There is no band out there that writes a better covering e-mail than The Dirty Nil. Each time we’ve posted about them on MM we’ve just nicked the words they’ve sent us because, well because they are so spot on. They now have a new Summer Mixtape out, Volume Two is all covers featuring songs by The Misfits, Iggy Pop, Guided By Voices, and Merle Haggard, … Continue reading The Dirty Nil’s Free Covers EP
The debut album from Australia’s Wes Carr, aka Buffalo Tales, is called Roadtrip Confessions. As you might expect from a title like that, it is a collection of songs inspired by travels and travails from the road – tales of loves lost and found, the search for happiness and salvation, and the restlessness of rambling spirits. It is an album from a true storyteller, honestly recorded … Continue reading Introducing >>> Buffalo Tales
The renowned actor and comedian Patton Oswalt (King of Queens), provides a brilliant comedic interpretation of the soul anthem The Magic Clap by Oakland group The Coup. Watch it, it is excellent. . Continue reading MM Shorts 398: The Coup – The Magic Clap Video
The demise at the end of last year of indie stalwarts Pete & The Pirates was greeted with particular dismay by the youngest family sprat who had long been an admirer of their catchy, infectious tunes. However, solace may be at hand with Teleman who have risen phoenix like from the ashes, featuring three ex-Pirates and taking the best that their previous band had to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Teleman
At first, the new single, Kahuna, by We The Dead sounds like a very good addition to the canon of distorted, garage inspired rock. Although it kicks off in a traditional manner – as a reverb riddled, fuzzed up gem of driving guitars, it is the nicely judged melodic interludes that effectively change the pace and feel of the track and sets it even further apart … Continue reading Introducing >>> We The Dead
Lewis Watson, Frank Hamilton and Shannon Saunders | O2 Academy, Oxford | 20 June 2013 [Review: Big Sair] The show must go on … Hot, Thursday and Oxford … Lewis Watson’s fans had started queuing well before doors opened, and were clearly hyped before climbing the stairs to the unrelentingly hot and sticky room, which is the O2 Academy. Accompanied by my very own 15-year old, … Continue reading Live Review: Lewis Watson
Our choice of videos today come from the garage punk of Broncho with Psychiatrist and a suitably intense film for John Murry’s brilliant track Southern Sky directed by legendary cult filmmaker John Michael McCarthy. Then we have the video for the re-recorded version of Peter Bruntnell’s gorgeous track Played Out featuring Rumer, and taken from his forthcoming Retrospective album via Loose Music. Finally, we have Canadian folksters The … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Broncho || John Murry || Peter Bruntnell || Great Lake Swimmers
We featured the visceral blues-punk of London four-piece Burning Condors in a Video of the Day post back in February. Their latest single is, if anything, even better – the salacious, sleazier ‘n hell, bump ‘n’ grind of Dirty Girl Blues backed by the twisted Beach Boys inspired What Your Mama Said. Watch the video and listen to the a-side below. It is out on the 15th … Continue reading MM Shorts 397: More From Burning Condors
Warning Signs is the new five track EP from Utah’s five-piece The Mighty Sequoyah. Mixing folk, surf pop, 60s soul-style harmonies and a little bit of doo-wop, it is a sweetly reverential nod to more innocent times, of cruising boardwalks, drive-in movies, roadside diners and soda fountains and they carry it off brilliantly. Listen to the evocative I Won’t Be There and buy the whole EP here. … Continue reading New EP From The Mighty Sequoyah
Sons Of Hippies was conceived high in the mountains of Tennessee amid fellow music lovers at a festival on a 700-acre farm. Their name originated when Brazilian native Jonas Canales and Florida-bred Katherine Kelly probed familial bonds to discover they were, indeed, children of hippy parents. The duo’s mix of dreamy, melodic psychedelia and shoegaze struck a chord with audiences and their second album, Griffons At … Continue reading New Album & Free EP From Sons Of Hippies
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