Best known as the lead singer of Glasgow indie-pop girl group TeenCanteen, Carla J Easton has teamed up with Joe Kane from psyche pop outfit Dr Cosmos Tapelab to form a new project, Ette. Their debut single Spending Christmas With My Boy a festive song about a girl called Carla whose best friend just happens to be a cat, and boasts cover art that is our … Continue reading Festive Fayre (15): Ette
Summer Camp have released a Christmas EP, a five track Christmas special, featuring original Christmas themed songs and covers of classics Last Christmas and Christmas Wrapping. Here is the video for new seasonal favourite I Don’t Wanna Wait Til Christmas Continue reading Festive Fayre (14): Summer Camp
It’s the third instalment of our end of year list of our favourite tracks of 2015. Today we enter the top half of the chart with numbers 50 through to 26. 50 Mutual Benefit – Not For Nothing 49 Rats On Rafts – Last Day On Earth 48 Slaves – Ninety Nine 47 Diet Cig – Harvard 46 Decemberists – The … Continue reading MM’S BEST TRACKS OF 2015: 50-26
With Motorcycle (Straight To Hell) Table Scraps delivered one of our favourite songs of the year. So it is fitting then that they should appear in our daily round up of festive (and not so festive) tunes. This is a case of the latter which sounds as sinister as could be (and with their apologies to Slade of course). Continue reading Festive Fayre (13): Table Scraps
Here are our favourite albums of 2015. 15 Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle 14 Joe Ely – Panhandle Rambler 13 Low – Ones And Sixes 12 James McMurtry – Complicated Game 11 Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy 10 Quiet Hollers – Quiet Hollers 9 Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie 8 Ezra Furman – Perpetual … Continue reading MM’S BEST ALBUMS OF 2015: 15-1
Our final round up in 2015 of all those newly fresh and minted tracks that we’ve gathered up from the past week is one of the best of the whole year. Here are twelve songs which you really need to hear.. Kurt Vile – Pretty Boy Ezra Furman – The Prisoner Those Darlins – Female Trouble (Divine cover) Cian Nugent – Lost Your Way Thao & … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Time to turn things up a notch with disaffected grunge vigilantes Hobart W. Fink’s scathing White Christmas. A commentary on race, class, ownership, and contentment. Enjoy! Continue reading Festive Fayre (12): Hobart W. Fink
Award-winning Americana trio Red Sky July are releasing an atmospheric, beautifully orchestrated single for Christmas featuring Beth Nielsen Chapman. Save Christmas Day For Me is a hazy blend of Americana and alt-country, a stripped back set-up of acoustic guitar and vocals allowing lush melodies and rich harmonies to come to the fore. Watch it here. Continue reading Festive Fayre (11): Red Sky July
And so begins the second quarter of our annual countdown of our favourite tracks of the year. 75 Joe Ely – Wounded Creek 74 Great American Canyon Band – Crash 73 Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle 72 The Quite Hollers – Mont Blanc 71 Heaters – Mean Green 70 Tough Age – New Orleans Square 69 Chris Staples – Dark Side … Continue reading MM’S BEST TRACKS OF 2015: 75-51
The Castillians first formed in 2010, and a year later self-released their debut album, Show Your Teeth, just on a small run of CD-Rs under the ColdRice Records banner before being picked up by the excellent PNKSLM label earlier this year who re-released it digitally worldwide. The label have announced that the band’s long awaited second album You & Me, will now be released on vinyl and digital … Continue reading New Single From The Castillians
The Mad Mackerel 