Only The Sea Slugs is an oddball band name and perfectly suits the Sydney five piece’s skewed and dark-hearted pop sound. They are one of those bands for whom one word descriptions can work very well: melancholic, brooding, twisted, dark, hypnotic, moody, absorbing. You get the picture, but actually put them all together and you start to get a far better sense of what they … Continue reading New Single From Only The Sea Slugs
Every so often we highlight the Daytrotter Studio session downloads that can be yours for a mere $2 per month. Often three sessions per day handpicked from the very best of both the up and coming and well established artists across a whole range of musical genres – there are treats and delights galore to be found. Just in the past few days there have … Continue reading Joe Pug & Timber Timbre on Daytrotter
Six more artists and seven tunes to brighten up your Sunday. From the garage reverb of King Tuff to the mournful acoustics of Sun Kil Moon to the punk clatter of Pangea and the rootsy rock of These United States. Courtesy of Aquarium Drunkard we have two covers by Wooden Wand as he takes on punk rockers Born Against and the quirky pop of Jonathan Richman (more … Continue reading Sunday Means Six Of The Best
Our second Noisetrade related post of the weekend is for a free covers EP from Cuff The Duke titled In Our Time. The band recently released the album Morning Comes, which is part one of a two part album (the second part is set for release in the autumn). In celebration of the release Cuff The Duke recorded a special covers EP featuring six songs from … Continue reading Free EP From Cuff The Duke
Insound have made another free Vinyl Mixtape available for download. Featuring twelve tracks across a range of genres and styles, the April mix includes MV & EE, Father John Misty, Birthmark, White Fence, Suckers, Radar Eyes and Choir of Young Believers amongst others. Check out a couple of our favourites from The Retribution Gospel Choir and Birthmark below or just head over here to get … Continue reading MM Shorts 139: Another Insound Free Mix
Hot on the heels of our earlier post about the Wooden Wand / Duke Garwood split for Record Store Day comes news of a deluxe edition release of last year’s excellent Briarwood album, again on Fire Records. It includes eight, stripped down demo versions of the James Jackson Toth’s penned album tracks. These were all recorded solo, at home in Lexington, KY, on a Roland BR1600 digital … Continue reading And More From Wooden Wand
Bringing together the dirty British blues of Duke Garwood and Wooden Wand’s Kentucky-laced country rock, Fire Records are releasing a special split 12″ for Record Store Day. As anyone who has read MM for any length of time will know, we are huge fans of Mr Wand, a genius songwriter and thoroughbred storyteller and we have featured the sparse, spooked our blues of Duke Garwood … Continue reading Wooden Wand & Duke Garwood Record Store Day Exclusive
Authentic, Delta-blues maverick Brother Dege is currently spending his time recording songs for his new album How To Kill A Horse in an empty warehouse, working in a homeless shelter, and disappearing for days into the backwoods of his native Louisiana. All par for the course for the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed full-length album Folk Songs of the American Longhair, which was voted one of the top blues and … Continue reading The Return Of Brother Dege
This time last year we were excited by Middle Brother, the indie ‘supergroup’ of sorts that featured Deer Tick, Delta Spirit, and Dawes. This year it is Diamond Rugs, another indie supergroup of sorts and this time featuring representatives from Deer Tick, the Black Lips, Dead Confederate, Los Lobos and Six Finger Satellite. The common denominator being Deer Tick’s John McCauley. We loved their festive release, … Continue reading New From Diamond Rugs
It is time for us to offer up eight more new songs for your listening pleasure. We have a Madonna cover from Magic Wands, and a Nirvana cover from Dive. We have tracks from garage rockers Black Lips, garage-pop from The Creepy Crawlies and some fuzzy indie jangle from The Memories. Tiger High keep up the overriding theme of the day with some truly excellent garage-psych … Continue reading Wednesday Means Eight More Of The Best
