You know the score – a sweep up of some of the week’s best new releases, new tunes and new artists. This week we have no less than eleven tracks for you including The Avett Brothers, Left Lane Cruiser, The Devil Makes Three, Deerhoof and plenty more. Dive in… The Avett Brothers – Satan Pulls The Strings Band Of Horses – Barrel House Holly Miranda … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here is the twentieth instalment of our Nickel In The Jukebox series, collecting ten new (and sometimes not quite so new) tunes from our inbox and sharing them for you to decide – hot or miss? Cheena – Car [RIYL: NY Punk, Gun Club, Lou Reed ] King Courgette – Courgette Boys [RIYL: Hoedown folk, Earl Scruggs, Holy Modal Rounders] Twin River – … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 20)
2015 saw the release of the wonderful Twisted Arrow, the debut single by Belfast’s Arborist, fronted by Mark McCambridge. A nonchalant and thoughtful piece of Americana, it features the casual yet unmistakeable tones of Kim Deal. It was very well received and was one of our favourite tracks of the year. Arborist’s music is measured and mature while remaining starkly modern. Centred around McCambridge’s soaring vocal and … Continue reading New From Arborist
Taken from his forthcoming album Magnificent Ram A, alt-country artist Don DiLego releases a new single, the rollicking West Side Oak on 15th June. Watch the lyric video below and also stream Different Man from his previous release, the excellent Drive Like Pirates 10″. Continue reading MM Shorts 852: Don DiLego
Recalling Fred Neil, Townes Van Zandt, Jackson C. Frank, and Bill Callahan among others, Moon Bros is the musical project of Matt Schneider, a renowned musician in both the Nashville Americana and the Chicago underground scenes. Upcoming album These Stars is due out on 8 July via Western Vinyl. The first taste comes with the reflective, experimental folk of the six minute Pitch, which shares … Continue reading Moon Bros. – Pitch
In 2006, the then 20-year-old Adam Torres released his idiosyncratic, varied, and beautiful debut album, Nostra Nova. A DIY self-release, the album became a closely-held, sleeper favorite in the close-knit music scene of Athens, OH and over the years grew to a ‘cult classic’-like status. The album has a song on it called Breakneck Jane’s Fifteen Minute Escape, which is one of our favourite ever tracks, and … Continue reading New Album From Adam Torres
We’ve been lucky enough to get a copy of the new Felice Brothers album Life In The Dark, which is out on the 24th of this month. It is a gem of a record and has been on heavy rotation ever since we got it, and the band have shared a video for a new track from it, the raucously brilliant Plunder. Created from re-purposed stock … Continue reading The Felice Brothers – Plunder
A bumper week for new tunes, many with an Americana flavour, including songs from The Head & The Heart, Lydia Loveless, Frankie Lee, The Low Anthem and Band Of Horses. We have a tasty REM cover from The Districts as well, and the return of Beck and of Montreal amongst twelve new tracks for you to delve into. Enjoy! Band Of Horses – Whatever, Wherever The Head & The … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The title of Emily Jane White’s fifth album, They Moved in Shadow All Together, is a play on the opening line from Cormac McCarthy’s novel Outer Dark which hauntingly depicts a group of uncanny travelers descending a hill in the Appalachian mountains. The eleven songs on the album focus conceptually upon the symptomatology of trauma with songs about the anti-racist struggle against police violence and the epidemic … Continue reading Emily Jane White – Frozen Garden
After his critically acclaimed 2014 release The Lights From The Chemical Plant, Robert Ellis is set to return with his eponymous fourth album on June 3rd via New West Records. It promises to be his most personal statement yet, and many of the songs have an element of melancholy as much of the record revolves around the dissolution of Ellis’ marriage. The video for first single How I Love … Continue reading Video: Robert Ellis – How I Love You
The Mad Mackerel 