Kick back and enjoy some excellent videos from Miraculous Mule, Shivery Shakes, Keys and Bear Hands. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Miraculous Mule || Shivery Shakes || Keys || Bear Hands
Graham Weber is a singer-songwriter who hails from Texas by way of Ohio. We’re thoroughly enjoying his new album Faded Photos, which captures the landscapes of both territories, sunburned and frozen simultaneously. Check out YNRN and Boston below. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 545: Graham Weber
An absolute plethora of cracking new music videos for you today from the brilliant Sharon Van Etten, the welcome return of the rumbling Archie Bronson Outfit, the desert-burnt junkyard indie of The Ukiah Drag, the super trippy Sleepy Sun, and a satirical sex-education video from Bleech. . . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Sharon Van Etten || Archie Bronson Outfit || The Ukiah Drag || Bleech || Sleepy Sun
Giving us a hat-trick of cracking Americana-flavoured posts today are longstanding MM faves Strand Of Oaks (aka Timothy Showalter) and a track from forthcoming album HEAL, which will see a release on the 24th June via Dead Oceans. However, Goshen ’97 is a pretty radical departure from the introspective, occasionally surreal, and unique folk tales that defined his previous releases. This time we have a full-on, incendiary, … Continue reading New From Strand Of Oaks
Perhaps a perfect companion and counterpoint to our earlier post on the Delines, is this relaxed, undulating slice of Americana from Horse Thief. Little Dust is taken from upcoming album Fear In Bliss (from which we’ve already given you the brilliant I Am The Bear), and sets expansive, chiming guitars behind an rolling, easy-going vocal that we’re guessing is destined to become a live singalong of … Continue reading Horse Thief – Little Dust
Here is another taste from Chad VanGaalen’s upcoming album Shrink Dust, out via Sub Pop on the 29th April. Listen to the surreally brilliant, campfire warble of Monster. Pre-order the record here. . Continue reading Chad VanGaalen – Monster
Gaoler’s Daughter who have made regular appearances in MM postings over the past few years have announced a new eight track record via Bandcamp titled Split Like Cells, and used the same forum to also announce that the band are no more. Assuming it is no cruel April Fools hoax, then we shall be mighty sad to bid them farewell – their brand of folk inflected, … Continue reading Gaoler’s Daughter – Split Like Cells And Split For Real
My Silver Lining is the first taste from First Aid Kit’s forthcoming album Stay Gold, which is out on the 10th June. It is another brilliant example of their rootsy, twangy Americana shot through with just enough orchestral grandeur and strings to give the song a rich beauty that is impossible to resist. “I’ve woken up in a hotel room, my worries as big as the … Continue reading First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining
New Zealand based roots duo Tattletale Saints’ new record How Red Is The Blood is an album that joins the beautiful simplicity of American roots music with hard-biting songs that echo a generation’s distress. Check out Kathleen, which is perhaps the catchiest song on the album and sounds like a lovely heartfelt folk song written for young romantics, but the song flips into deep darkness on … Continue reading Introducing >>> Tattletale Saints
Bears Banquet make tuneful and dynamic folk-inspired indie music – the kind of music where pop sensibilities are happily lauded, and where nothing is off limits from a big chorus to dance and house music breaks. Good on them – its all the better for it. . Continue reading Introducing >>> Bears Banquet
The Mad Mackerel 