Broncho – What
We are thoroughly enjoying this fuzzy, guitar driven stomper from Broncho. What is taken from their forthcoming long-player Just Enough Hip To Be Woman. Start the weekend right! . Continue reading Broncho – What
We are thoroughly enjoying this fuzzy, guitar driven stomper from Broncho. What is taken from their forthcoming long-player Just Enough Hip To Be Woman. Start the weekend right! . Continue reading Broncho – What
Neo-psychedelic-sex-punk band May McDonough & Company from Orange, CA, recently released their new full length album Bullyboywithaglasseye. They describe themselves as “kinda like Thee Oh Sees – meets- The Growlers – meets- Jefferson Airplane“. Sounds mighty fine to us. Take a listen to Wrap Around Porch… they might even have sold themselves a little short! Buy from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading May McDonough & Company – bullyboywithaglasseye
Listen to the new Keith John Adams double A-side single Music In My Feet/No Room, which follows in the grand tradition of spiky, offbeat British guitar pop with a nod to the likes of Television Personalities, Robyn Hitchcock and Jonathan Richman. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 598: Keith John Adams
In conjunction with the reissue of their 2007 self-titled debut (out on the 14th October on Western Vinyl), Balmorhea the six-piece instrumental group from Austin, TX., are releasing two new songs on a limited edition 7″ titled HEIR. With the songs created for the 7”, the band brings everything full circle, returning to the simple structures and melancholic tone that colored their first recordings. Listen below to … Continue reading Balmorhea – Heir 1
With the release of Niagara (out late September on Tin Angel Records), Toronto-based singer-songwriter John Southworth has delivered an audacious, double record featuring nine rich, expansive songs on the Canadian side, with eleven mirrored counterparts on the American. The result is a multi-faceted, one-of-a-kind album – a collection of gorgeously crafted songs blending a vast and distinct selection of popular song and folk styles – while … Continue reading Introducing >>> John Southworth
The Highway Hymnal are a brooding psych rock four-piece from Boston. Their experimental sound has been influenced by artists coming from a variety of genres such as the 60s pop of The Beatles, the 70s garage rock of The Stooges, and the late 80s/early 90s shoegaze of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Spacemen 3. Listen to the intense noise-rock of Television below. . Continue reading MM Shorts 597: The Highway Hymnal
Apparently, according to the background details, Drop City was an artists’ community formed in southern Colorado in 1965. It was the first real commune, pre-summer of love and inspired by the happenings of Allan Kaprow, the Fluxos movement and John Cage. The commune’s most celebrated collaboration was an improvised piece they called The Ultimate Painting. It is from this esoteric world that James Hoare (of … Continue reading Ultimate Painting – Winter In Your Heart
Theatrical folkies The Last Bison have announced the self-release of their new album VA (pronounced Virginia), which is coming out on the 30th September. The band have shared the rather tasty first single Every Time, which is available as a free download. . Continue reading MM Shorts 596: The Last Bison
Dreamers, play a brand of grunge that is nostalgic for a space somewhere between art-school eccentric and the late 1970s punk scene. They have released a new music video for their single Wolves. . . Continue reading New Video: Dreamers – Wolves
Maggie Bjorklund is a pedal steel guitarist/singer/composer from Copenhagen, Denmark. She has made a name for herself as a stylistically unique musician, combining the tastes and techniques a wide variety of music – country, indie rock, film scores, psychedelia, pop – into a seamless blend of roots music. Her new album Shaken was written while Bjorklund was recently tending to her mother in the hospital, … Continue reading Maggie Bjorklund To Release Shaken