Taken from Scott & Charlene’s Wedding’s new Two Weeks EP, this is the delightfully titled, and delightfully catchy Gammy Leg. Laconic, slacker pop at its absolute finest, and undoubtedly the best thing we’ve heard from them to date. Grab it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 332: Scott & Charlene’s Wedding Offer Up Gammy Leg
My first trip back to Austin since 2009, and compared with then the town is hectic even before any music is officially due to start. Streets are teeming with folk whereas previously four years ago, the day before the event, Chris T Popper and I had strolled around empty streets and then casually into the marvellous Waterloo Records and bought wristbands for the coming evenings … Continue reading SXSW Day 1: You’ve Got To Be A Ninja About It – Pissing With Thurston Moore
The Sparrow and the Workshop announced themselves with the excellent Crystals Falls album, and consolidated their increasing reputation with a second album, Spitting Daggers, which further enhanced their talent for twisting the tabernacles of folk rock until it turned white with shock. Drawing comparisons as diverse as Jefferson Airplane, PJ Harvey and the Pixies on the one hand, and being labelled as surf rockers, folk … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 9: The Sparrow and the Workshop
We are loving this track, Grown-ups by The Burning Hell from forthcoming long player People. The Burning Hell is the alter-ego of songwriter and ukulele-slinger Mathias Kom. Loosely based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, the band have quite a few releases up on their Bandcamp page, that on the evidence of this track will be well worth investigating. The track calls to mind such lyrical luminaries … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Burning Hell
In conjunction with their March/April issue, American Songwriter have offered up The Billy Reid Shindig Sampler for free download. It is a SXSW promo for their event being held March 13-14 from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Weather Up, and features many MM faves like Dawes, Jason Isbell, Johnny Fritz and Deer Tick’s John McCauley amongst others (see flyer below for details). Just click here … Continue reading American Songwriter’s Free SXSW Download
Wooden Wand has already released the brilliant Blood Oaths of the New Blues this year and the even better news is James Jackson Toth will be hitting the the road with the musicians with whom he created the record (and who had also joined him previously for the superb Briarwood LP) for a European tour in April. The band is made up of David Hickox, … Continue reading Wooden Wand Tour And New Free Download
More musical goodies in film form for you today from Wake Owl and their gorgeous track Wild Country, and from Fear of Men with the video to their top tune Seer. Franc Cinelli has a five track EP inspired by Alcatraz and its inhabitants, watch the video for the achingly beautiful Birdman, and lastly the brilliant Do You Think You’re Enough from the Pyyramids gets … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Wake Owl | Fear of Men | Wake Owl | Pyyramids
Toronto-based indie folk septuplet Beams has released Be My Brother, the debut single from their upcoming full-length album, Just Rivers. The lush instrumentation and lovely vocal harmonies hide the fact that lyrically something altogether more discomforting and baleful lies beneath the surface. It gives the band an edge that many of their contemporaries in this field either lack, or are unwilling to find. The digital … Continue reading Introducing >>> Beams
It is hard to know what to say about Laura Marling without falling back into cliche at the earliest opportunity. As a songwriter, hers is seemingly a very old head on young shoulders as she effortlessly is able to create whole albums of extraordinary material that would be the pinnacle of many other’s careers – and then she goes and does it again, and again. … Continue reading New Album From Laura Marling
Enjoy music videos from Mice Parade and their beautiful film for This River Has A Tide and London based folksinger Lucy Cait’s strange and hypnotic Gabriel’s Wharf, the title track from her debut EP. After taking a couple of years off to focus on other projects, Krist Krueger returns to the Southerly moniker and celebrates with a new single and video for Desolation Low. And … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Mice Parade || Lucy Cait || Southerly || Autumn Owls
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