Insound have made another free Vinyl Mixtape available for download. Featuring twelve tracks across a range of genres and styles, the April mix includes MV & EE, Father John Misty, Birthmark, White Fence, Suckers, Radar Eyes and Choir of Young Believers amongst others. Check out a couple of our favourites from The Retribution Gospel Choir and Birthmark below or just head over here to get … Continue reading MM Shorts 139: Another Insound Free Mix
So much can happen in one week, even when you feel that time stands still. Simone Felice at the Jericho Tavern, for example. There I was, MM photographer for the night, fins flailing, blinding everyone by inadvertently turning on the flash. Fortunately no-one asked me to leave, particularly as it was such a great gig. More like a front room jam. A couple of days … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (13th April)
Hot on the heels of our earlier post about the Wooden Wand / Duke Garwood split for Record Store Day comes news of a deluxe edition release of last year’s excellent Briarwood album, again on Fire Records. It includes eight, stripped down demo versions of the James Jackson Toth’s penned album tracks. These were all recorded solo, at home in Lexington, KY, on a Roland BR1600 digital … Continue reading And More From Wooden Wand
Bringing together the dirty British blues of Duke Garwood and Wooden Wand’s Kentucky-laced country rock, Fire Records are releasing a special split 12″ for Record Store Day. As anyone who has read MM for any length of time will know, we are huge fans of Mr Wand, a genius songwriter and thoroughbred storyteller and we have featured the sparse, spooked our blues of Duke Garwood … Continue reading Wooden Wand & Duke Garwood Record Store Day Exclusive
Ellen & The Escapades recently spent the day with fellow Leeds band Hope and Social. Each month Hope and Social invite a band to their ‘crypt’ and together they arrange, record and produce a cover, chosen by fans. It looked as if it could have been Bohemian Rhapsody at one point, luckily the track chosen was Robert Palmer’s timeless hit Addicted to Love. While we’ve … Continue reading MM Shorts 138: Ellen & The Escapades Cover Addicted To Love
Authentic, Delta-blues maverick Brother Dege is currently spending his time recording songs for his new album How To Kill A Horse in an empty warehouse, working in a homeless shelter, and disappearing for days into the backwoods of his native Louisiana. All par for the course for the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed full-length album Folk Songs of the American Longhair, which was voted one of the top blues and … Continue reading The Return Of Brother Dege
This time last year we were excited by Middle Brother, the indie ‘supergroup’ of sorts that featured Deer Tick, Delta Spirit, and Dawes. This year it is Diamond Rugs, another indie supergroup of sorts and this time featuring representatives from Deer Tick, the Black Lips, Dead Confederate, Los Lobos and Six Finger Satellite. The common denominator being Deer Tick’s John McCauley. We loved their festive release, … Continue reading New From Diamond Rugs
It is time for us to offer up eight more new songs for your listening pleasure. We have a Madonna cover from Magic Wands, and a Nirvana cover from Dive. We have tracks from garage rockers Black Lips, garage-pop from The Creepy Crawlies and some fuzzy indie jangle from The Memories. Tiger High keep up the overriding theme of the day with some truly excellent garage-psych … Continue reading Wednesday Means Eight More Of The Best
Back in December we posted about Cardiff based noiseniks My Pet Monster and as we drove past same said city yesterday it seemed appropriate that we should post about their new five track EP Trudy Superstar. It is available now via their Bandcamp page for the princely sum of £3 – or you can download a free taste below if you fancy it. a Continue reading The Return Of My Pet Monster
We’ve long had a soft spot for Canadian indie rockers Wintersleep. Resuscitate is an intriguing first taste from forthcoming release Hello Hum, which is due to see the light of day on June 12th. Download Wintersleep – Resuscitate mp3 (from Hello Hum) Continue reading Free Download From Wintersleep
