Screaming Females – Deeply Dan Michaelson – Careless King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland Blitzen Trapper – Joanna Camp Cope – The Opener Palehound – Sea Of Blood Loma – Black Willow Saintseneca – Moon Barks At The Dog S. Carey – Fools Gold Spice Boys – I Don’t Get Around Pansies – Green Apple Eyes … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’ve been remiss in sharing details of Wooden Wand’s Toth’s Law recordings. Volume 1 came out back in June, which we did cover, but Volumes 2 and 3 have followed since then. They are collections of outtakes, demos and songs that never, for one reason or another, made it onto his other recording output. Nevertheless the collection contains songs that frankly, other singer-songwriters would be … Continue reading Wooden Wand – Toth’s Law Vols 2 & 3
Broken Stay Open Sky is the fourth full-length album by Red River Dialect, and their first for Paradise of Bachelors, due out 2nd February. The band have shared the album’s lead single, Kukkuripa, a gently meandering, contemplative folk tale that has a sweeping, cinematic grandeur to it. Continue reading Red River Dialect Announce New Album
Widowspeak – Harvest Moon (Neil Young cover) Wilco – Dynamite My Soul Kal Marks – Adventure The Staves & yMusic – The Way Is Read Ty Segall – My Lady’s On Fire Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night Johanna Warren – Here To Tell Angel Olsen – Sans Dama Scout – Toothache The Liminanas – Shadow People (featuring Emmanuelle Seigner) … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Over the years, we’ve heard many (usually crap) covers of the Buzzcocks’ classic Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve), but this slow moving version by folk duo The Honey Ants bucks the trend. Not only that, it may just be the most melancholic and arresting we’ve heard. Give it a spin…there will be new music from The Honey Ants next year. Continue reading The Honey Ants Cover Buzzcocks Classic
Recently released Americana single Only Way into Your Heart from Matt Hectorne is an open letter of minor chord progressions and whiskey-drenched tension that drives an upbeat melody. Pedal steel plays centre stage, creating a haunting, almost Gothic, vibe that swells and retreats before it glides and settles. The duality between darker chords and an uplifting chorus create an infectious blend that encompasses the entire … Continue reading MM Shorts 984: Matt Hectorne
Swedish duo First Aid Kit will release their new album Ruins on January 19, their first since 2014’s excellent Stay Gold. They’ve shared another track from it, Ruins, which they describe as “one of the most traditional sounding songs we’ve ever written. It’s not a resentful song, but more of a reaching out to a lover to wish them well on their journey in the … Continue reading First Aid Kit – Postcard
Dan Michaelson will release his new solo album First Light through The state51 Conspiracy on 8th December. It is his first album away from his band The Coastguards since 2011’s Sudden Fiction. Old Kisses, the first track taken from his new album, has more than a touch of the great Leonard Cohen’s reflectiveness and candour about it and “imagines a place where every intimate moment is … Continue reading New Solo Album From Dan Michaelson
Calexico – End Of The World With You No Age – Soft Collar Fad Jim White – Far Beyond The Spoken Word Father John Misty – Pure Country Hater – Blushing Django Django – Tic Tac Toe A. Savage – Ladies From Houston Surfing Magazines – One Of These Days Anna St. Louis – Fire The Deep Dark Woods – Deep Flooding Waters Miss World – … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Four new videos from four of our favourite songwriters… Continue reading New Videos: Sufjan Stevens, Jen Cloher, Kevin Devine, Julien Baker
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