Here’s a stream of Kathleen Edward’s next single Sidecar which is released on Nov 14th via Rounder Records. The track was co-written with Jim Bryson and produced by Kathleen alongside Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) who also performs on the track. Kathleen Edwards will head back to the UK in February for a headline tour to follow the release of her new album Voyageur, out … Continue reading MM Shorts 27: Kathleen Edwards New Single
The Q Magazine cover disk this month features a reworking of U2’s 1991 album Achtung Baby. Titled AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered it features interpretations of the original songs by artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Patti Smith, Garbage, Gavin Friday, and Glasvegas. While the original never had space on our CD shelves, this is one of those tribute disks that is worth a spin and here is … Continue reading MM Shorts 26: Jack White Covers U2
There is a nice free digital mix currently available from American Songwriter that features some of MM’s favourites including Deer Tick, The War On Drugs, Cass McCombs and Real Estate. Here are a couple of our favourites from it – the sultry folk of the Smoke Fairies and Strand Of Oaks aka Timothy Showalter’s outrageous elegy for John Belushi from a certain Ghostbusters star. Alternatively … Continue reading Free Mix From American Songwriter: The Muse
Monument Valley is the musical world of London-born Ned Younger. Inspired by classic 1950s rock and roll, Postcard-era indie-pop and the modern poets of hip hop, Younger weaves all his musical touchstones into a passion for timeless story-telling and song-writing. His first release, the Tongues EP is due December 5 on Tritone/PIAS UK Records. Despite the expansive moniker, it is under the Monument Valley alias … Continue reading Introducing…Monument Valley
Hyde & Beast’s next single You Will Be Lonely is released on November 14th and you can watch the video now. The video follows a giant teddy bear around a desolate landscape on what they’re calling, “a journey of self discovery, on a quest to find himself, with a purgatory metaphor, on the shore of a new beginning and ultimately taking the chance and swimming towards something … Continue reading MM Shorts 25: Hyde & Beast Video
Arrogance is a wholly unpleasant characteristic. Confidence, yes; arrogance, get ye out of my bloody space. Despite the urge to strike back, I pay homage to the way of the Mackerel: bide your time, wait awhile, then just wait for the penny to drop. As MM always says, much better to know, step back, remove from the payroll, metaphorical or otherwise. What goes around often … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (28th October)
Here’s a new video from the upcoming Active Set album 11. The song was inspired by an old interview with L.A. songwriter Warren Zevon, who was said to have turned down a story in the New Yorker when he was dying of lung cancer, saying that they should have reached out when he was alive. The song was written as a dark tribute to him. … Continue reading MM Shorts 24: Active Set Video
Vines is the first single from the forthcoming release by The Nomadic Firs. You would be hard pressed to find a better blend of chilled out, good time rhythms and fuzzy, happy-go-lucky bedroom psychedelia anywhere. Simply irresistible. Download The Nomadic Firs – Vines mp3 Continue reading MM Shorts 23: The Nomadic Firs
Mat Gibson is a London based, Canadian born acoustic musician and troubadour. Produced in collaboration with various members of Oxfordshire based fast rising stars The Epstein, Mat’s new mini-album Forest Fire, recently released on Clubhouse Records, is a joy to behold. For comparisons sake, think Nebraska era Springsteen or Wilco’s Being There. Switching from a sparse, finger picked strum to reverb heavy vocal phrasing the … Continue reading Introducing…Mat Gibson
Keeping the dream pop theme for the day, if there is any artist who deserves a rest, it would be dream-pop songstress Shannon Curtis. That may be what she had in mind when she penned her upcoming single, Let’s Stay In. And although listeners may gladly heed the suggestion and curl up with a loved one as the air cools and the days shorten this … Continue reading Introducing…Shannon Curtis
