The dreamy soundscapes of My Darling Fury are both haunting and beautiful, reminiscent of acts such as Andrew Bird meets Fleet Foxes meets a bit of Rufus Wainwright. The vocal melodic phrases are long and wide-ranging, placing a strong emphasis on evocative lyrics with a broad emotional span. The use of bowed double bass with effects adds atmosphere and a sometimes psychedelic quality. Two guitarists juxtapose … Continue reading Introducing >>> My Darling Fury
Here is our traditional free Halloween Mix for 2013 – twenty five great tunes and the fourth year we’ve provided a soundtrack for one of the best nights of the year. Download a perfect mix of ghouls, ghosts, spooks, and all manner of assorted monsters…from all genres and the past 40 years. No trick, all treat! Download Gene Vincent – Race With The Devil mp3 … Continue reading Free Halloween Mix 2013
Here is a second track from Son of Dave’s forthcoming Blues At The Grand LP, released on the 25th November. We Goin Out, is a disco-blues number with his distinctive style stamped all over it. Check out our previous post here to get all his November tour dates. Continue reading Another From Son of Dave
Sydney garage/psych band The Jones Rival mix clever riffs, solid bass hooks, howling vocals and a good old drive to create a sound which traverses the decades and lands at something fresh and contemporary. The band have just finished recording their debut self-titled five track EP, which is out on the 1st of November. Listen to the opening two tracks, Cults and Busted. Continue reading Introducing >>> The Jones Rival
Calgary James is from the Boston-based band High Diner. He has a new single out for free download titled Days Like These. It is a thoroughly enjoyable, meandering acoustic guitar ditty with a nicely judged psych-pop undercurrent – should appeal to fans of Mac DeMarco. Continue reading MM Shorts 466: Calgary James
Louisville-based psychedelic/experimental duo Wax Fang’s third standalone single of 2013 will be Hearts Are Made For Beating, out on the 5th November. It is like a classic college rock song that has been left out in the sun too long and has gradually warped and stretched, metamorphosing into something that is slightly off-kilter, a little bit alien even. Whatever it is, it is out of sync … Continue reading New Single From Wax Fang
We thoroughly enjoyed The Hale & Hearty LP by Heyward Howkins, a record full of melancholy and playfulness and distinguished by some unusual arrangements and instrumentation. Now he is back with Be Frank Furness, which is equal parts turmoil and glittering melodies and idles somewhere comfortably between the sound of Andrew Bird and Dent May. Within the opening moments of the new album, the cheerful guitar instantly … Continue reading New Album From Heyward Howkins
We’re way late on this one, but having hit a (rich) psych-pop vein earlier, we’re now loving the 60s pastoral, jangly psychedelia of Candy Flip the debut 7″ single by another New York outfit, Spires. It is backed by the equally good, and vintage sounding, Comic Book. Fire up a fat one and listen below. Continue reading Spires – Candy Flip 7″
Occupying his own unique space in American music somewhere between the throaty junkyard stomp of Tom Waits and the wild mercurial ramblings of Dylan, James Keyes is a musician who travels solo with only a guitar and his right foot beating out the time on a home made pedal board. Gut-bucket blues, honky-tonk tear jerkers, songs of the road and its endless freedom, dark nights in … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… James Keyes
There are plenty who will find far better words than I to mourn the passing of Lou Reed. Suffice to say he soundtracked much of my teenage years and fuelled many bedroom dreams of partying with NY’s avant-garde finest and haughty, heroin fuelled ice maidens. Only a few weeks ago I splashed some download credits on exploring his later back catalogue of solo albums like … Continue reading RIP Lou Reed
