The compilation The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver sees an official release today and features artists including Sharon Van Etten, J Mascis, Evan Dando, Lucinda Williams, Josh Ritter, Emmylou Harris and many more reinterpreting some of the pop icon’s classic tunes. Listen to a few choice selections from it below and order it via iTunes (USA) here. Continue reading MM Shorts 346: John Denver Tribute
Here are the very best of our downloads from March’s posts together with a few new tunes for your listening pleasure. So close to 30 tracks in all – a perfect playlist to kick off April. Quite Parade – Edge of the Ocean A perfectly judged slice of Canadian indie rock, it is an anthem about a dying town that seems hopeless but is still … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2013
Despite Rosy Street hailing from New York, they eschew the buzz of the metropolis to mine an altogether more rural, twangy seam of music with gorgeous pedal steel and deep, deliberate vocals that evoke Leonard Cohen. Currently they only seem to have two tracks streaming on Bandcamp, and bar a Tumblr blog and Facebook page, not a lot more information is available. However, both tracks … Continue reading Introducing >>> Rosy Street
Some cracking videos for some cracking songs today. Delta Spirit have offered up their video for Yamaha and Sad Baby Wolf have a live performance of their cover of a Jesus & Mary Chain classic. Singer-songwriter Sam Sallon’s animated video for You May Not Mean To Hurt Me (But You Do) is well worth watching, and The Whispering Tree’s video for Where Have You Gone comes from their … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Delta Spirit || Sad Baby Wolf || Sam Sallon || The Whispering Tree
Here is another collection of just some of the notable new tunes that have come our way recently…we’re still catching up, so expect some more posts like this over the next few days. Kicking off with Nightingale Floors which will be the fifth album from indie duo Rogue Wave. This is the first taste from it, a mighty fine track titled College. . We also … Continue reading Another Round Up
Marissa Nadler and Angel Olsen have combined again to absolutely stunning effect on this cover of the Mickey Newbury song Frisco Depot. You won’t hear much that is more beautiful than this… Continue reading Marissa Nadler & Angel Olsen Cover Frisco Depot
Watch Broken Anchor’s video for Never Leave Me Alone which is one of our favourite songs of the moment. We also have The Joy Formidable’s unusually shot live video for Little Blimp filmed entirely from a GoPro cam attached to the neck of Ritzy’s guitar at different live shows including SXSW, and their recent tourmates We Are Animal’s video for Royal Wolf. And to finish … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Broken Anchor || The Joy Formidable || We Are Animal || Dubl Handi
We’re still rounding up all those new releases, new tunes, good tunes, and more to keep your day as varied and joyous as ours…Ha! And so we have another ‘cop-out” post prompted by another fearsome backlog, which has once again kickstarted our anxiety over (a) failing to keep up, and (b) failing to give the appropriate time and text that these releases deserve and (c) … Continue reading More Rounding Up To Be Done
Little Sur have given us their video for Patterns In Canvas, which consists of over a year’s worth of footage collected of the band. We also have Wolf People’s video for All Returns, shot in performance mode from their rehearsal space and Valleys’ Tillie Perks’ haunted travels through a city at night for Undream a Year. Lastly, watch Kaki King’s beautifully shot video in black and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Little Sur || Wolf People || Valleys || Kaki King
Tallahassee, which means “old town” in Apalachee, formed in Providence, RI in 2008. All of the members grew up in small rural towns, so the adoption of the name not only carried significance, but has had an influence on the music they make together. Inspired by these small-town origins, the band spin stories with lush arrangements that take the best elements from folk, rock and alt-country. … Continue reading Tallahassee To Release Old Ways
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