Category: Country

Americana, Country, Music

Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Billy The Kid And Geronimo

Downey To Lubbock, is a collaboration between Dave Alvin (the founder of seminal punk roots band The Blasters) and Jimmie Dale Gilmore (of the pioneering country-folk trio The Flatlanders). It is a twelve-song collection that takes on a diverse range of American music spanning nearly one hundred years. Along with ten covers, Alvin wrote two originals for the record: the autobiographical title track and the fantastical Billy The Kid … Continue reading Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Billy The Kid And Geronimo

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Alternative, Americana, Country, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Pop, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Round Up Time

Time for a quick and dirty round-up from our unkempt and overflowing in-box, looking back over the past month or so. We have fuzzy art-rock from Sego who mix together warped psych rock and indie pop to create bleak pop songs that soar into big hooks and brilliant melodic noise. Opting for a slower tempo on Cigarette Kids, their most recent single is less skronk and more … Continue reading Round Up Time

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Americana, Country, Folk, Music, Rock

Split Single From Pony Boy & Emma Swift – Covering Neil Young

Nashville label and small press, Cosmic Thug Records, will release a digital split single from Emma Swift and Pony Boy next week featuring two reinterpretations of classic Neil Young songs. Emma Swift performs a wonderfully poignant Mellow My Mind and Pony Boy (Marchelle Bradanini) who we once featured on MM way back in 2012, offers up a slow-as-molasses, haunting take on Like A Hurricane. Both are great versions and well worth a listen. … Continue reading Split Single From Pony Boy & Emma Swift – Covering Neil Young

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Americana, Blues, Country, Folk, Music, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends… Gasoline Lollipops

  Colorado based Gasoline Lollipops released their latest long player Soul Mine at the very back end of last year. It means we’re a bit late sharing, but seeing as the band effortlessly manage to meld the sincerity of dirt-floor folk with the energy and rebelliousness of punk we figured you wouldn’t hold it against us. It’s an all-new incarnation of alt-country that’s both high-energy and heartfelt, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Gasoline Lollipops

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Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Dr Dog – Go Out Fighting Simone Felice – The Projector Vintage Crop – Gerald Part 2 Drinks – Real Outside The Low Anthem – Give My Body Back Bonny Doon – A Lotta Things Dan Michaelson – Sand Beach House – Lemon Glow Swampmeat Family Band – Needle & Thread Eleanor Friedberger – In Between Stars Holly Miranda – To Be Loved     … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Courtney Marie Andrews – Kindness Of Strangers

Kindness of Strangers is the second song unveiled from Courtney Marie Andrews’ much anticipated new full-length album, May Your Kindness Remain, which will be released March 23 on the ever reliable Loose Records in the UK and elsewhere via Fat Possum Records/Mama Bird Recording Co. The new track takes a confident step away from the straight ahead, classic country/folk route to take in a little gospel, some … Continue reading Courtney Marie Andrews – Kindness Of Strangers

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Acoustic, Americana, Country, Music

Mary Gauthier – Rifles & Rosary Beads

Mary Gauthier just has one of those voices. Unmistakeable, mesmerising, and thought-provoking. Everything she does, and says, is worth listening to. She has a new album, Rifles & Rosary Beads, out today via In The Black / Thirty Tigers. Four years in the making, it is a collaborative record in the sense that the eleven songs were co-written with wounded veterans in the SongwritingWith: Soldiers retreats. Just … Continue reading Mary Gauthier – Rifles & Rosary Beads

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Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Eels – The Deconstruction The Decemberists – Severed No Age – Send Me Haley Heynderickx – Untitled God Song Hot Snakes – Six Wave Hold-Down Bonny Doon – I Am here (I Am Alive) Radkey – Not Smart Micah P. Hinson – Beneath The Rose ((Marc Riley BBC 6 Music Session 06/11/2012) Jack Cooper – Fat Old Sun  (Pink Floyd cover) The Soft Moon – Choke … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Fifteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

First Aid Kit – Ruins Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain Suuns – Watch You, Watch Me Alela Diane – Ether & Wood Nap Eyes – I’m Bad Now Prism Tats – Daggers Public Access T.V. – Lost In The Game U.S. Girls – Pearly Gates Sunflower Bean – Crisis Fest Rik & The Pigs – America Frankie Cosmos – Jesse Kal Marks … Continue reading Fifteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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MM Shorts 990: Jodee Lewis

Though a Chicago native for nearly two decades now, Jodee Lewis was raised in Osceola – a town of 800 people in the Missouri Ozarks. Her childhood home was down a secluded dirt track, set amongst 190 acres of woodland, where days were spent running through the trees, building forts and secret hideouts. She grew up in a household where Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Patsy … Continue reading MM Shorts 990: Jodee Lewis

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