We start with apologies aplenty for the lack of interesting and cogent words to accompany this post of many new, and excellent tunes. We are regularly afflicted by an internal conflict as to whether we use our time to write the original, erudite prose some of the songs we are sent deserve (as many of the much better, and smarter blogs than ours do), but … Continue reading MM’s (Slightly Lazy) Friday Round Up
Our in-box has grown to ridiculous proportions, it fair creaks and bulges with good music and we are desperately trying to keep up with the flow. Time then for eight of the best to come our, and now your, way. First up, we have East India Youth who caught our ears on 6 Music yesterday with Heaven, How Long their brilliant new single of krautrock … Continue reading Tuesday Means Eight Of The Best
Marissa Nadler inhabits a musical world of many landscapes, wandering between dream-folk, noir Country, southern gothic, plaintive ballads and all touch points in-between. Variously haunting, ethereal, heartbroken, bitter, sombre, painful, uplifting and poignant, she has a voice that transcends all genres and makes discovering her back catalogue a true delight. And throughout she has stamped her own mark on a range of different covers, even … Continue reading More Covers From Marissa Nadler
We’re long time admirers of Kentucky’s Vandaveer and so you can imagine our delight to learn that new album Oh, Willie, Please… will be a collection of their reinterpretations of age-old traditional folk songs and murder ballads. Sounds like pretty much the perfect combination. For now, download Pretty Polly as your dark-hearted taster, and accompany her to her pitiful end as Willy, rather than marrying her as … Continue reading Vandaveer To Release Murder Ballads Album
Express and Company will release their debut album, Ontario (via Seventh Fire Records), on 26th March. Based out of Peterborough, ON, the project is fronted by singer songwriter Dylan Ireland and recalls the work of Whiskeytown and Uncle Tupelo. Grab yourself Gold In Your Pockets, the first single from the album. Continue reading MM Shorts 315: Express and Company
Andrew Leahey & The Homestead’s Summer Sleeves is the sound of the modern South: its cities, its open spaces, and everywhere in between. The Nashville-based Leahey recorded the songs with the Homestead, a group of childhood friends and Virginia-based musicians who added organ, harmonized guitar riffs, pedal steel, and three-part harmonies to the mix. Last year Leahey spent most of the year on the road, driving … Continue reading Introducing >>> Andrew Leahey & The Homestead
You know the score. MM is a blog that (musically) tends to favour the seedier side of life – murder ballads, heartbreak, despair, stories of the downtrodden, the down-on-their-luck, and the downhearted – you know the kind of things we mean. Ours is a world of lonely beer and whiskey chasers nursed in the back booths of dead-end bars, of crack-whores turning tricks in trailers … Continue reading MM’s Anti-Valentine’s Day Mix
My Baby’s Got To Pay The Rent is the latest offering from the Deep Dark Woods which was written for the movie Safe Haven. Continue reading MM Shorts 313: Deep Dark Woods
We were latecomers to the Dawes party, and it took an intimate live gig in the backroom of the Bullingdon pub in Oxford to properly awaken our ears to the easy-going country rock delights that were on offer. This is From A Window Seat, the first taste of forthcoming album Stories Don’t End. Continue reading MM Shorts 311: New From Dawes
On their Bandcamp page, three-piece Rhubarb Whiskey proudly proclaim that they have been referred to as “the anti-prohibition, hellbilly goth, the bluegrass Dresden Dolls, and the fortunate love child of Bill Monroe and Sid Vicious. Bringing you atmospheric, literate, romantic drinking songs that are sexy, rugged and furiously alive, this murder ballad Americana band is here to charm you with their tales of love, friendship and the devils in … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 6: Rhubarb Whiskey
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