Vikesh Kapoor has announced his debut album, The Ballad of Willy Robbins, to be released October 15th via Mama Bird Recording Co. His first release on the Portland-based label, the record is a concept album that chronicles the brutal, but hopeful journey of a working-class man who slowly loses his ambition, health, family and shelter. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Kapoor witnessed firsthand the hardships … Continue reading Debut Album From Vikesh Kapoor
Memento Mori is the title of a track by Hollow Wood. At first it sounds like a song very much in the vein of the Lumineers or Shovels & Rope, but as it progresses and the song slows down, it reveals charms and nuances that in turn, grow and swell in synergy with the song’s energetic chants and final coda. There is more than enough … Continue reading Introducing >>> Hollow Wood
Today we have (another) excellent Willy Mason video, this time for Talk Me Down, an appropriately woozy and kaleidoscopic video for Spectral Park’s Nausea, a revealing video for Those Darlins new track Oh God (free download available here), and finally Alela Diane’s video for the superb title track single for her new album About Farewell. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Willy Mason || Spectral Park || Those Darlins || Alela Diane
Seattle six-piece The Head And The Heart will return with Let’s Be Still, the follow-up to their acclaimed 2011 debut album on Sub Pop. They are streaming first single Shake, and they have marked their return with a effervescent, joyful track where those renowned three-part harmonies remain very much to the fore. Have a listen below. Pre-order the new album here. Continue reading New From The Head And The Heart
A new week, some new tunes to soften the blow. We have a taste (if that’s the right word) from Diarrhea Planet’s new album I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams in the shape of the sleazy, roiling Babyhead. By way of contrast we have Frankie Rose’s new track Sorrow from her scheduled new long player Herein Wild, a deceptively simple and sweetly melancholic pop track … Continue reading New Tunes On Monday
Life is Murder is the first single and title track from Kal Marks’ latest album, which is out on the 17th September via Exploding In Sound, Sophomore Lounge and Midnight Werewolf Records. Fixtures of the underground Boston scene for a good few years, this is our first introduction to the band and it is a cracker. From the boiling, seething undercurrent of frustration that anchors … Continue reading New Album From Kal Marks
The Orwells more than live up to their burgeoning reputation with their second EP of 2013. Who Needs Who has three more tracks of intense, frenetic punk inspired rock’n’roll plus an Audiotree live version of fan favourite Halloween All Year. Listen to the title track. Continue reading MM Shorts 421: The Orwells
Five excellent videos to start the weekend for you. First, the much lauded Jackson Scott with a surreal and eerie film to accompany stand out track That Awful Sound from his debut album Melbourne. Then we have the cinematic video for B.B. Vulture from one of favourite new discoveries of 2013, Men’s Adventures, and we have the garage punk and blues fusion of surf rockers Hindu … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Jackson Scott || Men’s Adventures || Hindu Pirates || Sun Blood Stories || Kill Moon
Despite being a mere 23 years old, Zachary Lucky’s new album The Ballad Of Losing You will be his sixth long player release. A prolific artist maybe, and also a mainstay of the prairie folk scene, but more importantly he has created a record of striking and memorable tunes based on an earnest and personal narrative about the uncertainty of loss and of transformation. It is … Continue reading New Album From Zachary Lucky
Yesterday we included the excellent single Atlantic by Fishdoctor in our Best of July downloads post, and as if by magic, the band have followed it up almost instantly with a new single Seasons. This time we get about as sunny a slice of good natured surf-pop as you can imagine. The melody sweeps along on the back of propulsive percussion, uptempo guitars and sweetly … Continue reading Another From Fishdoctor
The Mad Mackerel 