Mountain Man – Love Hurts (Nazareth cover) Dan Auerbach – Shine On Me Mountain Goats – Etruscans Whitney – Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can) (Dolly Parton cover) Los Angeles Police Department – If I Lied Moon Duo – Sevens Peacers – Jurgen’s Layout Sam Amidon – Juma Mountain Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else – Wrong Turn The Wooden Sky – Black Gold … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Once again some cracking tuneage for you today in Part 1 of our regular weekly round-up of some of the best new releases. We are ultra excited by the return of Justin Townes Earle and Champagne Corolla, which comes from forthcoming album Kids In The Street, T. Hardy Morris who has shared a new track NY and Sharon Van Etten who reimagines the Skeeter Davis track End … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
1. Avi Buffalo – Memories Of You 2. Sam Amidon – Walkin’ Boss 3. Bass Drum Of Death – Left For Dead 4. Weyes Blood – Hang On 5. Spray Paint – Cussin 6. Los Angeles Police Department – She Came Through (Again) . . . . . . [Click through for a free download] . Continue reading Six Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Our first visit to the brilliant Green Man Festival. Here are the twenty best things we heard, saw and discovered over the weekend. 1. The Parquet Courts live up to the hype Like the Ramones on speed, the four-piece transcended all the hype with the set of the weekend – a thrilling, occasionally ramshackle, breakneck excursion into punk, slacker pop and moshpit heaven, and in … Continue reading The Twenty Best Things We Heard, Saw, And Discovered At The Green Man Festival
Sam Amidon, for whom we’ve always had a soft spot here at MM, will release a new album for his new label Nonesuch on the 14th May. Titled Bright Sunny South, Amidon himself not only sings but also plays banjo, fiddle, acoustic guitar, and piano on the record. Listen to the album track My Old Friend below. Continue reading MM Shorts 325: Sam Amidon
I’m melting. Well I was until earlier today. After one week in the hottest Canarian August in 23 years, my quintessentially English temperature gauge and complexion were pining for a bit of cloud control and a drop in temperature. It was, as I thought, a week spent in whatever shade I could find, book in one hand, Mr Sangria in the other. Large hat and … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (31st August)
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