Category: Folk
Free Single From This Frontier Needs Heroes
This Frontier Needs Heroes is the Alt-Folk duo Brad and Jessica Lauretti from Brooklyn, NY. Their name is inspired by the phrase scrawled on Woody Guthrie’s guitar during WWII: “This Machine Kills Fascists.” Listening to This Frontier Needs Heroes is like having Brad and Jessica play in your backyard while the sun comes up. With their powerful delivery and delicate harmonies, their music is full … Continue reading Free Single From This Frontier Needs Heroes
MM Shorts 218: Damon Moon & The Whispering Drifters Again
Damon Moon & The Whispering Drifters seem hell bent on gradually releasing every track from their excellent Lungs, Dirt & Dreams album for free. We’ve happily posted them and the latest offering is another standout: the sweetly maudlin, but always gorgeous Gild The Lily. Immerse yourself. Click through to download for free. a Continue reading MM Shorts 218: Damon Moon & The Whispering Drifters Again
Video of the Day: All The Fires
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New Solo Album From New Pornographers’ A.C. Newman
The marvellous Fire Records have announced that they will be releasing the new album, Shut Down The Streets, from the New Pornographers’ founder A.C. Newman in Europe on 22 October. A year of joy and sorrow in the Newman household has inspired an album of understated elegance and strength, representing a change in tone from the past and an even bigger change in subject matter. The album … Continue reading New Solo Album From New Pornographers’ A.C. Newman
Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: August 2012
Our best of August mix is ready and even though it is typically a slightly quieter month for new releases, we can still offer you more than 20 cracking new tunes together with a few ‘hot off the press’ new ones. The result? A brilliant mix to keep you going as we enter autumn (aka the fall for our American friends). Either way, just enjoy. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: August 2012
New Single From The Pictish Trail
There is much to admire in the lead track from The Pictish Trail’s recently released 7″, The Summer Is Empty Of Idiots EP. Trust us, it is a hazy, hypnotic, lo-fi folk gem. It is being released as part of Fence Records’ Buff Tracks Series – a new subscription of 3 x 7″ EP’s over the next 6 months. Have a listen. a Continue reading New Single From The Pictish Trail
MM Shorts 217: The Bergamot
Written while on tour, The Bergamot’s latest single of raw, fleet-fingered folk In Between speaks of the life of a traveling musician. The single was tracked live and is meant to give the listener a sense of the disarray that is a life on the road. In Between comes from The Bergamot’s new album Static Flowers, which is due out on the 4th December. Download The … Continue reading MM Shorts 217: The Bergamot
Mojo & Uncut Free Cover Disks
My copies of Uncut and Mojo were on the mat waiting for me after getting back from the Canary Islands yesterday and both have sweet cover disks. Uncut have a cracking selection of tunes from some of the latest new releases including Sebadoh, Calexico, Thee Oh Sees, James Yorkston, Patterson Hood, and Dinosuar Jr amongst others. Mojo have gone back to the jangle indie-pop heyday … Continue reading Mojo & Uncut Free Cover Disks
Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (31st August)
I’m melting. Well I was until earlier today. After one week in the hottest Canarian August in 23 years, my quintessentially English temperature gauge and complexion were pining for a bit of cloud control and a drop in temperature. It was, as I thought, a week spent in whatever shade I could find, book in one hand, Mr Sangria in the other. Large hat and … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (31st August)
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