Time for a round up of six more excellent bands and their tunes that have been spinning regularly on the MM virtual turntable. First out of the blocks are Manchester’s Temple Songs, a 4 piece outfit smashing out brilliantly crafted psychedelic pop tunes – the kind of tracks that you might stumble across on a carefully selected LA Nuggets compilation and wonder how it is of the … Continue reading Wednesday Means Six Of The Best
Checklist: Slide guitar, heavy groove, psychedelic undercurrents, laid-back vocals, twisted folksongs and haunted narratives, trippy, hypnotic. Thankfully, all the above are very much present and correct in the debut album of warm, dusty Americana from Mission Dorado’s new album Yannash Nahollo (Comanche for White Buffalo), which sees a release on July 9th. Have a listen to On The Range. Continue reading Introducing >>> Mission Dorado
Weather Codes, the superb new album from Texan songstress Teresa Maldonado aka Georgia’s Horse, comes out today on Fire Records. It is a brilliantly eclectic collection ranging from sparse and spooky country noir to psych-folk and touching all points in between. The backdrop throughout is the baking heat and vast landscapes of Texas and the American Southwest – sometimes lonely, sometimes menacing, but always fascinating … Continue reading Georgia’s Horse Release Weather Codes
Cracking videos today from Deer Tick, the whiskey-drenched folk of Jesse Woods, the menacing buzzsaw punk of the Riverboat Gamblers and the sharp-as-a-tack suited and booted garage rock of The Vitamins. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Deer Tick || Jesse Woods || Riverboat Gamblers || The Vitamins
There is no band out there that writes a better covering e-mail than The Dirty Nil. Each time we’ve posted about them on MM we’ve just nicked the words they’ve sent us because, well because they are so spot on. They now have a new Summer Mixtape out, Volume Two is all covers featuring songs by The Misfits, Iggy Pop, Guided By Voices, and Merle Haggard, … Continue reading The Dirty Nil’s Free Covers EP
The renowned actor and comedian Patton Oswalt (King of Queens), provides a brilliant comedic interpretation of the soul anthem The Magic Clap by Oakland group The Coup. Watch it, it is excellent. . Continue reading MM Shorts 398: The Coup – The Magic Clap Video
The demise at the end of last year of indie stalwarts Pete & The Pirates was greeted with particular dismay by the youngest family sprat who had long been an admirer of their catchy, infectious tunes. However, solace may be at hand with Teleman who have risen phoenix like from the ashes, featuring three ex-Pirates and taking the best that their previous band had to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Teleman
At first, the new single, Kahuna, by We The Dead sounds like a very good addition to the canon of distorted, garage inspired rock. Although it kicks off in a traditional manner – as a reverb riddled, fuzzed up gem of driving guitars, it is the nicely judged melodic interludes that effectively change the pace and feel of the track and sets it even further apart … Continue reading Introducing >>> We The Dead
Our choice of videos today come from the garage punk of Broncho with Psychiatrist and a suitably intense film for John Murry’s brilliant track Southern Sky directed by legendary cult filmmaker John Michael McCarthy. Then we have the video for the re-recorded version of Peter Bruntnell’s gorgeous track Played Out featuring Rumer, and taken from his forthcoming Retrospective album via Loose Music. Finally, we have Canadian folksters The … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Broncho || John Murry || Peter Bruntnell || Great Lake Swimmers
We featured the visceral blues-punk of London four-piece Burning Condors in a Video of the Day post back in February. Their latest single is, if anything, even better – the salacious, sleazier ‘n hell, bump ‘n’ grind of Dirty Girl Blues backed by the twisted Beach Boys inspired What Your Mama Said. Watch the video and listen to the a-side below. It is out on the 15th … Continue reading MM Shorts 397: More From Burning Condors
