Julien Baker – Good News (Piano Version) Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Hope The High Road BNQT – Unlikely Force Bonnie Prince Billy & Nathan Salsburg – Wallin Creek Girls Kevin Morby – Come To Me Now Diet Cig – Link In Bio The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions Marissa Nadler – Rosemary W.H. Lung – Nothing Is Soccer Mommy – Be Seeing … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
This week our round up includes a brilliantly angry and frustrated single from Swedish sisters First Aid Kit for International Women’s Day, another track from the prolific Ty Segall’s upcoming EP, the first taste from Bonnie Prince Billy’s Merle Haggard covers record with a version of the classic Mama Tried. This week’s offering from the Our First 100 Days Project comes from Self Esteem (none other … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Happy days! After too many years of silence, Portland, Oregon folk-rockers The Builders and the Butchers are back with a new record, Spark. Name checking influences for the new album as later Tom Waits and White Blood Cells era White Stripes, they’ve shared Older Than Sin, a singalong rush of rumbling guitars and anthemic vocals. Listen below and check out that album art too – always fabulous. Continue reading The Builders And The Butchers Announce New Album
Once again some cracking tuneage for you today in Part 1 of our regular weekly round-up of some of the best new releases. We are ultra excited by the return of Justin Townes Earle and Champagne Corolla, which comes from forthcoming album Kids In The Street, T. Hardy Morris who has shared a new track NY and Sharon Van Etten who reimagines the Skeeter Davis track End … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
Hailing from Santa Ana, California, The Venisons play a woozy, desert parched style of Americana that combines the grittiness of old-school country with some indie rock vibes. They have a self-titled four track EP out (available for free from Bandcamp) which is well worth getting – listen to Heart from it below, which reminds us a lot of another MM favourite Coke Weed. Continue reading MM Shorts 925: The Venisons
Wild & Reckless is the title of a new musical from Americana stalwarts Blitzen Trapper that debuts in their hometown of Portland next month (opens 24th March at The Armory). Frontman Eric Early told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s the story of a kid that comes to the city looking to play music, [but] instead he meets and falls for this girl; she turns out to be … Continue reading Blitzen Trapper Announce Musical & Share Love Live On
Martha Tilston has announced details of her new album NOMAD released via Squiggly Records on 12th May. It has subtle undertones of old country music flittering throughout, and suggestions of rock and pop, but it is primarily a record that pairs the intimacy of acoustic guitar and voice to expansive electric guitar, slide guitar, banjo and string arrangements. NOMAD will be preceded by a double A-side single; … Continue reading New Single From Martha Tilston
Song By Toad Records have shared details of Volume 6 in their series of split 12″ releases, and this is a cracker, featuring no lesser lights than Willard Grant Conspiracy and Micah P. Hinson from over the water and Scotland’s own Tissø Lake and Kitchen Cynics. It is a fabulous 12 track collection and will be released on the 6th March on limited edition clear orange vinyl. … Continue reading Song By Toad’s Split 12″ Series Vol 6
So many good new tunes released this week – fourteen and counting – that we’ve had to split them into two posts. Here are the first seven including a brilliant new single from the UK’s new saviour of indie guitar rock, Cabbage. Like a cross between Fat White Family, The Fall, and the Amazing Snakeheads. We have the new single from Samantha Crain’s upcoming album … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
Here is volume 27 of Nickel in the Jukebox – a semi regular roundup of new (and some not so new) tunes for your listening pleasure. Within these ten tunes we have frantic noise punk, classic country, slow-burning folk, indie guitars and fuzzy pastoral psychedelia and plenty more besides. Listen and decide… hit or miss? Tangerines – Peckham Boys [RIYL: Art-punk, Television, Modern Lovers] … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 27)
The Mad Mackerel 