Howe Gelb has been picking up some stellar reviews for new album The Coincidentalist, which saw a release earlier this month on the 5th November, via the excellent New West Records label. The album features an all-star cast of musician friends: Bonnie “Prince” Billy, M. Ward, KT Tunstall, Andrew Bird and Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, and is a brilliantly unhurried, melodic collection of lysergic desert-folk. … Continue reading Howe Gelb – The Coincidentalist
We posted the video for the reflective, and rather lovely, Incompetent Assassin earlier this week, and now New York singer-songwriter David Bronson is giving away a free download of his track Animals. It is taken from his recently released album The Long Lost, and he says it is a song “about accountability and the opposing forces of recklessness and restraint that fight within each of us…it’s … Continue reading David Bronson Gives Away Animals
We’re loving this from gothic indie-folk group The Pines, an ethereal, wistful rendition of Highwayman, the classic 1985 Grammy-award winning country song of the year by outlaw country super-group The Highwaymen (Willie, Kris, Waylon, and Johnny). Continue reading MM Shorts 473: The Pines Cover Highwayman
Serving in the US Navy as a real-life air traffic controller, singer/songwriter Dave Munro sent home 4-track demos he had written and recorded during his deployment. With his enlistment up, Munro returned to hometown Boston and started the aptly-named band Air Traffic Controller. Consisting of six band members and a multitude of instrumentation, Air Traffic Controller are about to introduce their quirky indie pop to … Continue reading Introducing >>> Air Traffic Controller
You Be My Heart is a new compilation, due out December 9, which benefits a brilliant nonprofit organisation 826 National, whose mission is dedicated to offering a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills. The San Francisco filmmaker and songwriter, Devon Reed, who volunteers with 826 National initiated, financed, and wrote … Continue reading You Be My Heart Compilation For 826 National
Long time MM fave, Marissa Nadler has announced details of her sixth album July, coming, appropriately enough, next February 4th on on Sacred Bones (US) and February 11th on Bella Union (everywhere else). The first taste is Dead City Emily, an almost six minute epic of eerie, haunting beauty where heartbreak is given an almost euphoric feel. Listen below. Mesmerise yourself. Continue reading New Marissa Nadler Album
Qiet are one of those wonderful bands that defy description; that leave PR folk, journalists, and bloggers scratching around, somewhat hopelessly, for those default descriptors, labels, genres and influences that we all love to place on a band to make our own lives easier. Is it dance music, indie music, pop music, traditional, contemporary? Is it influenced by Bowie, Talking Heads, Devotchka, the B52s? Are … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Exclusive: Stream Qiet’s The Indie Song
Audioscope is an organisation committed to raising money through music for the national homelessness charity Shelter. Since 2001, they have raised more than £23,000 for the charity, presenting the best in local, national and international independent music in the process. Chicago experimental folk legends Califone will headline this year’s Audioscope charity festival in Oxford on Saturday 23rd November. The day-long festival at The Jericho in Oxford … Continue reading Audioscope’s Compilation to Benefit Shelter
Videos today from the wonderful Phosphorescent with Matthew Houck covering Vampire Weekend’s Ya Hey. We have Austin trio Love Inks and the succinct indie-pop melodies of Time, the video for the excellent title track from singer-songwriter Kevin Devine’s album Bubblegum, and lastly the elegant sound of David Bronson and his video for the reflective Incompetent Assassin. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Phosphorescent || Love Inks || Kevin Devine || David Bronson
Will & The Indians are a Sydney based four piece who grew up playing music together. Although relatively young, the lads have been around the block for quite a while. Their debut album Wrong End of Town was written and recorded nearing the end of 2010, but a plethora of new songs have been written since, and they make evident the band’s development. New single … Continue reading Introducing >>> Will & The Indians
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