Jason Lytle is on tour with Band of Horses and prior to setting out, Ben Bridwell sent him a “vocal, drum, guitar” demo that he’d recorded in a hotel in Milan asking if he wanted to “add some whatever“. Jason says he proceeded to “slather sonic goo and build and mix upon it until he suspected the ghost of Townes Van Zandt was starting to get … Continue reading Jason Lytle & Ben Bridwell Cover Townes Van Zandt
Brighton’s heavy psych-rockers Negative Pegasus release their new single Unimmortal on Monday 10th December. The first recording since the sessions for their debut LP Looming (released in September), the new track is a taut, slowly unfolding, paranoid whirlwind of subtly intertwined riffs and a motorcade of cascading drums. Unimmortal is accompanied by the same song unnaturally reversed and demonically stretched to become Uunniimmmmoorrttaall plus a remix of album favourite Black Thigh by … Continue reading MM Shorts 273: Negative Pegasus
Most folks know how we like a decent murder ballad on MM, and have we got a gem for you today. Along the lines of Ween’s Buenos Tardes Amigos or Weddings Parties Anything’s A Tale They Won’t Believe, Billy Vincent’s Ballad of Billy Vincent is a seven minute London-based epic of brutal murder full of plot twists and turns, and delivering a stunning final denouement … Continue reading Introducing >>> Billy Vincent
The Grand Prospect are a six-piece band out of NYC. All MM’s favourite ingredients are in place: three singers, banjo, guitar, keys, harmonies, an attitude of a little less talk, a little more rock and a singular objective of a damn good time. The result is a self-titled, debut release on the 11th December that will be as good a slice of alt-country / Americana … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Grand Prospect
Record label Post-Consumer is making its entire catalog (or catalogue if you’re in the UK) available throughout December on a name-your-price basis via Bandcamp. There is no minimum payment, and releases include the excellent fractured pop fairytales and melancholia of The Hand To Man Band and their album You Are Always On Our Minds (get it here), the acid-folk of Death Songs self-titled EP (get … Continue reading Post-Consumer Records Offer “Name-Your-Price” December
Bay Area band Fat Opie released Victoryville back in the summer, their first full-length since 2003. The unfortunate hiatus was due to a debilitating illness that bandleader Scott Mickelson suffered with for several years. In 2009, they released their first new single New Orleans, and signed a international distribution deal to re-release the entire catalogue. Soon after, three of the four original bandmembers (Scott Mickelson, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Fat Opie
