Purveyors of mighty fine 60s influenced garage punk and jangly power pop, LA’s Cigarette Bums will release their new, self-titled album in March. With influences ranging from The Stooges, Stones, and The Black Lips to name a few, we’re looking forward to getting acquainted with the full record, but for now have a listen to the rather good Death In Texas and order from Bandcamp here. Continue reading New Album From The Cigarette Bums
Jesse Gilmore is an indie musician out of Texas who fuses dark psychedelic ballads of cosmic gloom with reggae, classical, electronica, folk, and the blues. A couple of weeks ago he released his debut LP, Heartbreak, on the indie label, Santa Rosa Records. Have a listen to The Horror from it below. Buy the album here. Continue reading MM Shorts 903: Jesse Gilmore
Listen to Satisfaction, the fizzing new single from Kent garage punk trio The Bay Rays, which is also the title track from their debut EP, out on their own label imprint, East Wing Records, this March. Continue reading New Single From The Bay Rays
First Snow is a collection of six wintery songs from dream poppers The Arctic Flow. All the songs have been previously released as singles, compilation tracks and b-sides, but they have been unavailable for some time. Each song is set in winter, or feels like winter. There are also two Christmas songs in this collection – listen to Do You Hear What I Hear below, … Continue reading Christmas Is Coming… Here Are Arctic Flow
Song By Toad Records have released a double A-side Christmas single with Jonnie Common and long-time MM faves eagleowl featuring two songs based around the plot of what they claim to be the greatest Christmas story ever told (Die Hard, apparently), and not only that, but they’re releasing it as a hand-made snow globe containing a Lego John McClane. And why wouldn’t they? And as they … Continue reading Christmas Is Coming… Here Are eagleowl
Communal Bathroom’s have offered us a wry festive folk song about family disharmony around the dinner table on Christmas Day. Apparently the single is musically influenced by Bob Dylan & The Band and the South Yorkshire carolling tradition! Give it a spin. Continue reading Christmas Is Coming… Here Are Communal Bathroom
Thirty Pounds of Bone’a annual Christmas sing-a-long this year is In The Bleak Midwinter, which according to his Twitter was recorded “in a little cottage on an island on a lake in Ireland”. Have a listen. Continue reading Christmas Is Coming… Here Are Thirty Pounds Of Bone
Our final Best of post of 2016 is MM’s own selections. You can also listen via Spotify here. 20 TRAAMS – A House On Fire I always think I don’t really like long songs and yet they always seem to end up in my favourite tracks of the year. This TRAAMS song is nearly nine minutes long yet hurtles along in a blur of krautrock … Continue reading MM’s BEST OF 2016: MAD MACKEREL
Our third Best Of listing comes from the ever lovely Mrs Mackerel. Listen on Spotify here. 2016 turned out to be fairly music-light by my standards in that I didn’t listen to nearly as much as I usually do, partly in response to spending so much time driving up and down the country. For this, I need the spoken word rather than the sung one, … Continue reading MM’s BEST OF 2016: MRS MACKEREL
Here is the Big Moon’s take on the 1963 Andy Williams’ classic It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year. Continue reading Christmas Is Coming… Here Are Big Moon
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