Here is our usual round-up of the best songs we’ve posted in August together with a couple of our favourite covers and three new songs to tempt you. Another perfect mix tape we think. Black Angels – Telephone mp3 Gentler psych-pop approach from new album calling to mind classic era Zombies Dreamend – Magnesium Light mp3 Superb psych-folk from the loosely joined and hellish story … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: August
Justin Townes Earle, son of MM fave and legendary troubadour Steve Earle, releases his new album Harlem River Blues on the 20th September through Bloodshot Records. It is one we are looking forward to immensely. To mark the UK releases, he has made the title-track available as a free mp3 download – just click this link to get your copy. He will also be touring the … Continue reading Free download from Justin Townes Earle
We had a pretty unassuming e-mail through recently from Roy Paymon mentioning his recently released album Guarding Crows. He described it as a mixture of Appalachian folk and Greek Cretan music and he recorded and produced it himself on bare bones equipment in Brooklyn. The whole album is streaming on his website here, but he also sent us a couple of tracks to listen to … Continue reading Introducing…Roy Paymon
We were particularly delighted to get an e-mail from Secretly Canadian yesterday with details of the new War On Drugs album titled Future Weather. The record follows their debut release Wagonwheel Blues, which was a truly brilliant record mixing straight up US rock with experimental folk and psychedelia, and was one of our favourites of 2008. In fact we had to buy it twice as … Continue reading New from War On Drugs
Thee Sgt. Major III’s first full-length, The Idea Factory, contains the wit, optimism and feisty schoolboy angst that Kurt Bloch articulated in his songwriting for seminal punk band The Fastbacks and the sparky guitar chug that beloved The Fastbacks to so many. Expert musicianship and high-cool grace are tempered by scrappy garage punk leanings, jazz longings, and a winking kind of macabre, not at all serious, … Continue reading Introducing…Thee Sgt. Major III
We’re very impressed with Shuffler FM, the new music blog internet radio that plays randomly selected tracks from different blogs based on your preferences of genre. Then if you like the song you can download it from the blog before moving on to the next track and the next blog. It is brilliantly simple, no registrations or log-ins, and is a great way to discover … Continue reading Check out Shuffler FM
Abe Vigoda’s new album Crush is due out in September on Bella Union. Citing “cold wave and minimal stuff” as an inspiration, rather than the “tropical punk” they had been labelled with, they have already given us lead track, the repetitive and chilly, Throwing Shade as evidence of a new direction. Now, new taster To Tears also certainly lives up to the new direction. It has … Continue reading New from Abe Vigoda
Oh look, it’s Friday again. Down here in Ventnor, we’ve had lashings of rain and a fair bit of wind. Not a lot of sunshine, but I did warn you about August last week … In fact, so much rain, the dog tried to do an about turn and I was unable to open my eyes for a short time on our joyous Wednesday evening … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
The Open House Festival takes place in Belfast from September 6th to the 12th. To mark the event, the organisers are giving away a free 14 track digital mix that includes the likes of Modest Mouse, The Felice Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show. A couple of our favourites from the mix are below, and to find out more about the event and download the … Continue reading Free Mix from Open House Festival
We Are Trees hail from Virginia Beach, and are offering up this four track EP titled Boyfriend from their Bandcamp site for free. Just click here. We suggest you make the minimal effort required to grab a copy as it is lovely lush, folk-pop that vocally has drawn lots of favourable comparisons with Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear as well as Bon Iver. The four … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…We Are Trees
