London-based indie band Three Girl Rhumba’s charming debut single Minnie Driver is awash with layers of sun soaked guitar and a vocal melody with hints of Fleet Foxes. Have a listen. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 57 – Three Girl Rhumba
Taking her cues from such artists as Neko Case, Jenny Lewis, Spoon, and Wilco, Prickle is 17 year old Emily Wilson from Melbourne, Victoria. Tell Me Why, is her first single, and is a study of contrasting personalities and the thoughts that follow. Honest vocals engage a story telling voice speaking to the listener in conversational style. Initially sketched out with a laid back acoustic feel, … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 56 – Prickle
Great Lakes formed back in 1996 in Athens, Georgia and has been based in Brooklyn, NY since 2002. The band has released four albums. A fifth record called Wild Vision will come out this month on the band’s own label, Loose Trucks. While their early records traded in a whimsical, light-hearted psychedelia, the band have gradually gravitated toward more personal songs, with a darker tone. … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 54 – Great Lakes
Power-pop five piece Universal Thee return with their sophomore album, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, the follow up to the critically lauded debut Back To Earth. The album is due for release on 19th February via Eventual Heirs Records. Harnessing the influences of bands such as Teenage Fanclub, Pixies and current favourites Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, the band have released … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 53 – Universal Thee
Finland’s Swaying Wires will release their sophomore album I Left A House Burning next week. With influences from Neko Case to Jason Molina, listen to Nowhere from the album with its a beautiful, meandering guitar lines and soulful, sometimes heartbreaking vocal. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 52 – Swaying Wires
Heron Oblivion are a San Francisco combo consisting of some of the leading figures in the psych / folk scene, including Meg Baird of Espers, Ethan Miller and Noel Von Harmonson from Comets on Fire as well as Charles Saufley of Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound. Together they combine heavy psychedelic rock with English folk sounding like a mesh of Chrome, MC5, Low and Pentangle. Their self-titled album will … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 51 – Heron Oblivion
Rob Williams marries gritty Americana with country style leanings and a healthy dose of humour. Best I Can Do is an anti rat-race, pro life-work balance kind of a song, carried along on a no holds barred, good-time, foot stomping rhythm. It comes from his new album Southern FM. Check it out / download it below. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 50 – Rob Williams
New Zealand’s Maple Syrup began a couple of years ago when Vera Ellen and Jerry Ramirez were experimenting with tape recordings on an old 4-track. Influenced by Ween and Bob Dylan they initially wrote lo-fi folk music with tuned up pitch and nonsensical lyrics. At this time they also consumed large amounts of the aforementioned maple syrup and hence it seemed like a fitting name to … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 49 – Maple Syrup
Vicky Speedboat, a two-piece punk rock outfit from Philadelphia, is the drunken creative brainchild of Sean Huber of Modern Baseball and Will Lindsay of W.C. Lindsay. Loud, harshly distorted but melodic guitars, fit seamlessly with bombastic and aggressive drumming – their songs are allegories of the road, tales of restlessness and staying on the run. This is Weathering Bell from their debut EP Two Years No Basement. … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 48 – Vicky Speedboat
The Desert Song is a window into Bird Dog’s folk-kissed, Americana-tinged rock’n’roll. A sound that evokes the lilting harmony-strewn likes of Band of Horses, Lord Huron, and The Band. It is taken from their forthcoming Misty Shrub EP, set for release on 22nd January through National Anthem. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 47 – Bird Dog
The Mad Mackerel 