It has been a while since we’ve had a round-up from round the web and our favourite blogs. These are some of the tunes that have been monopolising the MM stereo recently and should get your week off with a snap, crackle and pop! We have a new track from The Crocodiles with the snaking, noise-pop of Endless Flowers from forthcoming album of the same … Continue reading Monday Means Eight Of The Best
This month’s Uncut magazine free Cover Disk features 16 tracks from new albums released in the UK this month. Artists include Ty Segall & White Fence, Giant Giant Sand, I See Hawks In L.A., The Walkmen, Paul Buchanan, Oberhofer, Pond, Husky, and Slow Down, Molasses. As always, it is available from any decent newsagents and is well worth picking up for the Levon Helm tribute and … Continue reading Uncut: New Directions Home Cover CD
The video for Duquette Johnston‘s single Roll Baby Roll (out now on Communicating Vessels) is a celebration of freedom, innocence and nostalgia. The clip features surreal vintage vignettes set to Johnston’s driving boogie and infectious holler-along refrain. And this week, the song is featured on the season finale of ABC’s Private Practice. Johnston is currently in the studio with producer Armand Margjeka, putting the finishing touches on his … Continue reading New Single From Duquette Johnston & The Rebel Kings
We discovered this via one of our favourite blogs Raven Sings The Blues, but confess to a personal reason for posting this beautifully judged, sepia-tinged video accompanying an equally mellow, pastoral folk instrumental by Padang Food Tigers. It is simply called For Esmé and for anyone who knows us, that is reason enough to post. a This comes from the LP Ready Country Nimbus released last week on … Continue reading Padang Food Tigers Video
This weekend will be spent standing at the sea’s edge in Devon, in search of some little rays of sunshine, as daughter sprat and I take to the open road with Bing and little Span. Actually, it’s more likely that we will be spent dodging torrential rain showers and drinking a lot of coffee. Still, one can dream. Mass excitement in the small feminine corner … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (11th May)
Mike Scheidt is a new name to us, but he is a native Oregonian who did time in the 80s hardcore scene and is best known for his band YOB. What interested us though was that beyond his punk and metal leanings, Scheidt was drawn to Townes Van Zandt, CSNY, Merle, Travis and Guy Clarke. It is these influences that have found their way on … Continue reading Mike Scheidt Solo Album
Another free Vinyl News mixtape for Insound’s subscribers is up and available. This one features Brendan Benson, Cheap Time, Cookie Duster, Dana Buoy, Evans the Death, Hollows, Jaill, Maps & Atlases, Royal Headache, The Spinto Band and more. Yours for a tweet, Facebook Like, or e-mail address. Grab it for a limited time here or check out a couple of our favourites below first. Download Firehorse … Continue reading MM Shorts 155: Insound’s May Vinyl Mixtape
Here are a few tracks that we’d meant to post, but for some inexplicable reason (well, time mostly…) we never got round to putting up at the time when they were new. Yet running through the long list we keep of mp3s, streams and videos, these were all in the “should post” category. They go back a couple of months (for some of them anyway), … Continue reading A Few We Missed…
GravelRoad are perhaps best known as T Model Ford’s band but they prove themselves more than capable of going it alone and kicking out a mean set of psychedelic garage blues on new album Psychedelta. Locking into sinewy, swamp inspired grooves and offering up a rough and raw blues groan, the influences range from CCR’s chooglin’ to Howlin’ Wolf’s sly lasciviousness and even ZZ Top’s southern … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…GravelRoad
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