Coke Weed were one of our favourite discoveries of last year and their new album Nice Dreams has been seducing us further and further with each play – each track like tendrils of fog swirling round your head, elusive and smoky, but gradually revealing their irresistible delights. They have made a video for new single, Jimmy which they are also giving away as a free … Continue reading More From Coke Weed
Dig Deeper mine a rich vein of musical heritage with their expert exploration of Americana, psychedelia and Alt-Country, effortlessly calling to mind artists like Son Volt, Dream Syndicate, Crazy Horse, Drive By Truckers and Green On Red. That in itself is not a surprise. However, when juxtaposed against the fact they come from the homeland of MM’s mother, Norway, frankly it is. But make no mistake, … Continue reading Introducing >>> Dig Deeper
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
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
We have posted a number of times about Damon Moon & The Whispering Drifters and their outstanding latest album of sometimes fragile, sometimes eerie, sometimes warped and sometimes wistful Americana. This is the fourth single from Lungs, Dirts & Dreams and is titled Restless Roads End. It is a more muscular track, a song that slowly stretches, flexes and simmers over five minutes while the band keep … Continue reading More From Damon Moon & The Whispering Drifters
It is Easter. I’m using it as an excuse to give you an entirely contrived and slightly spurious soundtrack for that Egg hunt. On the other hand, some cracking tunes to add to your iTunes library. Download The Faith Brothers – The Easter Parade mp3 (from Eventide) Download Easterhouse – Whistling In The Dark mp3 (from Whistling In The Dark 7″) Download Brimstone Howl – Easter At The … Continue reading MM’s Slightly Contrived Easter Mix
Here is our semi-regular round-up of what’s new (and good) from our in-box, our favourite blogs, and the realms of the internet. We have some dusty, backwoods Americana from The Great American Canyon Band and Father John Misty and some rollicking country rock’n’roll from Deer Tick’s new Tim EP. We have high octane garage from the Fresh & Onlys with a non-album cut that appears … Continue reading Saturday Means Eight of the Best
Videos seem to accumulate in our in-box faster than we have a hope of watching them. However, having sat and watched and watched and watched and then watched some more, this then is our selection of the best we’ve seen. Wet Nuns are a band we like a lot singing songs as they do about women, death and beer. This is the video for Heavens … Continue reading Huge Video Round Up…MM Has Square Eyes!
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