Many assert that George Jones wrote and sang some of the saddest songs ever, and we have been more than willing late disciples to his mournful balladeering and honky-tonk country. A grand introduction can also be had via Deer Lodge Records and their 30 track tribute to the man who died almost exactly a year ago. The album includes heavy Northwest hitters including Sassparilla, Fernando, Water … Continue reading Deer Lodge – A Tribute To George Jones
Brooklyn’s Veda Rays re-emerge with their horrorshow video for the noirish Wait For Teeth to Show. The video was filmed in the Greenpoint apartment of founding members Jason Gates and James Stark, and features Tarra Thiessen of the fierce, all-female garage-punk outfit Sharkmuffin as the victim of a snuff film. Absolutely no digital special effects were used in the video, which was filmed entirely on … Continue reading Video: Veda Rays – Waiting For Teeth To Show
1. PAWS – Owls Talons Clenching My Heart 2. Popstrangers – Don’t Be Afraid 3. Young Widows – The Money 4. Hamilton Leithauser – 11 O’Clock Friday Night 5. Dub Thompson – No Time . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Watch this excellent video to accompany Blair Dunlop’s outstanding track about an outsider’s alienation and retribution, Something’s Gonna Give Way. . Continue reading Video: Blair Dunlop – Something’s Gonna Give Way
Like The Dune Rats, Theo Verney is high on our “must-see” list at the Great Escape Festival. He has given details on his impending new single, Sound Machine, to be released on Hate Hate Hate. Highlighted by its entrancing, introductory guitar lines that dip and drone into a 70s progressive groove-ridden feel, Sound Machine is a typically busy Theo Verney track that picks up exactly … Continue reading Free Download From Theo Verney
Australia’s premier stoned punk rockers The Dune Rats have a new single out ahead of their European jaunt that happily for us includes a date at the Great Escape Festival. It is a limited 7” of double A-side single, Red Light, Green Light, backed with Fuck It, and sees a release on the 15th June via Ratbag Records. Listen to both below – you’re guaranteed four … Continue reading New Dune Rats Single
We’re throughly enjoying this EP from NYC’s Falling Birds, whose fuzzed up garage rock recalls the The Black Lips, but with a dash of Bright Eyes’ folky storytelling sensibilities and a smattering of classic rock’n’roll thrown in for good measure. The five track EP is called Native America and can be grabbed from Bandcamp here on a name-your-price offer. We suggest you head there right away, … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Falling Birds
Perfectly complimenting our previous post about White Lung are New York City’s premier psychedelic swamp rock unit DeGreaser. Words In Your Mouth is the pulverising first track from their forthcoming long-player Rougher Squalor. . Continue reading MM Shorts 553: DeGreaser
Uncompromising and confrontational punk rockers White Lung have offered up Snake Jaw, the b-side to forthcoming 7″ single Drown With The Monster. It will also appear on their forthcoming third album Deep Fantasy (which you can pre-order here from Domino Records). It is a typically provocative offering, as hard hitting and as hardcore as ever, but with a nod to a more melodic approach that we … Continue reading White Lung – Snake Jaw
One of our favourite battle-scarred trailblazers and songwriting powerhouses Mary Gauthier returns with a new album, her first in four years, Trouble & Love, and a new Canadian label home, the excellent Six Shooter Records. The pain and ache in Gauthier’s music comes from her own life’s jagged edges and gutting experiences. As a chronicler of bad luck and hard times, she has carved out a particular place … Continue reading Mary Gauthier To Release Trouble & Love
