New Videos: Sufjan Stevens, Jen Cloher, Kevin Devine, Julien Baker
Four new videos from four of our favourite songwriters… Continue reading New Videos: Sufjan Stevens, Jen Cloher, Kevin Devine, Julien Baker
Four new videos from four of our favourite songwriters… Continue reading New Videos: Sufjan Stevens, Jen Cloher, Kevin Devine, Julien Baker
Some musical films and lyric videos. They’re good. Offa My Hands is the third song unveiled from Jessica Lea Mayfield’s anticipated new album, Sorry Is Gone. Phoebe Bridgers has shared Funeral, another haunting and introspective track from her upcoming debut album Stranger In The Alps. Norwegian chanteuse Ane Brun’s new record consists of fourteen covers of tracks by Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan … Continue reading New Videos Round Up
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts – Soul & Cigarette Protomartyr – My Children Wilco – All Lives, You Say? Alvvays – Plimsoll Punks Quilt – Black Night Woman (F.J. McMahon cover) Duds – Elastic Feel Spray Paint – Cussin’ (Live at Third Man Records) Silver Torches – If I Reach Reptaliens – If You Want Hope Sandoval & The Warm Intentions – Sleep Julien Baker … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Julien Baker – Good News (Piano Version) Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Hope The High Road BNQT – Unlikely Force Bonnie Prince Billy & Nathan Salsburg – Wallin Creek Girls Kevin Morby – Come To Me Now Diet Cig – Link In Bio The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions Marissa Nadler – Rosemary W.H. Lung – Nothing Is Soccer Mommy – Be Seeing … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Here are no less than five fabulous, wildly different covers for you to sink your teeth, or ears, into. We have Night Beats taking on the Beach Boys’ classic Sloop John B and giving it the full psych treatment (it comes from the upcoming A Tribute to Pet Sounds compilation). Next up is Julien Baker’s striking cover of Elliott Smith’s Ballad Of Big Nothing which can be found (alongside 15 others), on … Continue reading Covers & Tributes Galore
Here are our favourite albums of 2015. 15 Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle 14 Joe Ely – Panhandle Rambler 13 Low – Ones And Sixes 12 James McMurtry – Complicated Game 11 Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy 10 Quiet Hollers – Quiet Hollers 9 Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie 8 Ezra Furman – Perpetual … Continue reading MM’S BEST ALBUMS OF 2015: 15-1
And so begins the second quarter of our annual countdown of our favourite tracks of the year. 75 Joe Ely – Wounded Creek 74 Great American Canyon Band – Crash 73 Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle 72 The Quite Hollers – Mont Blanc 71 Heaters – Mean Green 70 Tough Age – New Orleans Square 69 Chris Staples – Dark Side … Continue reading MM’S BEST TRACKS OF 2015: 75-51
Our collection extends to no less than ten sweet new tracks for you this week, lovingly gathered up from the past seven days like shells from a beach. Or something like that… Torres – Special (Garbage cover) Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – Bennie And The Jets Julien Baker – Brittle Boned Beach Baby – Limousine Death Valley Girls – Death Valley Boogie Hamilton Leithauser & … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Stripped-back and raw with emotion, Sprained Ankle is an intimate and exquisite debut from nineteen year-old Julien Baker. It was written following her move from Memphis to Murfreesboro for college. Away from her family and close friends writing proved to be a creative, cathartic outlet for her loneliness. The resultant songs are confessional yet accessible, unsparingly honest yet deeply heartening – and filled with tales … Continue reading Introducing >>> Julien Baker