The Lost Brothers have unveiled a new video, for the very beautiful Spanish Reprise. The film combines beautiful photography with quirky animation to offer up a magical feel that fits the track, taken from their latest album New Songs Of Dawn And Dust, perfectly. . Continue reading New Video: The Lost Brothers – Spanish Reprise
T. Hardy Morris is following up last year’s wonderful solo debut The Audition Tapes with a new album, as yet untitled, that will see a release in 2015 on Dangerbird Records. The first single from it is the twangy, and fierce, Painted On Attitude, which fair bristles with country-grunge and garage rock swagger. It augers mighty well for the full release. Have a listen. . Continue reading New Solo Album From T Hardy Morris
1. The Dead Weather – Buzzkill(er) 2. Jason Lytle – Bell’s View 3. She & Him – Time After Time (Frank Sinatra cover) 4. Elephant Micah – By The Canal 5. Big Ups – Not Today 6. Songs: Ohia – Blue Chicago Moon (Demo version) 7. Mourn – Silver Gold . . . . . . . . Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’ve posted Halloween mixes in the past (see here) and here are a few random Halloween related tunes, streams and videos linked by nothing other than the time of the year and the fact they’re all pretty damn good. . . . . . . . Continue reading It’s Halloween Music Time
After a too long hiatus, we’ve resurrected our best of the month mix capturing our favourite tunes from October’s posts, plus a couple of new tracks too. So more than 25 songs to discover…dive in! The September Girls – Veneer Dark-hearted pop smothered in drenched feedback . God Damn – Horus A red-hot burning molten pot of pop hooks and grinding, bludgeoning riffs and rhythms. . … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: October 2014
Shoegazer country act Hearts of Oak released their third album New England (via Deer Lodge Records) earlier this year. We meant to post about it then, but for some reason it never happened and it is a shame as it really is an album that deserves to be heard. Fronted by singer-songwriter Nate Wallace, Hearts of Oak has been referred to as “a singer-songwriter with a druggy, … Continue reading Hearts of Oak – New England
1. Justin Townes Earle – Dreams (Fleetwood Mac cover) 2. Grouper – Holding 3. Andrew Bird & Nora O’Connor – I’ll Trade You Money For Wine (Robbie Fulks cover) 4. Chumped – Name That Thing 5. John Moore – Smoking On The Cancer Ward . . [Click through for free download] . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The eerie, sometimes disturbing and often unsettling, Americana of Timber Timbre is showcased to perfect effect in their new video for Grand Canyon – a track from their Hot Dreams long player, released earlier this year. . . Continue reading New Video: Timber Timbre – Grand Canyon
The new single from Gothenburg based The Don Darlings is a masterpiece of southern gothic Americana. If You Can’t Be Good is an odyssey about the life of an infamously pathological liar who some believe was named Johnny Bode. The title is a veiled, yet precise, warning about how life can turn out through a destructive device of doing everything you can in the most … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Don Darlings
A couple of years back we waxed lyrical about the drifter rock of San Francisco’s Steakhouse, which somehow managed to merge dusty country inflected Americana with krautrock influences to create something that was as hypnotic as it was eerie. We’re pleased to report that they have a first “proper” full length album coming out soon, and here are a couple of tracks from it for your … Continue reading New Album From Steakhouse
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