Paul Hawkins & The Bleak Midwinters are Paul Hawkins of Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences, his bandmate Ian Button and Mary Boeker, who usually sings with the Empty Gestures & the Count of Chateau Noir. Tonight I Will Be Santa involves a man breaking into a woman’s house on Christmas Eve and claiming to be Santa: “How did you get in here? I climb … Continue reading Christmas Post 7: Paul Hawkins & The Bleak Midwinters
Band of Skulls rock. This is an indisputable fact. They will be delivering the follow up to 2009’s much appreciated Baby Darling Doll Face Honey debut in early 2012. Titled Sweet Sour it will be released on Chris T Popper’s birthday – 20th February thus solving the present conundrum in one fell swoop. Have a listen to the title track… a Visit their Facebook here or website … Continue reading MM Shorts 57: Band Of Skulls
In late 2010, Marty Crandall had been “let go” from the iconic indie-rock band the Shins and was met with the decision of either calling it a day or moving forward with this thing called music. Thankfully he chose the latter. Touching base with some friends from his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico, that included fellow former Shins guitarist Neal Langford, brother Maury Crandall on … Continue reading Introducing…Sad Baby Wolf
The demise of Port O’Brien may well be our biggest musical downer of the year, but Van Pierszalowski’s new project Waters is making up for some of that disappointment. Hard on the heels of his excellent debut album Out In The Light comes this helter-skelter cover of Nirvana’s Stay Away where the ramshackle intensity and angst of the original is joyously matched, albeit without the … Continue reading MM Shorts 56: Waters Cover Nirvana
My Morning Jacket have released a Christmas themed EP via iTunes only, hence the title: The iTunes Session EP. It contains a mix of Christmas tunes, an acoustic versions of Wonderful from this year’s Circuital album and one new track in the shape of Welcome Home. As it is December, we have When The Bells Stop Ringing, which also features the talents of The Head & … Continue reading Christmas Post 5: My Morning Jacket
The latest Insound free digital mix for December is up – this time it requires a click through on their Facebook Like button to grab yourself eleven of the latest tracks from Bon Iver, Bowerbirds, Sharon Van Etten, A Place To Bury Strangers and plenty more. As usual, you can grab a couple of our favourites below or click here to go get the whole … Continue reading Insound’s Free December Mix
The Lovely Eggs are as catchy, as irreverent, and as downright loopy as anything we’ve come across this year. This is the video for newly released (and already sold out on vinyl) single, Allergies – it features a guest appearance from the single’s producer Gruff Rhys. You can download it from iTunes here. a Continue reading Lovely Eggs – Allergies Video
Diamond Rugs are the latest signing to Partisan Records. The band is a collaboration between John McCauley (Deer Tick), Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pé (The Black Lips), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate) and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Satellite). The debut offering from the new album, Christmas In A Chinese Restaurant is available now for download below. Although not indicative of … Continue reading Christmas Post 4: Diamond Rugs
Anything described to us as “off-beat, old-timey folk-pop” is bound to get a listen at MM, and so it was with nine-piece folk collective Horse’s Mouth. Their self-titled album has been around for a while now, but is currently getting a new momentum courtesy of our friends at Paper Garden. As I Climb opens with a plaintive vocal and soon develops into a classically harmonious folk-song … Continue reading Introducing…Horse’s Mouth
As the end of the year fast approaches, we have been replaying songs, re-evaluating albums, and generally preparing for our ‘Best Of 2011’ posts in all their various forms. What this means in practical terms is that we are discovering (sometimes to our shame, and sometimes to our horror) songs we meant to have posted or should have posted, but for some inexplicable reason we … Continue reading A Couple We Missed: Apteka & The Beautiful View
