While 9 minutes and 35 seconds is a lot of time to commit to one track, but as one of three murder ballads on Andy Shauf’s upcoming album, Wendell Walker is an absolute beauty. It is an elegant storytelling composition – controlled, patient, and heart-rending. The Bearer of Bad News is out on the 4th May. . . Continue reading Video: Andy Shauf – Wendell Walker
Regular as clockwork, here is our end-of-week catch-up of some of the best tunes released over the past seven days. Enjoy. 1. Sharon Van Etten – I Don’t Want To Let You Down 2. The Telescopes – I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges cover) 3. White Reaper – Make Me Wanna Die 4. Stealing Sheep – Greed 5. Holydrug Couple – Baby I’m Going Away … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
A perfect companion to our earlier post about Strange Lot, Perth, Australia’s The Lammas Tide’s unique brand of psych-folk-rock draws influence from bands such as Jethro Tull, Traffic, and Jefferson Airplane, combining bluesy inflections and folk sensibilities with classic psychedelia. Bethnal Green will be released on the 1st May on Pavement Records and sounds like a long lost classic from the sixties with its combination of dancing fiddle, … Continue reading The Lammas Tide – Bethnal Green
Canadian band The Wooden Sky have announced their fourth album Let’s Be Ready, will be out on the 15th June via Nevado Music. The first single Maybe It’s No Secret (out on 11th May) is an uptempo rocker that finds the band harnessing their raw live energy against a backdrop of jangly guitar riffs and sweaty drums. Have a listen. . Continue reading New Album From The Wooden Sky
Rocking indie-folksters Port Isla will release a new EP titled A.L.I.V.E. on the 24th May. Stream the title track below, which looks sure to add to their already rapidly growing reputation. It as, as my Dad used to say, “a doozy“. Well he didn’t, but I wish he had. . Continue reading MM Shorts 692: Port Isla
Norwegian songstress Siv Jakobsen releases her second single, the haunting and melancholic Dark via Nordic Mellow Records on 13th April. It is a follow up to How We Used To Love, and explores themes of mortality, loneliness and existential angst. Give it a spin here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 690: Siv Jakobsen
We’re loving this slice of classic, old-time Americana from San Diego duo Triumph Of The Wild’s sophomore album We Come With The Dust. California to the Crossroads opens the album and is a travelling song in every sense of the word – a powerful, foot stomping barrelhouse of a song that begs for a dusty, sun-baked open road, the windows down and the volume right up. … Continue reading MM Shorts 689: Triumph Of The Wild
Forget the eggs and celebrate Easter with a selection box of musical videos that are all pre-screened to ensure the equivalent of the orange creme hasn’t sneaked through…instead take your pick from folk, indie, psychedelia, punk, Americana…. . . . . . . . . . . . Continue reading Video Round Up
The very premature loss of Brown Bird’s Dave Lamb to leukaemia was one of the saddest events of last year, and his wife MorganEve Swain has announced the release of their final record, Axis Mundi, an album the pair recorded together before his illness took a turn for the worse. Bannermen is the first track from it, a song that highlights, as Swain says, that they were … Continue reading Brown Bird – Bannermen
Easter weekend, and a bumper collection of ten songs for you to dip into that were released this week. 1. The National – Sunshine On My Back 2. Southern – Lone Driver 3. Cheatahs – Murasaki 4. Heartless Bastards – Gates Of Dawn 5. Woodpigeon – When You Look For Trouble, Trouble Comes 6. Radkey – Parade It 7. Allo Darlin’ – Half Heart Necklace … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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