Communist Daughter have shared their take on The Mountain Goats’ wonderful track, No Children as they kick off a December tour with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. Their rendition premiered at My Old Kentucky Blog and is more than worthy of a re-post here. Read their recent 5:1 Interview with MM here. Continue reading Communist Daughter Cover The Mountain Goats
Here is our fave Blues band, the Owsley Brothers, joined by Forrest Williams for a version of Otis Redding’s I’ve Been Loving You For Too Long, live at the Williams Backyard Boogie on the 23rd November. a Continue reading MM Shorts 274: The Owsley Brothers & Forrest Williams Cover Otis
It’s been a year of two halves, metaphorically speaking, and Dan Mangan has had my ear for most of the second half. So there we were, Movie Mate and I, in Kings Cross on a Tuesday night, feeling like we’d slipped into some sort of Canadian enclave. Dan Mangan has the most remarkable baritone voice that cuts through to the rather bruised bit below my … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (30th November)
With Christmas and New Year fast approaching the excellent SEXBEAT label have compiled this free mix of songs from each band they’ve released each year. The download includes tracks from Virals, Fear Of Men, Virginia Wing, White Fence, Sharm El Shakes and Eagulls. Click below to stream and download. Or just click here for the zip file of all six tracks. Continue reading Free SEXBEAT Records Sampler 2012
Jason Lytle is on tour with Band of Horses and prior to setting out, Ben Bridwell sent him a “vocal, drum, guitar” demo that he’d recorded in a hotel in Milan asking if he wanted to “add some whatever“. Jason says he proceeded to “slather sonic goo and build and mix upon it until he suspected the ghost of Townes Van Zandt was starting to get … Continue reading Jason Lytle & Ben Bridwell Cover Townes Van Zandt
Brighton’s heavy psych-rockers Negative Pegasus release their new single Unimmortal on Monday 10th December. The first recording since the sessions for their debut LP Looming (released in September), the new track is a taut, slowly unfolding, paranoid whirlwind of subtly intertwined riffs and a motorcade of cascading drums. Unimmortal is accompanied by the same song unnaturally reversed and demonically stretched to become Uunniimmmmoorrttaall plus a remix of album favourite Black Thigh by … Continue reading MM Shorts 273: Negative Pegasus
Most folks know how we like a decent murder ballad on MM, and have we got a gem for you today. Along the lines of Ween’s Buenos Tardes Amigos or Weddings Parties Anything’s A Tale They Won’t Believe, Billy Vincent’s Ballad of Billy Vincent is a seven minute London-based epic of brutal murder full of plot twists and turns, and delivering a stunning final denouement … Continue reading Introducing >>> Billy Vincent
