Got that Friday feeling? Time then for a G&T and some excellent new videos from Fiver, Southern, the mighty Warlocks, Courtney Barnett, and our first Christmas themed song of the season with Peace’s cover of Wham’s cheese ridden classic Last Christmas. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Fiver || Southern || The Warlocks || Courtney Barnett || Peace
Desert Noises are gearing up for the release of their debut LP 27 Ways, which sees a release in March next year via SQE Music. 27 Ways pays homage to a range of musical staples from Fleetwood Mac to Tom Petty and the Delta blues. Psychedelic guitar work rubs shoulders with heartrending Americana songwriting in tracks that stretch wider and run deeper than any of … Continue reading Desert Noises – 27 Ways
Sunday morning coming down? Try these videos whatever the mood you’re in. We have the noirish pop of Shady Elders, classic back-porch Americana from Willie Sugarcapps, faerie inspired dream pop from Bad Wolf, and experimental parlour-folk from The Bear. And finally, in case you’re feeling a bit worse for wear, watch a girl’s life fall apart over 8 years in this moving four-minute stop-motion tragedy … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Shady Elders || Willie Sugarcapps || Bad Wolf || The Bear || The Khanz
Top notch videos for a Saturday morning lie-in coming from Shearwater, Forest Fire, The Paper Kites, The Cairo Gang and Vikesh Kapoor. . . . [Click through for free download] . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Shearwater || Forest Fire || The Paper Kites || The Cairo Gang || Vikesh Kapoor
Plenty to enjoy today as our videos come from boisterous up and coming indie-rockers Catfish & The Bottlemen, the punked-up raw country of Shovels & Rope, and the fuzzed up psychedelia and krautrock from Brilliant Beast. We also have the refined, vintage pop of Sweet Gum Tree featuring MM fave Isobel Campbell, and lastly the dark pop and grandiose hooks of Dinosaur Bones. Fill yer boots. . . … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Catfish & The Bottlemen || Shovels & Rope || Brilliant Beast || Sweet Gum Tree || Dinosaur Bones
Sitting somewhere between the traditional Americana of the Milk Carton Kids, and the drifters folk tales of Woody Guthrie, The Parmesans are a string trio from California specialising in complex, Doc Watsonesque guitar picking, harmonious mandolin lead, good ‘ol honky tonkin’ bass lines and all with an emphasis on tight three part vocal harmonies. Their album Wolf Eggs (with its excellent cover art) is a live … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Parmesans
Howe Gelb has been picking up some stellar reviews for new album The Coincidentalist, which saw a release earlier this month on the 5th November, via the excellent New West Records label. The album features an all-star cast of musician friends: Bonnie “Prince” Billy, M. Ward, KT Tunstall, Andrew Bird and Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, and is a brilliantly unhurried, melodic collection of lysergic desert-folk. … Continue reading Howe Gelb – The Coincidentalist
We’re loving this from gothic indie-folk group The Pines, an ethereal, wistful rendition of Highwayman, the classic 1985 Grammy-award winning country song of the year by outlaw country super-group The Highwaymen (Willie, Kris, Waylon, and Johnny). Continue reading MM Shorts 473: The Pines Cover Highwayman
Videos today from the wonderful Phosphorescent with Matthew Houck covering Vampire Weekend’s Ya Hey. We have Austin trio Love Inks and the succinct indie-pop melodies of Time, the video for the excellent title track from singer-songwriter Kevin Devine’s album Bubblegum, and lastly the elegant sound of David Bronson and his video for the reflective Incompetent Assassin. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Phosphorescent || Love Inks || Kevin Devine || David Bronson
Back at the beginning of the week we included the noirish folk of Emily Jane White in our big Round Up posting, and now as the end of the working week appears on the horizon, what better way to finish than with two more tracks from her forthcoming album Blood / Lines. First is Keeley. It is a gorgeous melancholy, gothic tinged drama, a lost … Continue reading Emily Jane White – Keeley & Holiday Song
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