Category: Folk

Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

The Builders And The Butchers Announce New Album

Happy days! After too many years of silence, Portland, Oregon folk-rockers The Builders and the Butchers are back with a new record, Spark. Name checking influences for the new album as later Tom Waits and White Blood Cells era White Stripes, they’ve shared Older Than Sin, a singalong rush of rumbling guitars and anthemic vocals. Listen below and check out that album art too – always fabulous.   Continue reading The Builders And The Butchers Announce New Album

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Alternative, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Post Punk, Rock

Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)

Part two of our weekly round up of the best tracks from the past seven days kicks off with another fine track from Laura Marling’s new album, and an excellent new single from The Districts. We have another brash slab of riotous rock from Charly Bliss and something equally propulsive from Hiccup (should keep the indie kids happy). Trance Farmers slow things down with their ominous new single, while Cotillon’s new track … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)

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Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)

Once again some cracking tuneage for you today in Part 1 of our regular weekly round-up of some of the best new releases. We are ultra excited by the return of Justin Townes Earle and Champagne Corolla, which comes from forthcoming album Kids In The Street,  T. Hardy Morris who has shared a new track NY and Sharon Van Etten who reimagines the Skeeter Davis track End … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)

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MM Shorts 925: The Venisons

Hailing from Santa Ana, California, The Venisons play a woozy, desert parched style of Americana that combines the grittiness of old-school country with some indie rock vibes. They have a self-titled four track EP out (available for free from Bandcamp) which is well worth getting – listen to Heart from it below, which reminds us a lot of another MM favourite Coke Weed.   Continue reading MM Shorts 925: The Venisons

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Folk, Indie, Music

Audio Antihero’s Unpresidented Jams Compilation for SPLC & NILC

Jamie at the ever wonderful Audio Antihero label has shared details of a new benefit compilation they’ve put together. He says, “Because pretty much everybody in the world of politics right now is a totally evil scumbag, we’ve put together a wee compilation for Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Immigration Law Center.” – one sentence that pretty much sums things up… It includes … Continue reading Audio Antihero’s Unpresidented Jams Compilation for SPLC & NILC

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Blitzen Trapper Announce Musical & Share Love Live On

Wild & Reckless is the title of a new musical from Americana stalwarts Blitzen Trapper that debuts in their hometown of Portland next month (opens 24th March at The Armory). Frontman Eric Early told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s the story of a kid that comes to the city looking to play music, [but] instead he meets and falls for this girl; she turns out to be … Continue reading Blitzen Trapper Announce Musical & Share Love Live On

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Alternative, Americana, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Here we are again, but with lighter nights, spring flowers beginning to bloom and eight songs from the past week rounded up for your listening pleasure. From a new benefit single for the Southern Poverty Law Center, we have wonderfully spectral folk from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and some equally wonderful psych-folk from a re-issue of a long-lost 70s classic by Philip Lewin. There is a … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Introducing >>> Beth // James

The upcoming debut release from Austin duo Beth // James, All In Life, combines a shimmering mix of modern folk, mindful pop, and Americana charm. We’re loving the first single Lion Eyes, a dark ballad spun from moody tumbleweed electric guitar and iridescent organ, and driven home with a raise-your-bourbon-to-the-sky chorus, lambasting “her lion eyes“, a rally cry against anyone who’s careless with other peoples’ hearts. Stream … Continue reading Introducing >>> Beth // James

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Acoustic, Country, Folk, Music

New Single From Martha Tilston

Martha Tilston has announced details of her new album NOMAD released via Squiggly Records on 12th May. It has subtle undertones of old country music flittering throughout, and suggestions of rock and pop, but it is primarily a record that pairs the intimacy of acoustic guitar and voice to expansive electric guitar, slide guitar, banjo and string arrangements. NOMAD will be preceded by a double A-side single; … Continue reading New Single From Martha Tilston

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