The final entry in our MM Shorts series (which started with Bleached back in September 2011) comes in the shape of the wonderful Cold Spell, the first taste from RF Shannon’s upcoming long player Trickster Blues. It is an exquisite blend of dusky Western and spectral psychedelia and you can stream it below. You can also order the album here. Continue reading MM Shorts 1000: RF Shannon
Among Horses is a wonderful collaborative project from the Son Canciones label. They put two musicians who do not know each other in a horse farm in the middle of nowhere in the north of Spain (the label is based in Barcelona), and they get one week to get to know each other, become pals, write six songs and record them, surrounded only by pine … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Zoe Boekbinder & Dustin Hamman
Time for a quick and dirty round-up from our unkempt and overflowing in-box, looking back over the past month or so. We have fuzzy art-rock from Sego who mix together warped psych rock and indie pop to create bleak pop songs that soar into big hooks and brilliant melodic noise. Opting for a slower tempo on Cigarette Kids, their most recent single is less skronk and more … Continue reading Round Up Time
Nashville label and small press, Cosmic Thug Records, will release a digital split single from Emma Swift and Pony Boy next week featuring two reinterpretations of classic Neil Young songs. Emma Swift performs a wonderfully poignant Mellow My Mind and Pony Boy (Marchelle Bradanini) who we once featured on MM way back in 2012, offers up a slow-as-molasses, haunting take on Like A Hurricane. Both are great versions and well worth a listen. … Continue reading Split Single From Pony Boy & Emma Swift – Covering Neil Young
Screaming Females – I’ll Make You Sorry Car Seat Headrest – Fallen Horses (Smash Mouth cover) Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo Wavves & Culture Abuse – Big Cloud Mount Eerie – Tintin In Tibet Speedy Ortiz – Lucky 88 Wye Oak – It Was Not Natural Rixe – La Cle Melvins – Stop Moving To Florida Table Scraps – Lyin’ Thru Yer Teeth Father John Misty … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Colorado based Gasoline Lollipops released their latest long player Soul Mine at the very back end of last year. It means we’re a bit late sharing, but seeing as the band effortlessly manage to meld the sincerity of dirt-floor folk with the energy and rebelliousness of punk we figured you wouldn’t hold it against us. It’s an all-new incarnation of alt-country that’s both high-energy and heartfelt, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Gasoline Lollipops
Dr Dog – Go Out Fighting Simone Felice – The Projector Vintage Crop – Gerald Part 2 Drinks – Real Outside The Low Anthem – Give My Body Back Bonny Doon – A Lotta Things Dan Michaelson – Sand Beach House – Lemon Glow Swampmeat Family Band – Needle & Thread Eleanor Friedberger – In Between Stars Holly Miranda – To Be Loved … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
If, like us, you have a thing for dystopian folk, abstract poeticism and motorik rhythms then Olden Yolk can happily tick those boxes for you. The New York-based group led by songwriters, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists Shane Butler (of Quilt) and Caity Shaffer, are set to release their self-titled debut album on 23rd February via Trouble In Mind. We previously shared tracks Takes One To Know One and Vital Sign, and now we have latest … Continue reading Olden Yolk – Cut To The Quick
Irish duo The Lost Brothers recently released new album Halfway Towards A Healing has been rightly picking up some great reviews, and new single Come Tomorrow may be our favourite track from the record. It is a gently insistent folk song complete with their trademark tender harmonies and sense of bruised heartache and is a absolute gem of a tune. Stream it here. Continue reading The Lost Brothers – Come Tomorrow
Amen Dunes (aka the project of New York-based Damon McMahon) has shared the video for his new single Blue Rose, taken from upcoming long player Freedom which is out on the 30th March. The song is a teenage clarion call born from McMahon’s growing up with an unpredictable father, his fighting back with music, drugs and fantasy, and his eventual escape from it all via one of … Continue reading More From Amen Dunes
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