I read about Dino Valente in The Best Music You’ve Never Heard, the excellent collection of musical essays covering a whole host of forgotten and neglected classics waiting for rediscovery. Author of 60s peace anthem Get Together and an erstwhile member of the Quicksilver Messenger Service, his self-titled solo album released in 1968 has remained as a much vaunted, but seldom heard classic of abstract, folky … Continue reading Dino Valente Reissue
Five top notch videos today come from Dr. Dog and their reappropriated footage to accompany the excellent Broken Heart, and similarly from Lorelle Meets The Obsolete we have a suitably antiquated experimental video for the superb psych-rock of What’s Holding You?. From Basia Bulat, a stunning live performance of It Can’t Be You, and by contrast from Diarrhea Planet, a spring breakers inspired film for … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Dr. Dog || Lorelle Meets The Obsolete || Basia Bulat || Diarrhea Planet || TV Ghost
Back in 2008 we were big fans of one-man-band Son of Dave’s album 03, and his whole 1940s private detective look with sharp suit and trilby. Since then we’ve also enjoyed 2010s Shake A Bone, but all has been quiet since then. But now Son of Dave is back with his brand new single Hot Summer Nights. Three minutes of typically electrifying and idiosyncratic disco … Continue reading Son of Dave Is Back
Our first visit to the brilliant Green Man Festival. Here are the twenty best things we heard, saw and discovered over the weekend. 1. The Parquet Courts live up to the hype Like the Ramones on speed, the four-piece transcended all the hype with the set of the weekend – a thrilling, occasionally ramshackle, breakneck excursion into punk, slacker pop and moshpit heaven, and in … Continue reading The Twenty Best Things We Heard, Saw, And Discovered At The Green Man Festival
Keep It That Way is the new single release from Colour Of Bone. Not as heavy as previous singles, it has echoes of Beck or even Elliott Smith and a curiously lullaby like chorus… Order from Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Short 433: Colour Of Bone
Mickey Gloss left the east coast of Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in summer 2011. Signposting all of that anarchy and energy is excellent lead single Are You Happy?, where wry social commentary meets punk DIY and garage psychedelia in a distillation of antipodean sun and London melancholia. It sounds like it comes straight from 1978, and we love it all … Continue reading Introducing Mickey Gloss
The Muse is the title of the regular free sampler from American Songwriter and the September offering is a cracker – twelve brilliant tracks including such MM faves as Okkervil River, Hurray for the Riff Raff, T Hardy Morris, Duquette Johnston, Golden Suits, Amanda Shires and more. Check out some of our favourites below, or just click here for more details and to grab the whole thing … Continue reading Latest Free American Songwriter Sampler
Charlie Straight have scheduled a release date for new single Coco, due to be dropped September 16th. Haunting and hooky vocal lines, powerful riffs, steady yet hypnotizing beat and distinctively angelic harmonies flowing in the background, create an anthem that recalls the best of Britpop whilst expertly avoiding all that made that genre so desperately derivative. Have a listen. Continue reading MM Shorts 432: Charlie Straight
We were big fans of Wolf Alice’s first two singles so when a promo of their latest release, a four track EP titled Blush, dropped through the letterbox we gave it a spin pretty much straight away. While the roaring, wall of sound approach remains much in evidence, the songs display a bit more subtlety and scope, even dabbling with some bruised pop sensibilities in places. … Continue reading New EP From Wolf Alice
New country queen, Caitlin Rose is releasing the rollicking ‘done-you-wrong’ single Waitin’ next month, and she has added some extra dates to her current UK tour. Have a listen and check out the tour venues below. Tour Dates Sun 1 Sep End of the Road festival Mon 2 Sep Brighton Proud Cabaret Tue 3 Sep Bristol Fleece Wed 4 Sep Oxford Bullingdon Thu 5 Sep … Continue reading Caitlin Rose: New Single & UK Tour
The Mad Mackerel 