Eastbound Jesus have announced details for their third studio album, Hollerin’ that sees a release on the 30th May. A unique hybrid of rock, country and bluegrass, the album is an authentic ode to life in rural Upstate New York through all its changing seasons. Check out the first single, Keep On Hollerin’ below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 714: Eastbound Jesus
Here is the third and final single from Emmett Drueding’s upcoming EP, Strange Bruise, which will be released in its entirety on July 16th. Foaming and Screaming is another mighty fine example of his idiosyncratic, Americana that skates along at a sweet and steady lick, but at its heart and within its lyrics conceals something just a little peculiar, a little warped maybe… And that’s what we … Continue reading Final Single From Emmett Drueding’s Strange Bruise EP
Chicago-based Nick Shaheen is releasing his latest single, Flashbulbs, taken from his new album of powerful, modern Americana, Sauvignon, which is out now. It is an intriguing song with an hypnotic yet chaotic rhythm section and where the battle of menacing electric guitar versus victorious Dobro are joined by captivating vocals. It takes the listener deep inside the mind as Shaheen struggles with being framed, and eventually exonerated for murder, … Continue reading MM Shorts 712: Nick Shaheen
Back in 2013, my last trip to SXSW, I wandered into a venue to see Night Beds and exited having been completely transfixed by singer Mackenzie Scott (aka Torres) and her band. From then on tracks like Honey and Waterfall became much loved secret treasures – intense and intimate, they were songs I didn’t want to share, but rather to immerse myself in as the … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 17: Torres
Swedish folk outfit Small Feet are due to release their debut album From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like The Ocean on 14 August via Control Freak Kitten Records. Fronted by songwriter Simon Stålhamre, the trio draw from American influences, drawing comparisons to Neil Young, Chad VanGaalen and a Scandinavian Woods. Watch the striking video for the swirling, meandering Rivers. Gorgeous and haunting in equal measure. … Continue reading New Video: Small Feet – Rivers
Our weekly round up for you of some of the best songs shared in the past seven days… 1. Barna Howard – Bitter Side Of Blue 2. Theo Verney – Brain Disease 3. Spray Paint – Country Singer 4. The Wooden Sky – Our Hearts Were Young 5. Jacco Gardner – Find Yourself 6. White Reaper – I Don’t Think She Cares 7. Telegram – … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Phonecalls In The Bath is the new single from Deadline Shakes, out on the 28th June via Flowers In The Dustbin records. It starts as sweetly yearning, meandering indie-folk before shaking off the shackles half way through and galloping into country-tinged power-pop territory with infectious harmonies that nod to Phil Spector and the Beach Boys. Pretty sure you won’t hear anything more charming or smarter today…Pre-order via Bandcamp here. … Continue reading New Single From The Deadline Shakes
Since 2011, Black River Bell (aka Sydney singer-songwriter Timothy Bray) has been writing dark folk songs that explore the mystery and melancholy of love, loneliness and the indefinable strangeness of the human condition. His songs cover a wide range of subjects including: the tale of the spirit of a boy trapped in limbo, impending apocalypse, the Salem witch trials, wayward friends, a breakup and a wedding. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Black River Bell
Courtney Barnett’s new single is Dead Fox, ostensibly one of the brightest and poppiest tracks on her brilliant recent long player Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, but also one of the most politically weighted. With this track, she uses vivid, nightmarish imagery of trucks criss-crossing the country, taxidermied kangaroos and “a possum Jackson Pollock…painted in the tar” as a powerful argument against … Continue reading New Video: Courtney Barnett – Dead Fox
1. Sharon Van Etten – Just Like Blood 2. Kid Wave – Best Friend 3. Ducktails – Headbanging In The Mirror 4. Giant Sand – Transponder 5. Moses Sumney – Seeds 6. Jason Isbell – 24 Frames 7. Kenny Knight – America . . . . . . Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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