The Handsome Family || Bullingdon Arms, Oxford || May 25th 2012 You never quite know what you’re going to get at a Handsome Family gig. The venue was an old familiar haunt, quite cataclysmically changed from yesteryear – and not in an altogether good way. (Though thankfully, the Back Room of the Bully now has air con, which on a sweltering Friday evening in May … Continue reading The Handsome Family: Live Review
Fire Records are reissuing the complete works of Rainer Ptacek, the much beloved slide guitarist from Tucson, Arizona, who originated Giant Sand’s sound from the band’s inception, as well as creating many remarkable recordings as a solo artist and with his own band, Das Combo, before succumbing to brain cancer on November 12 1997. The reissues start with The Inner Flame, a compilation of accomplished … Continue reading The Inner Flame: A Tribute To Rainer Ptacek
With a name like Grave Babies, an EP title like Gothdammit, and songs called Nightmare, Bloodstains, and Mourning Heir it is not hard to guess to which musical mast the band have nailed their flag. That they are able to do so whilst maintaining a healthy dose of self-awareness of the flat-out ridiculousness of much that inhabits this particular genre does them great credit. Watch … Continue reading Introducing >>> Grave Babies
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The latest free offering via Noisetrade is Bison’s superb album of rootsy, backyard folk, Quill. Released last year, it is expansive with haunting melodies and complex arrangements – think The Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, The Civil Wars and the Decemberists for reference points. They call it mountain chamber music apparently. Grab the whole album for free via Noisetrade just by clicking here. Download Bison – Switzerland … Continue reading MM Shorts 164: Free Album from Bison
We’ve posted a couple of times recently about The Shrouded Strangers following our discovery of Featherbed, one of our favourite tracks of the year so far. They formed in 1999 in Harrisonburg, Virginia and promptly dropped their debut LP, Yes, We Are the Shrouded Strangers, a convoluted concept album about nature vs. technology. Then they got sidetracked. Resurrecting the band in 2008, they released a EP … Continue reading Shrouded Strangers Release Lost Forever
Not one, but two cracking free samplers to tell you about. The latest in the regular Vinyl News mixtapes from Insound and a tasty sampler from ATO Records. The former features twelve tracks from the likes of Alcoholic Faith Mission, Cowboy Junkies, Niki & The Dove, Sea of Bees, Plankton Wat and Video Love amongst others. The latter has seventeen tracks and includes Caitlin Rose, … Continue reading MM Shorts 163: Free Mixes from ATO and Insound
This month, Mojo magazine once again revisits a classic album with the help of some of today’s best artists. The Yellow Submarine film was released on July 17, 1968 and the Beatles soundtrack album followed six months later. In 1999, the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, a collection of music from that era, was released and it is this track listing that has mainly driven Yellow Submarine … Continue reading Mojo’s Free Yellow Submarine Covers Disk
