmering psych-pop from Whyte Horses, some charming Syd Barrett inspired bedroom lo-fi from Tiny Eyes, gentle pastoral folk from Queen of the Meadow, rambling, soulful Americana from Valley Maker, vintage outlaw bluegrass country from the Tennessee Stiffs, rural fuzz-folk from Stray Owls, classic indie-pop from Doe, anthemic, heavy duty indie from Tired All The Time, and last, but … Continue reading New Videos Round Up
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Blueberry Jam Phobophobes – Child Star Tomberlin – I’m Not Scared Torres – Gracious Day Waxahatchee – Chapel Of Pines Menace Beach – Crawl In Love Harlan T. Bobo – Nadine The Goon Sax – Make Time 4 Love Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Lots of tasty covers this week… The Devil Makes Three – Bad Idea Jacuzzi Boys – Song For The Man (Beastie Boys cover) D.A. Stern – I Don’t Know (Beastie Boys cover) The Dirty Nil – Pain Of Infinity Beak> – Brean Down William Elliott Whitmore – Fear Of Trains (Magnetic Fields cover) Phoebe Bridgers – The Gold (Manchester Orchestra cover) David Bazan – Thread … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Lovin’ Scoundrels is a 70s punk-inspired country rock and roll band from Brooklyn, NY. Forged of equal parts Waylon Jennings and Johnny Thunders, the band plays hard-living, booze-soaked anthems. They have posted a few pay-what-you-want tracks up on Bandcamp here, that are well worth checking out, or just listen to the wearily melancholic Cigarette Beer below… Continue reading Introducing >>> Lovin’ Scoundrels
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