Fresh from their recent success at the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition where they beat thousands of acts for a slot on the main stage as well as the Acoustic Tent, Bridie Jackson & The Arbour have announced the release of their new single, Prolong, on Debt Records. We featured previous single Scarecrow back at the turn of the year, and the follow up, Prolong, treads the … Continue reading New Single From Bridie Jackson & The Arbour
Time for a round up of six more excellent bands and their tunes that have been spinning regularly on the MM virtual turntable. First out of the blocks are Manchester’s Temple Songs, a 4 piece outfit smashing out brilliantly crafted psychedelic pop tunes – the kind of tracks that you might stumble across on a carefully selected LA Nuggets compilation and wonder how it is of the … Continue reading Wednesday Means Six Of The Best
Checklist: Slide guitar, heavy groove, psychedelic undercurrents, laid-back vocals, twisted folksongs and haunted narratives, trippy, hypnotic. Thankfully, all the above are very much present and correct in the debut album of warm, dusty Americana from Mission Dorado’s new album Yannash Nahollo (Comanche for White Buffalo), which sees a release on July 9th. Have a listen to On The Range. Continue reading Introducing >>> Mission Dorado
Weather Codes, the superb new album from Texan songstress Teresa Maldonado aka Georgia’s Horse, comes out today on Fire Records. It is a brilliantly eclectic collection ranging from sparse and spooky country noir to psych-folk and touching all points in between. The backdrop throughout is the baking heat and vast landscapes of Texas and the American Southwest – sometimes lonely, sometimes menacing, but always fascinating … Continue reading Georgia’s Horse Release Weather Codes
Cracking videos today from Deer Tick, the whiskey-drenched folk of Jesse Woods, the menacing buzzsaw punk of the Riverboat Gamblers and the sharp-as-a-tack suited and booted garage rock of The Vitamins. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Deer Tick || Jesse Woods || Riverboat Gamblers || The Vitamins
The debut album from Australia’s Wes Carr, aka Buffalo Tales, is called Roadtrip Confessions. As you might expect from a title like that, it is a collection of songs inspired by travels and travails from the road – tales of loves lost and found, the search for happiness and salvation, and the restlessness of rambling spirits. It is an album from a true storyteller, honestly recorded … Continue reading Introducing >>> Buffalo Tales
Lewis Watson, Frank Hamilton and Shannon Saunders | O2 Academy, Oxford | 20 June 2013 [Review: Big Sair] The show must go on … Hot, Thursday and Oxford … Lewis Watson’s fans had started queuing well before doors opened, and were clearly hyped before climbing the stairs to the unrelentingly hot and sticky room, which is the O2 Academy. Accompanied by my very own 15-year old, … Continue reading Live Review: Lewis Watson
Our choice of videos today come from the garage punk of Broncho with Psychiatrist and a suitably intense film for John Murry’s brilliant track Southern Sky directed by legendary cult filmmaker John Michael McCarthy. Then we have the video for the re-recorded version of Peter Bruntnell’s gorgeous track Played Out featuring Rumer, and taken from his forthcoming Retrospective album via Loose Music. Finally, we have Canadian folksters The … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Broncho || John Murry || Peter Bruntnell || Great Lake Swimmers
Warning Signs is the new five track EP from Utah’s five-piece The Mighty Sequoyah. Mixing folk, surf pop, 60s soul-style harmonies and a little bit of doo-wop, it is a sweetly reverential nod to more innocent times, of cruising boardwalks, drive-in movies, roadside diners and soda fountains and they carry it off brilliantly. Listen to the evocative I Won’t Be There and buy the whole EP here. … Continue reading New EP From The Mighty Sequoyah
Wooden Wand’s Blood Oaths Of The New Blues is firmly cemented in place as one of our albums of the year – a reflective, mysterious collection of smoky Americana that is as thought provoking, illuminating and imaginative as anything you are likely to hear. Fire Records are streaming another track from it, (yet) another of our favourites, Supermoon (The Sounding Line) tells the tale of … Continue reading Wooden Wand – Supermoon (The Sounding Line)
The Mad Mackerel 