Canadian band The Wooden Sky have announced their fourth album Let’s Be Ready, will be out on the 15th June via Nevado Music. The first single Maybe It’s No Secret (out on 11th May) is an uptempo rocker that finds the band harnessing their raw live energy against a backdrop of jangly guitar riffs and sweaty drums. Have a listen. . Continue reading New Album From The Wooden Sky
We’re loving this slice of classic, old-time Americana from San Diego duo Triumph Of The Wild’s sophomore album We Come With The Dust. California to the Crossroads opens the album and is a travelling song in every sense of the word – a powerful, foot stomping barrelhouse of a song that begs for a dusty, sun-baked open road, the windows down and the volume right up. … Continue reading MM Shorts 689: Triumph Of The Wild
The very premature loss of Brown Bird’s Dave Lamb to leukaemia was one of the saddest events of last year, and his wife MorganEve Swain has announced the release of their final record, Axis Mundi, an album the pair recorded together before his illness took a turn for the worse. Bannermen is the first track from it, a song that highlights, as Swain says, that they were … Continue reading Brown Bird – Bannermen
Michael Dean Damron, former frontman of I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House, will release his new solo album When The Darkness Come on the 24th May. It is beautifully lonely, moving between quiet acoustic contemplation to a more progressive and punk feel, all driven by Damron’s distinctive growl. Our favourite (just) is the haunting Simmer in the Pot, an acoustic piece with wonderful lyrics that features a suitably creepy … Continue reading Michael Dean Damron – When the Darkness Come
It is the weekend and time for our regular round up of the songs from the past week that are well worth some listening time… 1. Torres – Sprinter 2. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Step Brother City 3. Nai Harvest – All The Time 4. Uniform – Perfect World 5. Shadow Age – Silaluk 6. Fight Like Apes – Pretty Keen On … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We have featured London duo The Honey Ants a few times on MM, and last May their Nirvana cover in particular was a real treat for the ears. Since then they have been busy writing and recording, evolving their folk roots into more complex and darker territories with elements of Southern gospel and country coming much more to the fore. The first of this brand new material to emerge blinking … Continue reading New From The Honey Ants
It’s Friday and a trawl through the overloaded MM in-box has been well overdue. So here are a few tunes, new and not quite so new, that are well worth giving some ear-time to0… And your starter for ten: Inspired by 70s Punk and 90s Brit Pop, NYC band Public Access T.V. have announced the release of their debut EP in the US on Terrible Records. … Continue reading Friday Afternoon Round Up
Robyn Hitchcock has announced a limited-release 7” for RSD on 18th April, a duet with with Australian songwriter Emma Swift. The release will feature the pair’s cover of Neil Young’s Motion Pictures along with this new track, a gorgeous, poignant country-ish ballad called Follow Your Money. Watch it here. . Continue reading New Video: Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift – Follow Your Money
Twisted Arrow is the debut single from Belfast-based Arborist (aka songwriter Mark McCambridge) and features Kim Deal of The Breeders on backing vocals. It is a fabulous slice of rolling, countrified folk and Deal’s hushed and plaintive vocal adds weight to a familial tale of detachment and is the perfect counterpoint to McCambridge’s sharp delivery. Highly recommended this one. Stream it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 678: Arborist
Former Standard Fare frontwoman Emma Kupa releases her first new material in three years, the mini album Home Cinema; six songs of spritely jangle-folk-indie-country, about family, death, drink problems, holocaust survivors and communism. Have a listen to a couple of tracks here, and order the record via Bandcamp here. . . Continue reading Introducing >>> Emma Kupa
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