How good it is to have Jolie Holland back with a new record, and especially when the first taste is as good as this…Watch the video for Dark Days, a stunning song of blistering rock and roll, and taken from forthcoming long player Wine Dark Sea, out on the 20th May via Anti-. . . Continue reading Video: Jolie Holland – Dark Days
With a voice that could sing the phone book and still seem sultry, the wonderful Jolie Holland returns with a new album Wine Dark Sea on the 20th May. The first taste is this “joyous slice of deconstructed r&b” called Waiting For The Sun. . Continue reading Jolie Holland – Waiting For The Sun
You know the score. MM is a blog that (musically) tends to favour the seedier side of life – murder ballads, heartbreak, despair, stories of the downtrodden, the down-on-their-luck, and the downhearted – you know the kind of things we mean. Ours is a world of lonely beer and whiskey chasers nursed in the back booths of dead-end bars, of crack-whores turning tricks in trailers … Continue reading MM’s Anti-Valentine’s Day Mix
So, as the New Year approaches, here are our favourite albums of 2011 for your consideration. Feel free to dispute, argue, or otherwise put us right because, if nothing else, music is as about as subjective topic as it is possible to get. Some of these may not be the “best” albums of the year as far as the critics are concerned, but that matters … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Albums Of The Year: Part 1 (50-31)
All Those Girls comes from Jolie Holland’s excellent new album Pint Of Blood (Anti- Records). a Visit her website here. Continue reading New Video From Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland’s Escondida album contains one of our most favourite songs in Old Fashioned Morphine so we were delighted to get news of a new album Pint Of Blood, which will get a release on 28th June via Anti- Records. Try the evocative, sweeping grandeur of Gold And Yellow – it showcases that honeyed and sultry voice to perfection! Continue reading New Album from Jolie Holland
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