Here’s a good way to start the working week – with a triple helping of top notch, indie goodness. First up is the return of alt-Country pioneers Lambchop who will release their first album since 2008 in the form of Mr. M, which is a tribute to the great Vic Chesnutt. If Not I’ll Just Die is a smooth, almost jazz inflected cut that is … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Monday Morning Threesome
We picked this up via the excellent Piaptk Blog and figured it had to be worth a repost. The Great Lakes are a psych-Country act from Brooklyn who we posted about back in the summer of 2010 when they released their lovely album Ways Of Escape. That was a record of introspective folk and country tunes, and while this is in the same vein, there … Continue reading MM Shorts 41: The Great Lakes Unreleased Track
A fiery yet charming Australian ensemble featuring brass, guts, words and skins, Flap! formed during an informal jam at the 2007 Port Fairy Folk Festival. True to those roots they’ve since gone on to become firm festival favorites country wide having torn it up everywhere from Port Fairy to Woodford, Falls, Adelaide Fringe, Apollo Bay, Melbourne Jazz, Rainbow Serpent, the National Folk Festival and many … Continue reading Introducing…Flap!
Caithlin De Marrais – the Brooklyn-based former frontwoman of the much loved indie rock band Rainer Maria, for whom “sonic bliss comes naturally,” as the Boston Globe put it – has just released her sophomore solo album Red Coats on End Up Records. This luminous album is a progression beyond Rainer Maria and her solo debut My Magic City. Analogue fuzz-scapes ease the listener into sharp idiosyncratic … Continue reading MM Recommends…Caithlin De Marrais
Here are a few more of the videos that we have been sent recently that have appealed to our eyes and ears. First up is Monument Valley whom we posted about recently. This is the off kilter video for Round And Round together with a download for Dear John Letters from the forthcoming Tongues EP. Download Monument Valley – Dear John Letters mp3 (from Tongues … Continue reading Video Round Up
We included Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks on our recent Halloween playlist and subsequently discovered a new album had been released just last week. Titled Heartsick, and recorded in a damp Wisconsin basement, it is another foray into their idiosyncratic world of doom laden, southern gothic folk and country. Lonesome Wyatt is one half of another dark country duo (Those Poor Bastards) so perhaps … Continue reading New Album From Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks
Vagabondage is a Bay Area, California based folk-punk band that was born over nachos and wine on a tiny stage in an empty theater in San Francisco’s Mission District. They have been getting people up on their feet, yelling, drinking and singing along to their songs since 2008. Their new album was conceived at San Francisco’s Secret Studios over a bottle of cheap bourbon – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Vagabondage
New London Fire’s third album The Dirt The Blood The Faith is inspired by the pride we can find in despair. With the deck stacked hopelessly against the labourers who built his country, Dave Debiak’s richly-crafted characters rise up time and again to challenge a system that will take everything for the sake of profit. The result is that The Dirt The Blood The Faith is … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…New London Fire
Six Shooter Records’ Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet tie the musical knot with the debut of their new band, Whitehorse, marrying their talent and chemistry on stage as a smoldering duo. Gutsy and resolute in their pursuits of sound and substance, Luke and Melissa’s fusion of the personal and professional brings to mind the road-tested romance of Johnny and June. We’re latecomers to their self-titled … Continue reading Introducing…Whitehorse
Black Creek emerged from the swamps of the Weston Creek Delta a broken band with little memory of how they got there and the unmistakable dredge that is a hangover. Armed with tales only a weathered sea fearing man would find comforting, Black Creek are a band that will seduce your body and steal your soul. Have a listen to the dirty country rock that … Continue reading Introducing…Black Creek
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