Fresh off the back of the acclaim and success of latest album The King Is Dead, The Decemberists headed into our neck of the woods this week to play a short series of live dates. Birmingham HMV Institute is a good fit for the band, it is an old and beautiful historical building with many tales to tell – the intelligent, literate (and often historical) … Continue reading The Decemberists: Live Review
Some more half decent, decent, and downright entertaining videos for you to check out. The Agitator’s new single Say NO! is a politically charged call to arms set against an equally radical new musical style. Not a guitar in sight, just front man Derek Meins’ force-of-nature voice accompanied by Robert Dylan Thomas and T-Train on thunderous double drums. Pared down and primal! a Bergen, Norway-based … Continue reading Video Round Up
For some unfathomable reason the wonderful Withered Hand has so far been denied a visa to enter the USA and play at SxSW – apparently this is based on some arbitrary judgement about his artistic merits. Clearly this is bollocks, but time is running out to get the decision overturned – as you can see from the e-mail he sent out: Dear everybody I had … Continue reading Help Withered Hand get to SxSW
The Insound free March mix is available now from their website here – as always it is only up for a week so be quick. This month has sixteen tracks including offerings from Beady Eye, Cold Cave, Wye Oak, I’m From Barcelona, and Kurt Vile amongst others. In the meantime, check out a couple of our favourites below. Download tUnE-yArDs – Bizness mp3 (from Insound … Continue reading Insound’s Free March Digital Mix
Just like MM faves The Howling Owls, The Owsley Brothers hail from Florida. They sent us a couple of tunes from their forthcoming album Separated At Birth, which is out in April. And what a pair of tunes they were. Under The Shade Of A Live Oak Tree grabbed us by the short and curlies and squeezed from the very first listen. A slow, pulsing blues … Continue reading Introducing…The Owsley Brothers
Snacky Tunes Vol.1, is an excellent free compilation featuring past performances from their weekly radio show on Heritage Radio. It is now available for completely free download here. It features tracks from artists as diverse as Freelance Whales, Midnight Magic, Surfer Blood, Eli Paperboy Reed, Frankie Rose and the Outs, Blood Orange, and Au Revoir Simone, amongst others. A full tracklisting is below, along with … Continue reading Free Album Download From Snacky Tunes
This is the first Work Drugs song ever written. Also check them out on a very rare tour with UK indie buzz-band Two Door Cinema Club in April 2011. Download Work Drugs – Sunset Junction mp3 (from Sunset Junction) Continue reading New from Work Drugs
This is so good it is a repost of a repost. The ultimate in lazy blogging, but totally justified when it is (MM faves) Strand of Oaks covering the sublime Wolves by (MM faves) Phosphorescent. So thanks to the great Slowcoustic for alerting us, and to The Key for the original posting. This just needs to be heard by as many people as possible so no apologies … Continue reading Wolves by Strand of Oaks (Cheers Slowcoustic)
Over the past six months Duologue have emerged from London’s live music scene swirling up a storm of anticipation via raucous live shows, word of mouth and a burgeoning mailing list of loyal fans and faithful followers. Deceptively titled they are in fact a five piece, with a sound that is hard to quantify. Influences seem to oscillate wildly, but with clear nods to genres as … Continue reading Introducing…Duologue
If you’ve not checked in lately, it is worth heading over to Daytrotter as they’ve posted some top notch free sessions recently. We’ve picked out tracks from three we’ve really enjoyed including class folk act The Deep Dark Woods, new-to-us psychedelic groovers Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, and MM faves The Low Anthem, who do a superb version of one of the standout tracks from their wonderful new … Continue reading New Daytrotter Sessions
