Former Dum Dum Girl, Katie Serbian Brouillette is releasing her new project Cheap Curls’ debut 7″ on Art Fag Recordings this spring. You can listen to the very fine track, Jackie Oh below. The debut 3 song 7″ is pressed in an edition of 500 copies – order it here. a Continue reading MM Shorts 112: Cheap Curls
Following on from our free SxSW sampler from American Songwriter earlier this week, we now have the latest in Insound’s free digital mixes. Their March offering has 13 tracks and includes Mind Spiders, Beach Fossils, Nite Jewel, Wild Nothing and Holograms amongst others. As an hors d’oeuvres we have two nice tasters from the mixtape below, or just head over here to get the whole … Continue reading MM Shorts 111: Insound’s Free March Mix
It is fair to say that we are more than a little excited about going to see the Felice Brothers next week in Birmingham – this being a rescheduled tour after the unfortunate cancellation of the original dates back at the tail end of 2011. To coincide with their European jaunt the band have made a new song available for free download from last year’s … Continue reading New Free Track From The Felice Brothers
The latest free NoiseTrade sampler features Yellow Ostrich who released their sophomore album Strange Land yesterday. To mark the event they have made a nine track digital collection available that contains two tracks from the new album as well as two from The Mistress and more from the direct-to-fan Eps created in singer Alex Schaaf’s bedroom. We recently posted the outstanding track The Shakedown from … Continue reading Free Yellow Ostrich Sampler
Here are a few of the new singles that have come our way recently that are well worth a listen. The Diamond Center are purveyors of very fine lush, shimmering neo-psychedelia. A new 7″, California / Bells will be out on the 13th March and you can listen to the woozy, pulsating goodness of the title track here. http://official.fm/tracks/350063 Next up, and while a touch … Continue reading New Singles Round Up
Philadelphia natives The Stammer have just released a self titled EP via Bandcamp that is chock full of flourishing guitar lines, vintage synth leads and hypnotising vocals that combine to provide a most promising debut. Drawing influences from post-punk, art-rock, and authentic garage with a garnish of classic 80s indie the four-piece are understandably, and for once justifiably, starting to create quite a buzz for themselves. … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Stammer
Like the wonderful Benjamin Shaw here in the UK, observational singer-songwriter Justin Farren has a world view that is as skewed as it is idiosyncratic as it is unassuming. However, being from across the pond, his is a view coloured by his Californian upbringing and consequently we get 70 second songs about awkward palm trees growing out of concrete, glue guns and anxieties over asphalt burns from sex … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Justin Farren
It is nearly time for SxSW again, a time when my envy-meter overheats and I hate everyone who is going… However, that aside, American Songwriter have put together this tasty little free digital mix that includes Brendan Benson, Shelly Colvin, Wild Cub and Delta Spirit’s brilliant new track California amongst others. One of our picks from the the indomitable Johnny Corndawg is below, but you can … Continue reading American Songwriter SxSW Free Sampler
A new album from Joe Pug is just cause for celebration round these parts and The Great Despiser will be released on April 24th. The first taste and following on from Hymn numbers 35 and 101, which have already seen daylight on his Nation of Heat EP, is Hymn #76. It features in this preview video for the album and provides plenty of reasons to … Continue reading MM Shorts 110: First Taste of Joe Pug’s New Album
The skewed, surreal and sometimes insane racket created by Mummy Short Arms received a lot of love from MM in 2011 and made it onto a couple of our contributors end of year best of lists for their debut single Cigarette Smuggling. Coming across like a Beefheart for the digital age, vocalist James Allen howls and growls like a cross between Frank Black and Leonard Cohen and that, … Continue reading New Single From Mummy Short Arms
