Category: Country

Alternative, Americana, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Videos Of The Day: Decker || Saint Motel || Electric Shepherd || Said The Whale || Future History

Videos to enjoy today from decker with an appropriately gritty film for the parched, desert folk psychedelia of Shadow Days and from Saint Motel who have an excellent animation to accompany their track Daydream/Wetdream/Nightmare. Electric Shepherd’s psych-blues are showcased to good effect in The Escapist, which tells the story of a woman that cannot be loved, food that cannot be eaten, and a sports car that cannot be kept. Under … Continue reading Videos Of The Day: Decker || Saint Motel || Electric Shepherd || Said The Whale || Future History

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Alternative, Blues, Country, Garage, Music, Punk

New Album From Left Lane Cruiser

Good news! Left Lane Cruiser’s Freddy J IV and Brenn Beck are back with a new album of voodoo hillbilly punk-blues, Rock Them Back To Hell. By all accounts they’ve matured a bit too, adding harmonica, organ and even something they term trash percussion (that’ll be battering the bejesus out of cardboard boxes, paint tins, trash cans then). In truth the boys live up to every … Continue reading New Album From Left Lane Cruiser

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Alternative, Americana, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Videos of the Day: Night Beds || Night Beats || The Features || The Pack A.D. || Golden Animals

Celebrate the middle of the week with videos from The Night Beds for brilliant track Ramona, some epic, tripped out psych rock from The Night Beats and Golden Animals, gritty, grimy blues from The Pack A.D. and infectious, quirky indie rock from The Features. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Night Beds || Night Beats || The Features || The Pack A.D. || Golden Animals

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Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music

New From Blessed Feathers

Blessed Feathers delivered one of our favourite sets of SXSW this year, an understated collection of beautiful, rural folk that was breathtaking in its simplicity and authenticity. This is the first track from their forthcoming album and the somewhat oddly titled Ahbinreedis is another example of just how good this duo is – the song is simply lovely. Download it below, and join us in looking … Continue reading New From Blessed Feathers

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Garage, Gothic, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

The Twenty Best Things We Heard, Saw, And Discovered At The Green Man Festival

Our first visit to the brilliant Green Man Festival. Here are the twenty best things we heard, saw and discovered over the weekend. 1. The Parquet Courts live up to the hype Like the Ramones on speed, the four-piece transcended all the hype with the set of the weekend – a thrilling, occasionally ramshackle, breakneck excursion into punk, slacker pop and moshpit heaven, and in … Continue reading The Twenty Best Things We Heard, Saw, And Discovered At The Green Man Festival

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Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Latest Free American Songwriter Sampler

The Muse is the title of the regular free sampler from American Songwriter and the September offering is a cracker – twelve brilliant tracks including such MM faves as Okkervil River, Hurray for the Riff Raff, T Hardy Morris, Duquette Johnston, Golden Suits, Amanda Shires and more. Check out some of our favourites below, or just click here for more details and to grab the whole thing … Continue reading Latest Free American Songwriter Sampler

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Americana, Country, Music, Rock

Caitlin Rose: New Single & UK Tour

New country queen, Caitlin Rose is releasing the rollicking ‘done-you-wrong’ single Waitin’ next month, and she has added some extra dates to her current UK tour. Have a listen and check out the tour venues below. Tour Dates Sun 1 Sep End of the Road festival Mon 2 Sep Brighton Proud Cabaret Tue 3 Sep Bristol Fleece Wed 4 Sep Oxford Bullingdon Thu 5 Sep … Continue reading Caitlin Rose: New Single & UK Tour

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Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Videos of the Day: The Dodos || Elephant Stone || Amanda Shires || King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Start the week in a befitting manner with excellent music videos from the wonderful Dodos (together with the Magik Magik Orchestra), Elephant Stone, Amanda Shires, and the peculiarly named King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard (hazy, stoned psychedelia in case you were wondering…) . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Dodos || Elephant Stone || Amanda Shires || King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

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Americana, Country, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Rock, Soul

Mad Mackerel Recommends…Promised Land Sound

Promised Land Sound emerged from the fertile Nashville garage scene – members have played with PUJOL, Denney and the Jets, and members of JEFF The Brotherhood and Those Darlins, among others – but have quickly evolved to deploy a more varied, country, soul and pop palette than many of their contemporaries. In fact we’re talking some down and dirty swamp boogie, Creedence style chooglin’ and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Promised Land Sound

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Americana, Country, Folk, Music

Jessica Lea Mayfield Covers Alabama

It has been too long since we’ve heard from Jessica Lea Mayfield and so we are glad to report she is back and in fine form on a new tribute album to Country stalwarts Alabama. High Cotton has fourteen tracks reinterpreted by artists such as Old Crow Medicine Show, Lucero, T. Hardy Morris, and Jason Isbell with John Paul White amongst others. However, we’ll happily wager than none … Continue reading Jessica Lea Mayfield Covers Alabama

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