Nine new, and excellent, songs from the past seven days neatly packaged for your listening pleasure. 1. Jeffrey Lewis – Train Song 2. The Sandwitches – Our Toast 3. Ultimate Painting – Break The Chain 4. John Vanderslice – Midnight Blue 5. Destroyer – Dream Lover 6. Heather Woods Broderick – Wyoming 7. DRINKS – Hermits On Holiday 8. Spoon – TV Set (Cramps cover) … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Eastbound Jesus have announced details for their third studio album, Hollerin’ that sees a release on the 30th May. A unique hybrid of rock, country and bluegrass, the album is an authentic ode to life in rural Upstate New York through all its changing seasons. Check out the first single, Keep On Hollerin’ below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 714: Eastbound Jesus
Back in 2013, my last trip to SXSW, I wandered into a venue to see Night Beds and exited having been completely transfixed by singer Mackenzie Scott (aka Torres) and her band. From then on tracks like Honey and Waterfall became much loved secret treasures – intense and intimate, they were songs I didn’t want to share, but rather to immerse myself in as the … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 17: Torres
Our weekly round up for you of some of the best songs shared in the past seven days… 1. Barna Howard – Bitter Side Of Blue 2. Theo Verney – Brain Disease 3. Spray Paint – Country Singer 4. The Wooden Sky – Our Hearts Were Young 5. Jacco Gardner – Find Yourself 6. White Reaper – I Don’t Think She Cares 7. Telegram – … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Phonecalls In The Bath is the new single from Deadline Shakes, out on the 28th June via Flowers In The Dustbin records. It starts as sweetly yearning, meandering indie-folk before shaking off the shackles half way through and galloping into country-tinged power-pop territory with infectious harmonies that nod to Phil Spector and the Beach Boys. Pretty sure you won’t hear anything more charming or smarter today…Pre-order via Bandcamp here. … Continue reading New Single From The Deadline Shakes
1. Sharon Van Etten – Just Like Blood 2. Kid Wave – Best Friend 3. Ducktails – Headbanging In The Mirror 4. Giant Sand – Transponder 5. Moses Sumney – Seeds 6. Jason Isbell – 24 Frames 7. Kenny Knight – America . . . . . . Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Now there’s a song title! And the song lives up to its name. It is the title track from hard rocking’, punk blues veterans Left Lane Cruiser’s new album, and all we can say is that they’re in fine, fine form. Blast it here. . Continue reading Left Lane Cruiser – Dirty Spliff Blues
Samantha Crain justifiably received much acclaim for last year’s excellent Kid Face album and will release the follow-up Under Branch & Thorn & Tree via Full Time Hobby on the 17th July. As with previous releases, her smoky, sultry voice is a distinctive joy, set further apart from the norm with her use of jazz style vocal phrasing. The album is a sombre one with … Continue reading New Album From Samantha Crain
My Me is the new single from T. Hardy Morris’s forthcoming long player Hardy & The Hardknocks: Drownin On A Mountain Top, out June 23rd via Dangerbird Records. It is a straight-up whiskey-fuelled rocker that sounds like it was just made for the wide open road, a high octane muscle car and some serious rebelling. Obviously we love it. Stream it here. Pre-order the album here. … Continue reading T. Hardy Morris Shares New Song
You know the drill. SO many songs this week. Dive in. Enjoy. More tomorrow. 1. Chelsea Wolfe – Iron Moon 2. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Trevor Forever 3. Teleman – Strange Combinations 4. Marissa Nadler – Carnival 5. Daughn Gibson – It Wants Everything 6. Rose Windows – The Wanton Song 7. Cayucas – Moony Eyed Walrus 8. Yukon Blonde – Como … Continue reading Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
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