Breakthrough country star, Courtney Marie Andrews has recorded her own acoustic version of the holiday classic I’ll Be Home For Christmas, which will be featured on Amazon Music’s Acoustic Christmas playlist, along with new songs from Josh Ritter, Noah Gunderson, Kevin Morby and many more. Listen below. Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No 3: Courtney Marie Andrews
Amazon Studios have announced the release of Click Clack Moo: Christmas at the Farm, a new holiday special inspired by the acclaimed children’s book series from New York Times bestselling duo Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. Okkervil River have contributed the theme song titled What Friends Do, of which Will Sheff says, “I listened intently and repeatedly to my favorite kids’ songs by writers like Joe … Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No 2: Okkervil River
First Aid Kit – Fireworks No Age – Drippy Alela Diane – Émigré’ Calexico – Voices In The Field Olden Yolk – Takes One To Know One Craig Finn – Fault Lines (Mountain Goats cover) Ty Segall – The Main Pretender The Orwells – Vanilla The Soft Moon – It Kills Graham Coxon – Falling Continue reading Ten (Count ’em) Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
What better way to kick off December and the countdown to Christmas with the news that BEAK> have released a charity Christmas single (Merry Xmas) Face The Future and have also shared a video for the track. All money raised by the sale of the single goes to The National Elf Service & The Mental Elf, an online resource for mental health information – https://www.nationalelfservice.net/. Purchase the … Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No 1: BEAK>
We’ve posted stuff from ShitKid a few times. It is the project of Swedish artist Åsa Söderqvist, and following her excellent debut LP of quirky, anti-pop Fish, she will release a new EP This Is It in January. First taste is Oh Me I’m Never – retaining the lo-fi quality of earlier recordings, it is a hypnotic slab of quirky indie rock that sounds like a … Continue reading ShitKid – Oh Me I’m Never
Here is the new video for NØMADS’ Traumatophobia (the fear of being injured), the bands’ November single. It was filmed as part of their Live From Pittsburgh series whose sessions will get an exclusive vinyl-only release in the autumn of 2018. The track is from their forthcoming conceptual double EP PHOBIAC, an album based on clinical phobia-based fears. Watch it below. Continue reading New Video: NØMADS – Traumatophobia
Australia’s DZ Deathrays have unveiled a surreal video for new single Total Meltdown. In typical DZ style, the ridiculous video sees the duo turned into animated characters, fresh after a night out on the town, a chaotic series of events that perfectly encapsulates the raucous, thrash-party sound of the single. Watch it below. Continue reading New Video: DZ Deathrays – Total Meltdown
Chapter II is probably our favourite track from Naomi Punk’s latest album Yellow. A song that just oozes pulsating, tribal chaos. The band have shared an appropriately intense and moody video for it. Watch it below and order the album via Bandcamp here. Continue reading New Video: Naomi Punk – Chapter II
Lauran Hibberd hails from the Isle of Wight, a place that us mackerels have many, many happy memories of, and so it is a pleasure to share her utterly charming new single Hunny, Is This What Adults Do? It is a brilliant slice of outsider, indie-pop with just the right amount of fuzz and shot through with a touch of Ingrid Michaelson or even Courtney … Continue reading MM Shorts 987: Lauran Hibberd
Martha – The Winter Fuel Allowance Ineligibility Blues Sufjan Stevens – The Greatest Gift W.H. Lung – Want Jim James – The World Is Falling Down (Abbey Lincoln cover) Madeline Kenney – Medusa’s Outhouse (Cass McCombs cover) Robert Earl Thomas – Another Age White Room – Twisted Celebration Jane Weaver & Virginia Wing – I Feel It Starts Again … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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