It’s here! Our countdown of our favourite tracks of 2016 as nominated by MM, Mrs Mackerel, Chris T Popper and The Italian Job. Part One sees us counting down from 100 to 76. So without further ado… 100 Oldermost – Finally Unsure 99 Slaves – People That You Meet 98 Spoilers – No Pressure 97 Adam Torres – Morning Rain 96 Johnny Dowd – Whiskey Ate … Continue reading MM’s BEST TRACKS OF 2016: 100-76
Antenna Man make music about dysfunctional love, weirdness, meaninglessness, hopefulness, and just about any other twisted little thing you could imagine. The Indianapolis quartet’s catchy, quirky songs feel like a defunct greatest hits skipping around through rock n roll, grunge, golden oldies, southern rock, bar blues, country and Americana. Imagine if you can the music George Jones might have dreamt about after spending an evening in … Continue reading Introducing >>> Antenna Man
Time for our latest selection of tasty musical films. Sit back and check out no less than ten new videos from TOY, Gazebos, Desert Planes, Howe Gelb, Chambers, OhBoy!, Einar Stray Orchestra, Underground Youth, The Orwells and Spectres. Continue reading Video Round Up
Longstanding MM faves, Hurray For The Riff Raff have announced details of their new album The Navigator. It will be released on March 10th via ATO Records and tells an interwoven, cinematic story of a wandering soul; a street kid named Navita traversing a perpetually burning city in search of herself. It also finds Alynda Segarra and her band at their own musical intersection, delving deep into … Continue reading Hurray For The Riff Raff Announce New Album
Following this year’s earlier two EP releases, Latigo and Misty Shrub, which both garnered much critical acclaim, LA band Wilderado have shared a new track, Talking About Love To A Cigarette. It is lovely, unhurried, rolling Americana tinged with just the right amount of pathos and longing. Stream it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 901: Wilderado
Dr. Dog have given us an early Christmas present with a surprise new album, Abandoned Mansion released yesterday via Bandcamp. The band did a song a day for two weeks and almost everything was tracked live – the results are classic soulful, Americana that the band are so good at and you can stream the record’s opening and closing tracks below. As an added incentive, … Continue reading New Album From Dr. Dog
San Antonio’s We Leave At Midnight recently announced their new album The Holy Rolling Flower Band will be released on December 9th via Texas Is Funny Records. Mixing together swirls of vivid psych, shimmering pop, indie rock, folk, upbeat power-pop, garage rock and alt-country, the band have created a sound that resides somewhere sonically between The Beach Boys and Of Montreal. It’s a headtrip with … Continue reading Introducing >>> We Leave At Midnight
Aaron Lee Tasjan is set to release his new album Silver Tears on January 6th via New West Records. Like a modern day Cosmic Cowboy, Tasjan creates a heady blend of country-flecked rock-n-roll, veering from acoustic blues to garage-pop psych to smooth Nashville sounds to lush Laurel Canyon fare… bringing to mind the showmanship and humour of Father John Misty as well as Harry Nilsson … Continue reading New Video: Aaron Lee Tasjan – Memphis Rain
Swampmeat is the project of Dan Finnemore, former co-frontman of US rock & roll act Low Cut Connie and the drummer from The Castillians, as well as a former member of Birmingham cult act Black Mekon. Swampmeat’s official debut release Gin & Tonic is out on the 25th November 25 via PNKSLM Recordings (pre-order here or digital here). It is a collection of countrified rock and roll, straddling … Continue reading Swampmeat – Sister Mary
Austin singer-songwriter Jess Williamson is set to release her second album Heart Song on the 4th Nov via Brutal Honest, and she will also be touring Europe with long-standing MM fave Marissa Nadler. We loved her debut Native State which was a cracked, earthy and revealing collection of slow, unhurried folksongs. Now we have White Bed to share with you from the new album, which, if anything, is … Continue reading Jess Williamson – White Bed
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