New York based folk/rock duo The Whispering Tree will release The Escape EP on April 16, the follow up to their excellent debut full length album of 2010, Go Call The Captain. Moody and introspective, they are offering a free download of No Love, which overflows with the imagery and storytelling that are the hallmark of the band’s sound. Continue reading MM Shorts 316: The Whispering Tree
Express and Company will release their debut album, Ontario (via Seventh Fire Records), on 26th March. Based out of Peterborough, ON, the project is fronted by singer songwriter Dylan Ireland and recalls the work of Whiskeytown and Uncle Tupelo. Grab yourself Gold In Your Pockets, the first single from the album. Continue reading MM Shorts 315: Express and Company
Following the release of their latest LP, Sky Burial, Rice Cultivation Society has recorded the single Little Circuses On The Moon. Opening quietly with slowly picked strings, the sombre song gradually builds with intricate layers. It is an example of Rice Cultivation Society at their most intimate, beautifully capturing frailty, fear, shyness, and longing. Download it here. Continue reading Another From The Rice Cultivation Society
Andrew Leahey & The Homestead’s Summer Sleeves is the sound of the modern South: its cities, its open spaces, and everywhere in between. The Nashville-based Leahey recorded the songs with the Homestead, a group of childhood friends and Virginia-based musicians who added organ, harmonized guitar riffs, pedal steel, and three-part harmonies to the mix. Last year Leahey spent most of the year on the road, driving … Continue reading Introducing >>> Andrew Leahey & The Homestead
Brian Chippendale aka Black Pus is a new name to us, but one we like. The same goes for the music – slightly deranged, often furious – it is a cacophony of drums, loops and repeating phrases and rhythms, but with a pop heart. There is a new album, All My Relations, due next month on the wilfully maverick label Thrill Jockey (pre-order here) as … Continue reading Black Pus To Release All My Relations
You know the score. MM is a blog that (musically) tends to favour the seedier side of life – murder ballads, heartbreak, despair, stories of the downtrodden, the down-on-their-luck, and the downhearted – you know the kind of things we mean. Ours is a world of lonely beer and whiskey chasers nursed in the back booths of dead-end bars, of crack-whores turning tricks in trailers … Continue reading MM’s Anti-Valentine’s Day Mix
Any excuse to showcase another tune from Willy Mason’s brilliant new album, this is the video for Pickup Truck. We also have Lowlakes gorgeously haunting video for Song for Motion and the psychedelic power-pop shenanigans of Sherpa’s video for their excellent new single, I’m Happy Just To Lie. Finally, watch the dual-guitar (no bass!) and drums setup of Boytoy, they’re blasting out catchy, fuzzy punky songs … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Willy Mason || Lowlakes || Sherpa || Boytoy
Having already provided a download of Lucifer, the rather epic, grandiose b-side to As Elephants Are’s new single of exuberant indie rock, Youth Blood, we are more than gratified to bring you a stream of the a-side now. Listening pleasure guaranteed. Out 18th March via Once Upon A Time Records. Continue reading MM Shorts 314: As Elephants Are
My Baby’s Got To Pay The Rent is the latest offering from the Deep Dark Woods which was written for the movie Safe Haven. Continue reading MM Shorts 313: Deep Dark Woods
Highasakite have announced their In and out of weeks EP, their first international release on Propeller Recordings Highasakite make indie pop with a twist – a sparkling cocktail combining 60s American Rock, Norwegian folk, jazzy drumming, organic synthesizers and zither into a bright, buoyant sound. Have a listen to Son of a Bitch. Continue reading MM Shorts 312: Highasakite
