100 Anna St. Louis – Fire 99 Deep State – No Idea Pt. II 98 Ron Gallo – Really Nice Guys 97 Wooden Wand – Aurora 96 Diet Cig – Sixteen 95 Prism Tats – The Liar 94 Julie & The Wrong Guys – Love And Leaving 93 Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Continental Breakfast 92 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Tracks of the Year 100 – 76
Sufjan Stevens – Tonya Harding Jim White – Silver Threads Strand of Oaks – Passing Out Ty Segall – Every 1’s A Winner (Hot Chocolate cover) Kal Marks – Loosed Windhand – Old Evil Long Neck – Mine/Yours Lionlimb – Maria Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Breakthrough country star, Courtney Marie Andrews has recorded her own acoustic version of the holiday classic I’ll Be Home For Christmas, which will be featured on Amazon Music’s Acoustic Christmas playlist, along with new songs from Josh Ritter, Noah Gunderson, Kevin Morby and many more. Listen below. Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No 3: Courtney Marie Andrews
First Aid Kit – Fireworks No Age – Drippy Alela Diane – Émigré’ Calexico – Voices In The Field Olden Yolk – Takes One To Know One Craig Finn – Fault Lines (Mountain Goats cover) Ty Segall – The Main Pretender The Orwells – Vanilla The Soft Moon – It Kills Graham Coxon – Falling Continue reading Ten (Count ’em) Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Martha – The Winter Fuel Allowance Ineligibility Blues Sufjan Stevens – The Greatest Gift W.H. Lung – Want Jim James – The World Is Falling Down (Abbey Lincoln cover) Madeline Kenney – Medusa’s Outhouse (Cass McCombs cover) Robert Earl Thomas – Another Age White Room – Twisted Celebration Jane Weaver & Virginia Wing – I Feel It Starts Again … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Screaming Females – Deeply Dan Michaelson – Careless King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland Blitzen Trapper – Joanna Camp Cope – The Opener Palehound – Sea Of Blood Loma – Black Willow Saintseneca – Moon Barks At The Dog S. Carey – Fools Gold Spice Boys – I Don’t Get Around Pansies – Green Apple Eyes … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’ve been remiss in sharing details of Wooden Wand’s Toth’s Law recordings. Volume 1 came out back in June, which we did cover, but Volumes 2 and 3 have followed since then. They are collections of outtakes, demos and songs that never, for one reason or another, made it onto his other recording output. Nevertheless the collection contains songs that frankly, other singer-songwriters would be … Continue reading Wooden Wand – Toth’s Law Vols 2 & 3
Widowspeak – Harvest Moon (Neil Young cover) Wilco – Dynamite My Soul Kal Marks – Adventure The Staves & yMusic – The Way Is Read Ty Segall – My Lady’s On Fire Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night Johanna Warren – Here To Tell Angel Olsen – Sans Dama Scout – Toothache The Liminanas – Shadow People (featuring Emmanuelle Seigner) … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Kentucky based newcomer Willie Breeding will release his debut album of beguiling, off-kilter Americana Big Sky in early 2018. With influences ranging from Lee Hazlewood to The Strokes, Marty Robbins to A Tribe Called Quest, Big Sky is first and foremost an album of well-crafted tunes. The melodies are rich and wavy, complementing well the lyrics of someone torn between their years in New York City, and their … Continue reading Introducing >>> Willie Breeding
Hailing outta Brisbane, Dumb Things have released their first self-titled album. It’s a collection of country-burnt pop songs, scruffy enough to get stopped at the door, but charming enough to talk its way in. Listen to the excellent opener Drivin’ Home that offers up more than a nod to Parquet Courts. The cassette can be bought for $5 via Bandcamp or the digital version is … Continue reading MM Shorts 983: Dumb Things
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