I read about Dino Valente in The Best Music You’ve Never Heard, the excellent collection of musical essays covering a whole host of forgotten and neglected classics waiting for rediscovery. Author of 60s peace anthem Get Together and an erstwhile member of the Quicksilver Messenger Service, his self-titled solo album released in 1968 has remained as a much vaunted, but seldom heard classic of abstract, folky … Continue reading Dino Valente Reissue
Five top notch videos today come from Dr. Dog and their reappropriated footage to accompany the excellent Broken Heart, and similarly from Lorelle Meets The Obsolete we have a suitably antiquated experimental video for the superb psych-rock of What’s Holding You?. From Basia Bulat, a stunning live performance of It Can’t Be You, and by contrast from Diarrhea Planet, a spring breakers inspired film for … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Dr. Dog || Lorelle Meets The Obsolete || Basia Bulat || Diarrhea Planet || TV Ghost
Back in 2008 we were big fans of one-man-band Son of Dave’s album 03, and his whole 1940s private detective look with sharp suit and trilby. Since then we’ve also enjoyed 2010s Shake A Bone, but all has been quiet since then. But now Son of Dave is back with his brand new single Hot Summer Nights. Three minutes of typically electrifying and idiosyncratic disco … Continue reading Son of Dave Is Back
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
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
Amongst our favourite discoveries of the Green Man Festival over the weekend was the captivating performance of Marika Hackman who followed a gorgeous set in the sunshine on the Walled Garden stage with a equally stunning and intimate acoustic set in the Rough Trade tent. Mixing a Nico style vocal delivery with often darker-than-night lyrics, she was an absolute delight and we are looking forward … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Discovers Marika Hackman
Johnny Flynn will release his much-anticipated third album Country Mile on 30th September. Two tracks from it have already surfaced online. After Eliot – a folk ballad inspired by T.S. Eliot, and the album’s first official single The Lady Is Risen. Listen/watch both below. . . Continue reading New Album From Johnny Flynn
The Crooked Fiddle Band have announced the release of a double A-side single ahead of their upcoming second LP, Moving Pieces Of The Sea. Pairing two album tracks, the double A side couples The Vanishing Shapes of a Better World – an epic and compelling instrumental, vast in scope and wide in breadth with Deepwater Drownings Part I, a track that opens with dark tidal overtures … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Crooked Fiddle Band
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
Suntrapp hail from Newcastle and are purveyors of thoughtful, literate indie-folk, much more akin to someone like Stornoway rather than the tub-thumping Mumfords. All The Seas is a lovely example, the first taste of forthcoming EP Yannina. The softly picked acoustic guitar intro turns into the giddy rush of a warm buoyant rhythm section and exuberant percussion which carry vocalist Jake Houslby’s soulful delivery through … Continue reading Introducing >>> Suntrapp
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